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Nave Topical Bible
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• Future Punishment
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Thompson Chain Reference
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• Punishments
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The Topic Concordance
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Wives Punished: & Harem, King's, Solomon's, Headcovering
• Punishment;: & God's Sword, Hanged, Israel, Leprosy
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Punishments
• Punishment of the Wicked, the
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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• Eternal Punishment
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Capital Punishment
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Sin: Punishment of
Holman Bible Dictionary
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• Everlasting Punishment
• Crimes and Punishments
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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• Crimes and Punishments
Hastings' NT Dictionary
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• Punishment
• Eternal Punishment
King James Dictionary
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• Punishing
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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• Punish
• Number, Visit, Punish
Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Punishments of the Hebrews
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Capital Punishment
• Corporal Punishment
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Punishment, Everlasting
• Punishments
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Burning As a Punishment
• Corporal Punishment
• Future Punishment
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Corporal Punishment
• Eternal Punishment
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Lexicons
Berry's NT Synonyms
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Punishment, Vengeance
• δίκη , καταδίκη
• ἐκδικέω
• ἐκδίκησις
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• בִּקֹּרֶת
• חַטָּאָה , חַטָּאת
• חָשַׂךְ
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• Punishment

PUN'ISH, L. punio, from the root of poena,pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.

1. To pain to afflict with pain, loss or calamity for a crime or fault primarily, to afflict with bodily pain, as to punish a thief with pillory or stripes but the word is applied also to affliction by loss of property, by transportation, banishment, seclusion from society, &c. The laws require murderers to be punished with death. Other offenders are to be punished with fines, imprisonment, hard labor,&c. God punishes men for their sins with calamities personal and national.

2. To chastise as, a father punishes his child for disobedience.

3. To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender applied to the crime as, to punish murder or theft.