(Habakkuk 3:7). Since Midian is a country, scholars assume that Cushan is a country as well. Where that country might have been, no one knows, and most scholars assume that it's the same as Cush. But which one of the two countries named Cush could be also known as Cushan is ...
In Septuagint, the Greek word, representing different Hebrew words, has also the extended meaning of "stall" (2 Chronicles 32:28; Habakkuk 3:17); thus also in Luke 13:15, where the Revised Version margin has "manger." Old tradition says that Jesus was born in a cave in the ...
This is not too surprising, since the name Phoenicia relates to φοινιξ (phoinix), or date palm, a symbol of immortality and victory. As we note in our article on the name Habakkuk: "trees in the Bible almost invariably refer to systems of government." Yet another word that may ...
The Biblical Definition of a Virtue According to Bible Study Tools, “in these passages it stands for arete, the usual classical term for "moral excellence" (originally "fitness" of any sort), used in Septuagint to translate words meaning "glory," "praiseworthiness," as inHabakkuk 3:3;Isaia...
9. Habakkuk 2:14 - Salvation and Civilization Prophecy: Principles of Interpretation 10. Isaiah 9:6-7 11. Daniel 2 12. Isaiah 65:17-20 “Anarcho-Preterism” is “the Gospel.”Let's start with the word "anarchism," which is even more offensive to most Christians than "preterism."In...
Habakkuk - Justice The prophet sees evil rewarded and the righteous suffer and questions God's timing, God answers and assures that he is a holy God and justice will prevail, Habakkuk fears properly. Zephaniah - Woe God promises a thorough judgment over the nation of Israel and all their sur...
The story of Moses was finalized by Jews for a Jewish audience, and it's highly likely that this name is synthetic rather than organic and functional rather than abstract (and read our article on the nameHabakkukfor a more detailed look at why this would be so). That said, the Hebrew ...
or will be forced to deal with society's tedious codes and constructs. In fact, in the Metaverse, users no longer even have to yield to God's obligating law, the one that demands harmonic unity, but can be a law onto themselves, like once the glorious Babylonians (Habakkuk 1:6-11)...
In Habakkuk 3:4 the "horns coming out of his hand" denote the potency of Yahweh's gesture (the Revised Version (British and American) "rays" may be smoother, but is weak). So to "exalt the horn" (1 Samuel 2:1,10; Psalms 75:4, etc.) is to clothe with strength, and to "cut...
An oft-recurring word in Scripture almost uniformly bound up with a sense of sin and guilt. It is figuratively set forth as a wild beast (Jeremiah 3:24), a Nessus-garment (Jeremiah 3:25), a blight (Jeremiah 20:18), a sin against one's own soul (Habakkuk 2:10), and twice as th...