GUR; THE ASCENT, OF gur, a-sent', (ma`-aleh ghur): The place where the servants of Jehu mortally wounded Ahaziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 9:27). The ascent (the King James Version "going up") was hard by Ibleam, the site of which is identified about 1/2 mile South of Jenin. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information

GUR-BAAL gur-ba'-al (gur ba`-al): The residence of certain Arabs against whom God helped Uzziah, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 26:7). Its mention immediately after the Philistines may have suggested the "Gerar" of the Targum. Association with the Meunim points to the East. It may be taken as certain that Jebel Neby Harun, near Petra, has always been

GULF (chasma, "a chasm," "vent," "a gaping opening"--a great interval; from chaino, "to gape" or "yawn"): Occurs only in Luke 16:26, "Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed" (compare "afar off" in 16:23). This is very different from, though it probably reflects, the rabbinical conception of the separation between the two compartments of Ha

GUNI; GUNITES gu'-ni, gu'-nits (guni): (1) The name of a Naphtalite clan (Genesis 46:24; Numbers 26:48; 1 Chronicles 7:13). In Numbers 26:48 the gentilic "Gunites" is also found, having in Hebrew the same form, with the article. (2) The head of a Gadite family (1 Chronicles 5:15). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography In

GUILTY gil'-ti: In addition to the general discussion under GUILT (which see), several New Testament passages demand special notice because the word "guilty" is not used in the principal sense of blameworthy, but with one of the two lesser meanings noted above which go to make up the complete idea. In 3 of these passages the King James Version ren

GUILTLESS gilt'-les: The primary meaning of the Hebrew word is "to be clean." Sometimes the meaning is "freedom from blame," at other times to be "free from punishment," these two ideas running over into each other as with the word "guilt." The latter meaning seems to predominate in Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11; 2 Samuel 14:9; 1 Kings 2:9. The ot

GUILT OFFERING See SACRIFICE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'GUILT OFFERING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

GUILE gil (mirmah; dolos): "Guile" is twice the translation of mirmah, "fraud," "deceit" (Psalms 34:13, "Keep .... thy lips from speaking guile"; Psalms 55:11, "deceit and guile," the Revised Version (British and American) "oppression (margin "fraud") and guile"); once of `ormah, "craftiness," "guile" (Exodus 21:14); once of remiyah, "deception,"

GUILT gilt: The Christian idea of guilt involves three elements: responsibility (Greek aitia, "cause," depending upon a man's real freedom), blameworthiness (Latin reatus culpae, depending upon a man's knowledge and purpose) and the obligation to make good through punishment or compensation (Latin reatus poenae; compare Greek opheilema, "debt," Ma

GUIDE gid ('alluph, nachal, nachah; hodegos, hodegeo): "Guide" (noun) is the translation of 'alluph, "an intimate," "a friend," the leader of a family or tribe: Psalms 55:13, "a man mine equal, my guide," the Revised Version (British and American) "my companion"; Proverbs 2:17, "the guide of her youth," the Revised Version (British and American) "

GUEST-CHAMBER gest'-cham-ber: The translation of (1) (lishkah) (1 Samuel 9:22, the King James Version "parlor"), and (2) (kataluma) (Mark 14:14 parallel Luke 22:11). The lishkah was probably a room in which the sacrificial feasts were held. Kataluma is derived from kataluo, which means "to slacken," i.e. the ropes of the beasts of burden, and h

GUDGODAH gud-go'-da (gudhgodhah): A place in the wilderness journeyings (Deuteronomy 10:7), corresponding to Hor-haggidgad in Numbers 33:32. Septuagint in each case renders (Gadgad). The site cannot now be identified; but there may be an echo of the ancient name in that of Wady Gudaghid, a confluent of Wady Jerafeh, which comes down from et Tih in

GUEST gest (qara'; anakeimai): Oriental customs growing out of a nomadic life demand a greater abandon and freedom with respect to the relation of host and guest than are permitted by the conventionalities of western life. A householder is expected to entertain a traveler, and in turn the traveler may accept with perfect ease the hospitality shown

GUARDIAN gar'-di-an. See FAMILY; ANGEL. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'GUARDIAN'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

GRUDGE gruj (naTar; stenazo, goggusmos): "Grudge" (perhaps a mimetic word, compare Greek gru) is "to grumble" or "murmur" at any person or thing, to entertain an envious or covetous feeling, to do or give anything unwillingly, etc. It occurs in the King James Version as the translation of naTar, "to keep (anger)" (Leviticus 19:18, "Thou shalt not

GUARD gard: (1) sar ha-Tabbachim, "captain of the guard," literally, "slaughterers" (Genesis 37:36; 39:1; 40:3,1; 41:10,12); rabh Tabbachim (2 Kings 25:8,11,20; Jeremiah 39:9, etc.); rabh tabbachayyah (Daniel 2:14); ratsim, "guard," the King James Version "footmen" (1 Samuel 22:17); sare ha-ratsim, "chief of the guard" the King James Version "capt

GROVE grov: (1) 'asherah. See ASHERAH. (2) 'eshel (Genesis 21:33 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "a tamarisk tree"). See TAMARISK. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'GROVE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".

GROAN gron (na'aq, 'anaq; stenazo, embrimaomai): The English word, noun and verb, is an attempt to imitate the vocal sound which is expressive of severe pain or distress, physical or mental. It is cognate with the Scottish dialect word girn, and with grin in its original obsolete sense, as used in the Anglican Prayer-book version of Psalms 59:6,14

GROSS gros (`araphel): Used twice with "darkness" in Isaiah 60:2; Jeremiah 13:16. In the New Testament the verb pachuno, "to make fat," is applied twice to "making gross" the heart (Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27). See GREASE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for

GRISLED; GRIZZLED griz'-'-ld. See COLORS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'GRISLED; GRIZZLED'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.