\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 62\\ \\\\. Concerning Jeduthun, \\see Gill on Ps 39:1\\, title. Kimchi thinks this psalm was written concerning the captivit...
POSIDONIUS pos-i-do'-ni-us (Posidonios, al. Posidonios and Poseidon): One of the three envoys sent by the Syrian general Nicanor to treat with the Je...
Daniel 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupted by flatteries That forsook the law of God, the book of the covenant, and ...
MATTATHIAS mat-a-thi'-as (Mattathias). The persons of this name in the Apocrypha are: (1) Mattathias the father of the Maccabees. See ASMONEANS; MAC...
1 Samuel 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God And had brought it to Ashdod: they brought it into the house of Dagon; a temple dedicated to th...
Daniel 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince host Either the high priest Onias, whom he disposed of his office, and put Jason a wicked man...
ELYMAIS el-i-ma'-is (Elumais): This name, representing the Old Testament Elam (see ELAM), was given to a district of Persia lying South of Media and ...
Ver. 7-18. Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib And the other twenty three to the following persons in order: Jedaiah, Harim, Seorim, Malchijah...
ALEXANDER BALAS Alexander ba'-las (Alexandros ho Balas legomenos): He contended against Demetrius I of Syria for the throne and succeeded in obtainin...
Mark 3:8 And from Jerusalem The metropolis of the country of Judea; and from Idumea, or Edom, as the Syriac version reads it; a country that lay on t...
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by fie hand of my people Israel This was fulfilled in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Macca...
MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING mok, mok'er, mok'-ing (hathal, la`agh, empaizo): To mock is the translation of hathal, to play upon, mock, deride (Judges 16:10...
Daniel 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn Meaning not the kingdom of Titus Vespasian, as Jarchi; nor the kingdom of the Turks, as Saa...
Daniel 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help When the Jews shall be thus harassed and distressed by Antiochus and hi...
Daniel 11:30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him Ptolemy king of Egypt, and his brother, being come to an agreement, sent an embassy to th...
JOHN (1) jon (Ioannes): The name of several persons mentioned in the Apocrypha: (1) Father of Mattathias, grandfather of Judas Maccabeus and his bro...
HELPS (1) (antilempseis, 1?Corinthians 12:28): In classical Greek the word antilempsis means remuneration, the hold one has on something, then percep...
VOID void: The uses of void in English Versions of the Bible are all modern, except for the phrase void place in the King James Version 1?Kings 22:10...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
LYSIAS lis'-i-as (Lusias): (1) A noble man, and one of the blood royal whom Antiochus Epiphanes (circa 166 BC) left with the government of Southern S...