Earliest (30 Occurrences)

... Multi-Version Concordance Earliest (30 Occurrences). ... (WEY). Luke 1:70 (As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,) (BBE). ... biblethesaurus.org/e/earliest.htm - 15k

Dictionaries

... The earliest use of the word as quoted by Murray's Dictionary (Joh. de Garlandia, circa 1225) was of a collection of words classified and not alphabetical. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dictionaries.htm - 38k

Creeds

... The worshipper was content with the proper performance of a ceremony and was not, in the earliest stage at least, concerned with an interpretation of his act. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/creeds.htm - 28k

Syriac (2 Occurrences)

... attempts at translation must have been made very early, and among the ancient versions of New Testament Scripture the Syriac in all likelihood is the earliest. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/syriac.htm - 26k

Gaza (22 Occurrences)

... Its earliest inhabitants were the Avims, who were conquered and displaced by the Caphtorims (Deuteronomy 2:23; Joshua 13:2, 3), a Philistine tribe. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gaza.htm - 19k

Seal (47 Occurrences)

... arm," ie one seal hanging down from the neck and another round the waist; Songs 8:6). In Egypt, too, as in Babylonia, the cylinder was the earliest form used ... biblethesaurus.org/s/seal.htm - 38k

Olive (61 Occurrences)

... 11; compare Joshua 24:13). The cultivation of the olive goes back to the earliest times in Canaan. The frequent references in the ... biblethesaurus.org/o/olive.htm - 37k

Alphabet (2 Occurrences)

... Although the earliest surviving inscriptions must be a good deal later than the separation between the Greek and Hebrew, the records in each are more like one ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alphabet.htm - 24k

Tree (245 Occurrences)

... 11; compare Joshua 24:13). The cultivation of the olive goes back to the earliest times in Canaan. The frequent references in the ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tree.htm - 75k

Sacraments

... In the Greek New Testament, however, there is no word nor even any general idea corresponding to "sacrament," nor does the earliest history of Christianity ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sacraments.htm - 19k

Images (158 Occurrences)

... 3. Historical Beginnings and Early Development: The first man was not born with a totem-pole in his fist, nor did the earliest historic men possess images. ... biblethesaurus.org/i/images.htm - 70k

Libraries

... The earliest libraries, like the earliest plants and animals, were very simple, consisting of a few books or perhaps only a single tablet or manuscript. ... biblethesaurus.org/l/libraries.htm - 38k

Palm (49 Occurrences)

... 12; John 12:13 Revelation 7:9): 1. Palm Trees: The palm, Phoenix dactylifera (Natural Order Palmeae), Arabic nakhl, is a tree which from the earliest times has ... biblethesaurus.org/p/palm.htm - 35k

Persian (4 Occurrences)

... IV. Zoroaster. 1. His Date, etc.: Many of the Gathas are generally ascribed to Zoroaster himself, the rest to his earliest disciples. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/persian.htm - 45k

Heavens (548 Occurrences)

... HEAVENS, NEW (AND EARTH, NEW). " 1. Eschatological Idea 2. Earliest Conceptions: Cosmic verses National Type 3. Different from Mythological Theory 4. Antiquity ... biblethesaurus.org/h/heavens.htm - 49k

Shinar (8 Occurrences)

... The System Employed, with an Example 1. Identification: The name given, in the earliest Hebrew records, to Babylonia, later called Babel, or the land of Babel ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shinar.htm - 27k

Earth (10501 Occurrences)

... See also ASTRONOMY, sec. III, 2. HEAVENS, NEW (AND EARTH, NEW). " 1. Eschatological Idea 2. Earliest Conceptions: Cosmic verses National Type 3. Different from ... biblethesaurus.org/e/earth.htm - 26k

Gezer (14 Occurrences)

... The earliest inhabitants were Troglodytes living in the many caves which riddled the hill surface; they were apparently a non-Sem race, and there was some ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gezer.htm - 27k

Glory (590 Occurrences)

... Glory is one of the qualities which are distinctive of Yahweh (1 Chronicles 29:11); and Isaiah, in one of his earliest utterances, uses the word "glory" to ... biblethesaurus.org/g/glory.htm - 71k

Flax (11 Occurrences)

