Dictionaries :: PlankInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPlank: plank: Thick beams or pieces of wood, for which several Hebrew words are used. The Revised Version (British and American) changes "planks" (of fir) into "boards" in 1Ki 6:15, and in a few instances substitutes "planks" where the King James Version has "boards" (Ex 27:8; 38:7,

Dictionaries :: Ornaments, PersonalSmith's Bible DictionaryOrnaments, Personal: The number, variety and weight of the ornaments ordinarily worn upon the person form one of the characteristic features of Oriental costume, in both ancient and modem times. The monuments of ancient Egypt exhibit the persons of ladies load with rings, earrings of var

Dictionaries :: PersiansInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPersians: pur'-shanz, -zhanz (parac, also equals PERSIA, PERSIS (which see); adjective parci Hebrew, and parcay, Aramaic.; Persai, adjective only in Ne 12:22; Da 6:28; Achaem. Persian Parsa, name of both country and people; does not occur in Avesta): I. AFFINITY 1. Thre

Dictionaries :: Plaster (2)International Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPlaster (2): plas'-ter (marach): Only used in Isa 38:21 of the application of the cake of figs to the boil from which Hezekiah suffered. In Papyrus Ebers, figs are used as the ingredient in a plaster (xxxv, lxxix, lxxxiii). Dioscorides also recommends figs with other substances

Dictionaries :: PelegEaston's Bible DictionaryPeleg: division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because "in his days was the earth divided" (Gen 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mes

Dictionaries :: PhylarchInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPhylarch: fi'-lark (phularches): Given in the King James Version of 2 Macc 8:32 as a proper name "Philarches," but in the Revised Version (British and American) "the phylarch of Timotheus's forces"; "probably the captain of an irregular auxiliary force" (Revised Version margin), r

Dictionaries :: Phi-BesethInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPhi-Beseth: fi'-be-seth, fib'-e-seth (pi-bheceth).

Dictionaries :: Please, Pleasing (Noun), Well-Pleasing, PleasureVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1VerbStrong's Number: g700Greek: areskoPlease, Pleasing (Noun), Well-Pleasing, Pleasure:signifies (a) "to be pleasing to, be acceptable to," Mat 14:6; Mar 6:22; Act 6:5; Rom 8:8; 15:2; 1Cr 7:32-34; Gal 1:10; 1Th 2:15; 4:1 (where

Dictionaries :: Pharaoh's DaughtersEaston's Bible DictionaryPharaoh's Daughters: Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: (1.) The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v.), Exd 2:10. She is twice mentioned in the New Testament (Act 7:21: Heb. 11:24). It would seem that she was alive and in some position of influence about the court

Dictionaries :: Persons (Respect Of)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1NounStrong's Number: g4381Greek: prosoplemptesPersons (Respect Of):denotes "a respecter of persons" (prosopon, "a face" or "person," lambano, "to lay hold of"), Act 10:34.A-2NounStrong's Number: g4382Greek: prosopolempsiaPersons (Respect Of):(in inferior texts

Dictionaries :: Phares, Pharez or PerezSmith's Bible DictionaryPhares, Pharez or Perez: The son of Judah (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33).

Dictionaries :: PleasureInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPleasure: plezh'-ur (chephets, ratson; eudokia, hedone: "Pleasure" is the translation of various Hebrew words, chiefly of chephets, "inclination," hence, "pleasure," "delight" (Job 21:21, "What pleasure hath he in his house?" the American Standard Revised Version "what careth he f

Dictionaries :: PeterEaston's Bible DictionaryPeter: originally called Simon (=Simeon,i.e., "hearing"), a very common Jewish name in the New Testament. He was the son of Jona (Mat 16:17). His mother is nowhere named in Scripture. He had a younger brother called Andrew, who first brought him to Jesus (Jhn 1:40-42). His native town was Bethsaida,

Dictionaries :: PendantInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPendant: pen'-dant (from French from Latin pendeo, "to hang"): Not in the King James Version. Twice in the Revised Version (British and American). (1) netiphoth (the King James Version "collars"), ornaments of the Midianites captured by Gideon (Jud 8:26). (2) netiphoth (the K

Dictionaries :: PirathonEaston's Bible DictionaryPirathon: prince, or summit, a place "in the land of Ephraim" (Jdg 12:15), now Fer'on, some 10 miles south-west of Shechem. This was the home of Abdon the judge.Hitchcock's Bible Names DictionaryPirathon:his dissipation or deprivation; his ruptureNave's Topical BiblePirathon: A Place in the Land o

Dictionaries :: OvenEaston's Bible DictionaryOven: Heb. tannur, (Hsa 7:4). In towns there appear to have been public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jer 37:21) called "bakers' street" (the only case in which the name of a street in Jerusalem is preserved). The words "tower of the furnaces" (Neh 3:11; 12:38) is more properly "tower of the

Dictionaries :: Plague, TheSmith's Bible DictionaryPlague, The: The plague is considered to be a severe kind of typhus, accompanied by buboes (tumors).-Like the cholera, it is most violent at the first outbreak, causing almost instant death. Great difference of opinion has obtained as to whether it is contagious or not. It was very prevalent in

Dictionaries :: Peace (Hold One's)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g4601Greek: sigaoPeace (Hold One's):signifies (a), used intransitively, "to be silent" (from sige, "silence"), translated "to hold one's peace," in Luk 9:36; 18:39; 20:26; Act 12:17; 15:13 (in Act 15:12, "kept silence;" similarly rendered in 1

Dictionaries :: PhysicianEaston's Bible DictionaryPhysician: Asa, afflicted with some bodily malady, "sought not to the Lord but to the physicians" (2Ch 16:12). The "physicians" were those who "practised heathen arts of magic, disavowing recognized methods of cure, and dissociating the healing art from dependence on the God of Israel. The sin of

Dictionaries :: Pentateuch, 2aInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaPentateuch, 2a: II. Authorship, Composition, Date. 1. The Current Critical Scheme: The view that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, with the exception of the concluding verses of Deuteronomy, was once held universally. It is still believed by the great mass of Jew