Motive
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Motive (3 Occurrences)

Ephesians 6:5 Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ. (WEY)

1 Timothy 4:10 and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers. (WEY)

1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. (See NIV)

Thesaurus
Motive (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument;
motive power. ... Multi-Version Concordance Motive (3 Occurrences). ...
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Guilt (180 Occurrences)
... In other words, in thinking of guilt we ask the questions of cause, motive and
consequence, the central idea being that of the personal blameworthiness of the ...
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Charity (29 Occurrences)
... char'-i-ti (agape): 1. A New Word 2. A New Ideal 3. An Apostolic Term 4. Latin
Equivalents 5. English Translation 6. Inward Motive 7. Character 8. Ultimate ...
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Innocents (2 Occurrences)
... ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MOTIVE 1. Focus of Narrative-Residence
at Nazareth 2. Corollaries from Above Facts 3. Marks of Historicity I ...
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Massacre (1 Occurrence)
... ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MOTIVE 1. Focus of Narrative-Residence
at Nazareth 2. Corollaries from Above Facts 3. Marks of Historicity I ...
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For (102061 Occurrences)
... 2. (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive
or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of ...
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Spring (122 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a
cause, motive, reason, or principle. 8. (vi) To grow; to prosper. ...
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Latin (2 Occurrences)
... Sprache (1878-81); Pfister, Vulgarlatein und Vulgargriechisch (Rh. Mus., 1912,
195-208). AT Robertson. LATIN VERSION, THE OLD. " 1. The Motive of Translation 2 ...
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Confusion (71 Occurrences)
... The motive was to "make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of
the whole earth." This seems to mean that the buildings would give them a ...
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Manasses (1 Occurrence)
... 1. Name 2. Canonicity and Position 3. Contents 4. Original Language 5. Authenticity
6. Author and Motive 7. Date 8. Text and Versions (1) Greek (2) Latin ...
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Greek
156. aitia -- cause, reason
... From the same as aiteo; a cause (as if asked for), ie (logical) reason (motive,
matter), (legal) crime (alleged or proved) -- accusation, case, cause, crime ...
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1567. ekzeteo -- to seek out, demand, inquire
... by the seeker. This seeking is only as valuable (viable) as the motive
which drives it. enquire, seek after diligently. From ek ...
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3056. logos -- a word (as embodying an idea), a statement, a ...
... From lego; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject
of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) That which moves; a mover.

2. (n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choice, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.

3. (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is developed. See Leading.

4. (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.

5. (a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

6. (v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Strong's Hebrew
4616. maan -- purpose, intent
... From anah; properly, heed, ie Purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as
a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that -- because of, to the end ...
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Subtopics

Motivation

Motive

Motive: Ascribed to God

Motive: Misunderstood: David's, by King Hanun

Motive: Misunderstood: Job's, in his Righteousness

Motive: Misunderstood: The King of Syria's, in Sending Presents to the King of Israel by Naaman

Motive: Misunderstood: The Tribes of Reuben and Gad, in Asking for Their Inheritance East of the Jordan River

Motive: Misunderstood: when They Built the Memorial

Motive: Right, Required

Motive: Sinful, Illustrated by Cain

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Animal (163 Occurrences)

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Air (74 Occurrences)

Spent (76 Occurrences)

Strain (5 Occurrences)

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