Leek [N](Heb. hatsir; the Allium porrum), rendered grass in 1Kings 1?Kings 19:26 , Job 40:15 , etc.; herb in Job 8:12 ; hay in Proverbs 27:25 , an...
Oil-tree( Isaiah 41:19 ; RSV marg., oleaster), Heb. 'etz shemen, rendered olive tree in 1Kings 6:23,31,32,33(RSV, olive wood) and pine branches in Ne...
Quotationsfrom the Old Testament in the New, which are very numerous, are not made according to any uniform method. When the New Testament was written...
Know, Knowledge The Old Testament. The Hebrew root yada [[;dy],translated know/knowledge, appears almost 950 times in the HebrewBible. It has a wider...
Kings, First and Second, Theology of Since the books of 1 and 2 Kings possess an inner unity and ideology, it is appropriate toview them as a single w...
King, Kingship The terms king and kingship are common biblical words, occurringover 2, 500 times in the Old Testament and 275 times in the New Testame...
Idol, Idolatry The most prevalent form of idolatry in biblical times was the worship of images or idolsthat represented or were thought to embody vari...
Solomon [N] [H] [S]peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage ( 2?Samuel 12 ). He was prob...
Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of In our culture names serve primarily to distinguish one person from another. In Bibletimes names had other significan...