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...
Isaiah 36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, &c.] The following piece of history is inserted from the books of Kings and C...
Guide to Book AbbreviationThe following table lists (in alphabetical order) the names of each of the books of the Bible and it's corresponding shortes...
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...
CONVERSATION kon-ver-sa'-shun (anastrophe, homilia): This word is another illustration of the changes which time makes in a living language. The mode...
ALMS; ALMSGIVING ams, ams-giv'-ing: The English word alms is an abridged form of the Greek word, eleemosune (compare eleemosynary), appearing in grad...
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year This, according to Aben Ezra, was a t...
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...
ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA ad'-am, ('adham; Septuagint Adam). \1. Usage and Etymology: The Hebrew word occurs some 560 times in the ...
FAMINE fam'-in (ra`abh; limos): 1. Natural Causes 2. Famines Mentioned 3. Divine Relations 4. Figurative Uses The common Old Testament word for f...
Convert, Conversion Although the term conversion is common in theological and religious discussion today, it was a relatively rare term in the Bible. ...
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...
EVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ev, (chawwah, life; Eua; the name given, as the Scripture writer says, Genesis 3:20 (Zoe), from her unique function as the mo...
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, ...
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...
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...
JUDAEA joo-de'-a, ju-de'-a (Ioudaia): The land of the Jews, the Greco-Roman equivalent of Judah. As most of the Israelites returning from the captivi...
MARKET; MARKETPLACE; MART mar'-ket, mar'-ketplas, mart (ma`arabh, cachar; agora): (1) Ma`arabh, from a root meaning trading and hence, goods exchange...
KISS (nashaq; phileo, kataphilo, philema): The kiss is common in eastern lands in salutation, etc., on the cheek, the forehead, the beard, the hands,...