NINE-Numbers in the Bible have great significance. Thus, nine presuppositions here. Nine is the number of fruit. There are nine letters in KING JAMES and in HOLY BIBLE and in the total of the integers, 1611. You don't like that line of reasoning? Forty laughs on you, friend. ...
In short, the terms Aram and Canaan, if bestowed with any reference to the comparative elevation of the respective countries, have a merely relative significance; the latter lying nearer the sea-boast, while the former — especially that part of it where the Hebrew patriarchs originated — is...
significance were attached to the old name. The word Gilgal means a "circle," and also a "rolling away." A similar play upon a word was noticed in the case of GILEAD SEE GILEAD ; and Bethel is an example of an old name having attached to it a new significance (Ge 28:19; Ge 35...