Overview - Luke 9 1?Christ sends his apostles to work miracles, and to preach. 7?Herod desires to see Christ. 10?The apostles return. 12?Christ feeds...
After the supper (meta to deipnhsai). Preposition meta and the accusative articular infinitive. The textual situation here is confusing, chiefly beca...
He assayed (epeirazen). Imperfect active of conative action. To join himself (kollasqai). Present middle (direct) infinitive of conative action again...
A white robe (stolh leukh). Old word from stellw, to equip, an equipment in clothes, a flowing robe ( Mark 12:38 ). For the white robe for martyrs se...
the wall of the city had twelve foundations The foundations are adorned with precious stones (Rev. Rev. 21:19+). See commentary on Revelation 21:19. ...
Two of the women who play key roles in the Book of Revelation are cities: Babylon and the New Jerusalem. This is no accident as one is the city of ma...
SHUNEM shoo'-nem (shunem; Codex Vaticanus Sounan; Codex Alexandrinus Sounam): A town in the territory of Issachar named with Jezreel and Chesulloth (...
Which (hti). Which very thing, the first tent (th prwth skhnh, division of the tabernacle), a parenthesis and explanation. A parable (parabolh). Only...
For this (to gar). For the article (to) pointing to a sentence see Matthew 8:26 , here to the quotation. The order of the commandments here is like ...
Who (oitine). Qualitative use, such as. Vanishing in papyri though surviving in Paul ( 1?Corinthians 3:17 ; Romans 1:25 ; Galatians 4:26 ; Philipp...
JUPITER joo'-pi-ter, ju'-pi-ter (Zeus): Jupiter is mentioned in 2 Macc 6:2; Acts 14:12,13, with Zeus in the Revised Version margin in all cases. In a...
Overview - 1?Kings 2 1?David, having given a charge to Solomon, 3?of religiousness; 5?of Joab; 7?of Barzillai; 8?of Shimei; 10?dies. 12?Solomon su...
an angel flying through the midst of heaven The MT and NU texts have eagle (????? [aetou] ) instead of angel (??????? [angelou] ). If an eagle rather ...
Was consenting (hn suneudokwn). Periphrastic imperfect of suneudokew, a late double compound (sun, eu, dokew) that well describes Saul's pleasure in ...
In the church in the wilderness (en th ekklhsiai en th erhmwi). Better rendered congregation here as in Hebrews 2:12 ( Psalms 22:22 ), the people o...
EPHRON (2) e'-fron (`ephron; Ephron): (1) 2?Chronicles 13:19: And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns th...
MAACAH ma'-a-ka (ma`akhah; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Mocha; Codex Alexandrinus Maacha): A small Syrian kingdom adjoining that of Geshur on the west...
JOKNEAM jok'-ne-am (yoqne`am): A royal city of the Canaanites taken by Joshua and described as in Carmel (Joshua 12:22), in the territory of Zebulun,...
Overview - Daniel 9 1?Daniel, considering the time of the captivity, 3?makes confession of sins, 16?and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem. 20?Ga...
These words are faithful and true See commentary on Revelation 3:14, Revelation 19:11, and Revelation 21:5.The angel?s words reinforce an important t...