SPIRITS, DISCERNINGS OF See DISCERNINGS OF SPIRITS; SPIRITUAL GIFTS. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SPIRITS, DISCERNINGS OF'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915....

PARCEL par'-sel: Properly "a little part," in Elizabethan English being used in almost any sense. In the King James Version of Genesis 33:19; Joshua 24:32; Ruth 4:3; 1 Chronicles 11:13,14 it is the translation of chelqah; John 4:5 of chorion--both the Greek and Hebrew words meaning a "piece of land." the Revised Version (British and......

OIL oil (shemen; elaion): 1. Terms 2. Production and Storage 3. Uses (1) As a Commodity of Exchange (2) As a Cosmetic (3) As a Medicine (4) As a Food (5) As an Illuminant (6) In Religious Rites (a) Consecration (b) Offerings (c) Burials 4. Figurative Uses Shemen, literally, "fat," corresponds to the common Arabic senin ......

APOCRYPHAL ACTS, GENERAL a-pok'-ri-fal akts: _A. GENERAL INTRODUCTION_ _I. THE MEANING OF "APOCRYPHAL"_ 1. Secret 2. False and Heretical 3. Extra-Canonical _II. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS_ 1. Romance 2. The Supernatural 3. Sexual Asceticism 4. Heretical Teaching 5. Religious Feeling _III. ORIGIN_ 1. Reverence for Apostles ......

REVELATION, 3-4 III. The Modes of Revelation. 1. Modes of Revelation: Theophany may be taken as the typical form of "external manifestation"; but by its side may be ranged all of those mighty works by which God makes Himself known, including express miracles, no doubt, but along with them every supernatural intervention in the affa......

ABYSS a-bis', (he abussos): In classical Greek the word is always an adjective, and is used literally, "very deep," "bottomless"; figuratively, "unfathomable," "boundless." "Abyss" does not occur in the King James Version but the Revised Version (British and American) so transliterates abussos in each case. The the King James Vers......

BEHALF be-haf': "On the part of" (Exodus 27:21, i.e. so far as it affects them); "on the side of" (Job 36:2). For huper, "over," in the sense of furnishing assistance, as in 2 Corinthians 5:20, "in the interest of Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:21); "for our good," "in his cause" (Philippians 1:29); also, often in 2 Cor, in general sense ......

HEREDITY he-red'-i-ti: 1. Physiological Heredity: Heredity, in modern language, is the law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics, physiological and psychical, in their offspring, a law familiar in some form to even the most uncultured peoples. The references to it in the Bible are of various kinds. Curiously ......

SOLEMN ASSEMBLY (MEETING) See CONGREGATION; FASTS AND FEASTS; SOLEMN, SOLEMNITY. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'SOLEMN ASSEMBLY (MEETING)'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915....

ACCORD; ACCORDING; ACCORDINGLY a-kord', a-kord'-ing-li: In Old Testament, peh, "mouth," "to fight with one accord" (Joshua 9:2) lephi, "according to the mouth of," "according to their families" (Genesis 47:12, "acc. to (the number of) their little ones" the Revised Version, margin). In Isaiah 59:18 the same Hebrew word, ke`al, is re......