JUDAS joo'-das (Ioudas; Greek form of Hebrew Judah): (1) A Levite mentioned in 1 Esdras 9:23 = JUDAH (3). (2) Judas Maccabeus, 3rd son of Mattathias...
NICANOR (1) ni-ka'-nor, ni'-ka-nor (Nikanor): The son of Patroclus and one of the king's chief friends (2 Macc 8:9), a Syrian general under Antiochus...
APPHUS af'-us, ap'-fus: A name borne by Jonathan, the fifth son of Mattathias (Apphous, 1 Macc 2:5). All the brothers, according to this passage, had...
Overview - Ezekiel 25 1?God's vengeance, for their insolency against the Jews, upon the Ammonites; 8?upon Moab and Seir; 12?upon Edom; 15?and upon th...
FRUSTRATE frus'-trat (parar; atheteo): Frustrate (from frustra, vain) is the translation of parar, to break, to make void, to bring to nothing (Ezra ...
Daniel 11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches That is, Antiochus, with the spoils of Egypt, and the gifts and presents he had rece...
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupted by flatteries That forsook the law of God, the book of the covenant, and ...
Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part Powerful armies sent by him into Judea; garrisons of soldiers placed in Jerusalem; mighty generals and c...
HELPS (1) (antilempseis, 1?Corinthians 12:28): In classical Greek the word antilempsis means remuneration, the hold one has on something, then percep...
GAINSAY gan-sa, gan'-sa (anteipon, antilego, to say or speak against): Occurs as anteipon, not .... able to withstand or to gainsay (Luke 21:15); as ...
HASIDAEANS has-i-de'-anz (Hasidaioi, a transliteration of chacidhim, the pious, Puritans): A name assumed by the orthodox Jews (1 Macc 2:42; 7:13) to...
EMMAUS e-ma'-us, em'-a-us (Emmaous, derivation uncertain, but probably from chammath, a hot spring): Josephus (BJ, IV, i, 3) says: Now Emmaus, if it...
Ver. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again As the widow of Zarephath, and the Shunammite, ( 1 Kings 17:22 ) ( 2 Kings 4:34 2 Kings 4:35 ...
JEREMIAH (1) jer-e-mi'-a (a) yirmeyahu, or (b) shorter form, yirmeyah, both differently explained as Yah establishes (so Giesebrecht), whom Yahweh c...
Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa And so it is called by Josephus F23, and in the Apocrypha: ``And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they o...
MACCABAEUS; MACCABEES mak-a-be'-us (Makkabaios), mak'-a-bez (hoi Makkabaioi): I. PALESTINE UNDER KINGS OF SYRIA 1. Rivalry of Syria and Egypt 2. Pa...
Joshua 12:23 The king of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one Of which see ( Joshua 11:2 ) ; it fell to the lot of Manasseh, but never was possessed by them,...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
Ver. 7-18. Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib And the other twenty three to the following persons in order: Jedaiah, Harim, Seorim, Malchijah...
ALEXANDER BALAS Alexander ba'-las (Alexandros ho Balas legomenos): He contended against Demetrius I of Syria for the throne and succeeded in obtainin...