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...
Mark 3:8 And from Jerusalem The metropolis of the country of Judea; and from Idumea, or Edom, as the Syriac version reads it; a country that lay on t...
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by fie hand of my people Israel This was fulfilled in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Macca...
ALEXANDER BALAS Alexander ba'-las (Alexandros ho Balas legomenos): He contended against Demetrius I of Syria for the throne and succeeded in obtainin...
MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING mok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, to play upon, mock, deride (Judges 16:10...
Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn Meaning not the kingdom of Titus Vespasian, as Jarchi; nor the kingdom of the Turks, as Saa...
Daniel 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help When the Jews shall be thus harassed and distressed by Antiochus and hi...
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...
VOID void: The uses of void in English Versions of the Bible are all modern, except for the phrase void place in the King James Version 1?Kings 22:10...
HELPS (1) (antilempseis, 1?Corinthians 12:28): In classical Greek the word antilempsis means remuneration, the hold one has on something, then percep...
JOHN (1) jon (Ioannes): The name of several persons mentioned in the Apocrypha: (1) Father of Mattathias, grandfather of Judas Maccabeus and his bro...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
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...
Some therefore of them of Jerusalem (oun tine ek twn Ierosolumeitwn). The people of the city in contrast to the multitude of pilgrims at the feast. T...
The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon?Strong's Number: ? 2445?Browse Lexicon?Original WordWord Origin?Iovpphof Hebrew origin (03305)Transliterated WordT...
The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon?Strong's Number: ? 2445?Browse Lexicon?Original WordWord Originioppeof Hebrew origin (03305)Transliterated WordTDN...
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...
LYSIAS lis'-i-as (Lusias): (1) A noble man, and one of the blood royal whom Antiochus Epiphanes (circa 166 BC) left with the government of Southern S...
Daniel 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand His schemes were laid in such deep policy, and he managed so artfu...
Esther 9:21 To stablish this among them That it might be a settled thing, and annually observed in all future generations, what they had now done: th...