After supper (meta to deipnhsai). Meta and the articular aorist active infinitive, after the dining (or the supping) as in Luke 22:20 . The new cove...
LUCIFER lu'-si-fer, loo'-si-fer: The morning star, an epithet of the planet Venus. See ASTROLOGY, 11. Copyright Statement These files are public dom...
ELEUTHERUS e-lu'-ther-us (Eleutheros; 1?Maccabees 11:7; 12:30): A river separating Syria and Phoenicia. Copyright Statement These files are public do...
Five times received I forty stripes save one (pentaki tesserakonta para mian elabon). The Acts and the Epistles are silent about these Jewish floggin...
When I had fastened my eyes (atenisa). This personal touch Peter adds from his own experience. See on Lu 4:20; see also Ac 3:4,12 for this striking v...
The Book of MarkChapter 11Verses:11:1To Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives - The limits of Bethany reached to the mount of Olives, and join...
Overview - Revelation 18 1?Babylon is fallen. 4?People commanded to depart out of her. 9?The kings of the earth, with the merchants and mariners, la...
Ye are chastened of the Lord (upo tou Kuriou paideuomeqa). On this sense of paideuw, from pai, child, to train a child ( Acts 7:22 ), to discipline w...
LUBIM lu'-bim (lubhim): A people mentioned in the Old Testament (2?Chronicles 12:3; 16:8; Daniel 11:43; Nahum 3:9). In all these cases the word is tr...
Was sick (hn asqenwn). Periphrastic imperfect active of asqenew, old verb (from asqenh, a privative, and sqeno, strength). Lazarus (Lazaro). See on L...
Overview - Romans 11 1?God has not cast off all Israel. 7?Some were elected, though the rest were hardened. 16?There is hope of their conversion. 18?...
To the street (epi thn rumhn). See on Lu 14:21. A run way (from rew, to run) between the houses. So were the narrow lanes or alleys called streets an...
LUCRE lu'-ker, loo'-ker (betsa'; kerdos): Literally, gain (1?Samuel 8:3; Titus 1:7), hence, in the New Testament always qualified by filthy (1?Timoth...
POLLUTION po-lu'-shun (ga'al, to pollute; alisgema, contamination): In Malachi 1:7, Ye offer polluted bread, i.e. not actually unclean, but worthless...
Overview - Genesis 49 1?Jacob calls his sons to bless them. 3?Their blessing in particular. 29?He charges them about his burial. 33?He dies. Treasury...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 15 1?By Christ's resurrection, 12?he proves the necessity of our resurrection, against all such as deny the resurrection of t...
Overview - Matthew 5 1?Christ's sermon on the mount. 3?Who are blessed; 13?the salt of the earth; 14?the light of the world. 17?He came to fulfil the...
Brethren and fathers (andre adelpoi kai patere). The spectators (brethren) and members of the Sanhedrin (fathers) as Paul in Acts 22:1 . Hearken (ak...
The Book of LukeChapter 8Verses:8:2Mary Magdalene - Or Mary of Magdala, a town in Galilee: probably the person mentioned in the last chapter.8:4 Matt...
HAP; HAPLY hap, hap'-li (miqreh, lu; mepote): Hap (a Saxon word for luck, chance) is the translation of miqreh, a fortuitous chance, a lot (Ruth 2:3,...