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Support [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act or operation of upholding or sustaining.

2. That which upholds, sustains or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, a foundation of any kind.

3. That which maintains life; as, food is the support of life, of the body, of strength. Oxygen or vital air has been supposed to be the support of respiration and of heat in the blood.

4. Maintenance; subsistence; as an income sufficient for the support of a family; or revenue for the support of the army and navy.

5. Maintenance; an upholding; continuance in any state, or preservation from falling, sinking or failing; as taxes necessary for the support of public credit; a revenue for the support of government.

6. In general, the maintenance or sustaining of any thing without suffering it to fail, decline or languish; as the support of health, spirits, strength or courage; the support of reputation, credit, etc.

7. That which upholds or relieves; aid; help; succor; assistance.

Support [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bear; to sustain; to uphold; as, a prop or pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the stem of a tree supports the branches. Every edifice must have a foundation to support it; a rope or cord supports a weight.

2. To endure without being overcome; as, to support pain, distress or misfortunes.

3. This fierce demeanor and his insolence,

4. The patience of a God could not support

5. To bear; to endure; as, to support fatigues or hardships; to support violent exertions. The eye will not support the light of the sun's disk.

6. To sustain; to keep from fainting or sinking; as, to support the courage or spirits.

7. To sustain; to act or represent well; as, to support the character or king Lear; to support the part assigned.

8. To bear; to supply funds for or the means of continuing; as, to support the annual expenses of government.

9. To sustain; to carry on; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or debate.

10. To maintain with provisions and the necessary means of living; as, to support a family; to support a son in college; to support the ministers of the gospel.

11. To maintain; to sustain; to keep from failing; as, to support life; to support the strength by nourishment.

12. To sustain without change or dissolution; as, clay supports an intense heat.

13. To bear; to keep from sinking; as, water supports ships and other bodies; air supports a balloon.

14. To bear without being exhausted; to be able to pay; as, to support taxes or contributions.

15. To sustain; to maintain; as, to support a good character.

16. To maintain; to verify; to make good; to substantiate. The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations; the impeachment is well supported by evidence.

17. To uphold by aid or countenance; as, to support a friend or a party.

18. To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.

Support [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.

2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.

3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.

Support [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

2. To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.

3. To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.

4. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.

5. To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.

6. To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.

7. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.

8. To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.

9. To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.

10. A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.

Supportable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be upheld or sustained.

2. That may be borne or endured; as, the pain is supportable or not supportable Patience renders evils supportable

3. Tolerable; that may be borne without resistance or punishment; as, such insults are not supportable

4. That can be maintained; as, the cause or opinion is supportable

Supportable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.

Supportableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of being tolerable.

Supportance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Maintenance; support. [Not in use.]

Supportance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Support.

Supportation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Maintenance; support. [Not in use.]

Supportation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Maintenance; support.

Supported [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Borne; endured; upheld; maintained; subsisted; sustained; carried on.

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

of Support

Supporter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that supports or maintains.

2. That which supports or upholds; a prop, a pillar, etc.

3. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.

4. A sustainer; a comforter.

5. The saints have a companion and supporter in all their miseries.

6. A maintainer; a defender.

7. Worthy supporters of such a reigning impiety.

8. One who maintains or helps to carry on; as the supporters of a war.

9. An advocate; a defender; a vindicator; as the supporters of religion, morality, justice, etc.

10. An adherent; one who takes part; as the supporter of a party or faction.

11. In ship-building, a knee placed under the cat-head.

12. Supporters, in heraldry, are figures of beasts that appear to support the arms.

Supporter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

2. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or candidate.

3. A knee placed under the cathead.

4. A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon are similar figures.

5. A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.

Supportful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Abounding with support. [Not used.]

Supportful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Abounding with support.

Supporting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bearing; enduring; upholding; sustaining; maintaining; subsisting; vindicating.

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

of Support

Supportless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having no support.

Supportless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no support.

Supportment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Support. [Not in use.]

Supportment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Support.

Supportress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A female supporter.

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Genesis 13:6

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

Genesis 36:7

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

Leviticus 25:35

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Judges 16:26

And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

Judges 16:29

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,

2 Samuel 5:9

So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”

2 Samuel 22:19

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

1 Kings 1:7

And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.

1 Kings 7:2

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:30

And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.

1 Kings 7:35

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

1 Kings 7:36

For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

1 Kings 9:15

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:24

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

1 Kings 11:27

And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father.

and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

1 Kings 16:21

Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

At that time the people of Israel were divided: Half of the people supported Tibni son of Ginath as king, and half supported Omri.

2 Kings 15:19

And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.

1 Chronicles 11:8

And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

He built up the city around it, from the supporting terraces to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.

2 Chronicles 11:17

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.