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v. - To exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Verb (used with object) : compassion that indwells the heart
  • Verb (used without object) : a divine spirit indwelling in nature and the universe
  • For, as I said before, if it were unfitting for Him thus to indwell the part, it would be equally so for Him to exist within the whole.
  • Not more surely had the Shechinah dwelt in the tabernacle of old, than did it indwell His nature, though too thickly shrouded to be seen by ordinary and casual eyes.
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