Jewish (49 Occurrences)

... JEW, JEWESS, JEWISH. ... In Titus 1:14 a warning is given against "Jewish fables" (in Greek the adjective is found also in Galatians 2:14). ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jewish.htm - 22k

Begging (18 Occurrences)

... 3. Begging and Alms-taking Denounced in Jewish Literature: The first clear denunciation of beggary and almstaking in Jewish literature is found in ... biblethesaurus.org/b/begging.htm - 18k

Beggar (5 Occurrences)

... 3. Begging and Alms-taking Denounced in Jewish Literature: The first clear denunciation of beggary and almstaking in Jewish literature is found in ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beggar.htm - 15k

Beg (77 Occurrences)

... 3. Begging and Alms-taking Denounced in Jewish Literature: The first clear denunciation of beggary and almstaking in Jewish literature is found in ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beg.htm - 37k

Justus (3 Occurrences)

... (2.) A Jewish proselyte at Corinth, in whose house, next door to the synagogue, Paul held meetings and preached after he left the synagogue (Acts 18:7). ... biblethesaurus.org/j/justus.htm - 12k

Rudiments (5 Occurrences)

... epithets Paul signifies that rites, ordinances, sacrifices, observance of days and seasons belonged to the elementary stages of the Jewish religion, which had ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rudiments.htm - 13k

Desolation (131 Occurrences)

... 1. The Historical Background: Since the invasion of the Assyrians and Chaldeans, the Jewish people, both of the Northern and of the Southern kingdom, had been ... biblethesaurus.org/d/desolation.htm - 46k

Gedaliah (31 Occurrences)

... father of Cushi (Zephaniah 1:1). (3.) One of the Jewish nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1). (4.) The son of Ahikam ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gedaliah.htm - 26k

Zenas (1 Occurrence)

... ze'-nas (Zenas (Titus 3:13); the name in full would probably be Zenodorus, literally, meaning "the gift of Zeus"): 1. A Jewish Lawyer: Paul calls Zenas "the ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zenas.htm - 10k

Coins (13 Occurrences)

... The coins of the Herods and the Procurators are abundant, but all of copper, since the Romans did not allow the Jewish rulers to strike either silver or gold ... biblethesaurus.org/c/coins.htm - 13k

Allegory (6 Occurrences)

... According to traditional interpretation of both the Jewish exegesis and of the Catholic and Protestant churches the entire book of Canticles is such an allegory ... biblethesaurus.org/a/allegory.htm - 14k

Zoroastrianism

... without significance. But the important question is the existence or extent of Mazdean influence on the formal Jewish religion. 3 ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zoroastrianism.htm - 17k

Christs (2 Occurrences)

... and claims of this kind have be en specially recorded, yet the hints in the New Testament, and the references, however guarded, in the Jewish historian, imply ... biblethesaurus.org/c/christs.htm - 14k

Pentecost (3 Occurrences)

... so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pentecost.htm - 21k

False.

... and claims of this kind have be en specially recorded, yet the hints in the New Testament, and the references, however guarded, in the Jewish historian, imply ... biblethesaurus.org/f/false..htm - 16k

Tradition (13 Occurrences)

... 2, 3, 6 Mark 7:3, 5, 8, 9, 13 1 Corinthians 11:2 Galatians 1:14 Colossians 2:8 2 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:6). 1. Meaning in Jewish Theology: The ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tradition.htm - 17k

Jew (34 Occurrences)

... The history of the Jewish nation is interwoven with the history of Palestine and with the narratives of the lives of their rulers and chief men. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jew.htm - 22k

Flavius

... and mother belonged to families of the priestly aristocracy; consequently he received an excellent education, becoming familiar, not only with Jewish, but with ... biblethesaurus.org/f/flavius.htm - 13k

Josephus

... and mother belonged to families of the priestly aristocracy; consequently he received an excellent education, becoming familiar, not only with Jewish, but with ... biblethesaurus.org/j/josephus.htm - 13k

Tiberias (3 Occurrences)

... The reason of this is probably to be found in the fact that it was practically a heathen city, though standing upon Jewish soil. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tiberias.htm - 15k

Cornelius (10 Occurrences)

... polytheism, yearned for a better faith, embraced, therefore, the monotheism of the Jews, read the Scriptures, and practiced more or less of the Jewish rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cornelius.htm - 16k

Johannine

... closing decades of the 1st century, Christianity was compelled by the force of events to liberate itself more completely from the husk of Jewish Messianism in ... biblethesaurus.org/j/johannine.htm - 38k

