SCALES skalz (1) qasqeseth fish-scales; (2) meghinnah, maghen, scales of the crocodile; (3) lepis, with verb lepizo scale away (Tobit 3:17; 11:13))...
EXERCISE ek'-ser-siz (`asah; gumnazo, poieo) : Exercise (meaning originally, to drive or thrust out) has different shades of meaning: It means (1) ...
SUCCEED; SUCCESS suk-sed', suk-ses' (yarash, sakhal; euemeria): To succeed means, (1) and originally, to follow after; (2) mostly in modern English...
Men from among (ek twn etc.). No word for men (anqrwpoi or polloi) before ek twn, but it is implied (partitive use of ek) as in John 2:10 and often...
STRIKE strik: The verbs to strike and to stroke (latter not in English Versions) have the same derivation, and originally strike was the intrans, str...
THANK; THANKS; THANKSGIVING thank, thanks, thanks-giv'-ing, thanks'-giv-ing: Both the verb and the nouns appear almost uniformly for yadhah, and euch...
Of the strolling Jews, exorcists (twn periercomenwn Ioudaiwn exorkistwn). These exorcists travelled around (peri) from place to place like modern Gyp...
PATH; PATHWAY path, path'-wa (orach, nethibhah, etc.; tribos, trochia): (1) In the Old Testament.--In addition to its obvious literal sense (e.g. Gen...
MAID; MAIDEN mad, mad'-'n: Used in the King James Version in the sense of a girl or young female; of an unmarried woman or virgin, and of a female se...
MICHAEL mi'-ka-el, mi'-kel (mikha'el, who is like God? Michael): (1) The father of Sethur the Asherite spy (Numbers 13:13). (2) (3) Two Gadites (1?C...
GHOST gost (nephesh; pneuma) : Ghost, the middle-English word for breath, spirit, appears in the King James Version as the translation of nephesh (br...
seven angels These are seven specific angels who are said to stand before God. Some have identified these with angels which are named in the books of ...
ALMS; ALMSGIVING ams, ams-giv'-ing: The English word alms is an abridged form of the Greek word, eleemosune (compare eleemosynary), appearing in grad...
SHEMAIAH she-ma'-ya, she-mi'-a (shema`yah (in 2?Chronicles 11:2; 17:8; 31:15; 35:9; Jeremiah 26:20; 29:24; 36:12, shema`yahu), Jahveh hears): The nam...
DECEASE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND APOCYPHRA de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, ghosts, shades, is translated by dead, dead body, and deceased in both 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, ...
MARKET; MARKETPLACE; MART mar'-ket, mar'-ketplas, mart (ma`arabh, cachar; agora): (1) Ma`arabh, from a root meaning trading and hence, goods exchange...
JEPHTHAH jef'-tha (yiphtach, opened, or opener, probably signifying Yahweh will open; Iephthae; used as the name of a place, as in Joshua 15:43; 19:14...
MEDICINE med'-i-sin, med'-i-s'-n (gehah, teruphah, rephu'ah): These words are used in the sense of a remedy or remedies for disease. In Proverbs 17:2...