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- noun Plural form of
paraphrast .
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Examples
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"The mountain of snow," among the paraphrasts and Talmudists, is the same with Hermon.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Every one that hath but dipped into the Chaldee paraphrasts, must know that the 'Kenites' are called by them 'Salmeans,' or 'Salameans.'
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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"A Psalm of David when he was in the desert of Idumea": acting the part of no good interpreters, but of no ill paraphrasts.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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All commentators, paraphrasts, and jurisconsults admit that the primary and original signification of the words "_Jahad_" and "_Jihád_" is power, ability, and toil, and that its use, as making wars or crusades, is conventional and figurative.
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The Chaldee paraphrasts understand this figuratively: "Thou shalt be strong and bright, as iron and brass."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Two of the Chaldee paraphrasts read it, The children of Israel said, Moses commanded us a law.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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Nay, one of the Chaldee paraphrasts reads it, All the generations that have been from the first days of the world, and all that shall arise to the end of the whole world, stand with us here this day.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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One of the Chaldee paraphrasts reads the foregoing verse, Rejoice, Issachar, in the tents of thy schools, supposing they would many of them be scholars, and would use their learning for that purpose, according to the revolutions of the year, to give notice of the times of the feasts; for almanacs were not then so common as they are now.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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"It shall be a beating sweeping rain to the rebellious;" so one of the Chaldee paraphrasts expounds the first clause.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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One of the Chaldee paraphrasts applies this to the Messiah, explaining it thus: The word of the Lord shall gather you by the hand of Elias the great priest, and shall bring you by the hand of the king Messiah; for this was God's covenant with him, that he should restore the preserved of Israel, Isa. xlix.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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