in the midst The Levites, who performed the priestly duty of the OT, camped around the glory of the Lord which resided in the Tabernacle (Num. Num. 1:...
in their mouth Scripture implicates the mouth as the organ which speaks forth the heart: ?Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things...
The Alpha and the Omega (to Alpa kai to O). The first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet, each with its own neuter (grammatical gender) artic...
Overview - 2?Samuel 5 1?The tribes come to Hebron and anoint David over Israel. 4?David's age. 6?He taking Zion from the Jebusites, dwells in it. 11...
arrayed in purple and scarlet Her purple and scarlet clothing is called ?fine linen? (Rev. Rev. 18:12+). Fine is ???????? [byssinon] , which is used o...
Know, Knowledge The Old Testament. The Hebrew root yada [[;dy],translated know/knowledge, appears almost 950 times in the HebrewBible. It has a wider...
Hardening, Hardness of Heart In the Scriptures various aspects of human anatomy are used to define the whole person, but the most frequently used is h...
he went to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God This phrase is pregnant with anti-Semitism. Although the woman no...
The number two appears in the book of Revelation in association with the two witnesses (Rev. Rev. 11:3+, Rev. 11:10+) who are the ?two olive trees an...
Touch Bringing into bodily contact of one thing with another. The Hebrew naga [[;gn] and Greek hapto [a&ptomai] (-omai) are the main biblical terms fo...
4.7.1 - Which Face, Which Gospel?4.7.2 - Camp of Israel4.7.3 - A Shadow of the Heavenly Many have wondered why there are four gospels? Especially if t...
Deliver The Old Testament. The concept of deliverance occurs in the Old Testament with two meanings. The first is in a nontheological sense signifying...
WAY wa ('orach, orcha', 'erets, bo', derekh, halikhah, ma`galah, nathibh; hodos, parodos, poreia, tropos; highway, mecillah, meclul; diexodoi ton hodo...
Harvest [N] [E] [S]The gathering of things planted, a natural time of reaping in joy what has been produced during the year in an agricultral communit...
Lion [N] [S]Although most Hebrew and Greek words for lion are used in a figurative sense, nevertheless we can draw a number of inferences regarding th...
four living creatures See commentary on Revelation 4:6. the elders See commentary on Revelation 4:4. a Lamb ?When John turned, he saw, not a Lion, acc...
Heart [N] [E]Heart (Hebrew lebab/leb [b'bel], Gk. kardia [kardiva]) occurs over one thousand times in the Bible, making it the most common anthropolog...
Remnant Leftovers or remainders, whether of daily food ( Ruth 2:14 Ruth 2:18 ), food at the Passover ( Leviticus 7:16 Leviticus 7:18 ), anointing oi...
Persecution [N] [T] [E]Just as the Bible graphically describes the introduction and spread of sin in the world, it also depicts the presence and reali...
WOLF woolf (1) ze'ebh (Ge 49:27; 11:6; 65:25; Jer 5:6; Eze 22:27; Hab 1:8; Zec 3:3; also as proper name, Zeeb, prince of Midian, Judges 7:25; 8:3; P...