Easton's Bible Dictionary

high priest’s ephod, girdle, and breastplate (Exodus 28:5, 6, 8, 15). Scarlet thread is mentioned in connection with the rites o ...

by him on the ground. At the command of God he took up into the mount two other tables, and God wrote on them “the words that we ...

protection (Exodus 21:7; Deuteronomy 21:10-14), and setting limits to the relation they sustained to the household to which they ...

rhinoceros. When it is said to “chew the cud,” the Hebrew word so used does not necessarily imply the possession of a ruminant s ...

the Sanhedrim; and the name synagogue, applied in the Septuagint version exclusively to the congregation, came to be used to den ...

word thus rendered (Luke 2:25, paraklesis) is kindred to that translated “Comforter” in John 14:16, etc., parakletos. CONSTELLA ...

CONVOCATION a meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with politic ...

Samuel 17:5, 6, 38; 2 Samuel 21:16). Iron is mentioned only four times (Genesis 4:22; Leviticus 26:19; Numbers 31:22; 35:16) in ...

(Judges 15:13; Psalm 2:3; 129:4), and measuring ground (2 Samuel 8;2; Psalm 78:55). Figuratively, death is spoken of as the givi ...

of Romans, Greeks, and Jews. When Paul first visited the city (A.D. 51 or 52), Gallio, the brother of Seneca, was proconsul. Her ...

(2.) He next treats of certain cases of immorality that had become notorious among them. They had apparently set at nought the v ...

proceeded to Macedonia. Pursuing the usual route, he reached Troas, the port of departure for Europe. Here he expected to meet w ...

the “unclean” birds; of the same family group as the pelican. It is a “plunging” bird, and is common on the coasts and the islan ...

CORNELIUS a centurion whose history is narrated in Acts 10. He was a “devout man,” and like the centurion of Capernaum, believe ...

3:5, 7, 10, 15, the word (keren) so rendered is a curved horn. The word “cornet” in 2 Samuel 6:5 (Hebrews mena’an’im, occurring ...

these councils was that of the apostles and elders at Jerusalem, of which we have a detailed account in Acts 15. COUNSELLOR an ...

ought to be rendered, just as the word berith of the Old Testament, “covenant.” This word is used (1) of a covenant or compact b ...

promise was “life” (Matthew 19:16, 17; Galatians 3:12). (3.) The condition was perfect obedience to the law, the test in this ca ...

Christ, the mediator of, fulfils all its conditions in behalf of his people, and dispenses to them all its blessings. In Hebrews ...

between the teachings of the one and those of the other, when rightly understood, there can be no contradiction. Traditions of t ...