Divine
Bible Usage:
- divination used 12 times.
- divinations used once.
- divine used 11 times.
- diviners used 7 times.
- divineth used once.
- divining used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 44:15
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 1:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
DIVINE, adjective [Latin , a god.]
1. Pertaining to the true God; as the divine nature; divine perfections.
2. Pertaining to a heathen deity, or to false gods.
3. Partaking of the nature of God.
Half human, half divine
4. Proceeding from God; as divine judgments.
5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; extraordinary; apparently above what is human. In this application the word admits of comparison; as a divine invention; a divine genius; the divinest mind.
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Proverbs 16:10.
6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [Not used.]
7. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; as divine service; divine songs; divine worship.
DIVINE, noun
1. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition, personal sanctity, and diligence in the pastoral office.
2. A man skilled in divinity; a theologian; as a great divine
DIVINE, verb transitive [Latin]
1. To foreknow; to foretell; to presage.
Darst thou divine his downfall?
2. To deify. [Not in use.]
DIVINE, verb intransitive
1. To use or practice divination.
2. To utter presages or prognostications.
The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah 3:6.
3. To have presages or forebodings.
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts--
4. To guess or conjecture.
Could you divine what lovers bear.
DIVINELY, adverb
1. In a divine or godlike manner; in a manner resembling deity.
2. By the agency or influence of God; as a prophet divinely inspired; divinely taught.
3. Excellently; in the supreme degree; as divinely fair; divinely brave.
DIVINENESS, noun
1. Divinity; participation of the divine nature; as the divineness of the scriptures. [Little used.]
2. Excellence in the supreme degree.
DIVINER, noun
1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by the aid of superior beings, or of supernatural means.
These nations hearkened to diviners. Deuteronomy 18:14.
2. One who guesses; a conjecturer.
DIVINERESS, noun A female diviner; a woman professing divination.
Bible Usage:
- divination used 12 times.
- divinations used once.
- divine used 11 times.
- diviners used 7 times.
- divineth used once.
- divining used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 44:15
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 1:4
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: