FLINT flint (challamish (Deuteronomy 8:15; 32:13; Job 28:9; Psalms 114:8), tsor (Exodus 4:25; Ezekiel 3:9), tser (Isaiah 5:28), tsur (Job 22:24; Psalm...
Gog [N] [H] [S] A Reubenite ( 1?Chronicles 5:4 ), the father of Shimei. The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezek. 38,39, as co...
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts The former, or first house, was the temple buil...
Romans 16:21 Timotheus my work fellow Now follow the salutations of the friends and companions of the apostle: we may imagine that when this epistle w...
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month Not Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, as is suggested in the Talmud F5; nor David, Adonijah, and Jo...
1 Samuel 22:3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab So called to distinguish it from a place of the same name in the land of Israel; which Junius sa...
LACEDAEMONIANS las-e-de-mo'-ni-anz (Spartidtai; once only Lakedaimonioi, 2 Macc 5:9): The inhabitants of Sparta or Lacedaemon with whom the Jews clai...
Deuteronomy 33:11 Bless, Lord, his substance Which lay in tithes, firstfruits for the priests and Levites had no share in the division of the land; un...
Daniel 11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler This is Ptolemy Philopator, who succeeded Ptolemy Euergetes in the kingdom of Egypt;...
Ptolemy tells us something of its situation by its degrees, saying, Emmaus, 65. 45. 31. 45. As to the vicinage of countries or places adjacent, thus ...
Acts 13:14 But when they departed from Perga Where they seemed not to make any long stay; nor is there any account of what they did there; though it i...
Sanhedrimmore correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning a sitting together, or a council. This word (rendered council, A.V.) is frequently used in ...
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand Which, as it was expressive of the interest he had in his roy...
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore [as] I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel The Lord here swears by himself, by his life; partly to show how provo...
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man or woman, or family, or tribe These words stand in connection with ( Deuteronomy 29:15 ) , with (...
Ezekiel 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it The crown and kingdom of Judah; which being expressed three times, has not respect, as Kimchi th...
SCYTHIANS sith'-i-anz (hoi Skuthai): The word does not occur in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, but Septuagint of Judges 1:27 inserts (Skuthon polis...
Zealot Recent studies seek to distinguish among several features of intertestamental Judaism to which the term zealot might be applied. The term could...
Leviticus 6:13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar This was what first fell from heaven, ( Leviticus 9:24 ) and which in after ages was main...
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan Another son of Japheth; four sons of Javan are mentioned, which gave names to countries, and are as follow: Elisha...