Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls Coral is a marine plant, is as hard as a stone, and of such value as to be reckoned among pr...
\\INTRODUCTION TO LUKE\\ The writer of this Gospel, Luke, has been, by some, thought, as Origen {a} relates, to be the same with Lucius, mentioned i...
Meekness [N] [T] [E]Late twentieth-century Western culture does not hold meekness to be a virtue, in contrast to the ancient Near East and the Greco-R...
do not weep ?? ????? [m? klaie] , a present tense imperative indicating that John continued to weep.1 the Lion of the tribe of Judah God had revealed...
Lust [N] [E]A strong craving or desire, often of a sexual nature. Though used relatively infrequently (twenty-nine times) in Scripture, a common theme...
Job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes Which with the Troglodytes were of a vast size F18; or rather upon the bush F19 or tree; and therefore canno...
Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob The Sadducees expressly denied, that the resurrection could be prove...
Teach, Teacher Although several Hebrew words are translated teach in English translations of the Old Testament, two words predominate: yara [h'ry], to...
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire That is, the punishment of their sins, as the Targum interprets it; the wrath of God for sin, which is ...
Proverbs 30:17 The eye [that] mocketh at [his] father At his advice, admonitions, and instructions; looks upon him with scorn and disdain, and treats ...
Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar To which it is compared, not for the length and largeness of it; for the tail both of the elephant and of th...
Leviticus 13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising In the place where the boil was, a white swelling appears: or a bright spot, whit...
Exodus 8:17 And they did so As follows: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod; as directed and ordered: and smote the dust of the earth, and...
Zechariah 6:2 In the first chariot [were] red horses If these are to be understood of the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the Gospel, they may be...
Genesis 1:29 And God said That is, to Adam and Eve, whom he had made in his image and likeness, and to whom he had given the dominion of the earth and...
Hope [N] [T] [E]To trust in, wait for, look for, or desire something or someone; or to expect something beneficial in the future.The Old Testament. Th...
Sleep [N]In the Scriptures the words that designate sleep are used in both a literal and a figurative way. When the word is used literally, as it freq...
Temptation, Test While the number of terms denoting temptation and testing is small, their range of meaning is wide, extending from a secular sens...
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches The Revelation of Jesus Christ (the contents of which are recorded by thi...
Slave, Slavery State of being subjected to involuntary servitude. It usually included being legally owned as property by another person. Slavery in th...