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Establish [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To set and fix firmly or unalterably; to settle permanently.

2. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant. Genesis 17:7 .

3. To found permanently; to erect and fix or settle; as, to establish a colony or an empire.

4. To enact or decree by authority and for permanence; to ordain; to appoint; as, to establish laws, regulations, institutions, rules, ordinances, etc.

5. To settle or fix; to confirm; as, to establish a person, society or corporation, in possessions or privileges.

6. To make firm; to confirm; to ratify what has been previously set or made.

7. Do we then make void the law through faith?

8. God forbid; yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:31 .

9. To settle or fix what is wavering, doubtful or weak; to confirm.

10. So were the churches established in the faith. Acts 16:5 .

11. To the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in

12. holiness. l Thess.3.

13. To confirm; to fulfill; to make good.

14. Establish thy word to thy servant. Psalms 119:90

15. To set up in the place of another and confirm.

16. Who go about to establish their own righteousness. Romans 10:3 .

Establish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

3. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

4. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

5. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Established [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Set; fixed firmly; founded; ordained; enacted; ratified; confirmed.

Established [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Establisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

He who establishes, ordains or confirms.

Establisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who establishes.

Establishing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Fixing; settling permanently; founding; ratifying; confirming; ordaining.

Establishing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Establishment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of establishing, founding, ratifying or ordaining.

2. Settlement; ; fixed state.

3. Confirmation; ratification of what has been settled or made.

4. Settled regulation; form; ordinance; system of laws; constitution of government.

5. Bring in that establishment by which all men should be contained in duty.

6. Fixed or stated allowance for subsistence; income; salary.

7. His excellency--might gradually lessen your establishment

8. That which is fixed or established; as a permanent military force, a fixed garrison, a local government, an agency, a factory, etc. The king has establishments to support, in the four quarters of the globe.

9. The episcopal form of religion, so called in England.

10. Settlement or final rest.

11. We set up our hopes and establishment here.

Establishment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

2. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state.

3. That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures; that which serves for the carrying on of a business; as, to keep up a large establishment; a manufacturing establishment.

Establishmentarian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.

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Genesis 6:18

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 9:9

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:17

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:19

And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 41:32

And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.

Genesis 47:26

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.

So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.

Exodus 6:4

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

Exodus 15:17

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance— the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

Exodus 23:31

And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Leviticus 25:30

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 26:9

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:46

These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Numbers 28:6

It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Numbers 30:13

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

Numbers 30:14

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.