FORESKIN for'-skin (`orlah; akrobustia, often euphemistically translated uncircumcision): (1) In the literal sense the word is frequently mentioned o...
Zephaniah 2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah The same tract of land become so desolate through the Chaldeans, should in ...
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar, and in Asher, Bethshean, and her towns As Ephraim had cities in Manasseh, so had Manasseh cities in these t...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
Jeremiah 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord Or, are coming F25; as they did, in a very little time after this prophecy: that I will...
Zechariah 1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat Called Sabat in the Septuagint version, and in the Apocr...
CHAPTER 8 Daniel 8:1-27 . VISION OF THE RAM AND HE-GOAT: THE TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF THE SANCTUARY BEING TRODDEN DOWN. With this chapte...
Jeremiah 49:6 And afterwards I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.] Perhaps by Cyrus; for, in the times of Judas ...
MENELAUS men-e-la'-us (Menelaos): According to the less likely account of Josephus (Ant., XII, v, 1; XV, iii, 1; XX, x, 3), Menelaus was a brother of...
John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication That is, of the temple; not as built by Solomon, as Nonnus in his paraphrase suggests; ...
Acts 27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days Because of contrary winds, as in ( Acts 27:4 ) or else for want of wind, as some think; the Syriac v...
DEUTERO-CANONICAL, BOOKS du-ter-o-ka-non'-i-kal: A term sometimes used to designate certain books, which by the Council of Trent were included in the...
ALCIMUS al'-si-mus ('elyaqum, God will rise; Alkimos, valiant): A high priest for three years, 163-161 BC, the record of whose career may be found in...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts o...
Edom, Idumaea or Idumea (red ). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright t...
Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned As Naboth, by the order of Ahab, ( 1 Kings 21:13-19 ) , Zachariah in the court of the Lord's house; ( 2 Chronicles 24:2...
Daniel 11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him Ptolemy king of Egypt, and his brother, being come to an agreement, sent an embassy to th...
CHAPTER 11 Daniel 11:1-45 . This chapter is an enlargement of the eighth: THE OVERTHROW OF PERSIA BY GRECIA: THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'...
Zechariah 7:7 [Should ye] not [hear] the words which the Lord hath cried by the former prophets As Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and others; suggesting tha...
PUNISHMENTS pun'-ish-ments ('awon, fault, iniquity, punishment for iniquity, sin (Genesis 4:13; Leviticus 26:41; Job 19:29; Psalms 149:7; Lamentations...