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Early (157 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes;
as, come early. 2. (adv.) In advance of the usual ...
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Betimes (17 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) In good season or time; before it is late;
seasonably; early. 2. (adv.) In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. Int. ...
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Persistently (16 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 36:15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers,
rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and ...
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Christian (41 Occurrences)
... 5. The Christians and the Empire 6. Social Standing of the Early Christians 7.
Christian Self-Designations LITERATURE 1. Historicity of Acts 11:26: The word ...
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Mnason (1 Occurrence)
... He was an "old disciple" (RV, "early disciple"), ie, he had become a Christian in
the beginning of the formation of the Church in Jerusalem. Int. ...
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Zion (169 Occurrences)
... It will make matters clearer if we take the application of the name: in David's
time; in the early Prophets, etc.; in late poetical writings and in the ...
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Presbyter
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An elder in the early Christian church.
See Bishop. 2. (n.) One ordained to the second order in ...
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Sepulcher (48 Occurrences)
... (WBS). Mark 16:2 And very early in the morning, the first day of the week,
they came to the sepulcher at the rising of the sun: (WBS). ...
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Presbytery (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian
church. 2. (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers ...
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Ships (46 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians
(Genesis 49:13). ... 1. Among the Hebrews: (1) In Early Times. ...
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Pergamum (2 Occurrences)
... city. The early people of the town were descendants of Greek colonists, and
as early as 420 BC they struck coins of their own. Lysimachus ...
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Zoan (7 Occurrences)
... zo'-an (tso`an; Tanis): 1. situation 2. Old Testament Notices 3. Early History 4.
Hyksos Monuments 5. Hyksos Population 6. Hyksos Age 7. Description of Site 1 ...
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Deutero-canonical
... The Septuagint was perhaps the Greek Bible of New Testament times and it continued
to be the Old Testament of the early church, and hence, these books were ...
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Agrapha
... agrapha is the neuter plural is met with in classical Greek and in Greek papyri
in its primary sense of "unwritten," "unrecorded." In early Christian literature ...
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Deuterocanonical
... The Septuagint was perhaps the Greek Bible of New Testament times and it continued
to be the Old Testament of the early church, and hence, these books were ...
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Sepulchre (57 Occurrences)
... (KJV DBY YLT). Mark 16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week,
they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. (KJV DBY YLT). ...
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Pergamos (1 Occurrence)
... city. The early people of the town were descendants of Greek colonists, and
as early as 420 BC they struck coins of their own. Lysimachus ...
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Boats (11 Occurrences)
... SHIPS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA 1. Among the Hebrews (1) In Early Times
(2) During the Monarchy (3) In Later Times 2. Among Neighboring Nations (1 ...
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Arabic
... the Hebrew and Aramaic tongues of the Bible; secondly, as one of the languages into
which the Bible and other church literature were early translated and in ...
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Daybreak (19 Occurrences)
... Joshua 6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times ...
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Damsel's (8 Occurrences)
... Judges 19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the
morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son ...
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Morn (8 Occurrences)
... Matthew 20:1 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household,
who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ...
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Magdala (13 Occurrences)
... (WEY DBY). Matthew 28:1 After the Sabbath, in the early dawn of the first day of
the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary came to see the sepulchre. ...
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Chapter
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The several books of the Old and New Testaments were
from an early time divided into chapters. The Pentateuch ...
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Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)
... Christianity very early penetrated into this country (1 Peter 1:1). On the day of
Pentecost there were Cappadocians at Jerusalem (Acts 2:9). Int. ...
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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. ...
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Commerce (3 Occurrences)
... kom'-ers (emporia): I. Old Testament Times. 1. Early Overland Commerce: There were
forces in early Hebrew life not favorable to the development of commerce. ...
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Antioch (21 Occurrences)
... It was called the "first city of the East." Christianity was early introduced into
it (Acts 11:19, 21, 24), and the name "Christian" was first applied here to ...
