• To expect or hope with confidence; to trust. - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Ps.27.
• To have a firm persuasion of any thing. In some cases, to have full persuasion, approaching to certainty; in others, more doubt is implied. 
• It is often followed by in or on, especially in the scriptures. To believe in, is to hold as the object of faith. "Ye believe in God, believe also in me." John 14. To believe on, is to trust, to place full confidence in, to rest upon with faith. "To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." John 1. Johnson.
• To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge. 
• In popular use and familiar discourse, to believe often expresses an opinion in a vague manner, without a very exact estimate of evidence, noting a mere preponderance of opinion, and is nearly equivalent to think or suppose.

believe

• Without beginning or end of existence. - The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut.33.
• Without beginning of existence.- To know whether there is any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
• Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. - That they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2 Tim.2. - What shall I do, that I may have eternal life? Matt.19. - Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 7.
• Perpetual; ceaseless; continued without intermission. - And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
• Unchangeable; existing at all times without change; as eternal truth.

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• Latin -  punio, from the root of poena,pain. The primary sense is to press or strain.
• 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. 
• To chastise; as, a father punishes his child for disobedience.
• To regard with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender; applied to the crime; as, to punish murder or theft.
• PUN'ISHED, Afflicted with pain or evil as the retribution of a crime or offense; chastised.

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• Latin -  transgressus, transgredior; trans and gradior, to pass.
• To pass over or beyond any limit; to surpass.
• In a moral sense, to overpass any rule prescribed as the limit of duty; to break or violate a law, civil or moral. 
• To transgress a divine law, is sin. To offend by violating a law; to sin.
• TRANSGRES'SION, The act of passing over or beyond any law or rule of moral duty; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command. - "He mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away." Ezra 10.

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