Communities (2 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Community. Multi-Version Concordance Communities (2 Occurrences). Amos 1:6 Thus said Jehovah ... biblethesaurus.org/c/communities.htm - 7k

Province (66 Occurrences)

... In the older provinces these districts corresponded generally with the urban communities which had been the units of sovereignty before the advent of the Romans ... biblethesaurus.org/p/province.htm - 38k

Nazirite (10 Occurrences)

... 9. Samuel's Case 10. Token of Divine Favor 11. Did Not Form Communities 12. Among Early Christians 13. Parallels among Other Peoples ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nazirite.htm - 21k

Ministry (44 Occurrences)

... whose message was chiefly to the unconverted, while to the second and third classes belonged exhortation and instruction within the Christian communities. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/ministry.htm - 51k

Church (110 Occurrences)

... "God has commanded his people to organize themselves into distinct visible ecclesiastical communities, with constitutions, laws, and officers, badges ... biblethesaurus.org/c/church.htm - 89k

Idolatry (14 Occurrences)

... The first and second commandments are directed against idolatry of every form. Individuals and communities were equally amenable to the rigorous code. ... biblethesaurus.org/i/idolatry.htm - 21k

Hellenism

... As the older communities on the mainland and on the islands began to flourish, they felt the need, arising from various causes, for further colonization. ... biblethesaurus.org/h/hellenism.htm - 26k

Hellenist

... As the older communities on the mainland and on the islands began to flourish, they felt the need, arising from various causes, for further colonization. ... biblethesaurus.org/h/hellenist.htm - 26k

Essenes

... They dwell as numerous communities in many cities and villages of Judea." It will be observed that this contradicts the statement above that there were only ... biblethesaurus.org/e/essenes.htm - 38k

General (9 Occurrences)

... In apostolic times the sole authority in Christian communities, outside Old Testament Scripture, was "the Lord." But as the creative period of Christianity ... biblethesaurus.org/g/general.htm - 49k

Dispersion (4 Occurrences)

... Antiochus the Great of Syria (223-187 BC) removed from the Jewish communities in Mesopotamia and Babylon 2,000 families and settled them in Phrygia and Lydia ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dispersion.htm - 44k

Nicolaitans (2 Occurrences)

... Such a restriction, though seemingly hard, in that it prevented the Christian communities from joining in public festivals, and so brought upon them suspicion ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nicolaitans.htm - 10k

Lawyer (5 Occurrences)

... Such centers of legal lore, of course, would seldom be found in rural communities; the authorities would naturally gather in large centers of population ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lawyer.htm - 14k

Laws (184 Occurrences)

... But money is rarely to be had without interest and security, and in early communities the rates of interest were very high indeed, while the only security the ... biblethesaurus.org/l/laws.htm - 47k

Gods (310 Occurrences)

... particular god. Often there were many tribes, or families, or communities, in one nation, each having a particular god. Thus, even ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gods.htm - 60k

Town (861 Occurrences)

... as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. 4. (adv. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/town.htm - 39k

Taxing (3 Occurrences)

... 1. In the Earliest Period: Like all primitive communities, the nomadic Hebrews had no regular system of taxation nor use for any. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/taxing.htm - 35k

Totemism

... Again, it is true that, as a rule, in totemic communities the individual may not kill or eat the name-giving object of his kin, these animals being regarded as ... biblethesaurus.org/t/totemism.htm - 11k

Tax (43 Occurrences)

... 1. In the Earliest Period: Like all primitive communities, the nomadic Hebrews had no regular system of taxation nor use for any. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tax.htm - 47k

Epistles (2 Occurrences)

... It was only natural that the apostle by whom the greater number of these communities had been founded should seek to communicate with them by letter.". ... biblethesaurus.org/e/epistles.htm - 80k

Mole (2 Occurrences)

... This animal "lives in underground communities, making large subterranean chambers for its young and for storehouses, with many runs connected with them, and is ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mole.htm - 12k

Medes (15 Occurrences)

... Like most Aryan nations they were at first divided into small village communities each governed by its own chiefs (called in Assyrian chazanati by Assur-bani ... biblethesaurus.org/m/medes.htm - 18k

Phoebe (1 Occurrence)

... Many of the early Christian communities had the appearance of clients under a patron, and probably the community of Cenchrea met in the house of Phoebe. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/phoebe.htm - 9k

Progress (9 Occurrences)

... 6. (n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral ... biblethesaurus.org/p/progress.htm - 10k

Battle (282 Occurrences)

... a single coherent state, but a country occupied by different races and divided, like Greece at a later period, into a number of communities, each consisting ... biblethesaurus.org/b/battle.htm - 55k

Baal (94 Occurrences)

... through the fire" (2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 21:6). The forms under which Baal was worshipped were necessarily as numerous as the communities which worshipped him. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/baal.htm - 53k