... pulp). This plant was cultivated from earliest times. ... 17. Linen was in the earliest historic times a favorite material for clothes. ... biblethesaurus.org/f/flax.htm - 13k

Taxing (3 Occurrences)

... TAXES IN ISRAEL UNDER SELF-GOVERNMENT 1. In the Earliest Period 2. Under the Theocracy; in the Period of the Judges 3. Under the Kings III. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/taxing.htm - 35k

Tax (43 Occurrences)

... TAXES IN ISRAEL UNDER SELF-GOVERNMENT 1. In the Earliest Period 2. Under the Theocracy; in the Period of the Judges 3. Under the Kings III. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tax.htm - 47k

Erech (2 Occurrences)

... It was the city of Gilgames, the half-mythical king of the earliest period, who seems to have restored the walls and temples. Its ... biblethesaurus.org/e/erech.htm - 13k

Delos

... All the nations of Greece participated. The earliest inhabitants of Delos were Carians; but about 1000 BC the island was occupied by Ionians. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/delos.htm - 10k

Buying (12 Occurrences)

... bi'-ing (karah, laqach, qena', qanah, shabhar; agorazo, oneomai, emporeuomai): I. IN THE EARLIEST PERIODS AND AMONG NOMADS 1. The Primitive Stage (the "Shop") 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/buying.htm - 23k

Childhood (10 Occurrences)

... Isaiah 47:12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they ... biblethesaurus.org/c/childhood.htm - 10k

City

... The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Genesis 4:17). ... The earliest description of a city is that of Sodom (19:1-22). ... biblethesaurus.org/c/city.htm - 43k

Coptic

... They were the earliest made after the early Syriac At latest they began in the 3rd century, though some (eg Hyvernat) say as early as the 2nd. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/coptic.htm - 11k

Arabic

... into a late historical period, of grammatical features obliterated or in process of obliteration in the other Semitic tongues at their earliest emergence in ... biblethesaurus.org/a/arabic.htm - 17k

Lachish (22 Occurrences)

... The earliest of these was evidently Amorite, and could not have been later than 1700 BC, and was perhaps two or three centuries earlier (Bliss, Mound of Many ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lachish.htm - 22k

Anointing (39 Occurrences)

... these, it would seem, was the anointing of the king, by pouring oil upon his head at his coronation, a ceremony regarded as sacred from the earliest times, and ... biblethesaurus.org/a/anointing.htm - 28k

Crafts (2 Occurrences)

... From the very earliest times there was an interchange of commodities and ideas between the people of the Nile and those of the Tigris and Euphrates. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/crafts.htm - 30k

Fortified (79 Occurrences)

... But the nature of their original habitations, the earliest relics of their social life, and what can be gathered of their religious rites all bear witness to a ... biblethesaurus.org/f/fortified.htm - 63k

Fort (8 Occurrences)

... But the nature of their original habitations, the earliest relics of their social life, and what can be gathered of their religious rites all bear witness to a ... biblethesaurus.org/f/fort.htm - 41k

Fortress (75 Occurrences)

... But the nature of their original habitations, the earliest relics of their social life, and what can be gathered of their religious rites all bear witness to a ... biblethesaurus.org/f/fortress.htm - 60k

Fortification (5 Occurrences)

... But the nature of their original habitations, the earliest relics of their social life, and what can be gathered of their religious rites all bear witness to a ... biblethesaurus.org/f/fortification.htm - 40k

Elam (24 Occurrences)

... "The earliest Elamite kingdom seems to have been that of Anzan, the exact site of which is uncertain; but in the time of ... History: (1) The Earliest Period. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/elam.htm - 48k

Creed

... The worshipper was content with the proper performance of a ceremony and was not, in the earliest stage at least, concerned with an interpretation of his act. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/creed.htm - 43k

Languages (36 Occurrences)

... spoken Arabic. In the earliest period it no doubt resembled the classical Arabic of the 7th and following centuries. The variations ... biblethesaurus.org/l/languages.htm - 49k

Rome (12 Occurrences)

... 1. Original Roman State: The traditional chronology for the earliest period of Roman history is altogether unreliable, partly because the Gauls, in ravaging ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rome.htm - 43k

