Appear, Appearance The Old Testament. The Hebrew word most commonly used for appearance in the Old Testament is raa [h'a'r]. The seeing of God leads t...
Church, the [T] Definition of the Church. The New Testament word for church is ekklesia [ejkklhsiva], which means the called out ones. In classical Gr...
Testimony [N] [E]The biblical concept of testimony or witness is closely allied with the conventional Old Testament legal sense of testimony given in ...
HEART AND HEAD. Sec. XII. Quid sine capite est homo, cries Ambrose, cum totus in capite sit! According to thorough investigation and evidence of ...
I saw the dead, small and great Every category of man now stands on an individual basis before God. Wealth, power, fame, is all immaterial now. As the...
Chapter 11It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the tem...
Fatherhood of God Throughout the Bible we find God portrayed as a Father. This portrayal, however, is surprisingly rare in the Old Testament. There Go...
Sanctuary [N] [E]In the Old Testament the word miqdas [v'D.qim] (from qds, holy, implying a distinction between space that is sacred versus profane) ...
Temptation, Test While the number of terms denoting temptation and testing is small, their range of meaning is wide, extending from a secular sens...
Victory The number of times the word victory occurs in the English Bible depends very much on the particular version one uses. For example, victory oc...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
Mediator, Mediation On the human plane, mediation takes place in the Bible, as it has in many cultures throughout history, both in innocent circumstan...
Wages [N] [E] [S]Payment given for services rendered. The semantic field of this term is usually found in economic contexts, where payment means some ...
JAMES. CHAPTER V. Warnings to the Rich. SUMMARY.--The Sins of Rich Men. The Judgments Coming Upon Them. Patience Under Affliction. The Examples...
Predestination [N] [E]The Concept. Divine predestination means that God has a purpose that is determined long before it is brought to pass. It implies...
Lucas 23Divisi?n por P?rrafos en las Traducciones ModernasUBS4NKJVNRSVTEVNJBJes?s es tra?do ante Pilatos23:1-5Jes?s delante de Herodes23:6-12Jes?s es ...
Chapter?74This psalm does so particularly describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, by Nebuchadnezzar and the army of the Chaldeans, and c...
where she has a place ??? ???? ???? ????? [Hopu echei ekei topon] , where she is having there (a) place. This appears to speak of a specific location...
the angel Some have suggested this particular angel to be Archippus (Col. Col. 4:17) who was named as the first bishop of Laodicea in the Apostolical ...