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Arvad (2 Occurrences)
... toward the main land. It developed into a trading city in early times, as
did most of the Phoenician cities on this coast. It had a ...
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Assur (2 Occurrences)
... It is uncertain whether the deity gave the name to the city, or the city to the
deity, but probably an early shrine of Assur stood there, and the people ...
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Arvadites (1 Occurrence)
... toward the main land. It developed into a trading city in early times, as
did most of the Phoenician cities on this coast. It had a ...
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Smyrna (2 Occurrences)
... The city seems to have been taken from the Lelages by the Aeolian Greeks about 1100
BC; there still remain traces of the cyclopean masonry of that early time. ...
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Sherghat
... It is uncertain whether the deity gave the name to the city, or the city to the
deity, but probably an early shrine of Assur stood there, and the people ...
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Sabbaths (53 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Mark 16:2 and early in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, they
come unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun, (YLT). ...
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Siege (63 Occurrences)
... 25:2 Isaiah 29:3 Ezekiel 4:2); "to be besieged," "to suffer siege," ba-matsor bo'
(Deuteronomy 20:19 2 Kings 24:10; 2 Kings 25:2)): 1. In Early Hebrew History 2 ...
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Asshur (133 Occurrences)
... It is uncertain whether the deity gave the name to the city, or the city to the
deity, but probably an early shrine of Assur stood there, and the people ...
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Almond (7 Occurrences)
... Its Hebrew name, shaked, signifying "wakeful, hastening," is given to it on account
of its putting forth its blossoms so early, generally in February, and ...
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Crafts (2 Occurrences)
... these crafts. It is believed that as early as Nehemiah's time, Jewish craftsmen
had organized into guilds (Nehemiah 3:8, 31, 32). In ...
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Pottery (11 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The art of, was early practised among all nations. ...
(1) Early Pre-Israelite, Called also "Amorite" (before 1500 BC). ...
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Period (43 Occurrences)
... The prose narratives, however, are also early, and are generally regarded as
presenting a faithful picture of the times with which they deal. ...
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Building (249 Occurrences)
... is the exception and is often a re-use of an earlier type akin to "sawed stone"
(1 Kings 7:9). The remains of Jewish walls of the period of the early kings in ...
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Syriac (2 Occurrences)
... containing all the canonical books, along with some apocryphal books (called the
Peshitto, ie, simple translation, and not a paraphrase), was made early in the ...
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Morning (264 Occurrences)
... (a.) Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part
of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. Int. ...
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Child (355 Occurrences)
...Early education was cared for in the home, the children growing up more or less
with the mother (Proverbs 6:20; Proverbs 31:1 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:14, 15 ...
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Magus
... a Magician 2. Simon and the Apostles (1) Simon and Philip (2) Simon and Peter John
3. The Magicians and the Gospel 4. Testimony of Early Christian Writers 5 ...
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Start (50 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Acts 26:4 All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years,
as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem; (BBE). ...
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Potter (14 Occurrences)
... (See Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldea and Assyria, I, figures 159,
160, II, figures 163, 168.) Examples of pottery of this early period are shown ...
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Attitudes (1 Occurrence)
... that the same practices and usages as are now common among the inhabitants of those
lands were in vogue in the days of Hammurabi and the early rulers of Egypt. ...
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Apostles'
... teaching. It will be seen immediately that it had an important place in
the early church, when as yet no creed but itself existed. ...
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Shinar (8 Occurrences)
... It is the modern 'Abu-habbah, "father of grain." Though it seems to have fallen
early under the dominion of the Semites, it was at first Sumerian, as its ...
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Songs (100 Occurrences)
...Early Jewish and Christian writers are silent as to the So of Songs. ... Origen
made the allegorical theory popular in the early church. ...
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Acrostic (2 Occurrences)
... Sirach 51:13-30: As early as 1882 Bickell reconstructed this hymn on the basis
of the Greek and Syriac versions as a Hebrew alphabetical poem. ...
