A shrew is defined by Cambridge dictionary as a “a woman who is considered to be unpleasant and easily annoyed, and who argues a lot” and this is also the definition of a bitch in modern times. Most Christians today object to men ever calling a woman a bitch. But Christians of the ...
⇒Definition of vineThe regular Greek word for "vine" is ἄμπελος, of generic signification. Grapes are designated by various names: (1.) Eshkol (אֶשׁכֹּל) is either "a cluster," ripe or unripe, like racemus, or a "single grape" (as in Isa 65:8;...
No more affecting picture of utter desolation could be imagined than that conveyed in the threat denounced against Judah by the mouth of the prophet Jer 25:10: "I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,...
Jesus said that “loving God” by obeying His commandments and “loving our neighbors as earnestly as we love our own bodies” are the supporting cables from which hang the Bible and the words of all the prophets.To envision this, imagine a suspension bridge. All the lives of those who us...
In the absence of any Biblical definition of this much-disputed expression, we must accept the ancient traditional explanation contained in the Mishna, which is as follows: 'When there is betrothal without transgression of the law about forbidden marriages — e.g. if the daughters of priests, ...
⇒Definition of music3. The Silver Age of Hebrew Music.— So we may perhaps fitly designate the period of the captivity and the restoration, as denoting that the national music was still preserved and cultivated by considerable numbers of the people, especially of the Levitical families, ...
⇒Definition of pentecost 4. יוֹם הִבַּכּוּרַים ἡμέρατῶν νέων, dies prinitivorum, "the day of first- fruits" (Nu 28:26), because the first loaves made from the new corn were then offered on the altar (Le 23:17),...
735. The close of the next century probably produced the celebrated Durham Book, containing the four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, written between the lines of an earlier Latin copy, by ALDRED, a priest. The following is the Lord's Prayer from this version — Mt 6:9-13: ⇒Definition of ...