Overview - Ezekiel 28 1?God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride. 11?A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by sin. 20?T...
GERAR ge'-rar (gerar, circle, region; Gerara): A town in the Philistine plain South of Gaza (Genesis 10:19), where both Abraham and Isaac ' sojourned...
PATRIARCH; PATRIACHS pa'-tri-ark, patriarches). The word occurs in the New Testament in application to Abraham (Hebrews 7:4), to the sons of Jacob (Ac...
Overview - Zechariah 12 1?Jerusalem a cup of trembling to herself, 3?and a burdensome stone to her adversaries. 6?The victorious restoring of Judah....
Joash [N] [H] [S]whom Jehovah bestowed. A contracted form of Jehoash, the father of Gideon ( Judges 6:11 Judges 6:29 ; Judges 8:13 Judges 8:29 Ju...
Achor [N] [H]trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel ( Joshua 7:24 Joshua 7:26 )...
ADAH a'-da (`adhah, adornment): (1) One of the two wives of Lamech the descendant of Cain (Genesis 4:19,20,23). The narrative in Ge assigns to her tw...
REBUKE re-buk': As a verb rebuke is in the Old Testament the translation of ga`ar and yakhach; another word, ribh, in Nehemiah 5:7, is in the Revised...
Overview - Deuteronomy 24 1?Of divorce. 5?A new married man goes not to war. 6?Of pledges. 7?Of man-stealers. 8?Of leprosy. 10?Of pledges. 14?The ...
EARTH urth ('adhamah, 'erets, 'aphar; ge, oikoumene): In a hilly limestone country like Palestine, the small amount of iron oxide in the rocks tends ...
In the last days (en tai escatai hmerai). Joel does not have precisely these words, but he defines those days as being the day of the Lord (cf. Isai...
EZION-GEBER e-zi-on-ge'-ber ('etsyon gebher; Gasion Gaber): Always mentioned along with Elath (Eziongaber, Numbers 33:35 f the King James Version). W...
Chapter 33:1? Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,...
\\INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS\\ This book, in the Hebrew copies of the Bible, and by the Jewish writers, is generally called Bereshith, which signifies ...
Priest [E] [S]BEFORE MOSESMelchizedek Genesis 14:18 ; Hebrews 5:6 Hebrews 5:10 Hebrews 5:11 ; 6:20 ; 7:1-21 Jethro Exodus 2:16 Priests in I...
Valley Heb. bik'ah, a cleft of the mountains ( Deuteronomy 8:7 ; 11:11 ; Psalms 104:8 ; Isaiah 41:18 ); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as t...
COUNTRY kun'-tri ('erets, land, sadheh, field; agros, field, chora, region): The foregoing are the principal words rendered country in English Versio...
Overview - Matthew 18 1?Christ warns his disciples to be humble and harmless, 7?to avoid offences, 10?and not to despise the little ones; 15?teaches ...
WARD word: Ward and guard are two different spellings of the same word, and in consequence no clear line can be drawn between them. English Versions ...
VALE, VALLEY val, val'-i: (1) gay'; either absolute: from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab (Numbers 21:20); or with a proper name: ...