Dictionaries :: TemperanceKing James DictionaryTemperance: Self-Control.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, TEMPERANCE: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (Galatians 5:22-24)Nave's Topical BibleTemperance:

Dictionaries :: StraitKing James DictionaryStrait: Narrow.Enter ye in at the STRAIT gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because STRAIT is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)

Dictionaries :: SufferVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1VerbStrong's Number: g1439Greek: eaoSuffer: (a) to permit "to let, permit," is translated "to suffer" in Mat 24:43; Luk 4:41; 22:51; Act 14:16; 16:7; 19:30; 28:4; 1Cr 10:13. See LEAVE (a) No. 9, LET, No. 4.A-2VerbStrong's Number: g4330Greek: proseaoSuffer:"to permit fur

Dictionaries :: StumblingNave's Topical BibleStumbling: Figurative: Causes of, Psa 69:6. Stone of, Isa 8:14; Rom 9:32, 33; 1Pe 1:8. Stumbling-block, Lev 19:14; Psa 119:165 [R.V.]; Isa 57:14; Jer 6:21; Eze 3:20; 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; Zep 1:3; Luk 11:52; Rom 11:9; 14:13; 1Cr 1:23; 8:9-13; Rev 2:14. See TEMPTATION

Dictionaries :: Temple, BInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaTemple, B: B. IN CRITICISM I. ALLEGED LACK OF HARMONY BETWEEN EARLIER (KINGS) AND LATER (CODE OF HAMMURABI) VERSIONS OF TEMPLE BUILDING 1. Second Version Not a Facsimile of First 2. The Two Versions Differ as to the Builder 3. The Earlier Version Silent about Things R

Dictionaries :: StubbornnessNave's Topical BibleStubbornness: See OBDURACY

Dictionaries :: StripesEaston's Bible DictionaryStripes: as a punishment were not to exceed forty (Deu 25:1-3), and hence arose the custom of limiting them to thirty-nine (2Cr 11:24). Paul claimed the privilege of a Roman citizen in regard to the infliction of stripes (Act 16:37,38; 22:25-29). Our Lord was beaten with stripes (Mat 27:26).Interna

Dictionaries :: TehaphnehesInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaTehaphnehes: te-haf'-ne-hez Nave's Topical BibleTehaphnehes: See TAHPANHES

Dictionaries :: SuperfluousKing James DictionarySuperfluous: Over and Above; More than Enough.For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is SUPERFLUOUS for me to write to you: for I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. (2 Cor

Dictionaries :: Sunder (Asunder)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words Sunder (Asunder):For SUNDER (Asunder) see CUT, No. 6

Dictionaries :: SyrophenicianEaston's Bible DictionarySyrophenician: "a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation" (Mar 7:26), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA.) When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon (Mat 15:21), a Syro-phoenician woman came to him, and earnestly besought him, in behalf of her d

Dictionaries :: StrainInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaStrain: stran (diulizo, "to strain off," "to filter"): Mt 23:24, "Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel" The imagery is that of a drinking-vessel full of liquid, from which tiny impurities are carefully removed while immense masses of other impure matter (

Dictionaries :: StrollingVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g4022Greek: perierchomaiStrolling:"to go about," as an itinerant (peri, "around," erchomai, "to go"), is used of certain Jews in Act 19:13, RV, "strolling" (AV, "vagabond"). See COMPASS, No. 6, WANDER.

Dictionaries :: SusaInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaSusa: su'-sa, soo'-sa (Additions to Esther 11:3). Smith's Bible DictionarySusa: Additions to Esther 11:3; 16:18. SEE [SHUSHAN, OR SUSA].

Dictionaries :: Ten CommandmentsNave's Topical BibleTen Commandments: See COMMANDMENTSSmith's Bible DictionaryTen Commandments: The popular name in this, as in so many instances, is not that of Scripture. There we have the "TEN WORDS," (Exodus 34:28; 4:13; 10:4) the "COVENANT," Ex., Deuteronomy 11; cc.; 1 Kings 8:21; 2 Chronicles 6:11, etc.,

Dictionaries :: SunEaston's Bible DictionarySun: (Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen 1:14-18). By their motions and influence they were intended to mark and divide times and seasons. The worship of the sun was one of the oldest forms of false religion (Job 31:26,27), and was common among

Dictionaries :: StandardKing James DictionaryStandard: Flag; Banner.The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a STANDARD; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols

Dictionaries :: StrikerKing James DictionaryStriker: One Apt to Inflict Blows or Hit Another.For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no STRIKER, not given to filthy lucre. (Titus 1:7)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g4131Greek: plektesStriker:"a st

Dictionaries :: StewardInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaSteward: stu'-erd ('ish ‘al bayith (Ge 43:16,19; 44:1; 1Ki 16:9), ha-meltsar (Da 1:11), ha-cokhen (Isa 22:15)): 1. Old Testament Usage: In the King James Version the word "steward" is found in Ge 15:2; 1Ch 28:1, in addition to the above. The American Standard Revised Ver

Dictionaries :: Strength, StrengthenVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1NounStrong's Number: g1411Greek: dunamisStrength, Strengthen:is rendered "strength" in the RV and AV of Rev 1:16; elsewhere the RV gives the word its more appropriate meaning "power," for AV, "strength," 1Cr 15:56; 2Cr 1:8; 12:9; Hbr 11:11; Rev 3:8; 12:10. See