Begging (18 Occurrences)

... As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden ... biblethesaurus.org/b/begging.htm - 18k

Beg (77 Occurrences)

... As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beg.htm - 37k

Beggar (5 Occurrences)

... As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beggar.htm - 15k

Comparative

... the facts which can be learnt about all religions ancient and modern, whether professed by savages or prevalent among highly civilized communities, whether to ... biblethesaurus.org/c/comparative.htm - 29k

Calamity (108 Occurrences)

... 1. (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals ... biblethesaurus.org/c/calamity.htm - 37k

Credit (39 Occurrences)

... or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as ... biblethesaurus.org/c/credit.htm - 20k

Circuit (27 Occurrences)

... chugh), Job 22:14 the King James Version; the circuit of the winds (cabhibh), Ecclesiastes 1:6 (see ASTRONOMY); Samuel's visiting of communities (cabhabh), 1 ... biblethesaurus.org/c/circuit.htm - 16k

Commerce (3 Occurrences)

... commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/c/commerce.htm - 15k

Charity (29 Occurrences)

... is a significant evidence of the sense of a new ideal and principle of life that permeated the Christian consciousness of the earliest communities, that they ... biblethesaurus.org/c/charity.htm - 23k

Almsgiving (3 Occurrences)

... It seems to have been so regarded and kept up in the Christian communities until the beginning of the 4th century (Apos Const II 36; Cyprian, De Opera and ... biblethesaurus.org/a/almsgiving.htm - 17k

Agrarian

... But money is rarely to be had without interest and security, and in early communities the rates of interest were very high indeed, while the only security the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/agrarian.htm - 17k

Age (404 Occurrences)

... It is a blessing to communities when they have old men among them (Isaiah 65:20; Zechariah 8:4). The aged supposed to excel in understanding (Job 12:20; 15:10 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/age.htm - 56k

Achaia (11 Occurrences)

... These cities were on the coast and formed a confederation of smaller communities, which in the last century of the independent history of Greece attained to ... biblethesaurus.org/a/achaia.htm - 13k

Athens (5 Occurrences)

... sovereignty. The first king was Erechtheus. Theseus united the twelve communities of Attica and made Athens the capital. After the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/athens.htm - 15k

Sanhedrin (19 Occurrences)

... The Hellenistic kings conceded a great amount of internal freedom to municipal communities, and Palestine was then practically under home rule, and was ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sanhedrin.htm - 27k

Salamis (1 Occurrence)

... Paphos. The words seem to imply that they visited all, or at least most, of the towns in which there were Jewish communities. Paul ... biblethesaurus.org/s/salamis.htm - 11k

Tabeel (2 Occurrences)

... functions (Schurer). In entirely Jewish communities the same men would be both officers of the community and elders of the synagogue. In ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tabeel.htm - 101k

Creeds

... of Christian belief. Communities of believers already existed when the apostle directed to them his earliest letters. In their oral ... biblethesaurus.org/c/creeds.htm - 28k

Arabic

... Outside of the Scriptures themselves there was most felt by Christian communities living in the Arabic-speaking world (primarily, though not exclusively, in ... biblethesaurus.org/a/arabic.htm - 17k

Sardis (3 Occurrences)

... various nationality and advanced civilization for whose evangelization these churches were responsible, the messages to the Christian communities occupying the ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sardis.htm - 13k

Alms (13 Occurrences)

... It seems to have been so regarded and kept up in the Christian communities until the beginning of the 4th century (Apos Const II 36; Cyprian, De Opera and ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alms.htm - 22k

Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)

... Besides those named above there are many communities of mixed races in Ethiopia, but the ancient basis is invariably Negro, Semitic or Egyptian 2. History: The ... biblethesaurus.org/e/ethiopia.htm - 45k

Language (112 Occurrences)

... Outside of the Scriptures themselves there was most felt by Christian communities living in the Arabic-speaking world (primarily, though not exclusively, in ... biblethesaurus.org/l/language.htm - 101k

Bethhoron (12 Occurrences)

... a single coherent state, but a country occupied by different races and divided, like Greece at a later period, into a number of communities, each consisting ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bethhoron.htm - 30k

Beth-horon (12 Occurrences)

... a single coherent state, but a country occupied by different races and divided, like Greece at a later period, into a number of communities, each consisting ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beth-horon.htm - 30k

Trachonitis (1 Occurrence)

... Evil days came with the advent of the Moslems. Small Christian communities are still found at Khabab on the western Luchf, and at Sur in the interior. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/trachonitis.htm - 13k

Lord's (548 Occurrences)

... Doubtless, however, certain individuals and communities continued the daily gatherings to a much later date, and the appearance of Sunday as the one ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lord's.htm - 88k

