COOS ko'-os. See COS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'COOS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

COOL kool (ruach, "wind"; katapsucho, "to cool down"): "Cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8, margin "wind"), when the evening breeze has tempered the heat of the day, enabling Orientals to walk abroad. "Cool my tongue" (Luke 16:24), a phrase reflecting the Jewish notion that Abraham had power to rescue his descendants from the fires of Hades. Copyright

CONVULSING kon-vuls'-ing (Mark 1:26 margin (the King James Version torn)). See UNCLEAN SPIRIT. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'CONVULSING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

COOKING kook'-ing. See FOOD. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'COOKING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

CONVINCE kon-vins' (elegcho): Another form etymologically of "convict," means to bring to a decision concerning the truth or the falsehood of a proposition (Job 32:12). As usually applied to what is of a more individual and private character, and having reference to what is either good or bad, or what is in itself without moral quality, it has giv

CONVOCATION kon-vo-ka'-shun: A rendering for miqra' chiefly in the frequent "Holy Convocation"; but the word is sometimes used alone, e.g. Numbers 10:2; Isaiah 1:13; 4:5. On a holy convocation no work could be done. The phrase differs from "solemn assembly," which in the Pentateuch is only applied to the concluding festivals at the end of Passover

CONVICT; CONVICTION kon-vikt', kon-vik'-shun (elegcho and compounds, "to prove guilty"): Usual translation of English Versions of the Bible, where the King James Version has "convince," as in John 8:46; Titus 1:9; James 2:9; once also replacing the King James Version "reprove" (John 16:8), while the Revised Version (British and American) changes t

CONVERSATION kon-ver-sa'-shun (anastrophe, homilia): This word is another illustration of the changes which time makes in a living language. The modern sense of the term is mutual talk, colloquy, but in the King James Version it never means that, but always behavior, conduct. This broader meaning, at a time not much later than the date of the King

CONVERSION kon-vur'-shun: $ I. The Words "Conversion," "Convert," in Biblical Usage.$ 1. In the English Bible: The noun "conversion" (epistrophe) occurs in only one passage in the Bible, "They passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles" (Acts 15:3). Derived forms of the verb "convert" are used in the Revi

CONVERSANT kon-vur'-sant (halakh, "to go on," "to walk"): This word is translated "conversant" in Joshua 8:35 the King James Version (margin "walked"), and 1 Samuel 25:15 the King James Version meaning "going along with them;" the American Standard Revised Version "went." Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information

CONVENT kon-vent': Found in the King James Version margin of Jeremiah 49:19: "Who will convent me in judgment?" and in Jeremiah 50:44: "Who will convent me to plead?" The Hebrew term which is rendered convent is ya`adh, and it means to summon to a court, to call on to plead. Convent is obsolete, but it was formerly used, and meant to summon, or to

CONTROVERSY kon'-tro-ver-si (ribh, "strife," "contention"; homologoumenos, "confessedly," "without controversy"): Used frequently of disputes among men (as Deuteronomy 17:8) and then transferred to the justice of God as directed against the sins of men. Thus we read of Yahweh's controversy with the nations (Jeremiah 25:31); with the inhabitants of

CONVENIENT kon-ven'-yent: In the Revised Version (British and American) limited to translation of kairos, "suitable time," "season," and its compounds: "that which is seasonable" or "opportune" (Mark 6:21; Acts 24:25). the King James Version is replaced, in Proverbs 30:8 the Revised Version (British and American), by "needful" (Hebrew choq), "feed

CONTRIBUTION kon-tri-bu'-shun (koinonia, "communion" or "fellowship," Romans 15:26; 2 Corinthians 9:13): The meaning "contribution" is drawn from the context, rather than from the Greek word. The phrase in the passage cited, literally rendered, would be "to exercise" or "put fellowship into activity." The koinonia subsisting among believers becaus

CONTRITE; CONTRITION kon'-trit, kontrish'-un (dakka', "bruise"): Only in Old Testament (Psalms 34:18; Psalms 51:17; Isaiah 57:15); nakheh, "smitten" (Isaiah 66:2). Contrite, "crushed," is only the superlative of "broken"; "a contrite heart" is "a heart broken to pieces." In Holy Scripture, the heart is the seat of all feeling, whether joy or sorro

CONTRADICTION kon-tra-dik'-shun: the King James Version for antilogia (Hebrews 7:7; 12:3). In the former passage, the Revised Version (British and American) has "without any dispute," i.e. what has been said requires no argument; in the latter "gainsaying" which is scarcely an improvement, the reference being to the oral attacks upon the words and

CONTRARY kon'-tra-ri (qeri; enantios): In the Old Testament it has the sense of antagonistic, as one person opposed or hostile to the other, especially in Leviticus 26:21,23,14,27,28,40,41, where Yahweh declares His attitude toward the people in such phrases as: "If ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; then I will w

CONTINUANCE kon-tin'-u-ans: Not in the Revised Version (British and American); in Psalms 139:16 the King James Version, as an interpretation of Hebrew yamim, "days," treating of God's prevision, where the Revised Version (British and American) has: "They were all written, even the days that were ordained for me," i.e. all my days were in view, bef

CONTINENCY kon'-ti-nen-si (egkrateuomai "to have self-control" or "continency" the Revised Version (British and American), "to contain" the King James Version): Paul, although he would that all men were like himself unmarried, yet advises that they should marry if they cannot control their sexual passions, and hold them in complete subjection to C

CONTINUAL; CONTINUALLY kon-tin'-u-al, kon-tin'-u-a-li: Without cessation, although there may be intervals between its presence; that which regularly recurs throughout a period, as has Luke 24:53: "(They) were continually in the temple"; "lest .... by her continual coming" (Luke 18:5). In Old Testament for Hebrew tadhir, "pursue," as one drop of ra