WISDOM wiz'-dum: 1. Linguistic 2. History 3. Religious Basis 4. Ideals 5. Teaching of Christ 6. Remainder of the New Testament (1) James (2) P...
DEGREE de-gre' (ma`alah, a going up or ascent, hence, a staircase or flight of steps; rank: tapeinos, low): By derivation it should mean a step down ...
WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE || I. NAME II. CANONICITY III. CONTENTS 1. The Wisdom Section, The Wisdom of Solomon 1:1-11:14 2. The Historical Section, ...
TOBIT, BOOK OF to'-bit: 1. Name 2. Canonicity 3. Contents 4. Fact or Fiction? 5. Some Sources 6. Date 7. Place of Composition 8. Versions 9. ...
INTRODUCTION THE first of the twelve minor prophets in the order of the canon (called minor, not as less in point of inspired authority, but simply...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
TRADE trad: I. GENERAL 1. Terms 2. Position of Palestine 3. Trade Products of Palestine 4. Palestinian Traders II. HISTORY 1. To David 2. Solo...
HEAD hed (ro'-sh, Aramaic re'sh, and in special sense gulgoleth, literally, skull, cut-off head (1?Chronicles 10:10), whence Golgotha (Matthew 27:33; ...
CANON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, II \ II. Examination of the Witnesses. 1. The Old Testament's Witness to Itself (circa 1450-444 BC): Though the Old Testa...
JOSHUA (3) Son of Jehozadak (Haggai 1:1,12,14; 2:2,4; Zechariah 3:1,3,6,8,9; 6:11 form (b)) and high priest in Jerusalem, called Jeshua in Ezra-Nehemi...
HUNTING hunt'-ing (tsayidh): The hunting of wild animals for sport, or for the defense of men and flocks, or for food, was common in Western Asia and...
HAIR har (se`ar, sa`ar, Aramaic se`ar, and their derivatives; thrix, gen. case trichos, kome): 1. Hair Fashions: Hair was worn in different fashions...
MACCABEES, BOOKS OF, 1-2 mak'-a-bez, I. 1 MACCABEES 1. Name 2. Canonicity 3. Contents 4. Historicity 5. Author's Standpoint and Aim 6. Date 7....
SALVATION sal-va'-shun: I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. General 2. Individualism 3. Faith 4. Moral Law 5. Sacrifices 6. Ritual Law II. INTERMEDIATE...
RESURRECTION rez-u-rek'-shun (in the New Testament anastasis, with verbs anistemi, stand up, and egeiro, raise. There is no technical term in the Old ...
MYSTERY mis'-ter-i (musterion; from mustes, one initiated into mysteries; mueo to initiate, muo, to close the lips or the eyes; stem mu-, a sound prod...
ETHICS, III \III. Principles and Characteristics of Biblical Ethics. The sketch of the history of ethics just offered, brief as it necessarily is, may...
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...
PROVERBS, THE BOOK OF prov'-erbz: I. THE BOOK'S ACCOUNT OF ITSELF 1. Title and Headings 2. Authorship or Literary Species? II. THE SUCCESSIVE COMP...
ISAIAH, 8-9 8. Isaiah's Prophecies Chronologically Arranged: The editorial arrangement of Isaiah's prophecies is very suggestive. In the main they st...