Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. 2. (n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident. 3. (n.) Circumlocution; detail. 4. (n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. 5. (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

Multi-Version Concordance Circumstance (5 Occurrences) Philippians 4:12 I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want. (Root in WEY NAS RSV) 1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you. (WEY RSV NIV) 2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. (See NAS) Numbers 12:1 And Miriam speaketh -- Aaron also -- against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken: for a Cushite woman he had taken; (YLT) Ecclesiastes 5:14 or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. (DBY)