Proselyte (2 Occurrences)

... There was hardly a seaport or a commercial center in Asia Minor, Macedonia, Greece, or the Islands of the AEgean, in which Jewish communities were not to be ... biblethesaurus.org/p/proselyte.htm - 26k

Elder (34 Occurrences)

... functions (Schurer). In entirely Jewish communities the same men would be both officers of the community and elders of the synagogue. In ... biblethesaurus.org/e/elder.htm - 27k

Jesus (10891 Occurrences)

... Jewish state sank into ruin and the city by which Jesus was martyred had been destroyed, there were springing up, all over the world, communities the members ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jesus.htm - 101k

Rome (12 Occurrences)

... The original Roman state was the product of the coalition of a number of adjacent clan-communities, whose names were perpetuated in the Roman genres, or groups ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rome.htm - 43k

Philippians (2 Occurrences)

... Here was none of the shuffling and the indecision of the Asiatics, none of the irritable vanity and the uncertain levity of the Greek communities..... ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philippians.htm - 42k

Communion (8 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/c/communion.htm - 30k

Community (77 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/c/community.htm - 32k

Gospels

... our Lord as commanding His disciples to remain for twelve years in Jerusalem, it is reasonable to suppose that for the Christian communities resident in ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gospels.htm - 73k

According (7613 Occurrences)

... to Matthew: It is natural to seek for traces of special relationship between the Gospel according to the Hebrews, circulating among communities of Jewish ... biblethesaurus.org/a/according.htm - 62k

Apocryphal

... In apostolic times the sole authority in Christian communities, outside Old Testament Scripture, was "the Lord." But as the creative period of Christianity ... biblethesaurus.org/a/apocryphal.htm - 101k

God (45911 Occurrences)

... a number of texts, or of writing the history of a theology, but rather of interpreting the central factor in the life of the Hebrew and Christian communities. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/god.htm - 101k

Crafts (2 Occurrences)

... times. In the more progressive communities, the weaving of the fabrics was taken over by the weavers who made it their profession. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/crafts.htm - 30k

James (40 Occurrences)

... the church was blessed, a leader who loved peace more than faction, the spirit more than the law, and who perceived that religious communities with different ... biblethesaurus.org/j/james.htm - 78k

Gifts (144 Occurrences)

... When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, the ministry of office had not yet supplanted the ministry of inspiration, and Christian communities were guided and ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gifts.htm - 61k

Minor (2 Occurrences)

... Hitherto the Greek cities in Asia Minor, apart from spasmodic efforts at combination, had been mere trading communities, independent of each other, in ... biblethesaurus.org/m/minor.htm - 62k

Spiritual (42 Occurrences)

... When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, the ministry of office had not yet supplanted the ministry of inspiration, and Christian communities were guided and ... biblethesaurus.org/s/spiritual.htm - 51k

Creed

... of Christian belief. Communities of believers already existed when the apostle directed to them his earliest letters. In their oral ... biblethesaurus.org/c/creed.htm - 43k

Asia (22 Occurrences)

... Hitherto the Greek cities in Asia Minor, apart from spasmodic efforts at combination, had been mere trading communities, independent of each other, in ... biblethesaurus.org/a/asia.htm - 71k

Gospel (108 Occurrences)

... to Matthew: It is natural to seek for traces of special relationship between the Gospel according to the Hebrews, circulating among communities of Jewish ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gospel.htm - 101k

Abraham (2539 Occurrences)

... may best be described by the adjective "semi-nomadic," and illustrated by the somewhat similar conditions prevailing today in those border-communities of the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abraham.htm - 50k

Subapostolic

... bishops and deacons were not to be excluded from preaching and teaching by the settlement of prophets and official teachers in particular communities; and in ... biblethesaurus.org/s/subapostolic.htm - 38k

Sub-apostolic

... bishops and deacons were not to be excluded from preaching and teaching by the settlement of prophets and official teachers in particular communities; and in ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sub-apostolic.htm - 38k

Education (4 Occurrences)

... Outside of Jerusalem and Palestine, meanwhile, the Jewish communities at Alexandria and elsewhere were much more hospitable to Greek culture and learning, at ... biblethesaurus.org/e/education.htm - 40k

Proverbs (11 Occurrences)

... to put such counsel into maxim or parable, gave their possessor, whether man or woman, a natural leadership and repute in the local communities (compare 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/p/proverbs.htm - 43k

House (20110 Occurrences)

... As the people increased and grouped themselves into communities, these abodes were supplemented by systems of artificial caves which, in some cases, developed ... biblethesaurus.org/h/house.htm - 39k

Separate (115 Occurrences)

... the backsliding (especially 7). This note frequently recurring is a welcome revelation of the presence of the true gospel-message in communities whose faith ... biblethesaurus.org/s/separate.htm - 71k