|Noah Webster's Dictionary|
1. (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
2. (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
3. (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
4. (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
5. (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
6. (n.) Estate, possession.
7. (n.) A person of high rank.
8. (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
9. (n.) The principal persons in a government.
10. (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
11. (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
12. (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
13. (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
14. (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
15. (a.) Stately.
16. (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
17. (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
18. (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
19. (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
DEAD, STATE OF THE
See ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
State (51 Occurrences)
Matthew 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched it out; and it was restored to a sound state like the other. (WBS)
Matthew 12:45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation." (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)
Luke 1:48 for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Luke 3:15 As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ, (See NAS)
Luke 10:30 And Jesus replying said, A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who also, having stripped him and inflicted wounds, went away leaving him in a half-dead state. (DBY)
Luke 11:26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first." (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)
John 5:6 Jesus seeing this man lying there, and knowing that he was in that state now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well? (DBY)
Acts 23:30 But now that I have received information of an intended attack upon him, I immediately send him to you, directing his accusers also to state before you the case they have against him." (WEY BBE RSV)
Acts 25:22 "I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa. "to-morrow," replied Festus, "you shall." Accordingly, the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came in state (WEY)
Acts 25:27 For, when sending a prisoner to Rome, it seems to me to be absurd not to state the charges against him." (WEY)
Romans 5:2 through whom also, as the result of faith, we have obtained an introduction into that state of favour with God in which we stand, and we exult in hope of some day sharing in God's glory. (WEY)
Romans 8:7 Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so. (WEY)
1 Corinthians 7:20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. (See RSV)
1 Corinthians 7:24 Brethren, let every man in the state in which he is called, continue in it with God. (WBS RSV)
1 Corinthians 7:40 But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God. (WEY)
1 Corinthians 13:10 but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end. (WEY)
1 Corinthians 15:42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in a state of decay, it is raised free from decay; (WEY)
2 Corinthians 5:17 So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence. (WEY)
Ephesians 2:3 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others. (WEY)
Ephesians 6:22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts. (WEB ASV)
Philippians 1:27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News; (WEB ASV)
Philippians 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. (KJV ASV WBS)
Philippians 2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. (KJV ASV WBS)
Philippians 3:21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. (See NAS)
Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. (WEB KJV ASV WBS RSV)
Colossians 2:13 And to you--dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state--He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions. (WEY)
Colossians 4:7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: (KJV WBS)
Colossians 4:8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; (Root in KJV ASV DBY WBS)
2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV)
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Root in KJV DBY WBS)
Genesis 43:7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? (KJV WBS)
Exodus 14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. (See NAS)
Joshua 20:4 And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. (See NAS NIV)
2 Samuel 11:7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. (See NAS)
2 Chronicles 24:13 So the workmen worked, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Nehemiah 3:8 Next to them repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths; and next to him repaired Hananiah of the perfumers, and they left Jerusalem in its state as far as the broad wall. (DBY)
Esther 1:7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king. (KJV WBS)
Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. (KJV WBS)
Job 33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. (See NIV)
Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Psalms 50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. (See NAS)
Proverbs 27:23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Proverbs 28:2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. (KJV ASV WBS)
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. (Root in KJV WBS)
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they. (See JPS)
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us. (See NAS)
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house, (See NIV)
Isaiah 22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. (KJV WBS)
Isaiah 43:26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right. (See NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 4:3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. (See RSV)
Daniel 8:14 He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (See RSV)