GATHER gath'-er ('acaph, qabhats; sullego, sunago): Gather, transitive to bring together, collect, etc., and intransitive to come together, assemble,...
KEDESH (1) ke'-desh (qedhesh; Kades): (1) One of the uttermost cities of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South (Joshua 15:23). Possibly it is ...
RAGES; RAGAU ra'-jez, ra'-go 1. Location: (Rages, Tobit 1:14; 4:1,20; 5:5; 6:9,12; 9:2; Ragau, Judith 1:5,15; Rhagai, Rhaga, Rhage, Rhagau; in Dariu...
BLINDNESS blind'-ness (`awar, and variants; tuphlos): The word blind is used as a verb, as John 12:40, usually in the sense of obscuring spiritual pe...
HAZOR ha'-zor (chatsor; Nasor; Codex Sinaiticus, Asor, 1 Macc 11:67): (1) The royal city of Jabin (Joshua 11:1), which, before the Israelite conquest...
ABADDON a-bad'-on ('abhaddon, ruin, perdition, destruction): Though destruction is commonly used in translating 'abhaddon, the stem idea is intransi...
TABLE Table is derived from the Latin tabula, meaning primarily a board, but with a great variety of other significances, of which writing-tablet is t...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse Or treasury {e}; for there were places in the temple where the tithe was put, and from thence...
BEG; BEGGAR; BEGGING 1. No Law Concerning Beggars or Begging in Israel: It is significant that the Mosaic law contains no enactment concerning begga...
POOR poor ('ebhyon, dal, `ani, rush; ptochos): I. In the Old Testament. The poor have great prominence in the Bible; it is said, indeed, that there ...
HEAVY; HEAVINESS hev'-i, hev'-i-nes (kabhedh, de'aghah; lupe): 1. Literal: Heavy (heave, to lift) is used literally with respect to material things,...
Genesis 20:7 Now therefore restore the man [his] wife Which will be a full proof and evidence to all of the integrity of thy heart, and the innocence ...
New Jerusalem The eternal climax of redemptive history is previewed in John's description of the new Jerusalem in Revelation 21-22. The new Jerusalem ...
KISS (nashaq; phileo, kataphilo, philema): The kiss is common in eastern lands in salutation, etc., on the cheek, the forehead, the beard, the hands,...
TAKE tak: Most of the very numerous examples of this word are still in good use and only a few call for special attention. To take in the sense of ca...
GOEL go'-el (go'el, redeemer): Goel is the participle of the Hebrew word gal'al (to deliver, to redeem) which aside from its common usage is frequent...
EYES, DISEASES OF THE di-zez'-is: Blindness, defects of sight and diseases of the eye are frequently mentioned in the Scriptures, but usually in gene...
SARAH; SARAI sa'-ra, sa'-ri: (1) In Genesis 17:15 the woman who up to that time has been known as Sarai (Saray; Sara) receives by divine command the ...
ORDAIN; ORDINATION or-dan', or-di-na-shun (Latin ordinare, to set in order to arrange; in post-Augustan Latin to appoint to office; from ordo, gen. or...