2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa in the thirty ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet This was about two years before his death, and his disease i...
VIRGIN, VIRGINITY vur'-jin; vur-jin'-i-ti: (1) bethulah, from a root meaning separated, is a woman living apart, i.e. in her father's house, and henc...
WELL (1) (be'er; compare Arabic bi'r, well or cistern; usually artificial: And Isaac's servants digged (dug) in the valley, and found there a well of...
Heal, Health With characteristic realism the Bible accepts the prevalence in God's world of ill-health and affliction, although originally it had no p...
SICK; SICKNESS sik, sik'-nes (chalah (Genesis 48:1, etc.), choli (Deuteronomy 28:61, etc.), tachalu' (Deuteronomy 29:21, etc.), machalah (Exodus 23:25...
LEND, LOAN lon: The translation of 7 Hebrew and 2 Greek vbs.: 1. Lexical Usages: In the Old Testament: lawah, to join, cause to join, lend (Exodus...
TOBIT, BOOK OF to'-bit: 1. Name 2. Canonicity 3. Contents 4. Fact or Fiction? 5. Some Sources 6. Date 7. Place of Composition 8. Versions 9. ...
HEZEKIAH (2) (chizqiyah, Yahweh has strengthened; also written chizqiyahu, Yah has strengthened him; Hezekias): One of the greatest of the kings of J...
BIBLE, THE, I-III INTRODUCTION bi'-b'-l, (biblia): $ I. THE NAMES$ 1. Bible 2. Other Designations--Scriptures, etc. 3. Old Testament and New Testa...
HARLOT har'-lot: This name replaces in the Revised Version (British and American) whore of the King James Version. It stands for several words and ph...
Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...
HEAD hed (ro'-sh, Aramaic re'sh, and in special sense gulgoleth, literally, skull, cut-off head (1?Chronicles 10:10), whence Golgotha (Matthew 27:33; ...
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed The sun that came out of his chamber like a bridegroom, and rejoiced as a strong man to run ...
FIRE fir ('esh; pur): These are the common words for fire, occurring very frequently. 'Ur, light (Isaiah 24:15 the King James Version; compare the Re...
GLORY glo'-ri (substantive): I. METHOD OF TREATMENT II. GENERAL USE OF THE TERM 1. As Applied to External Things 2. As Applied to Yahweh III. THE...
GLASS glas (zekhukhith; hualos): 1. History: Glass is of great antiquity. The story of its discovery by accident, as related by Pliny (NH, xxxvi.65)...
FLESH @basar, she'er): 1. Etymology: Used in all senses of the word, the latter, however, most frequently in the sense of kin, family, relationship ...
CARE; CAREFULNESS; CAREFUL kar, kar'-fool-ness, kar'-fool: The English word care has such a variety of meanings, and so many Hebrew and Greek words i...
TRADE trad: I. GENERAL 1. Terms 2. Position of Palestine 3. Trade Products of Palestine 4. Palestinian Traders II. HISTORY 1. To David 2. Solo...
HAIR har (se`ar, sa`ar, Aramaic se`ar, and their derivatives; thrix, gen. case trichos, kome): 1. Hair Fashions: Hair was worn in different fashions...