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(Heb. i, "dry land," as opposed to water) occurs in its usual signification (Isa 42:4, 10, 12, 15 comp. Jer 47:4), but more frequently simply denotes a maritime region or sea-coast (Isa 20:6,...
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Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil 1:27; 2 Thess 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust. It admits of...
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This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas," after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, "Lovest...
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(Rom 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, "according to the proportion of faith." The meaning is, that the utterances of the "prophet" were...
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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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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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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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(Deut 10:6). The same as Bene-jaakan (Num 33:31).
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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 great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law of Moses. The mode of its observance is described in Lev...
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(Ps 68:15), probably another name for Hermon, which lies to the north of Bashan.
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The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and...
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(1 Chr 27:24) were statistical state records; one of the public sources from which the compiler of the Books of Chronicles derived information on various public matters.
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A name given to the valley of Jehoshaphat (q.v.) as the vale of the sentence. The scene of Jehovah's signal inflictions on Zion's enemies (Joel 3:14; marg., "valley of concision or threshing").
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This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time included in Nehemiah, the Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in...
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Acts 2:23; Rom 8:29; 11:2; 1 Pet 1:2), one of those high attributes essentially appertaining to him the full import of which we cannot comprehend. In the most absolute sense his knowledge is ...
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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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(B.C. 975-B.C. 722). Soon after the death of Solomon, Ahijah's prophecy (1 Kings 11:31-35) was fulfilled, and the kingdom was rent in twain. Rehoboam, the son and successor of Solomon, was scarcely...
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Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (Num 5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted...
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Lying on the northern side of the city, between the ridges of Gilboa and Moreh, an offshoot of Esdraelon, running east to the Jordan (Josh 17:16; Judg 6:33; Hos 1:5). It was the scene of the signal...
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A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps 88 and...
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The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its...
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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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Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Num 28:11-15; 10:10). (See [437]FESTIVALS.)
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So called from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed, is a mountain ridge on the east of Jerusalem (1 Kings 11:7; Ezek 11:23; Zech 14:4), from which it is separated by the valley of...
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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.