Machine (2 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Judges 16:14 So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together. (BBE YLT)

Job 7:6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. (YLT)

Thesaurus

Machine (2 Occurrences)
... and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive
force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit ...
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Feed (117 Occurrences)
... steam boiler. 8. (vt) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a
machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. 9. (vt) To ...
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Mill (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing
and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill ...
/m/mill.htm - 18k

Gin (10 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed
of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. ...
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Tool (13 Occurrences)
... at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also,
a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses ...
/t/tool.htm - 11k

Beetle (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing
over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. ...
/b/beetle.htm - 10k

Attachment (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or
other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (ie, a device attached to a ...
/a/attachment.htm - 7k

Spindle (2 Occurrences)
... spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is
wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in ...
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Loom (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth
out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as ...
/l/loom.htm - 8k

Lift (283 Occurrences)
... is lifted. 14. (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter. 15.
(n.) A handle. 16. (n.) An exercising machine. 17. (n.) A ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

2. (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

3. (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

4. (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

5. (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

6. (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

7. (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Strong's Hebrew

4284. machashabah -- thought, device
... Or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}; from chashab; a contrivance, ie (concretely)
a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or ...
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2810. chishshabon -- device, invention
... engine, invention. From chashab; a contrivance, ie Actual (a warlike machine) or
mental (a machination) -- engine, invention. see HEBREW chashab. << 2809, 2810. ...
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Subtopics

Machine

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Attachment (1 Occurrence)

Spindle (2 Occurrences)

Loom (3 Occurrences)

Lift (283 Occurrences)