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Cyprus (12 Occurrences)
... Roman times. Scarcely less important were the forests, which at an early
date are said to have covered almost the whole island. The ...
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Commandments (181 Occurrences)
... The 2nd commandment was too high even for Israel to grasp at that early day; a few
weeks later the people were dancing about the golden calf at the foot of ...
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Seal (47 Occurrences)
... In the West wax came early into use as the material for receiving the impression
of the seal, but in the ancient East clay was the medium used (compare Job 38 ...
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Aqueduct (4 Occurrences)
... In the case of private cisterns, it is the custom of the country today to close
up the inlets during the early days of the rain, so as to permit of a general ...
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Alphabet (2 Occurrences)
... of the Phoenician alphabet and some of the conventionalized signs of the neolithic
age, and it may not be too fantastic to imagine that these early signs are ...
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Meal-time (1 Occurrence)
... Hebrews. The Book of Judges gives a fair picture of the early formative
period of the Hebrew people and their ways of living. It ...
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Mealtime (1 Occurrence)
... Hebrews. The Book of Judges gives a fair picture of the early formative
period of the Hebrew people and their ways of living. It ...
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Cistern (21 Occurrences)
... In the case of private cisterns, it is the custom of the country today to close
up the inlets during the early days of the rain, so as to permit of a general ...
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Palm (49 Occurrences)
... In Egypt the tall palm stem forms a constant feature in early architecture, and
among the Hebrews it was extensively used as a decoration of the temple (1 ...
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Morrow (113 Occurrences)
... Luke 24:1 But on the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, they
came to the tomb, bringing the aromatic spices which they had prepared. ...
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Measures (50 Occurrences)
... investigations in recent years have shown that the civilization of Babylonia impressed
itself upon Syria and Palestine more profoundly in early times than did ...
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Meals (8 Occurrences)
... Hebrews. The Book of Judges gives a fair picture of the early formative
period of the Hebrew people and their ways of living. It ...
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Damascus (58 Occurrences)
... da-mas'-kus: 1. The Name 2. Situation and Natural Features 3. The City Itself 4.
Its History (1) The Early Period (to circa 950 BC) (2) The Aramean Kingdom ...
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Zoroastrianism
... Most of this in its final form belongs to the 9th Christian century, or to an even
later date, but in it there is embodied much very early matter. ...
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Vulgate
... enriched our conceptions. It has also proved of primary importance as
an early and excellent witness to the sacred text. Add to ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... ar-a-ma'-ik lan'-gwaj ('aramith; the King James Version Syrian, Syriac; SYRIAN in
the Revised Version (British and American)): 1. Early Notices of Aramaic in ...
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Youthful (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Also used figuratively. 3. (a.) of or pertaining to the early part of life;
suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. ...
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Spring (122 Occurrences)
... 28. (n.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. 29. (n.) A
crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. 30. ...
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Disappears (4 Occurrences)
... you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud,
and like the dew that disappears early. (WEB NIV). Hosea ...
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Dawning (11 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Joshua 6:15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning
of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. ...
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Dagon (9 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 5:3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon
was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. ...
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Downward (10 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). 1 Samuel 5:3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold,
Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. ...
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Daylight (24 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 29:10 And now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that
are come with thee; and rise ye early in the morning, and when ye have ...
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Merry (38 Occurrences)
... Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and
brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and ...
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Myndus
... It seems that the city was independent at an early date and that many Jews lived
there, for according to 1 Maccabees 15:23, it was one of the several places to ...
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Miletus (3 Occurrences)
... mi-le'-tus (Miletos): A famous early Ionian Greek city on the coast of Caria, near
the mouth of the Meander River, which, according to Acts 20:15-21:1, and 2 ...
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Miseries (4 Occurrences)
... Matthew 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
(WEY). ... These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth. (WEY). ...
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Magdalene (12 Occurrences)
... Mark 16:9 Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared
first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. ...
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