What an interpretation of its meaning!" (Maurice, Prophets and Kings, page 136). Not in the persecutions of Ahab and Jezebel, nor in the slaughter of the prophets of Baal, but in the 7000 unknown worshippers who had not bowed the knee to Baal, was the assurance that Elijah was not ...
Thither, wherever the place was, Paul was brought as a prisoner of the emperor, and delivered to the praefect of the guard, according to the custom (Ac 28:16; see Pliny, Ep. 10:65; Philostr. Soph. 2, 32), as the younger Agrippa was once imprisoned by this officer at the ...
Otherwise the meaning of the passage will be missed. For the reader to get the meaning necessitates that he come to the realization of this designed ambiguity (admixture of definite concepts) in the one expression. As we consider this writing technique in several verses, we will see that at...
For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.” The Greek word here is harpadso, meaning “snatched up” to be with Christ. When Christ comes to set up his earthly kingdom at the end of the tribulation, he will come with power and the holy...
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Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. Isaiah 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel. Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; /...
(kashaf) suggests the meaning of the missing Kal — "to reveal." InEx 7:11, this word describes (in plur.) the magicians of Pharaoh, who are also there called חֲכָמַים, sages, and (as also in 7:22; comp.Ge 41:8,24) חִרטֻמַּים,...
Macedo'nia (Μακεδονία,from a supposed founderMacenusorMacedon),a name originally confined to the district lying north of Thessaly, east of the Cardanian mountains (a prolongation of Mount Pindus), and west of the River Axius; but afterwards extended to the country lying to the...
Thither he carried the ark of the covenant; and there he built to the Lord an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, on the place where the angel stood who threatened Jerusalem with pestilence (2Sa 24:15-25). But David could not build a house for the name of the Lord...
The plain meaning of the narrative is that, far as the eye could sweep, not a solitary mountain reared its head above the waste of waters. On the other hand, there is no necessity for assuming that the ark stranded on the high peaks of the mountain now called Ararat, or even that ...