?1. The 14 books of the Septuagint included in the Vulgate but considered uncanonical by Protestants because they are not part of the Hebrew Scripture...
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...
AHASBAI a-has'-bi ('achacbay, blooming): The father of Eliphelet, a Maacathite, a soldier in David's army (2?Samuel 23:34). He was either a native of...
After many years (di etwn pleionwn). At an interval (dia) of more (pleionwn) years (than a few, one must add), not after many years. If, as is likely...
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...
Nahum 1:9 What do ye imagine against the Lord? &c.] O ye Ninevites or Assyrians; do you think you can frustrate the designs of the Lord, resist his po...
MANASSES ma-nas'-ez (Manasses; Codex Vaticanus Manasse): (1) One who had married a strange wife (1 Esdras 9:33) equals Manasseh of Ezra 10:33. (2) T...
ELECT e-lekt': That is, chosen, selected. In the Old Testament the word represents derivatives of bachar, elegit; In the New Testament eklektos. It...
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 ...
HONORABLE on'-er-a-b'-l (kabhedh; euschemon): In the Old Testament honorable is for the most part the translation of kabhedh, properly, to be heavy, ...
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...
Isaiah 37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god Josephus says F26, in his temple, called Arasce; but Nisroch w...
Genesis 46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt Which was enough to silence all his fears; for if the presence of God went with him to protect and de...
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...
NECK nek (tsawwar, tsawwa'r, tsawwaron, tsawwa'rah, Aramaic tsawwar (Daniel 5:7,16,29), `oreph, miphreqeth (1?Samuel 4:18); nostos, back (Baruch 2:33)...
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who] was of the inhabitants of Gilead Which belonged partly to the Reubenites and Gadites, and partly to the ha...
CUPBEARER kup'-bar-er (mashqeh, one giving drink; oinochoos): An officer of high rank at ancient oriental courts, whose duty it was to serve the wine...
AGE aj: A period of time or a dispensation. In the above sense the word occurs only once in the King James Version, in the sing, as the translation o...
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,...