| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. 2. (a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. 3. (n.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. 4. (a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. 5. (a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. 6. (n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 7. (n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. 8. (n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. 9. (n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. 10. (n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia EXTREME; EXTREMITY eks-trem', eks-trem'-i-ti We have the adjective "extreme" in APC 2Esdras 5:14, "extreme fear," the Revised Version (British and American) "trembling"; in APC Wisdom 12:27, "extreme (terma) damnation," the Revised Version (British and American) "the last end of condemnation"; in APC 2Macc 7:42, "extreme (huperballousas) tortures," the Revised Version (British and American) "exceeding barbarities"; in Ecclesiasticus 42:8 it is used as an adverb, "the extreme aged" (eschatogeros), the Revised Version (British and American) "of extreme old age." Extremity: pash; Septuagint paraptoma, occurs only in Job 35:15 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "arrogance," and akme in APC 2Macc 1:7. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Extreme (11 Occurrences) Mark 7:37 The amazement was extreme. "He succeeds in everything he attempts," they exclaimed; "he even makes deaf men hear and dumb men speak!" (WEY) 2 Corinthians 8:2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality. (See RSV NIV) Numbers 22:36 And Balak heareth that Balaam hath come, and goeth out to meet him, unto a city of Moab, which 'is' on the border of Arnon, which 'is' in the extremity of the border; (See NAS) Numbers 23:13 And Balak saith unto him, 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, whence thou dost see it, only its extremity thou dost see, and all of it thou dost not see, and pierce it for me thence;' (See NAS) Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. (KJV WBS YLT) Joshua 15:1 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin, southward, in the extreme south. (DBY NAS NIV) Joshua 15:21 And the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah are unto the border of Edom in the south, Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, (See RSV) Joshua 18:15 And the south side was from the extreme end of Kirjath-jearim, And the border went out on the west, And went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. (DBY) 1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul abode at the extreme end of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which was in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men. (DBY) Ezekiel 46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward. (See NAS RSV) Daniel 9:21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. (See NAS) |