Appoint The Old Testament. The basic meaning of appoint is either visit or establish or set in authority. The extension of visit carries the idea of a...
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...
ZACCUR zak'-ur (zakkur, perhaps ventriloquist (Gray, Nu, 137)): (1) Father of Shammua the Reubenite spy (Numbers 13:4). (2) A Simeonite (1?Chronicle...
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...
SUPHAH soo'-fa (suphah, for wahebh becuphah; Septuagint reads ten Zoob ephlogise; the King James Version Rea Sea): Suphah is the region in which Vahe...
RENEW re-nu': The word is used in various senses: (1) of material things, e.g. Psalms 104:30; here it means to give a new appearance, to refresh, to...
harm the earth, the sea, or the trees See commentary on Revelation 7:1. on their foreheads Foreheads is ??????? [met?p?n] , which is used to describe ...
Overview - 1?Samuel 7 1?They of Kirjath-jearim bring the ark into the house of Abinadab, and sanctify Eleazar, his son to keep it. 2?After twenty yea...
Overview - Genesis 48 1?Joseph with his sons visits his sick father. 2?Jacob strengthens himself to bless them. 3?He repeats God's promise. 5?He ta...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 40. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness. Times enough did they rebel: they were as constant in provocation as he was in hi...
a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters A singular voice, not the seven thunders (Rev. Rev. 10:4+), although elsewhere a (singular) voice d...
The scene before us can also be interpreted in a different way which splits the participants between both a heavenly and an earthly location. Such an ...
Blessed are those who do His commandments Those who do is ?? ????????? [hoi poiountes] , present tense participle: the ones continually doing. The NU...
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. ...
Genesis 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born in Egypt, [were] two souls Ephraim and Manasseh; which is observed to show that they do not come...
Fire [N] [T] [B] [S] For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire ( Genesis 8:20 ). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled...
Altars Designed for sacrifice Exodus 20:24 To be made of earth, or unhewn stone Exodus 20:24 Exodus 20:25 ; Deuteronomy 27:5 Deuteronomy 27...
Evidence in favor of the heavenly Zion is as follows:1 If the 144,000 are the ones singing the new song (Rev. Rev. 14:3+), they are said to be ?bef...
Color, Symbolic Meaning of Although the Bible contains relatively few references to individual colors, their symbolic associations are theologically s...
They sang ??????? [adousin] , present tense, they are singing. Isaiah indicated that the ransomed (redeemed , below) would return to Zion with singin...