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...
Punishment [N] [E]Earthly Punishment. The Old Testament. Early in Israel's history, guilt and punishment were understood to be communal. When Achan br...
Temptation, Test While the number of terms denoting temptation and testing is small, their range of meaning is wide, extending from a secular sens...
Neighbor [N]Once a lawyer, in an attempt to rationalize his own racial prejudice, asked Jesus, And who is my neighbor? ( Luke 10:29 ). This lawyer-scr...
PSALM 138 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. This Psalm is wisely placed. Whoever edited and arranged these sacred poems, he had an eye to apposition a...
Family Life and Relations The Old Testament. In Western societies individuals are often considered the societal units, brought together by some common...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
Slave, Slavery State of being subjected to involuntary servitude. It usually included being legally owned as property by another person. Slavery in th...
JOSU? 16DIVISIONES DE P?RRAFO DE LAS TRADUCCIONES MODERNASLBLARVR AntiguaRVR60DHHBJTerritorio de Efra?n16:1-316:4-10Porciones de los hijos de Jos?16:1...
Sleep [N]In the Scriptures the words that designate sleep are used in both a literal and a figurative way. When the word is used literally, as it freq...
G?NESIS 18DIVISIONES DE P?RRAFO DE TRADUCCIONES MODERNASNASBNKJVNRSVTEVNJB(sigue al Texto Masoretico)Prometido nacimiento de Isaac18:1-818:9-1518:16-2...
Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies Heaven is the created reality beyond earth. The heavens and the earth ( Gen 1:1 ) circumscribe the entire creation, or wha...
1 CORINTIOS 5DIVISIONES DE P?RRAFOS EN TRADUCCIONES MODERNASUBS4RV-1960LBLADHHBJJuicio en Contra de laUn Caso de InmoralidadInmoralidad en la IglesiaU...
Priest, Priesthood Old Testament Priesthood. The primary word for priest in the Old Testament is the Hebrew masculine noun kohen [ehoK], for which we ...
Leadership [N]The Old Testament. In the earliest days of the Old Testament, leadership of the people of God was by the family head or patriarch, to wh...
Remember, Remembrance To remember is a normal part of the activity of the human mind. When, however, God is the One who is remembered in prayer and ri...
Marriage [N] [T] [E] [S]An intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. Th...
Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel This refers to the time period during which the seventh angel sounds and the final seven bowl judgmen...
my two witnesses The TR text indicates that it is an angel which is speaking with John (Rev. Rev. 11:1+). Yet here, the speaker speaks of the two witn...