Medicine. [N]Egypt was the earliest home of medical and other skill for the region of the Mediterranean basin, and every Egyptian mummy of the more e...
Great signs and wonders (shmeia megala kai terata). Two of the three words so often used in the N.T. about the works (erga) of Jesus, the other being...
MANDRAKES man'-draks (dudha'im; mandragoras (Genesis 30:14; Song of Solomon 7:13); the marginal reading love apples is due to the supposed connection ...
BLOODY FLUX fluks (puretos kai dusenteria, literally fever and dysentery): The disease by which the father of Publius was afflicted in Malta (Acts 28...
Proverbs 24:13 My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not o...
Luke 4:40 Now when the sun was setting And so the sabbath was over; (See Gill on Matthew 8:16). all they that had any sick, with divers diseases, brou...
Leviticus 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat Meaning, not of swine only, but of the camel, coney, and hare: and their carcass shall ye not touch; w...
Had suffered many things of many physicians (polla paqousa upo pollwn iatrwn). A pathetic picture of a woman with a chronic case who had tried doctor...
Chapter?8 The remains of the dead exposed. (1-3) The stupidity of the people, compared with the instinct of the brute creation. (4-13) The alarm of t...
Acts 4:14 And beholding the man which was healed Who either was taken into custody, and brought before the sanhedrim, along with the apostles; or rath...
Isaiah 38:21 For Isaiah had said Before the above writing was made, which ends in the preceding verse; for this and the following are added by Isaiah,...
Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself Some think this is mentioned to illustrate the uncertainty of riches, which soon...
Matthew 14:14 And Jesus went forth Either from the mountain where he sat with his disciples, ( John 6:3 ) or out of the desert, where he had retired f...
Spice, Spices. Heb. basam, besem or bosem . In ( Solomon 5:1 ) I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, the word points apparently to some definite su...
Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made me gardens and orchards Of the king's garden, we read ( Jeremiah 39:4 ) . Adrichomius F2 makes mention of a royal garden in th...
Acts 4:7 And when they had set them in the midst Of the assembly, as the Ethiopic version adds; in the middle of the sanhedrim, which sat in a semicir...
Letter IV(1) Letter IV(1) To Olympius.(2) What do you mean, my dear Sir, by evicting from our retreat my dear friend and nurse of philosophy, Poverty...
Gourd. [N] [E]Kikayan only in ( Jonah 4:6-10 ) The plant which is intended by this word, and which afforded shade to the prophet Jonah before Nineveh...
COS kos (Kos, summit; the King James Version Coos): An island off the coast of Caria, Asia Minor, one of the Sporades, mountainous in the southern ha...
The Book of JeremiahChapter 30Chapter Overview: God shews Jeremiah the deliverance and return of the Jews, ver. 1 - 9. He comforts Jacob, ver. 10 -...