CUCKOW; CUCKOO kook'-oo, kuk'-oo (shachaph; laros; Latin Cuculus canorus): The Hebrew root from which the word shachaph is derived means to be lean a...
CHAP. X. From Luther's Letter To The Duke Of Savot, To The Persecutions In 1523 AND 1524. New Pope, Clement VII. Another Diet At Nuremberg. Reces...
VULTURE vul'-tur (da'ah; Septuagint gups, and iktinos; Latin Vulturidae): Any member of a family of large birds that subsist wholly or in part on car...
Fasts. One fast only was appointed by the Mosaic law, that on the day of atonement. There is no mention of any other periodical fast in the Old Testa...
Fish. [N] [E]The Hebrews recognized fish as one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, and as such gave them a place in the account of the cre...
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years Not lunar years, as Varro F4, but solar years, which consisted of thre...
Esther 3:8 And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, Or had said F18, as some choose to render it; nor indeed is it likely that Haman should cast lots to kn...
Leviticus 11:44 For I [am] the Lord your God Their Lord, and therefore had a right to enjoin them what laws he pleased concerning their food; and thei...
OSSIFRAGE os'-i-fraj (perec; gups; Let Ossifraga): The great bearded vulture known as the lammer-geier (Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12 the King J...
Salt. [N] [T] [E]Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an appetizing condiment in the foo...
ASIA a'-shi-a (Asia): A Roman province embracing the greater part of western Asia Minor, including the older countries of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and a ...
1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery Either in running a race, or in wrestling; for the word here used agrees with both, and...
Fig [N]First mentioned in Genesis 3:7 . The fig-tree is mentioned ( Deuteronomy 8:8 ) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of ...
Games. [N] [E]Among the Greeks the rage for theatrical exhibitions was such that every city of any size possessed its theatre and stadium. At Ephesus...
1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles the word (makellon) , rendered shambles, here used, is a Latin word, and is made use of by Lati...
1. BUT now Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took some of the most noble of the Jews that were children, and the kinsmen of Zedekiah their king, suc...
Soldiers also (kai strateuomenoi). Men on service, militantes rather than milites (Plummer). So Paul in 2?Timothy 2:4 . An old word like stratiwth, ...
Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow Such who separated themselves by a vow to the Lord, and abstained from drinking wine and strong dr...
CHAP. IX. From The Election Of Adrian VI. To Luther's LETTER TO THE DUKE OF Savoy. Diet Of Nuremberg. , Their Edict. Luther's Address To The ...
Proverbs 15:17 Better [is] a dinner of herbs, where love is What Plautus F9 calls asperam et terrestrem caenam, a harsh and earthly supper, made of wh...