CONCUBINAGE kon-ku'-bi-naj. See FAMILY. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'CONCUBINAGE'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

CONCUPISCENCE kon-ku'-pi-sens (epithumia): Not used in the Revised Version (British and American), but in the King James Version, Romans 7:8; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:5. The Greek noun, like the verb from which it comes, meaning "to yearn," "to long," "to have the heart set upon a thing," is determined in its moral quality by the source w

CONCOURSE kon'-kors (hamah, "to hum," "to make a noise"; sustrophe, "a turning" or "twisting together"): Hamah, usually translated by some word signifying "sound" is rendered "concourse" in Proverbs 1:21 (perhaps from the noise made by people thronging and talking together; compare 1 Kings 1:41, "uproar"), "She (wisdom) crieth in the chief place o

CONCLUSION kon-kloo'-zhun (coph): In Ecclesiastes 12:13 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "the end," namely, a summary of the entire argument of the book. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'CONCLUSION'". "Internati

CONCORDANCE kon-kor'-dans: 1. Nature of Work 2. Classes of Concordances 3. Their Indispensableness 4. Concordances to Latin Vulgate 5. Concordances to the Hebrew Old Testament 6. Concordances to the Septuagint 7. Concordances to the Greek New Testament 8. Concordances to the English Bible LITERATURE 1. Nature of Work: The object of a con

CONCLUDE kon-klood' (sumbibazo): Used only in Acts 16:10, where the King James Version has "assuredly gathering," i.e. "inferring." Where the King James Version has "conclude," the Revised Version (British and American) more accurately renders "reckon" (Romans 3:28); "giving judgment" (Acts 21:25); "shut up" (Romans 11:32; Galatians 3:22). Copyrig

CONCERNING kon-surn'-ing: The Revised Version (British and American) makes frequent changes, such as "for," "as for," "from," "about," for "concerning"; "concerning" instead of "for," "of," "over," "in," "against," etc. Some of the other changes are, "unto that which is good" for "concerning" (Romans 16:19), "concerning" instead of "because of" (J

CONCISION kon-sizh'-un (katatome, "mutilation," "cutting"): A term by which Paul contemptuously designates the merely fleshly circumcision upon which the Judaizers insisted as being necessary for Gentileconverts (Philippians 3:2), as distinguished from peritome, the true circumcision (Philippians 3:3). Compare Galatians 5:12 and Deuteronomy 23:1,

CONCEPTION; CONCEIVE kon-sep'-shun, kon-sev' (harah, and derivatives; sullambano): Physically, the beginning of a new life in the womb of a mother, "to catch on," used thus some forty times, as in Genesis 3:16; 4:1; Psalms 51:5. Metaphorically, applied to the start and growth within the heart, of thought, purpose, desire, e.g. "conceive mischief"

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

CONCEIT kon-set': An idiomatic rendering of a phrase, phronimoi en heautois, in Romans 11:25; 12:16; meaning literally, "wise with one's self," i.e. "in one's own opinion," or, as in parallel Old Testament passages (Proverbs 26:5,12 the Revised Version, margin), "in his own eyes" (Hebrew `ayin). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. B

CONANIAH kon-a-ni'-a (konanyahu, "Jah has rounded or sustained"; the King James Version Cononiah): (1) A Levite, appointed with his brother Shimei by Hezekiah, the king, and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God, to be overseer of the oblations and tithes and the dedicated things (2 Chronicles 31:12,13). (2) One of the chiefs of the Levites ment

CONCEAL kon-sel' (parakalupto): Found but once in the New Testament (Luke 9:45). The primary meaning is to cover by hanging something in front of the object hidden. The purpose of the one concealing is made prominent. There is, therefore, a reserve and studied progress in regard to the statement of facts, that is not always a suppression of truth

COMPREHEND kom-pre-hend': Used in a twofold sense in both the Old Testament and New Testament. This double meaning appears in two Hebrew and two Greek words which signify in turn (1) mental or spiritual perception, (2) capacity to hold or contain, as in a measure or in an all-inclusive principle, e.g.: (1) yadha`, "to see with the eyes or the m

COMPOSITION; COMPOUND kom-po-zish'-un, kom'-pound (mathkoneth, "measure"); (subst.) (raqach, "to make perfume," roqach, "perfume"): Used of the sacred anointing oil (Exodus 30:25,32,33) and of the holy perfume (Exodus 30:37,38), which were not to be used for any profane purpose. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Infor

COMPLAINING kom-plan'-ing (tsewachah, "cry," "outcry," siach, "meditation," "complaint"): tsewachah is translated "complaining" (Psalms 144:14, the Revised Version (British and American)) "outcry," "no complaining (outcry) in our streets," i.e. "open places" where the people commonly assembled near the gate of the city (compare 2 Chronicles 32:6;

COMPLETE kom-plet': In the King James Version for pleroo, the verb ordinarily used for the coming to pass of what had been predicted. the King James Version translates this "complete" in Colossians 2:10; 4:12 to express the final and entire attainment of what is treated, leaving nothing beyond to be desired or hoped for; otherwise rendered in the

COMPEL kom-pel': Our English word always has in it now the flavor of force, not always, however, physical. It may be strong moral urgency, though "constrain" better expresses this. 1. In the Old Testament: There are several words indicative of such strong pressure: (1) 'anac "to press": "none could compel" to drink (Esther 1:8); (2) nadhach,

COMPASS; COMPASSES kum'-pas, kum'-pas-iz: "Compass," noun, is the translation of chugh, "a circle," "vault" or "arch" ("when he set a compass upon the face of the depth" Proverbs 8:27 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version "circle"; compare Job 26:10; and see CIRCLE; VAULT OF EARTH

COMPASSION kom-pash'-un: Compassion is the translation of racham, "to love," "pity," "be merciful" (Deuteronomy 13:17; 30:3); of rachamim, "mercies" (1 Kings 8:50); of chamal, "to pity," "spare" (Exodus 2:6; 1 Samuel 23:21); rachum (Psalms 78:38; 86:15; 111:4; 112:4; 145:8), is rendered by the American Standard Revised Version "merciful." We have