Ministry (44 Occurrences)

... To endeavor to explain what was the character of the ministry of the Christian church in the earliest centuries of its existence and how it came into being is ... biblethesaurus.org/m/ministry.htm - 51k

Latin (2 Occurrences)

... 2. Multiplicity of Latin Translations in the 4th Century: Of the earliest translators of the Bible into Latin no record has survived. ... biblethesaurus.org/l/latin.htm - 28k

Authority (326 Occurrences)

... BIBLICAL TEACHING 1. Old Testament Teaching (1) Earliest Form Patriarchal (2) Tribal and Personal Authority (3) See rs and Priests (4) Kings and Established ... biblethesaurus.org/a/authority.htm - 69k

Christian (41 Occurrences)

... 3. The Christian Attitude to the Name: Perhaps the earliest occurrence of Christian as a self-designation is in Didache 12:4. In the Apologists and Ignatius on ... biblethesaurus.org/c/christian.htm - 29k

Praetorian (2 Occurrences)

... On subjective evidence Lightfoot concludes that Philippians is the earliest of them, basing his opinion largely on the resemblance which exists in many ... biblethesaurus.org/p/praetorian.htm - 15k

Blood (435 Occurrences)

... in the human system was not fully known until the fact of its circulation was established by William Harvey in 1615, nevertheless from the earliest times a ... biblethesaurus.org/b/blood.htm - 54k

Education (4 Occurrences)

... At the earliest point at which the Old Testament gives us any knowledge of them, they, like their ancestors, were nomads and shepherds. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/education.htm - 40k

Elamites (2 Occurrences)

... History (1) The Earliest Period (2) Sargon of Agade and His Successors (3) The Suzerainty of the Kings of Ur (4) Elam Becomes Predominant 2280 Years BC (5) The ... biblethesaurus.org/e/elamites.htm - 39k

Sadducees (14 Occurrences)

... viii, 14). His earliest notice of them is after his account of the treaties of Jonathan with the Romans and the Lacedemonians. He ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sadducees.htm - 31k

Logos

... In this article it will be our aim to trace the evolution of the doctrine from its earliest appearance in Greek philosophy through its Hebrew and Alexandrian ... biblethesaurus.org/l/logos.htm - 38k

Nonimmersionist

... OF BAPTISM V. THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISM The Doctrine of Infant Baptism LITERATURE Baptism (baptisma, baptismos, baptizein) has been from the earliest times the ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nonimmersionist.htm - 38k

Non-immersionist

... OF BAPTISM V. THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISM The Doctrine of Infant Baptism LITERATURE Baptism (baptisma, baptismos, baptizein) has been from the earliest times the ... biblethesaurus.org/n/non-immersionist.htm - 38k

Persecution (22 Occurrences)

... to suffer persecution. In its earliest history the Christian church passed through many bloody persecutions. Of subsequent centuries ... biblethesaurus.org/p/persecution.htm - 47k

Mary (50 Occurrences)

... Again, in the earliest dawn of the first day of the week she, with Salome and Mary the mother of James (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2), came to the sepulchre ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mary.htm - 72k

Writing (194 Occurrences)

... to all the branches or dialects of the Semitic language, and hence it has been concluded that this art must have been known to the earliest Semites before they ... biblethesaurus.org/w/writing.htm - 70k

Obadiah (21 Occurrences)

... If Joel prophesied during the minority of the boy king Joash (circa 830 BC), Obadiah would be, on this hypothesis, the earliest of the writing prophets. ... biblethesaurus.org/o/obadiah.htm - 32k

View (86 Occurrences)

... OF BAPTISM V. THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISM The Doctrine of Infant Baptism LITERATURE Baptism (baptisma, baptismos, baptizein) has been from the earliest times the ... biblethesaurus.org/v/view.htm - 81k

Birds (125 Occurrences)

... 3. In Old English: Our earliest known form of the word is the Old English "brid," but they applied the term to the young of any creature. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/birds.htm - 62k

Omnipresence

... It is undoubtedly true that the earliest narratives speak very anthropomorphically of God's relation to space; they describe Him as coming and going in ... biblethesaurus.org/o/omnipresence.htm - 18k

Oil (281 Occurrences)

