BODY OF HEAVEN The King James Version translates the Hebrew idiom, etsem ha-shamayim, by "the body of heaven" (Exodus 24:10). A more correct rendering is given in the Revised Version (British and American), "the very heaven," taking the word `etsem in its idiomatic use as an intensive, which is derived from its literal meaning, "bone," as "strength

BODY OF DEATH deth (soma tou thanatou): These words are found in Paul's impassioned argument on the reign of the law, which dooms man to continuous disappointment and convinces him of the terrible power of indwelling sin. "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24 the King James Version). It is the "

BOCHIM bo'-kim (ha-bokhim): A place on the mountain West of Gilgal said to have been so named (literally "the weepers") because Israel wept there at the remonstrance of the angel (Judges 2:1,5). No name resembling this has been discovered. Given on the occasion mentioned, it may not have endured. Many, following Septuagint, identify it with Bethel

BODY bod'-i: I. PHILOLOGICAL: Generally speaking, the Old Testament language employs no fixed term for the human body as an entire organism in exact opposition to "soul" or "spirit." Various terms were employed, each of which denotes only one part or element of the physical nature, such as "trunk," "bones," "belly," "bowels," "reins," "flesh," th

BOCHERU bo'-ke-roo (bokheru): A son of Azrikam, Saul's descendant (1 Chronicles 8:38 = 1 Chronicles 9:34). For the ending ("-u"), compare the forms gashmu (Nehemiah 6:1,6) and melikhu (Nehemiah 12:14 the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A.

BOCCAS bok'-as (Bokkas): A priest in the line of Ezra (1 Esdras 8:2) called Bukki in Ezra 7:4 and Borith in 2 Esdras 1:2. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BOCCAS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BOAZ bo'-az (bo`az; Booz; "quickness" (?) Ruth 2-4; 1 Chronicles 2:11,12; Matthew 1:5; Luke 3:32): (1) A resident of Bethlehem and kinsman of Elimelech, Naomi's husband. In Ruth 2:1 he is described as a gibbor chayil, a phrase which can mean either "a mighty man of valor" or else "a man of position and wealth." The latter is probably the sense in

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

BOAST bost (halal, "to praise"; kauchaomai, "to vaunt oneself," used both in a good and a bad sense): To praise God: "In God have we made our boast all the day long" (Psalms 44:8); to praise oneself, to vaunt (Psalms 10:3). In the New Testament the Revised Version (British and American) frequently translates "glory," where the King James Version h

BOAR bor (chazir): In lamenting the troubled state of the Jewish nation the Psalmist (Psalms 80:13) says: "The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it," with evident reference to Israel's enemies, the Assyrians, etc. The wild boar is abundant in certain parts of Palestine and Syria, especially in the thicke

BOARD bord (qeresh, "a slab or plank," "deck of a ship," "bench," "board"): This word is found in Exodus 26:16-21; 36:21; its plural occurs in Exodus 26:15,17-29; 35:11; 36:20-34; 39:33; 40:18; Numbers 3:36; 4:31. This word also is used in translation of luach (Exodus 27:8; 38:7; Song of Solomon 8:9; Ezekiel 27:5 the King James Version) = "a table

BOANERGES bo-a-nur'-jez (Boanerges; bene reghesh, "sons of thunder"): The surname bestowed by Jesus upon James and John, the sons of Zebedee, when they were ordained to the apostleship (Mark 3:17). See JAMES. It has also been regarded as an equivalent of the "Heavenly Twins," the Sons of Zeus or Thunder. According to this interpretation, the name

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

BLOT blot (mum, contracted from me'um, "spot"): Occurs in the sense of scorn (Proverbs 9:7). In Job 31:7 (the King James Version) it is used figuratively of a moral defect; the Revised Version (British and American) has "spot." Blot out (machah, "to wipe out," exaleipho, "to smear out"), to obliterate or destroy: "That a tribe be not blotted out"

BLOW blo (nashaph): Used with reference to the wind (Exodus 15:10; Psalms 78:26; 147:18; pneo, "to breathe," Luke 12:55; John 3:8; Revelation 7:1); taqa`, with reference to trumpet sound (Numbers 10:3-10; 31:6 the King James Version; Judges 7:18,20; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Chronicles 15:24; Psalms 81:3; Ezekiel 33:3,6; Hosea 5:8; Joel 2:1,15); puach, with

BLOOM; BLOSSOM bloom, blos'-um. See FLOWERS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BLOOM; BLOSSOM'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BLOODY SWEAT (swet hosei thromboi haimatos): Described in Luke 22:44 as a physical accompaniment of our Lord's agony at Gethsemane (on the passage, which is absent in some manuscripts, see Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek). Many old writers take this to mean that the perspiration dropped in the same manner as clots of blood drop from

BLOODY blud'-i (dam = "blood" of man or an animal; and where the King James translators have rendered with the adjective "bloody," the Hebrew employs the noun in the construct case, "of blood"): "A bridegroom of blood" (Exodus 4:25,26, the King James Version bloody husband). Zipporah, not being an Israelite, probably objected to the circumcision o

BLOODY FLUX fluks (puretos kai dusenteria, literally "fever and dysentery"): The disease by which the father of Publius was afflicted in Malta (Acts 28:8). the Revised Version (British and American) calls it "dysentery"; a common and dangerous disease which in Malta is often fatal to soldiers of the garrison even at the present day (Aitken, Pract.

BLOODSHEDDING blud'-shed-ing (haimatekchusia, Hebrews 9:22): In this passage the indispensability of expiating sacrifice is positively set forth. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BLOODSHEDDING'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.