Revolt
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Chronicles 21:10
- Last Reference: Isaiah 59:13
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Of the ten tribes
1 Kings 12:1-24
REVOLT', verb intransitive [Latin revolvo; re and volvo, to turn. Eng. wallow.]
1. To fall off or turn from one to another.
2. To renounce allegiance and subjection to one's prince or state; to reject the authority of a sovereign; as a province or a number of people. It is not applied to individuals.
The Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah.
3. To change. [Not in use.]
4. In Scripture, to disclaim allegiance and subjection to God; to reject the government of the King of kings. Isaiah 31:6.
REVOLT', verb transitive
1. To turn; to put to flight; to overturn.
2. To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings.
Their honest pride of their purer religion had revolted the Babylonians.
REVOLT', noun
1. Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one's prince or government; as the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
2. Gross departure from duty.
3. In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. Isaiah 59:13.
4. A revolter. [Not in use.]
REVOLT'ED, participle passive
1. Having swerved from allegiance or duty.
2. Shocked; grossly offended.
REVOLT'ER, noun
1. One who changes sides; a deserter.
2. One who renounces allegiance and subjection to his prince or state.
3. In Scripture, one who renounces the authority and laws of God. Jeremiah 6:28. Hosea 9.
REVOLT'ING, participle present tense
1. Changing sides; deserting.
2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state.
3. Rejecting the authority of God.
4. adjective Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence.