in Rebus Sacris [Giess. 1692]; Wokenius, De Salitura Oblationum Deo Factar. [Lips. 1747]; Josephus, Ant. 12:3, 3; Middoth, 5, 3; Othon. Lex. Rabb. p. 668). It may, of course, be assumed that in all of these cases salt was added as a condiment; but the strictness with ...
⇒Definition of consecrationAccording to a canon of the first Nicene Council, there must be four, or at least three bishops present at the consecration of a bishop. SEE COLLEGE, 2. II. Consecration of Churches.— ⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.1. Ancient Church.—...
II. The gradual Growth of the Messianic Revelation. ⇒Definition of messiah 1. First or Patriarchal Period. (1.) In the primeval promise (Ge 3:15) lies the germ of a universal blessing. The tempter came to the woman in the guise of a serpent, and the curse thus pronounced has a...
⇒Definition ofgift 3.More distinctly in the sense of a votive offering is מַנחָה,minchah',anoblationor propitiatory gift (2Sa 8:2,6;1Ch 18:2,6;2Ch 26:8;2Ch 32:23;Ps 45:12; "present,"Ge 32:13; Ge 18; Ge 20; Ge 21;Ge 33:10;Ge 43:11,15,25-26;Jg ...
Rab. col. 579) to designate an oblation of any kind to God, whether bloody or bloodless, but particularly in fulfillment of a vow (Jahn, Bibl. Arch. v, § 392, 394). It occurs only once in the New Testament (Mr 7:11), where it is explained (as also by Josephus, Ant. 4:4,...
(מַנחָה, minchah,προσφορά, δῶρον) andbloody(זֶבח,zebach,θυσία).Used in its widest sense, the term offering, or oblation, indicates in the Hebrew ritual a very great number of things — as the firstlings of the flock, first-fruits...
⇒Definition of victualsBread formed "the staff of life" to the ancient Hebrews even more than to ourselves; but the modes of preparing it have been noticed under other heads. SEE BREAD; SEE MILL. On a remarkable occasion a calf, tender and good, was taken slain, dressed (roasted, ...
or N. Testament in the sense which it now almost exclusively bears of animal food. The latter is denoted uniformly by "flesh." 1. The only possible exceptions to this assertion in the. O.T. are: ⇒Definition of meat(a) Ge 27:4, etc., "savory meat ;" Ge 45:23," corn and ...
The definition of marriage given by Modestinus, the Roman lawyer and scholar of Ulpian, is as follows: "Nuptiae sunt conjunctio maris et feminae et consortium omnis vitse, divini et humani juris communicatio" (Digest, 18:2, 1). In the Institutes of Justinian we have "nuptiae sive ...
⇒Definition of breadOther modes of baking were specially adapted to the migratory habits of the pastoral Jews, as of the modern Bedouins; the cakes were either spread upon stones, which were previously heated by lighting a fire above them (Burckhardt's Notes, i, 58) or beneath them (...