MACCABAEUS; MACCABEES mak-a-be'-us (Makkabaios), mak'-a-bez (hoi Makkabaioi): I. PALESTINE UNDER KINGS OF SYRIA 1. Rivalry of Syria and Egypt 2. Pa...
Some therefore of them of Jerusalem (oun tine ek twn Ierosolumeitwn). The people of the city in contrast to the multitude of pilgrims at the feast. T...
Acts 11:5 I was in the city of Joppa And so it is called by Josephus F23, and in the Apocrypha: ``And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they o...
Daniel 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand His schemes were laid in such deep policy, and he managed so artfu...
EXAMPLE eg-zam'-p'-l (tupos, a pattern, hupodeigma, copy representation hupogrammos, a writing-copy, example): A typical, representative, or illustra...
Overview - 1?Chronicles 2 1?The sons of Israel. 3?The posterity of Judah by Tamar. 13?The children of Jesse. 18?The posterity of Caleb the son of Hez...
CITHERN sith'-ern (kithara; 1 Macc 4:54 the King James Version, kitharais kai kinurais is translated citherns and harps; the Revised Version (British ...
Overview - Ezekiel 25 1?God's vengeance, for their insolency against the Jews, upon the Ammonites; 8?upon Moab and Seir; 12?upon Edom; 15?and upon th...
Overview - Ezra 2 1?The number that return of the people; 36?of the priests; 40?of the Levites; 43?of the Nethinims; 55?of Solomon's servants; 61?of t...
FRUSTRATE frus'-trat (parar; atheteo): Frustrate (from frustra, vain) is the translation of parar, to break, to make void, to bring to nothing (Ezra ...
EXERCISE ek'-ser-siz (`asah; gumnazo, poieo) : Exercise (meaning originally, to drive or thrust out) has different shades of meaning: It means (1) ...
Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren Being ill used by them, and a man of spirit and courage, and could not bear to be treated with contem...
EMMAUS e-ma'-us, em'-a-us (Emmaous, derivation uncertain, but probably from chammath, a hot spring): Josephus (BJ, IV, i, 3) says: Now Emmaus, if it...
Ver. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again As the widow of Zarephath, and the Shunammite, ( 1 Kings 17:22 ) ( 2 Kings 4:34 2 Kings 4:35 ...
Judges 1:36 And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim Of which (See Gill on Numbers 34:4) and (See Gill on Joshua 15:3): from...
Numbers 1:48 For the Lord had spoken unto Moses Not to number the Levites, when he gave him the orders to number the rest of the tribes: this is obser...
GAINSAY gan-sa, gan'-sa (anteipon, antilego, to say or speak against): Occurs as anteipon, not .... able to withstand or to gainsay (Luke 21:15); as ...
APPHUS af'-us, ap'-fus: A name borne by Jonathan, the fifth son of Mattathias (Apphous, 1 Macc 2:5). All the brothers, according to this passage, had...
CHAPTER 11 Daniel 11:1-45 . This chapter is an enlargement of the eighth: THE OVERTHROW OF PERSIA BY GRECIA: THE FOUR DIVISIONS OF ALEXANDER'...
FORBID for-bid' (kala; koluo): Occurs very seldom in the Old Testament except as the rendering of chalilah (see below); it is once the translation of...