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Away [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

2. Have me away for I am wounded. 2 Chronicles 35:23 .

3. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away send away run away etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.

4. Love hath wings and will away

5. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away that is, be gone, or let us go. 'Away with him.' Take him away

6. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,

7. To throw away to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.

8. To trifle away to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.

9. To drink away to squander away etc., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.

10. To make away is to kill or destroy.

11. away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, 'I cannot away with it.' Isaiah 1:4 . The sense is, 'I cannot bear or endure it.'

Away [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. From a place; hence.

2. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

3. Aside; off; in another direction.

4. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.

5. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

6. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.

Away-going [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops.

Awayward [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Turned away; away.

Absence Roget’s Thesaurus §187

N. absence, inexistence, # nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype|, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive

V. be absent, keep away, keep out of the way, play truant, absent oneself, stay away, keep aloof, hold aloof, withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate, go away

Adj. absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable

Adv. without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back

Phr. the bird has flown, non est inventus, "absence makes the heart grow fonder", "absent in body but present in spirit", absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, "achilles absent was achilles still", aux absents les os, briller par son absence, "conspicuous by his absence", "in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet"

Distance Roget’s Thesaurus §196

N. distance, space, remoteness, farness, far-cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years

V. be distant, extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go to, get to, stretch away to, range, remain at a distance, keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of, stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of, stay away, keep one's distance', distance, distance oneself from

Adj. distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous

Adv. far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away", from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length

Phr. "distance lends enchantment", "it's a long long way to tipperary", out of sight, out of mind

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Genesis 5:24

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 12:20

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.

Genesis 15:11

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Genesis 16:8

And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.

Genesis 18:3

And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.

Genesis 18:22

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 18:24

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?

Genesis 19:15

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Genesis 19:17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Genesis 21:14

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:16

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 24:54

And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”

Genesis 24:56

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”

Genesis 24:59

And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Genesis 25:6

But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 26:27

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”