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Ridge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The back or top of the back.

2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains; or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge

3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance.

4. Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.

5. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Psalms 65:10 .

6. The top of the roof of a building.

7. Any long elevation of land.

8. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth.

Ridge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To form a ridge; as bristles that ridge the back of a boar.

2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in Connecticut ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges.

3. To wrinkle.

Ridge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The back, or top of the back; a crest.

2. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.

3. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

4. The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

5. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

Ridge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

3. To wrinkle.

Ridgeband [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.

Ridgebone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The backbone.

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

of Ridge

Ridgel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Ridgelling.

Ridgelet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little ridge.

Ridgeling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A half-castrated male animal.

Ridgepiece [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ridgeplate

Ridgeplate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Ridgepole.

Ridgepole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

Ridgerope [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Life line (a), under Life.

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1 KJV and 7 BSB verses contain “ridge”

Genesis 48:22

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

Numbers 14:40

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

Numbers 14:44

But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

2 Samuel 16:13

And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill’s side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei went along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he yelled curses, threw stones, and flung dust at David.

Psalms 65:10

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.