STOCK stok: In English Versions of the Bible is used for: (1) The stem of a tree, whether alive (Job 14:8; Isaiah 40:24) or cut down (Isaiah 44:19; ...
Guide to Book AbbreviationThe following table lists (in alphabetical order) the names of each of the books of the Bible and it's corresponding shortes...
ELUL e'-lul, e-lool' ('elul, Nehemiah 6:15; Eloul, 1?Maccabees 14:27): The 6th month of the Hebrew year, corresponding to August-September. The deriv...
EXTREME; EXTREMITY eks-trem', eks-trem'-i-ti We have the adjective extreme in 2?Esdras 5:14, extreme fear, the Revised Version (British and American) ...
ESDRIS ez'-dris, es'-dris (Esdris): A leader mentioned in 2?Maccabees 12:36 in best texts and adopted in the Revised Version (British and American) f...
GALGALA gal'-gal-a (Gallgala): Greek equivalent for Gilgal. The word occurs in 1?Maccabees 9:2 in connection with Arbela, in Galilee--The way to Galg...
FURY fu'-ri (alastor, not to forget, significant of revenge): Occurs only in 2?Maccabees 7:9 the King James Version, Thou like a fury (the Revised Ve...
Maccabees [S]This word does not occur in Scripture. It was the name given to the leaders of the national party among the Jews who suffered in the pers...
Matthew 21:36 Again he sent other servants Meaning, perhaps, such as suffered in the times of the Maccabees: more than the first; their number was gr...
Antiochus [E](an opponent ), the name of a number of kings of Syria who lived during the interval between the Old and New Testaments, and had frequen...
Psalms 79:5 How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever? &c.] That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see ( Psalms 85:4 Psalms 8...
Daniel 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many, &c.] Such as had a better understanding of divine things than others, had ...
GAZERA ga-ze'-ra (Gazera): (1) A fortress of Judea (1?Maccabees 4:15; 7:45); in the Revised Version (British and American) always GAZARA (which see)....
ELEPHANT el'-e-fant (Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin hippopotamus, the Revised Version (British and Ame...
ACCOS ak'-os (Hakchos): The grandfather of Eupolemus, whom Judas Maccabeus sent with others to Rome in 161 BC, to negotiate a league of amity and co...
Jeremiah 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which [are] in Babylon A form of cursing; when they cursed anyone, ...
Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy These words are inserted in a parenthesis, to remove or prevent such objections as these; that they wer...
Maccabees [E](a hammer ), The. This title, which was originally the surname of Judas, one of the sons of Mattathias, was afterward extended to the he...
Joshua 15:39 Lachish Lachish and Eglon were royal cities, of which see ( Joshua 10:3 ) ; and Bozkath, is called Boscath, of which place was the mothe...
SALU sa'-lu (calu'; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Salmon; Codex Alexandrinus Salo; the King James Version has Salom in 1 Macc 2:26): A prince and the h...