noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God squad
God's mercy
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Will we still receive God's mercy if we refuse to repent?
I hope to God
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I hope to God I haven’t left the car window open.
Mother of God
oh, God/oh, dear etc
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Oh, God, I forgot all about it!
playing God
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the accusation that scientists are playing God
Son of God
sun god
swear to God
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I never touched her, I swear to God .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
false
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Spark has always had the facility to be silkily suave as she goes about examining our predilection for worshipping false gods .
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But those of us who understand history must shudder at his adulation of the false gods of isolationism and protectionism.
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Musicians, actors and celebrities all count as false gods . 13.
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Massachusetts laws forbade people to induce others to follow false gods , and this they accused Quakers of doing.
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Once you get too exclusive, too obsessed with a place, you are worshipping false gods .
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The Old Testament records them running after false gods , the gods of the nations round about them, whenever opportunity offered.
great
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He was Zeus, greatest of gods , and all he was doing was from love of her.
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Two great gods were watching over him.
old
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Like converted pagans, they were reluctant to give up their old gods .
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Phoebe was a Titan, One of the older gods .
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The occultist, Dion Fortune, wrote that the best place to wake the old gods is on chalk.
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Under her feet the old gods were busily dying into a new life.
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Joshua, whose conceit it was to prefer the old gods to the new, took no part in the singing.
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These alone among the older gods were not banished with the coming of Zeus, but they took a lower place.
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Sigmar took his place alongside the chief old gods of the Empire: Taal, Ulric, and Morr.
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The old gods of labor seemed to be on his side.
other
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The other gods are mere pretenders to divinity.
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Why are these other gods ultimately denied the status of true Deity?
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There is no place whatsoever for other gods .
pagan
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The rest are more like the pagan gods - supermen and super women.
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Maurice and his legion, Gereon and his soldiers reftised to worship pagan gods before battle.
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Note the little half-moon windows and the niches with their statues of pagan gods .
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Justin was martyred along with five other men and a woman for reftising to worship pagan gods .
roman
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At the top is a fine row of sculpted Roman gods .
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Janus Janus is one of the most important Roman gods .
■ NOUN
sun
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Accordingly all over the agricultural world sun gods were created in huge numbers.
■ VERB
become
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There he ordered Cronus to vomit up the other children, who then became the gods of Olympus.
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The Witch King and his fellows would draw on the power of Chaos and become like unto gods .
believe
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The question is often asked whether Hindus believe in many gods and goddesses.
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We may not believe any more in gods inhabiting rivers and lakes and oceans.
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You never believe that the gods will really let it burn you.
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Do some of them believe in gods that exist and others believe in gods that don't exist?
bless
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Let a man not speak of cannibal deeds among the blessed gods .
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I was being blessed by the gods .
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Dash had done well, but he had never been blessed by the gods .
pray
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In the camp of the Phoenix King, Caledor prayed to all the gods and to his grandsire to aid him.
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We may celebrate different holidays, we may pray to different gods , we may carry different bibles.
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Aid many times each day she prayed to the gods for him, to Juno most of all.
smile
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I started shooting, then, to prove the gods were really smiling on me, Gary Smart appeared in shot.
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But even here the gods appeared to be smiling broadly on Morse's enterprise.
thank
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But not Security trained, thank the gods .
worship
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They were made to learn our language... to read our books... learn to worship our gods .
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Maurice and his legion, Gereon and his soldiers reftised to worship pagan gods before battle.
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Spark has always had the facility to be silkily suave as she goes about examining our predilection for worshipping false gods .
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Justin was martyred along with five other men and a woman for reftising to worship pagan gods .
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It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods .
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Once you get too exclusive, too obsessed with a place, you are worshipping false gods .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God (only) knows
God bless
God forbid (that)
God help him/them etc
God help us
God help you/him etc
God is in his heaven, all's right with the world
God moves in a mysterious way/mysterious ways
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
God willing
God/Christ Almighty
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God Almighty , what on earth will they do next?
