Adonis (1 Occurrence)

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Isaiah 17:10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god; (BBE)

Thesaurus

Adonis (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's
eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have ...
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Tammuz (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the
Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. ...
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Gebal (3 Occurrences)
... It lies in lat. 34 degrees 8', nearly, and about 4 miles North of the river Adonis
(Nahr Ibrahim). It was regarded as a holy city by the ancients. ...
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Comparative
... It is said, for instance, that the resurrection of Adonis, Osiris and Mithra
was believed in by their followers. It is true that ...
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Adonizedec (2 Occurrences)

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Phoenicians
... pass at its mouth, where Egyptian Assyrian and Babylonian kings engraved their
monuments; and a few miles South of Jebail (Gebal) is the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim ...
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Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)
... pass at its mouth, where Egyptian Assyrian and Babylonian kings engraved their
monuments; and a few miles South of Jebail (Gebal) is the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim ...
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Vine-cuttings (1 Occurrence)
... have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the
Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in ...
/v/vine-cuttings.htm - 6k

Lily (9 Occurrences)
... Of the true "floral glories of Palestine" the pheasant's eye (Adonis Palestina),
the ranunuculus (R. Asiaticus), and the anemone (A coronaria), the last named ...
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Imported (9 Occurrences)
... have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the
Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ADONIS

a-do'-nis: A name for the Babylonian god TAMMUZ, which see. The word occurs only in the English Revised Version, margin of Isaiah 17:10, where for "pleasant plants" is read "plantings of Adonis." The the American Standard Revised Version rightly omits this marginal suggestion.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

2. (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

3. (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.