Gripe

Gripe

GRIPE, verb transitive [Latin rapio.]

1. To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.

2. To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.

3. To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.

4. To close the fingers; to clutch.

5. To pinch; to press; to compress.

6. To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.

7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.

GRIPE, verb intransitive To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.

1. To feel the colic.

2. To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.

GRIPE, noun Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.

1. Squeeze; pressure.

2. Oppression; cruel exactions.

3. Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.

4. In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.

5. Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.

6. Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.

SCRIPTURES:

CRIPTURES: GRASP

Alma 42:14

• Book of Mormon

And thus we see that all mankind were fallen, and they were in thegrasp of justice; yea, the justice of God, which consigned them forever to be cut off from his presence. 

2 Nephi 28:19

• Book of Mormon

For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the devil will graspthem with his everlasting chains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish; 

2 Nephi 9:10

• Book of Mormon

O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit. 

3 Nephi 6:29

• Book of Mormon

Therefore they did combine against the people of the Lord, and enter into a covenant to destroy them, and to deliver those who were guilty of murder from the grasp of justice, which was about to be administered according to the law. 

2 Nephi 28:22

• Book of Mormon

And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance. 

2 Nephi 28:23

• Book of Mormon

Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake... 

Justice

• The Guide to the Scriptures

...wicked from the righteous, 1 Ne. 15:30The Atonement satisfies the demands of his justice, 2 Ne. 9:26All mankind is fallen and is in thegrasp of justice, Alma 42:14The Atonement appeases the demands of justice, Alma 42:15Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice?, Alma 42:25The justice of God.

1 Nephi 8:24

• Book of Mormon

And it came to pass that I beheld others pressing forward, and they came forth and caught hold of the end of the rod of iron; and they did press forward through the mist of darkness, clinging to the rod of iron, even until they did come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree

Quotes:

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley

PERSONAL DEFINITION:

I think that to 'gripe' means to cling, or to clutch really tightly, or grab hold of.

I think griping is a greedy, if not almost vicious way of getting what you want. 

In an application sense, when we gripe, we fix our minds to something, and we squeeze it, and hold on with stubbornness and don't let go, then we can be so good at getting what we want, and we can decieve our selves too.

Sometimes when we want something bad enough, we can trick our minds into thinking its right, and we can become very selfish and stubborn and fixed to our cause, which will cause ignorence and a lot of fear and anxiety about getting what you want all the time.

It's probably better to trust the Lord and his Justice and Mercy and have Him be your strength instead of all the things you want to gripe at.

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