Money [N] [T] [E] [S]A variety of monetary systems are represented in the Bible, corresponding to the political powers that dominated the cultures rep...
Consolation [N]Attempt to comfort someone who is in sorrow. The most frequently encountered Hebrew term is niham [WjIn]; parakaleo [parakalevw], param...
Teach, Teacher Although several Hebrew words are translated teach in English translations of the Old Testament, two words predominate: yara [h'ry], to...
Descending from the mount Jesus explains, in an- Matt. xvii. 10-13. swer to a question from the apostles, how Elias must Mark ix. 11-13. be the fore...
Blindness [N] [S]Scripture often employs the imagery of blindness to describe the spiritual condition of persons who are either unable or unwilling to...
Woman [T] [E]In an age of women's liberation, modern Bible readers have understandably scrutinized Scripture for its teachings on gender. Assessments ...
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit Overt, verbal, and conscious repudiation of the fact that God is at work in Jesus Christ accomplishing his designs t...
Cloud, Cloud of the Lord The Old Testament. The Literal Cloud. Natural phenomena involving clouds are depicted occasionally in the Old Testament, but ...
-. THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. (A Mountain Plateau not far from Capernaum.)Subdivision H.CONCERNING PRAYER. a?MATT. 7:7-11. ? ? ? a?7 Ask, and i...
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...
Anthropomorphism (Gk. anthropos [a[nqrwpo] [human] + morphe [morfhv] [form]). Assignment of human attributes to nonhuman things. Biblical anthropomorp...
Color, Symbolic Meaning of Although the Bible contains relatively few references to individual colors, their symbolic associations are theologically s...
Proverbs, Book of. [E]The title of this book in Hebrew is taken from its first word, mashal , which originally meant a comparison. It is sometimes tr...
EXERCISE ek'-ser-siz (`asah; gumnazo, poieo) : Exercise (meaning originally, to drive or thrust out) has different shades of meaning: It means (1) ...
William Burton, A. B.?This pious minister was born in the city of Winchester, and educated first at Wickham school, then in New College, Oxford, wher...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XI. The Message from John the Baptist. SUMMARY.--John Sends from Prison to Christ. Christ's Answer. The Character of John the Bap...
MARK. CHAPTER XVI. The Resurrection. SUMMARY.--The Women at the Tomb. The Empty Sepulcher. The Message of the Angel. Mary Magdalene Sees the Ris...
Work [N]For contemporary humanity the meaning and character of work have been divorced from religion, being largely shaped by secular ideologies assoc...
Hand, Right Hand Hand most frequently represents the ownership, power, or control that its possessor (either an individual or a people) exercises. Thi...
Command, Commandment The term commandment in the Bible (mainly Heb. miswa [hw.xim]; Gk. entole [ejntolhv]) refers to orders or adjurations given by au...