LACE las (pathil, variously rendered in Genesis 38:18,25; Exodus 39:3; Numbers 15:38; 19:15; Judges 16:9; Ezekiel 40:3): In modern English the noun l...
SIRACH, BOOK OF si'-rak, or The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach: I. NAME II. CANONICITY III. CONTENTS IV. TEACHING 1. Religion 2. Morals 3. M...
APOTHECARY a-poth'-e-ka-ri: Found in English Versions of the Bible eight times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha for Hebrew word rendered more accur...
UNDERTAKE un-der-tak': To take upon one's self, assume responsibility, and so in Elizabethan English be surety. In this sense in the King James Versi...
STRANGER AND SOJOURNER (IN THE APOCRYPHA AND THE NEW TESTAMENT) The technical meaning attaching to the Hebrew terms is not present in the Greek words ...
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...
WASH; WASHING wosh, wosh'-ing: The two usual Hebrew words for wash are rachats, and kabhac, the former being normally used of persons or of sacrifici...
THANK; THANKS; THANKSGIVING thank, thanks, thanks-giv'-ing, thanks'-giv-ing: Both the verb and the nouns appear almost uniformly for yadhah, and euch...
TRAVAIL trav'-al (yaladh (Genesis 35:16, etc.), chul, chil (properly writhe, Job 15:20, etc.); odin (classical odis) (Matthew 24:8, etc.), odino (Sira...
SETH; SHETH seth, sheth (sheth; Seth): (1) The son born to Adam and Eve after the death of Abel (Genesis 4:25; 5:3; 1Ch 1:1; Sirach 49:16; Luke 3:38)...
DECEASE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCYPHRA de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, ghosts, shades, is translated by dead, dead body, and deceased in both t...
IMAGERY im'-aj-ri (maskith, carved figure): Only in Ezekiel 8:12, every man in his chambers of imagery, i.e. dark chambers on whose walls were pictur...
TAKE tak: Most of the very numerous examples of this word are still in good use and only a few call for special attention. To take in the sense of ca...
SKILL; SKILFUL skil, skil'-fool (forms of yadha` (2?Chronicles 2:14, etc.), bin (1?Chronicles 15:22), sakhal (Daniel 1:4, etc.), lamadh (1?Chronicles ...
LIKE; LIKEN; LIKENESS; LIKING lik, lik'-n, lik'-nes, lik'-ing: (1) As a noun, like in modern English is virtually obsolete, except in the phrase and ...
Zechariah 5:4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts The roll was come forth, and was flying abroad; but the curse and wrath of God, signified...
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 ...
NEW; NEWNESS nu, nu'-nes (chadhash; kainos, neos): 1. In the Old Testament: The word commonly translated new in the Old Testament is chadhash, brigh...
SEAL sel (substantive chotham, seal, signet, Tabba`ath, signet-ring; Aramaic `izqa'; sphragis; verb chatham, (Aramaic chatham); (sphragizo), (katasphr...
SHEW, SHOW sho: Show (so always the American Standard Revised Version) is simply a modernized spelling of shew (so always in the King James Version a...