Remember the great approaching day of judgment, where great and small will be equal before God; and where God will right all that were wronged by men, and be the full and final avenger of his children!
To swear is an affirming or denying of a thing, with an appeal to some other thing or person, as a witness of the truth, or avenger of the untruth, who is not producible as witness or judge in human courts.
The same day when the man returned home he expiated the rashness of his unbridled tongue, the avenger being the very one at whose instigation he had let it loose.
And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avengerof all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.
For he is God's minister: an avengerto execute wrath upon him that doth evil.
That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.
And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before, 20:6.
And be struck by him that is the avengerof blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.
A formidable power was back of him, transforming him from an ordinary homicide into the avenger of a cause.
I am the avenger of my country and of Naundorff and his daughter.
Cal Davidson," said I to myself through my set teeth; "little do you think that you are discovered in your sins, and little do you know that the avenger is on your track.
Little do you know,' say I to them, 'that Black Bart the Avenger is now on the trail.
He at last becomes the avenger of his own impiety, by devouring his own limbs.
The character of the hero throughout life, as that of the avenger of injustice and punisher of evil, must exhibit itself in the boy as the wild instinct of nature; and the mythus makes him kill his tutor Linus with a blow of the lyre.
The occasion of asking {aid} was a boar, the servant and the avenger of Diana in her wrath.
So go while yet there's time, and do not meet Th' avenger still too hot to act as judge.
He therefore ordered the two prisoners to be placed in the centre of the hall; and, looking sternly towards the accused, began his interrogations in the severe accents of one who is an avenger rather than a judge.
In the Far West, I am not only called the Son of Blood, but also the Avenger and the judge.
The word also signifies an avenger of wrongs, redresser of grievances; hence vindicate, vindictive, etc.
If Massingberd Heath escape some awful end, there is no Avenger on high.
The avenger should be a new king, and all this should come to pass "even now.
David was trained in the old traditions of the "avenger of blood"; and we cannot be astonished, though we may greatly regret, that his standard was indefinitely below that of the Sermon on the Mount.
The son of Eleazar was the fierce priestly avenger Phinehas.
He had scarcely glanced at his son, who stood helpless, raging inwardly to find himself presenting the appearance of a culprit caught in some fault, instead of the avenger that he had expected to be.
Alexander, the defender and avenger of Hellas, holds thy dominions, and the nations that owned thy sway are bowed at his feet.
What's the good of a city of refuge if the avenger of blood sits waiting for you at the bottom of the ladder?
And then he laughed and said he thought the avenger of blood would think a long time before following us there; and I'm sure he meant that Prissy would be frightened, and I dare say she would.
It wouldn't have been a city of refuge if the avenger of blood could come after us in another boat and take us away," added Puck.
I was afraid Mr. Earle would be the avenger of blood, and would come in the Swan.
I said I thought the avengerof blood would always be coming after us now.
But thou wast not to go there, David--the blood which thou hadst shed in Scotland was to be required of thee; theavenger was at hand, the avenger of blood.
Therefore should a man wish a brother to be left in his family, as anavenger of his death.
I apart, a much braver avenger of him, was left behind at the hollow ships, I who have relaxed thy knees.
He turned his mare's head, and when the factor ventured to turn his, he saw the avenger already halfway back to Scaurnose, and the constables in full flight meeting him.
Cities of refuge were needed, because the 'avenger of blood' was recognised as performing an imperative duty.
The kinsman-avenger took no heed of the motive of the slaying.
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Therefore the goel, or kinsman-avenger of blood, was not only permitted but enjoined by Moses.
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Ye judges of the earth, be wise, And think of heaven with fear; The meanest saint that you despise Has an avenger there.
This lay in the practice of making the go-el, or nearest of kin, the avenger of blood.
If he failed to establish his innocence, he got no protection; but if he made out his case he was free from the avenger of blood, so long as he remained within the city or its precincts.
Let them have their city of refuge for undesigned offences, and never again pursue them or fall on them in the excited spirit of the avenger of blood!
There is the Erinnys as the avenger of monstrous villanies; there is a Tartarus where the darkest criminals suffer eternal tortures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avenger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
