MASTER mas'-ter ('adhon, ba`al, rabbi; despotes, didaskalos, kurios, rhabbi): Master, when the translation of 'adhon, ruler, lord (Sir), often transl...
Machpelah [N] [H] [S]portion; double cave, the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the Hittite, for a fa...
Similitude NinthSimilitude NinthThe Great Mysteries in the Building of the Militant and Triumphant Church. Chapter I.After I had written down the comm...
BAND The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: ...
Isaiah 23:7 [Is] this your joyous [city]? &c.] Which the other day looked so gay, brisk, and cheerful, through the number of its inhabitants, largenes...
Isaiah 23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans Not Tyre, as some think, so called, because founded by the Chaldeans, who finding it a proper place for ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. He restoreth my soul. When the soul grows sorrowful he revives it; when it is sinful he sanctifies it; when it is weak he strength...
HALICARNASSUS hal-i-kar-nas'-us (Halikarnassos): The largest and strongest city of the ancient country of Caria in Asia Minor, situated on the shore ...
The Vision of PaulThe Vision of PaulHere Begins the Vision of Saint Paul the Apostle.But I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: I know a ...
Eagle [N] [S](Herb. nesher; properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its tearing its prey with its beak), referred to for its swi...
CHAPTER 21 Matthew 21:1-9 . CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. ( = 11:1-11 Luke 19:29-40 John 12:12-19...
Edward Corbet, D. D.?This worthy person was born at Pontesbury in Shropshire, iu the year lb02, descended from the ancient family of Corbets in that c...
PAN Name of a utensil used in the preparation or the serving of food, and representing several words in the original. Passing over the use of the word...
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed [his] tent From the mountain between Bethel and Hai, ( Genesis 13:3 ) ; and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, or ...
ITURAEA it-u-re'-a (Itouraia): 1. The Word an Adjective: The term occurs only once in Scripture, in the definition of Philip's territory: tes Itour...
GOLGOTHA gol'-go-tha (Golgotha, from a skull): In three references (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17) it is interpreted to mean kraniou topos, t...
Contribution Contributions come in various forms in the Bible. They were designed in the Old Testament to support the poor and, in the New Testament, ...
Leviticus 11:30 And the ferret Whatever creature is here meant, it has its name in Hebrew from the cry it makes; and so the ferret has but one note in...
EUPHRATES u-fra'-tez (perath; Euphrates, the good and abounding river): The longest (1,780 miles) and most important stream of Western Asia, generall...
ACHMETHA ak'-me-tha (Ezra 6:2; 'achmetha'; Septuagint Amatha; Peshitta achmathan; in Tiglath Pileser's inscription circa 1100 BC Amadana: in Darius' B...