RUDE rood: Not impolite in English Versions of the Bible (except perhaps 2 Macc 12:14), but untrained, ignorant; compare the modern phrase, a rude dr...
MORNING WATCH 'ash-moreth ha-boker (Exodus 14:24; 1?Samuel 11:11); in Judith 12:5 for heothine phulake; compare Sirach 55:6; 1 Macc 5:30): The last p...
NUN (2) nun (nun fish, derivative meaning fecundity): Father of Joshua (referred to thus 29 t) (Exodus 33:11; Numbers 11:28, etc.; 1?Chronicles 7:27,...
CHOLER kol'-er: Lit. bile, is used in the sense of a disease (cholera) (Sirach 31:20; 37:30), and in the sense of bitter anger (marar) (Daniel 8:7; 1...
SIRACH, BOOK OF si'-rak, or The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach: I. NAME II. CANONICITY III. CONTENTS IV. TEACHING 1. Religion 2. Morals 3. M...
Had spoken (eirhkei). Past perfect of eipon (erw). The disciples had misunderstood Christ's metaphor for death. That he spake (oti legei). Present ac...
WISDOM wiz'-dum: 1. Linguistic 2. History 3. Religious Basis 4. Ideals 5. Teaching of Christ 6. Remainder of the New Testament (1) James (2) P...
CREDITOR kred'-i-ter: nosheh, participle of nashah: Exodus 22:24 (English translation: 25); 2?Kings 4:1; Isaiah 50:1; translated extortioner, Psalms...
MISCHIEF mis'-chif: The word, in the sense of hurt or evil befalling, plotted against, or done to, anyone, represents a variety of Hebrew terms (e.g....
BETIMES be-timz': In the sense of early is the translation of two Hebrew words: (1) shakham, a root meaning to incline the shoulder to a load, hence...
STRANGER AND SOJOURNER (IN THE APOCRYPHA AND THE NEW TESTAMENT) The technical meaning attaching to the Hebrew terms is not present in the Greek words ...
INFLAME; ENFLAME in-flam', en-flam' (dalaq): To inflame in the meaning to excite passion is found in Isaiah 5:11, till wine inflame them. In some the...
TONGUE tung: Almost invariably for either lashon, or glossa the latter word with the cognates heteroglossos, of strange tongues (1?Corinthians 14:21)...
TRAVAIL trav'-al (yaladh (Genesis 35:16, etc.), chul, chil (properly writhe, Job 15:20, etc.); odin (classical odis) (Matthew 24:8, etc.), odino (Sira...
JEHOZADAK je-hoz'-a-dak (yehotsadhaq, Yahweh is righteous): Priest at the time of the captivity under Nebuchadrezzar (1?Chronicles 6:14,15. He was th...
REHEARSE re-hurs' (sum, dabhar, naghadh, tanah; anaggello): Usually means simply to relate, to tell, to declare (Exodus 17:14; Judges 5:11; 1?Samuel ...
Unto governors (hgemosin). Dative again of hgemwn, a leader (from hgeomai, to lead), old and common word ( Matthew 10:18 ). As sent by him (w di auto...
NURTURE nur'-tur: The word occurs in the King James Version in Ephesians 6:4 as the translation of paideia, but the Revised Version (British and Amer...
THANK; THANKS; THANKSGIVING thank, thanks, thanks-giv'-ing, thanks'-giv-ing: Both the verb and the nouns appear almost uniformly for yadhah, and euch...
SERPENT-CHARMING -charm'-ing: Allusion to this art, widely practiced by the ancients (see references in DB, under the word; especially Bothart, Hiero...