God also walked (hawlak) in the midst of the temple. The meaning is clear. The garden was a temple for God. Like the temple, the garden was the joining together of God’s space and man’s space—the intersection of the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. For this reason, Isaiah ...
but deep-set, brimming with meaning, like wells of water.His face is rugged, his beard smells like sage, His voice, his words, warm and reassuring.Fine muscles ripple beneath his skin, quiet and beautiful.His torso is the work of a sculptor, hard and smooth as ivory.He...
• From the Biblical meta-concept of the day derives the specific solar day Our noun יום (yom), meaning day, is mostly used to indicate the light-part of a solar day, or rather, the part during which one can work, travel and trade. It's opposite of ליל (layil)...
When we have made our focus on worship about the style of music, we have lost the real meaning of worship. Our worship should not be dictated by the style of music we like or dislike. Our worship should be dictated by what we believe. Our worship should be directed toward God, not ou...
The name of Star of the Sea is also given her, from a fanciful interpretation of the meaning of her name. She is the Rose of Sharon (Song 2:1) and the Lily (2:2), the Tower of David (4:4), the Mountain of Myrrh and the Hill of Frankincense (4:6). the Garden enclosed, ...
But κρίνον, or 'lily,' is the uniform rendering of the Sept., and is, in all probability, the true one, as it is supported by the analogy of the Arabic and Persian susan, which has the same meaning to this day, and by the existence of the same word in Syriac and ...
So why did the people wave palm branches and place them at the feet of Jesus’ colt? No doubt, in Palestine, where Jesus ministered, there were plenty of palm trees scattered throughout the land. But what was the meaning of using palm trees? According to Easton's Bible...
and myrrh was available and traded in the area of northern India and was something that would be brought west from there. India was a great source for spices and other other exotic goods and caravans would travel from there bringing them for trade. It is believed that Jesus may have been ...
What is interesting is that, according to 1 Chron 1:8,9 the offspring of Ham (from the Egyptian word Kem meaning Egyptian) were Cush (Nubia), Mizraim (Egypt), Put (Punt=Abyssinia and Yemen) and Canaan. The offspring of Cush were Saba (Sheba) and Havilah (Havilah and Ophir both mean...
That the name is derived from some natural peculiarity is evident from the presence of the article with all the terms. Whatever may be the true meaning of bedolach, be it carbuncle, crystal, bdellium, ebony, pepper, cloves, beryl, pearl, diamond, or emerald, all critics detect its ...