ACHIACHARUS a-ki-ak'-a-rus (Codex Vaticanus Achiacharos; Acheicharos): Governor of Assyria. Achiacharus is the son of Anael, a brother of Tobit (Tob...
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. ...
NABUCHODONOSOR nab-u-ko-don'-o-sor (Nabouchodonosor): Septuagint and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) form of Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadrez...
At Lystra (en Lustroi). Neuter plural as in Matthew 16:2 ; 2?Timothy 3:11 while feminine singular in Acts 14:6 Acts 14:21 ; Acts 16:1 . There w...
Alms. [N] [E]The duty of alms-giving, especially in kind, consisting chiefly in portions to be left designedly from produce of the field, the vineyar...
Men from among (ek twn etc.). No word for men (anqrwpoi or polloi) before ek twn, but it is implied (partitive use of ek) as in John 2:10 and often...
BLINDNESS blind'-ness (`awar, and variants; tuphlos): The word blind is used as a verb, as John 12:40, usually in the sense of obscuring spiritual pe...
MICHAEL mi'-ka-el, mi'-kel (mikha'el, who is like God? Michael): (1) The father of Sethur the Asherite spy (Numbers 13:13). (2) (3) Two Gadites (1?C...
EYES, DISEASES OF THE di-zez'-is: Blindness, defects of sight and diseases of the eye are frequently mentioned in the Scriptures, but usually in gene...
GATHER gath'-er ('acaph, qabhats; sullego, sunago): Gather, transitive to bring together, collect, etc., and intransitive to come together, assemble,...
ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA ad'-am, ('adham; Septuagint Adam). \1. Usage and Etymology: The Hebrew word occurs some 560 times in the ...
New Jerusalem The eternal climax of redemptive history is previewed in John's description of the new Jerusalem in Revelation 21-22. The new Jerusalem ...
UNCLEANNESS un-klen'-nes: I. TERMS 1. In the Old Testament (Hebrew) 2. In the New Testament 3. In the Septuagint II. POSSIBLE RELATION OF ISRAEL'...
ORDAIN; ORDINATION or-dan', or-di-na-shun (Latin ordinare, to set in order to arrange; in post-Augustan Latin to appoint to office; from ordo, gen. or...
Ver. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon By whom is meant not Paganism, for that was destroyed in the Roman empire under the sixth seal, and was the con...
POOR poor ('ebhyon, dal, `ani, rush; ptochos): I. In the Old Testament. The poor have great prominence in the Bible; it is said, indeed, that there ...
Weights and Measures. A. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubt...
Mercy [N] [T] [E]Mercy is a concept integral to an understanding of God's dealings with humankind. In English translations of the Bible, it comes to e...
CHAPTER 9 - HOSHEA, (TWENTIETH) KING OF ISRAEL. Summary of this History - Accession of Hoshea - Religious Character of his Reign - Death of Tiglath-p...
ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (Evolutionary Interpretation): NOTE: It ought to be superfluous to say that the unfolding or development of the human perso...