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Remove [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Change of place.

2. Translation of one to the place of another.

3. State of being removed.

4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.

5. Departure; a going away.

6. The act of changing place; removal.

7. A step in any scale of gradation.

8. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

9. Any indefinite distance; as a small or great remove

10. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.

11. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.

12. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.]

Remove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To change place in any manner.

2. To go from one place to another.

3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.

Remove [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.

2. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deuteronomy 19:14 .

3. To displace from an office.

4. To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.

5. REMOVE sorrow from thine heart. Ecclesiastes 11:10 .

6. To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.

7. To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.

Remove [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of removing; a removal.

2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

3. The state of being removed.

4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

6. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

Remove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

Remove [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.

3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

Removed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Remote; separate from others.

Removed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.

Removed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Changed in place.

2. Dismissed from office.

3. Distant in location; remote.

4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed.

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

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Removedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

State of being removed; remoteness.

Remover [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that removes; as a remover of landmarks.

Remover [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks.

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Genesis 8:13

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 12:8

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:18

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 26:22

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

Genesis 30:32

I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will be my wages.

Genesis 30:35

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.

Genesis 38:14

And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

Genesis 38:19

And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.

Genesis 41:42

And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Genesis 47:21

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

Genesis 48:12

And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.

Genesis 48:17

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Exodus 8:31

And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.

and the LORD did as Moses requested. He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not one fly remained.

Exodus 10:17

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

Exodus 12:15

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 14:19

And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:

And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,

Exodus 20:18

And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

Exodus 25:15

The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.

Exodus 34:34

But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

But whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

Leviticus 1:16

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:

And he is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.