EUPOLEMUS u-pol'-e-mus (Eupolemos): Son of John, the son of Accos = Hakkoz (Akkos; Nehemiah 3:4,21, etc.); was one of the two deputies sent by Judas ...
EXHORTATION ek-sor-ta'-shun (paraklesis): The Greek word translated exhortation (paraklesis) signifies, originally, a calling near or for (as an advo...
Daniel 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many, &c.] Such as had a better understanding of divine things than others, had ...
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...
ELEAZAR el-e-a'-zar, e-le-a'-zar ('el-`azar; Eleazar, God is helper): (1) The 3rd son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23; Numbers 3:2). He married on...
ELEPHANT el'-e-fant (Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin hippopotamus, the Revised Version (British and Ame...
JOHN (1) jon (Ioannes): The name of several persons mentioned in the Apocrypha: (1) Father of Mattathias, grandfather of Judas Maccabeus and his bro...
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...
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...
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...
Joshua 15:39 Lachish Lachish and Eglon were royal cities, of which see ( Joshua 10:3 ) ; and Bozkath, is called Boscath, of which place was the mothe...
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...
Psalms 79:5 How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever? &c.] That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see ( Psalms 85:4 Psalms 8...
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...
Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy These words are inserted in a parenthesis, to remove or prevent such objections as these; that they wer...
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...
EXERCISE ek'-ser-siz (`asah; gumnazo, poieo) : Exercise (meaning originally, to drive or thrust out) has different shades of meaning: It means (1) ...
NICANOR (2) (Nikanor): One of the seven chosen to superintend the daily ministration of the poor of the Christian community at Jerusalem (Acts 6:5). ...