... 2. Production and Storage: Olive oil has been obtained, from the earliest times, by pressing the fruit in such a way as to filter out the oil and other liquids ... biblethesaurus.org/o/oil.htm - 60k

History (57 Occurrences)

... this people was and what was its history is the Bible itself, especially the Old Testament, which tells us the story of this people from its earliest beginnings ... biblethesaurus.org/h/history.htm - 67k

Pharisees (86 Occurrences)

... of the Jews. The earliest notice of them in Josephus occurs in connection with Jonathan, the high priest. Immediately after the ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pharisees.htm - 66k

Proverb (24 Occurrences)

... 2. The Communal Origin: The earliest cited proverb (1 Samuel 10:12, repeated with varied occasion, 1 Samuel 19:24) seems to have risen spontaneously from the ... biblethesaurus.org/p/proverb.htm - 29k

Canon

... It is always well in turning to the study of it to have in mind two considerations which bear upon the earliest phases of the whole movement. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/canon.htm - 68k

Version

... BC; that it was the work of a number of translators who differed greatly both in their knowledge of Hebrew and of Greek; and that from the earliest times it ... biblethesaurus.org/v/version.htm - 37k

Virgin (62 Occurrences)

... 2. Its Importance to Leaders of the Early Church: All this must have been as patent to the earliest believers as to ourselves. The ... biblethesaurus.org/v/virgin.htm - 64k

Cities (427 Occurrences)

... But the nature of their original habitations, the earliest relics of their social life, and what can be gathered of their religious rites all bear witness to a ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cities.htm - 91k

Subapostolic

... This internal testimony is confirmed by the correspondence of the prayer in certain verbal details with the earliest extant liturgies, particularly those of ... biblethesaurus.org/s/subapostolic.htm - 38k

Sub-apostolic

... This internal testimony is confirmed by the correspondence of the prayer in certain verbal details with the earliest extant liturgies, particularly those of ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sub-apostolic.htm - 38k

Babylonia (17 Occurrences)

... The name of the land in the very earliest period which is represented by antiquities, and even inscribed objects, is not known. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/babylonia.htm - 75k

Birth (357 Occurrences)

... 2. Its Importance to Leaders of the Early Church: All this must have been as patent to the earliest believers as to ourselves. The ... biblethesaurus.org/b/birth.htm - 71k

Essenes

... (1) Description from Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII, i, 5 The description which comes earliest in history-not, however, the earliest written-is in Antiquities ... biblethesaurus.org/e/essenes.htm - 38k

Galilee (73 Occurrences)

... ka'-na, (Kana tes Galilaias): This was the scene of Christ's earliest miracle, when, at the marriage feast, He turned water into wine (John 2:1). It was the ... biblethesaurus.org/g/galilee.htm - 67k

Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)

... The country which we now know as Abyssinia was largely controlled, from the earliest known date, by a Caucasian people who had crossed the Red Sea from Arabia. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/ethiopia.htm - 45k

Borrowing (1 Occurrence)

... Resurrection of Jesus, 144). And it is simply absurd to think that the earliest church had no such capability. In reality there ... biblethesaurus.org/b/borrowing.htm - 52k

Text (5 Occurrences)

... in size. By all the tests ordinarily given, it belongs to the period of the earliest codices, possibly of the 4th century. Like ... biblethesaurus.org/t/text.htm - 73k

Joel (22 Occurrences)

... as will appear in the sequel, it comes to be a question whether the book is very early or very late, in fact, whether Joel is perhaps the very earliest or the ... biblethesaurus.org/j/joel.htm - 49k

Manuscripts

... in size. By all the tests ordinarily given, it belongs to the period of the earliest codices, possibly of the 4th century. Like ... biblethesaurus.org/m/manuscripts.htm - 39k

Vulgate

... Besides, the first two centuries of the Roman church were rather Greek; the earliest Christian literature of Rome is Greek, its bishops bear Greek names, its ... biblethesaurus.org/v/vulgate.htm - 38k

Guard (185 Occurrences)

... On subjective evidence Lightfoot concludes that Philippians is the earliest of them, basing his opinion largely on the resemblance which exists in many ... biblethesaurus.org/g/guard.htm - 55k