BEG; BEGGAR; BEGGING 1. No Law Concerning Beggars or Begging in Israel: It is significant that the Mosaic law contains no enactment concerning begga...
Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain Thought by many to be the same with Vulcan, his name and business agreeing; for the names are near in...
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...
PEACE pes (shalom; eirene): 1. In the Old Testament: Is a condition of freedom from disturbance, whether outwardly, as of a nation from war or enemi...
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...
Revelation 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia In lesser Asia; their names are mentioned in ( Revelation 1:11 ) ; grace [be] unto you, a...
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 ...
LIVER liv'-er (qabhedh, derived from a root meaning to be heavy, being the heaviest of the viscera; Septuagint hepar): The word is usually joined wit...
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...
JUDITH, BOOK OF || I. NAME II. CANONICITY III. CONTENTS IV. FACT OR FICTION? V. DATE 1. Probably during the Maccabean Age 2. Other Opinions (1...
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...
JEREMY, THE EPISTLE OF jer'-e-mi, (Epistole Ieremiou): 1. Name 2. Canonicity and Position 3. Contents 4. Original Language 5. Authorship, Date an...
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 ...
Apocrypha [E] [H] [S]Apocrypha comes from the Greek word apokrypha [ajpovkrufo], which means things that are hidden, secret. The Apocrypha refers to t...
Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land Of which there were various sorts, the first tithe, the tithe out of the tithe, the second tithe, and th...
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 ...
UNCLEANNESS un-klen'-nes: I. TERMS 1. In the Old Testament (Hebrew) 2. In the New Testament 3. In the Septuagint II. POSSIBLE RELATION OF ISRAEL'...
GATHER gath'-er ('acaph, qabhats; sullego, sunago): Gather, transitive to bring together, collect, etc., and intransitive to come together, assemble,...
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...
Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen Not in the day of Israel's ruin, but in the famous Gospel day, so often s...