plural Borders; limits; confines; as lord of the marches
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Limit Roget’s Thesaurus §233
N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, # bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of hercules, rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate
Adj. definite, conterminate|, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering
Adv. thus far, thus far and no further
Phr. stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, special
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0 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Marches”
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
