Entrando Hamã, o rei lhe perguntou: "O que se deve fazer ao homem que o rei tem o prazer de honrar?"E Hamã pensou consigo: "A quem o rei teria prazer de honrar, senão ­a mim?"...

BONDSERVANT bond'-sur-vant: Appears only once in the King James Version (Leviticus 25:39) where it translates `ebhedh, "a slave": "Thou shalt not cause him to render the service of a bondservant" or slave. the Revised Version (British and American) frequently uses bondservant (doulos) instead of the word "servant" of the King James ......

PHAATH MOAB fa'-ath, mo'-ab (Codex Alexandrinus Phaath Moab; Codex Vaticanus followed by Swete, Phthaleimoab (1 Esdras 5:11); 1 Esdras 8:31 (the King James Version "Pahath Moab"), Codex Vaticanus followed by Swete reads Maathmoab; Fritzsche in both places reads Phaath Moab): One of the families, part of which, consisting "of the son......

ARCHEVITE ar'-ke-vit (Kethibh, 'arkawey; Qere, 'arkewaye'): One of the tribes which Osnappar transplanted to swell the mixed multitudes in the cities of Samaria (Ezra 4:9). The Archevites were the inhabitants of Erech, one of the four cities originally founded by Nimrod in Babylonia. (For its modern site compare Loftus, Travels in C......

FACT Lit. "a deed." The word occurs only in the heading of the chapter, 2 Kings 10 the King James Version, "Jehu excuseth the fact by the prophecy of Elijah," and in 2 Macc 4:36, with reference to the murder of Onias, "certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact (the deed) also" (summisoponerounton, literally, "hating wickedness to......

AZAELUS az-a-e'-lus (B, Azaelos; A, Azael; omitted in Ezra 10): Azaelus, son of Ezora, put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:34). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'AZAELUS'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915....

PRISCA; PRISCILLA pris'-ka, pri-sil'-a. See AQUILA. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'PRISCA; PRISCILLA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915....

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

COMMUNION; (FELLOWSHIP) ko-mun'-yun: The terms "communion" and "fellowship" of the English Bible are varying translations of the words koinonia, and koinoneo, or their cognates. They designate acts of fellowship observed among the early Christians or express the unique sense of unity and fellowship of which these acts were the outwa......

DRINK, STRONG (shekhar; sikera; from shakhar, "to be or become drunk"; probably from the same root as sugar, saccharine): With the exception of Numbers 28:7, "strong drink" is always coupled with "wine." The two terms are commonly used as mutually exclusive, and as together exhaustive of all kinds of intoxicants. Originally shekhar......