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Originally called Simon (=Simeon ,i.e., "hearing"), a very common Jewish name in the New Testament. He was the son of Jona (Matt 16:17). His mother is nowhere named in Scripture. He had a younger...
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Or No-A'mon, the home of Amon, the name of Thebes, the ancient capital of what is called the Middle Empire, in Upper or Southern Egypt. "The multitude of No" (Jer 46:25) is more correctly rendered,...
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Called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen 9:2; Num 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the...
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(1.) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb 4:8; R.V., "Joshua"). (2.) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col 4:11). Je'sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish...
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Mentioned in Dan 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means "medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a...
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Son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Paphos. Elymas is a word of Arabic origin meaning "wise."
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Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa 37:29; Jer 16:16; Ezek 29:4; Job 41:1, 2 Matt 17:27).
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(Cant. 7:4) should be simply "pools," as in the Revised Version. The reservoirs near Heshbon (q.v.) were probably stocked with fish (2 Sam 2:13; 4:12; Isa 7:3; 22:9, 11).
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The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It...
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This epistle is addressed to "the strangers scattered abroad", i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already...
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Helper. (1.) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer 28:1). (2.) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek 11:1). (3.) One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Neh...
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Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or sculptured on the prow of the ship which Luke refers to (Acts 28:11). They were regarded as the...
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The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubits high and twelve in circumference (Jer 52:21, 23 1 Kings 7:17-21). They had doubtless a...
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Immediately (Matt 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. "No man...
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Of our Lord on a "high mountain apart," is described by each of the three evangelists (Matt 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36). The fullest account is given by Luke, who, no doubt, was informed by ...
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Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial...
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(Ps 42:6, 7) = "the Hermons", i.e., the three peaks or summits of Hermon, which are about a quarter of a mile apart.
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(Heb. yam), signifies (1) "the gathering together of the waters," the ocean (Gen 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa 21:1; Jer 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex 14:16, 27; 15:4...
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Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so...
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(Num 21:14, 15), some unknown book so called (comp. Gen 14:14-16; Ex 17:8-16; Num 14:40-45; 21:1-3, 21-25, 33-35, 31. The wars here recorded might be thus designated).
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Is referred to in Josh 3:16. It stood "beside Zarethan," on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kings 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up "upon an heap" at the time of the...
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The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet....
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A place near Pirathon (q.v.), in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg 12:15).
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The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et-Tih ("the wandering"), mentioned Deut 1:19, 20 "that great and terrible wilderness."
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The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg 7:25; Isa 10:26). It was probably the place now called Orbo, on the east of Jordan, near Bethshean.
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One of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:62), probably in the Valley of Salt, at the southern end of the Dead Sea.
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I.e., "the gate of casting out," hence supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord, "by the causeway of the going up" i.e., the causeway rising up from the Tyropoeon...
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LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or Southern Mesopotamia, extending almost to the Persian Gulf. Here the tower of Babel was built (Gen...