God/Heaven be praised
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Hallelujah, and the heavens be praised ... He is giving it the look.
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However, play then we did and, heaven be praised , we did show them a thing or two.
God/Heaven forbid
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God forbid you should have an accident.
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And heaven forbid that you should be served by some one in a chain coffee house with a regional accent.
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My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
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Or, heaven forbid , ridicule him?
God/oh (my) God/good God (almighty)
Heaven/God/who/goodness knows!
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Nearer my God to Thee
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon
act of God
for God's sake
for God's/Christ's/goodness'/Heaven's/Pete's sake
for the love of God
fortune/the gods etc smile on sb
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That means you are a magical person. The gods smile on twins.
gift (from God)
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As we encourage the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and especially prophecy, we need to know how to test them.
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He fell in love with and married a princess after plying her father, the sultan, with many valuable gifts .
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I feel nothing but my new self: the gift of the rose.
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In 1 Cor 12: 2-3, Paul gives the Christological criterion for evaluating any alleged gift .
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More than 20 people accepted gifts .
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Say thank you with a gift of gold from Beaverbrooks.
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Some composers - Beethoven was one of them - had little gift for vocal writing.
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Time to get out the tree, the ornaments, the special gift baskets and the ceramic figurines to decorate the house.
glory (be) to God/Jesus etc
good grief/God/Lord/heavens/gracious!
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Good grief! I forgot my keys again.
honest to God
honest to God
house of God/worship
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But there are legitimate houses of worship here that welcome any serious couple who want to exchange vows before family and friends.
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If man is made of clay, why not his houses of worship?
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It is not a lack of money that keeps parishioners from expanding the historic house of worship.
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No house of worship nor community center should be bereft of personnel or equipment for such education.
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The area also has many historical houses of worship, which can be toured.
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The Civil War almost devastated these little Baptist houses of worship.
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They had no temples or houses of worship.
in the lap of the gods
instrument of fate/God
man of God/man of the cloth
my goodness/my God etc
please God
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Everything's going to be fine, please God.
put the fear of God into sb
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The IRS tries to put the fear of God into people who don't pay enough tax.
so help me (God)
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A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.
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But, so help me ... I have done nothing!
thank God/goodness/heavens
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Thank God the semester's almost over!
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A spare room with no room mate was available, thank goodness, at the Loch Leven Hotel.
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All I can say in these hectic times is thank goodness for Marks & Spencer's prepared meals.
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And the politicians, thank goodness, have only so much money with which to rip each other to shreds.
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He was leaving, thank goodness!
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There was no sign of him now, thank goodness.
the Almighty/Almighty God/Almighty Father
the God squad
the Son of God
the Word (of God)
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Ask the students to tell you what they think of when they hear the word slide.
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But the words stayed blocked in her throat.
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Commandeered, that's the word .
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I accept his statement as the word of a right hon. Member of this House.
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It was almost easy to say the words to him, and then suddenly he turned away.
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She found a notepad from the Shelbourne and scribbled the word Grimoire down.
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That first young Seal spread the word about our business to his fellow Seals, their wives, and friends.
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You may want to provide the words balance and center of gravity and demonstrate them.
the kingdom of heaven/God
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness, sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand, he was referring to its being qualitatively present.
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They believe the kingdom of Heaven is to do with the whole person.
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They still believe that the kingdom of Heaven is something present in the lives of men and women.
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This world, this kingdom of the Devil, will be destroyed and the kingdom of heaven shall come.
there but for the grace of God (go I)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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God knows she's had a hard life.
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Mars, the god of war
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arachne's contribution was a woven hanging on which she had depicted the lives and loves of the gods.
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He knew that men struggle and that gods rule.
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His fatherly affection was not strong, as events proved, but his fear of the gods was.
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It seems that they are not gods exactly, but made of the same stuff as gods.
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Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods.
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The gods would not consent to his entering the world of the dead a second time, while he was still alive.
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The Witch King and his fellows would draw on the power of Chaos and become like unto gods.
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We are men, not gods!