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Toward [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

TO'WARD

Toward [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Readiness to do or learn; aptness; docility.

2. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy.

Toward [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Towards

Toward [Preposition] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Alt. of Towards

2. Approaching; coming near.

3. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

4. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

Towardliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.

Towardly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ready to do or learn; apt; docile; tractable; compliant with duty.

Towardly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Toward, a., 2.

Towardness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Docility; towardliness.

Towardness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality or state of being toward.

Towards [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ready to do or learn; not forward; apt; as a toward youth.

Towards [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Near; at hand; in a state of preparation.

Towards [Preposition] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In the direction to.

2. He set his face toward the wilderness. Numbers 24:1 .

3. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect to; regarding.

4. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deuteronomy 28:1 .

5. Herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men. Acts 24:1 .

6. Hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus Christ, and toward all saints. Phile 5.

7. With ideal tendency to.

8. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble.

9. Nearly.

10. I am towards nine years older since I left you.

11. TO'WARD

Towards [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Near; at hand; in state of preparation.

Towards [Preposition] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In the direction of; to.

2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.

3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.

4. Near; about; approaching to.

Towards [Preposition and adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 2:14

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 10:19

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Genesis 13:3

And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 13:12

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 16:12

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Genesis 18:2

And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 18:16

And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

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 19:1

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

Genesis 19:28

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Genesis 20:1

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Genesis 25:18

And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

Genesis 28:10

And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.

Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

Genesis 31:2

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Genesis 31:5

And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.