The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when ...

sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed 12 ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.

The twelve gold pans full of incense weighed 10 shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel; all the gold of the pans weighed 120 ...

A. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubtful points. All ancient Greek ...

(0.46), Jdg 8:26. The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels.

It is used figuratively as a hyperbolic hypocatastasis for being so consumed with sexual desire that it saps one of his/her physical and emotional strength (BDB ...

Feb 2, 2009 · To Lean Your Whole Weight Upon. From his early boyhood, John Paton wanted to be a missionary. Before studying theology and medicine, Paton ...

The gold shekel was 1/60 of the heavy Babylonian mina and weighed about 252 grains. In value it was about equal to 2 British pounds and 1 shilling, or about ...

ROGET THESAURUS. dead weight. Hindrance. N hindrance, prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage, embolus, embolism, infarct, interruption, interception, ...