Shoa [N] [H] [S]opulent, the mountain district lying to the north-east of Babylonia, anciently the land of the Guti, or Kuti, the modern Kurdistan. Th...
Overview - Numbers 22 1?Balak's first message for Balaam is refused. 15?His second message obtains him. 22?An angel would have slain him, if he had no...
Procurator. The Greek agemon , rendered governor in the Authorized Version, is applied in the New Testament to the officer who presided over the impe...
Overview - Mark 13 1?Christ foretells the destruction of the temple; 9?the persecutions for the gospel; 10?that the gospel must be preached to all na...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 4 1?In what account the ministers ought to be had. 7?We have nothing which we have not received. 9?The apostles spectacles ...
Overview - 2?Thessalonians 3 1?Paul craves their prayers for himself; 3?testifies what confidence he has in them; 5?makes request to God in their be...
Overview - Isaiah 59 1?The calamities of the Jews not owing to want of saving power in God, but to their own enormous sins. 16?Salvation is only of Go...
Overview - Zechariah 7 1?The captives enquire concerning the set fasts. 4?Zechariah reproves the hypocrisy of their fasting. 8?Sin the cause of thei...
Overview - Acts 16 1?Paul having circumcised Timothy, 7?and being called by the Spirit from one country to another, 14?converts Lydia, 16?and casts o...
Perizzites [N] [H]villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Canaanitish nation inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel. They ...
Overview - James 1 1?We are to rejoice under the cross; 5?to ask patience of God; 13?and in our trials not to impute our weakness, or sins, to him, 1...
Anise [N] [S]This word is found only in Matthew 23:23 . It is the plant commonly known by the name of dill, the Peucedanum graveolens of the botanist...
Overview - Psalms 63 1?David's thirst for God. 4?His manner of blessing God. 9?His confidence of his enemies' destruction, and his own safety. Treas...
Pharisees, [N] [B] [E] [H]a religious party or school among the Jews at the time of Christ, so called from perishin , the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ...
Hypocrisy [N]Although no distinct Hebrew word for hypocrisy occurs in the Old Testament, the concept doesprimarily in terms of insincere worship. The ...
Angel (a spirit) A CELESTIAL SPIRITCalled ANGEL OF THE LORD Matthew 1:20 Matthew 1:24 ; Matthew 2:13 Matthew 2:19 ; 28:2 ; Luke 1:11 ; Acts 5...
Psalms 109:16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy As Judas did not; neither to the poor, whom he cared not for, ( John 12:6 ) nor to Christ, ...
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...
Overview - 2?Corinthians 6 1?That he has approved himself a faithful minister of Christ by his exhortations, 3?and by integrity of life, 4?and by pa...
Persecution [T] [B] [E]OF JESUS Genesis 3:15 ; Psalms 2:1-5 ; Psalms 22:1 Psalms 22:2 Psalms 22:6-8 Psalms 22:11-21 ; 69:1-21 ; 109:25 ; Isa...