Dictionaries :: CymbalInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaCymbal: sim'-bal. Nave's Topical BibleCymbal: Definition Of A musical instrumentCymbal: Of Brass (Bronze) 1Ch 15:19, 28; 1Cr 13:1Cymbal: Used In the tabernacle service, 2Sa 6:5; 1Ch 13:8; 15:16, 19, 28; in the temple service, 2Ch 5:12, 13; 1Ch 16:5, 42; 25:1, 6; Ps

Dictionaries :: CountrymanInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaCountryman: kun'-tri-man (sumphuletes): "Of the same tribe" (1Th 2:14); also in idiomatic rendering (genos) for those of one's own race or kin (2Co 11:26; Ga 1:14 the King James Version, "one's own nation"). Compare Mr 6:4; Ro 9:3

Dictionaries :: DescribeInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDescribe: de-skrib':This verb, now obsolete, in the sense used in Jos 18:4,6,8,9 and Jud 8:14, is a translation of kathabh, usually rendered "to write" or "inscribe." But in the above passages it has the Old English meaning of dividing into parts or into lots, as for example: "Wal

Dictionaries :: DelaiahEaston's Bible DictionaryDelaiah: freed by Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order (1Ch 24:18). (2.) A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll of prophecy was read (Jer 36:12). (3.) The head of one of the bands of exiles that returned under Zerubbabel

Dictionaries :: CormorantEaston's Bible DictionaryCormorant: (Lev 11:17; Deu 14:17), Heb. shalak, "plunging," or "darting down," (the Phalacrocorax carbo), ranked among the "unclean" birds; of the same family group as the pelican. It is a "plunging" bird, and is common on the coasts and the island seas of Palestine. Some think the Hebrew word sh

Dictionaries :: CorrectionInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaCorrection: ko-rek'-shun (mucar, usually rendered "instruction," is translated "correction" in several passages): The verb from which the noun is derived signifies "to instruct" or "chastise." The idea of chastisement was very closely connected in the Hebrew mind with that of pe

Dictionaries :: DevoutInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDevout: de-vout' (eulabes, eusebes, sebomai, "pious," "dutiful," "reverential"): The word is peculiar to Luke. Applied to Simeon (Lu 2:25), Cornelius (Ac 10:2,7), Ananias (Ac 22:12). "Devout proselytes" (Ac 13:43, the King James Version "religious proselytes"), with possible referen

Dictionaries :: Corn, CornfieldVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g4621Greek: sitosCorn, Cornfield:"wheat, corn;" in the plural, "grain," is translated "corn" in Mar 4:28; "wheat," Mat 3:12; 13:25, 29, 30; Luk 3:17; 12:18 (some mss. have genemata, "fruits," here); Luk 16:7; 22:31; Jhn 12:24; Act 27:38; 1Cr 15:37; R

Dictionaries :: Despite, Despiteful, Despitefully (Use)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g1796Greek: enubrizoDespite, Despiteful, Despitefully (Use):"to treat insultingly, with contumely" (en, intensive, hubrizo, "to insult;" some connect it with huper, "above, over," Lat. super, which suggests the insulting disda

Dictionaries :: CouldVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g2192Greek: echoCould:"to have," is rendered "could" in Mar 14:8, "she hath done what she could," lit., "she hath done what she had." See HAVE.2Strong's Number: g2480Greek: ischuoCould:"to have strength," is translated in Mar 14:37 "couldest thou not." See ABL

Dictionaries :: Creep, Creeping, CreptVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1VerbStrong's Number: g1744Greek: endunoCreep, Creeping, Crept:properly, "to envelop in" (en, "in," duno, "to enter"), "to put on," as of a garment, has the secondary and intransitive significance of "creeping into, insinuating oneself into," and is found wit

Dictionaries :: CurtainEaston's Bible DictionaryCurtain: (1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle (Exd 26:1-13; 36:8-17). (2.) The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroke

Dictionaries :: DescentVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g2600Greek: katabasisDescent:denotes "a going down," akin to No. 1 under DESCEND, "a way down," Luk 19:37. Note: For "descent" (AV in Hbr 7:3, 6), see GENEALOGY (the RV rendering).

Dictionaries :: DemoniacsSmith's Bible DictionaryDemoniacs: This word is frequently used in the New Testament, and applied to persons suffering under the possession of a demon or evil spirit, such possession generally showing itself visibly in bodily disease or mental derangement. It has been maintained by many persons that our Lord and the evan

Dictionaries :: DefineVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g3724Greek: horizoDefine:(Eng., "horizon"), primarily means "to mark out the boundaries of a place" (as in the Sept. of Num 34:6; Jos 13:27); hence "to determine, appoint." In Hbr 4:7, where the reference is to the time of God's invitation to enter into His r

Dictionaries :: DeterminateInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDeterminate: de-tur'-mi-nat (horismenos, "determined," "fixed"): Only in Ac 2:23, "by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of. God," Greek horismenos, from horizo, "to set boundaries," "determine," "settle" (compare English word "horizon"-literally, "that which bounds"). I

Dictionaries :: ConvincethKing James DictionaryConvinceth: Convict.And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you CONVINCETH me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. (John 8:45-47)

Dictionaries :: CrushVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g598Greek: apothliboCrush:a strengthened form of thlibo, "to throng" (apo, intensive), is used in Luk 8:45, RV, "crush," for AV, "press," of the multitude who were pressing around Christ (cp. the preceding word sunecho, "to press"). In the Sept., Num 22:25.

Dictionaries :: Cush (2)International Standard Bible EncyclopaediaCush (2): kush (kush; Septuagint Chousei, Ps 7 title): A Benjamite, perhaps he that "was without cause" the "adversary" of David (compare Ps 7:4). ← Cush (1)

Dictionaries :: CratesInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaCrates: kra'-tez (Krates), governor of the Cyprians, left as deputy of Sostratus when the latter, who was governor of Jerusalem, was summoned to Antioch by Antiochus Epiphanes, in consequence of a dispute with Menelaus (2 Macc 4:29). As Cyprus was not at the time in the possession o