GAIUS ga'-yus (Gaios; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Gaios): (1) The Gaius to whom 3 Joh is addressed. He is spoken of as the beloved...
PREEMINENCE pre-em'-i-nens: Superiority, especially in noble or excellent qualities. The word stands for: (1) mothar, what is over and above, excelle...
MALICE, MALIGNITY mal'-is, ma-lig'-ni-ti (kakia, poneros, kakoetheia): Malice, now used in the sense of deliberate ill-will, by its derivation means ...
HEALTH helth (shalom, yeshu`ah, 'arukhah; riph'uth, 'arukhah; soteria, hugiaino): Shalom is part of the formal salutation still common in Palestine. ...
PEN (`et, cheret; kalamos): The first writing was done on clay, wax, lead or stone tablets by scratching into the material with some hard pointed ins...
REED red: (1) achu, translated reed-grass (Genesis 41:2,18; Job 8:11 margin). See FLAG. (2) 'ebheh, translated swift, margin reed (Job 9:26). The sh...
JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF, PART 4-9 IV. Canonicity and Authorship. 1. Traditional View: As to the reception of the Epistle in the church, it is needless...
GREETING gret'-ing (sha'-al; chairo, aspasmos, aspazomai): (1) Sha'-al means to ask, to inquire of anyone respecting welfare, hence, to greet. In the...
EXCOMMUNICATION eks-ko-mu-ni-ka'-shun: Exclusion from church fellowship as a means of personal discipline, or church purification, or both. Its germs...
NAME nam (shem; onoma; Latin nomen (2 Esdras 4:1); verbs onomazo; Latin nomino (2 Esdras 5:26)): A name is that by which a person, place or thing is ...
GRACE gras: 1. The Word Charis: In the English New Testament the word grace is always a translation of (charis), a word that occurs in the Greek tex...