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Hep [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Hip, the fruit of the dog-rose.

Hep tree Webster's Dictionary 1913

The wild dog-rose.

Hep-tree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The wild dog-rose, a species of Rosa.

Hepar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A combination of sulphur with an alkali was formerly called by chimists hepar sulphuris, liver of sulphur, from its brown red color. The term has been applied to all combinations of alkali or earth with sulphur or phosphorus.

2. The hepars are by modern chimists called sulphurets.

Hepar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (/).

2. Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum (/).

Hepatic [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

HEPAT'IC

Hepatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to the liver; as hepatic gall; hepatic pain; hepatic artery; hepatic flux.

2. Hepatic air or gas, is a fetid vapor or elastic fluid emitted from combinations of sulphur with alkalies, earths and metals.

3. This species of air is now called sulphurated hydrogen gas.

4. Hepatic mercurial ore, a mineral of a reddish, or reddish brown, or dark red color. Its streak is dark red, and has some luster. It occurs in compact masses, with an even or fine grained fracture.

5. Hepatic pyrite, hepatic sulphuret of iron. During the process of decomposition of this ore, by which the sulphur is more or less disengaged, the pyrite is converted, either wholly or in part, into a compact oxyd of iron of a liver brown color; hence its name.

Hepatic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

3. Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.

Hepatica [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.

2. Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.

Hepatica Encyclopedia Britannica

HEPATICA. See Liverwort.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 11, p. 678
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Hepaticae [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hepatica

Hepatical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hepatic.

Hepatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A gem or mineral that takes its name from the liver. Plin. Latin 37.11.

2. Hepatite is a name given to the fetid sulphate of baryte. It sometimes occurs in globular masses, and is either compact or of a foliated structure. By friction or the application of heat, it exhales a fetid odor, like that of sulphurated hydrogen.

Hepatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

Hepatitis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inflammation of the liver.

Hepatization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas.

2. Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

Hepatize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To impregnate with sulphurated hydrogen gas.

Hepatize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.

Hepatized [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Impregnated or combined with sulphurated hydrogen gas.

2. On the right of the river were two wells of hepatized water.

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

of Hepatize

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

of Hepatize

Hepato-pancreas [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

Hepatocele [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hernia of the liver.

Hepatocystic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

Hepatogastric [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Gastrohepatic.

Hepatogenic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Hepatogenous

Hepatogenous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

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13 KJV and 13 BSB verses contain “Hep”

Numbers 26:32

And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

the Shemidaite clan from Shemida, and the Hepherite clan from Hepher.

Numbers 26:33

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27:1

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

Joshua 12:17

The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

Joshua 17:2

There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

So this allotment was for the rest of the descendants of Manasseh—the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph.

Joshua 17:3

But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Joshua 19:13

And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;

From there it crossed eastward to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon and curved around toward Neah.

1 Kings 4:10

The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

2 Kings 14:25

He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher.

This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

2 Kings 21:1

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

1 Chronicles 4:6

And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah.

1 Chronicles 11:36

Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

Isaiah 62:4

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.