Chapter 2626:1? Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your ...
Book Introduction - Deuteronomy Read first chapter of Deuteronomy DEUTERONOMY consists of the parting counsels of Moses delivered to Israel in view of...
Every year (kat eto). This idiom only here in the N.T., a common Greek construction. Every male was originally expected to appear at the passover, pe...
Chapter 1414:1? The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. dearth The significance of a drought at this time was very great. I...
COCKLE kok'-'-l (King James Version margin stinking weeds, the Revised Version, margin noisome weeds; bo'shah, from Hebrew root ba'ash, to stink; bato...
Chapter 3030:3? That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nation...
ANT (nemalah = Arabic namalah): The word occurs only twice in the Bible, in the familiar passages in Proverbs 6:6; 30:25 in both of which this insect...
Chapter 1111:1? The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, The word This, like the other messages, is made up of rebuke, exhortation, and w...
The crowns associated with the reward of the believer are always stephanos. Paul associates this crown with the reward of victory in competition (1Co...
TALMUD tal'-mud (talmudh): I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS AND VERBAL EXPLANATIONS II. IMPORTANCE OF THE TALMUD III. THE TRADITIONAL LAW UNTIL THE COMPOSITI...
Chapter 2828:1? And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandme...
TASSEL tas'-'l (tsitsith): This word occurs only in Numbers 15:38 (Revised Version margin), which reads tassels in the corners for fringes in the bor...
CROOK-BACKED krook'-bakt (gibben; kurtos): A disqualification for the priesthood (Leviticus 21:20); was probably an angular curvature of the spine, u...
Mount [S]Palestine is a hilly country ( Deuteronomy 3:25 ; 11:11 ; Ezekiel 34:13 ). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into ...
Chapter 11:2? Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled again...
INDIA in'-di-a (hoddu: he Indike): The name occurs in canonical Scripture only in Esther 1:1; 8:9, of the country which marked the eastern boundary o...
HAMOR ha'-mor (chamor, an ass; Emmor): Hamor was the father of Shechem from whom Jacob bought a piece of ground on his return from Paddan-aram for on...
Chapter 1717:7? For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, ...
MIDWIFE mid'-wif (meyalledheth): Those who in patriarchal times attended mothers at childbirth are so named in Genesis 35:17; 38:28; Exodus 1:15-22. ...
Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine.Theophilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine. [a.d. 180.] When Eusebius says that the churches of all Asia co...