Build (242 Occurrences)

... dressed masonry is found, but it 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 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/build.htm - 45k

Ptolemy

... At any rate, he was favorably disposed toward his Jewish subjects, and in his reign Jewish wisdom and Greek philosophy began to blend. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/ptolemy.htm - 17k

Salamis (1 Occurrence)

... the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of ... biblethesaurus.org/s/salamis.htm - 11k

Parousia

... is far closer than that supplied by this single term only, for newly every feature in the apostolic doctrine can be paralleled directly from the Jewish sources ... biblethesaurus.org/p/parousia.htm - 36k

Sanhedrin (19 Occurrences)

... the Talmudic transcription of the Greek sunedrion): 1. Name: The Sanhedrin was, at and before the time of Christ, the name for the highest Jewish tribunal, of ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sanhedrin.htm - 27k

Proselyte (2 Occurrences)

... The law of Moses made specific regulations regarding the admission into the Jewish church of such as were not born Israelites (Exodus 20:10; 23:12; 12:19, 48 ... biblethesaurus.org/p/proselyte.htm - 26k

Jewess (3 Occurrences)

... JEW, JEWESS, JEWISH. ... In Titus 1:14 a warning is given against "Jewish fables" (in Greek the adjective is found also in Galatians 2:14). ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jewess.htm - 9k

Building (249 Occurrences)

... dressed masonry is found, but it 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 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/building.htm - 47k

Purim (5 Occurrences)

... (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/purim.htm - 16k

Circumcision (98 Occurrences)

... were circumcised (17:12, 13); and all foreigners must have their males circumcised before they could enjoy the privileges of Jewish citizenship (Exodus 12:48). ... biblethesaurus.org/c/circumcision.htm - 53k

Songs (100 Occurrences)

... a song of ascents"): The title prefixed to 15 psalms (Pss 120-134) as to the significance of which there are four views: (1) The Jewish interpretation. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/songs.htm - 62k

Sadducees (14 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced. It was probably the outcome of the influence ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sadducees.htm - 31k

Nisan (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Month of flowers, (Nehemiah 2:1) the first month of the Jewish sacred year. (see ABIB.) Assyrian nisannu, "beginning.". ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nisan.htm - 8k

Libertines (1 Occurrence)

... Various answers are given: (a) they were freedmen from Jewish servitude (Lightfoot); (b) they were Italian freedmen who had become proselytes; (c) they were ... biblethesaurus.org/l/libertines.htm - 11k

Greeks (22 Occurrences)

... With the spread of Greek power and influence, everything not specifically Jewish was called Greek; thus in 2 Maccabees 4:36; 11:02; 3 Maccabees 3:3, 1 the ... biblethesaurus.org/g/greeks.htm - 19k

Grecians (4 Occurrences)

... With the spread of Greek power and influence, everything not specifically Jewish was called Greek; thus in 2 Maccabees 4:36; 11:02; 3 Maccabees 3:3, 1 the ... biblethesaurus.org/g/grecians.htm - 14k

Ink (4 Occurrences)

... 5:23 that the Hebrew ink was a lamp-black and gum, or some other dry ink, is confirmed by the general usage of antiquity, by the later Jewish prejudice against ... biblethesaurus.org/i/ink.htm - 10k

Times (1875 Occurrences)

... The days of the Messiah were to the Old Testament writers part of the future world, although to the later Jewish chiliasm they appeared as lying this side of it ... biblethesaurus.org/t/times.htm - 11k

Eupolemus

... A critical estimate of the narrative (APC 1Macc 8 and Josephus, Ant, XII, x, 6) of the first meeting of the representatives of the Jewish nation and the Romans ... biblethesaurus.org/e/eupolemus.htm - 7k

Degrees (18 Occurrences)

... a song of ascents"): The title prefixed to 15 psalms (Pss 120-134) as to the significance of which there are four views: (1) The Jewish interpretation. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/degrees.htm - 14k

Myrtle (7 Occurrences)

... mur'-t'-l (hadhac; mursine (Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 55:13 Nehemiah 8:15 Zechariah 1:8, 10 f); also as a name in Hadassah in Esther 2:7, the Jewish form of ESTHER ... biblethesaurus.org/m/myrtle.htm - 12k

Peraea

... 2. History: Possibly under Hyrcanus Jewish influence began to prevail; and before the death of Janneus the whole country owned his sway (HJP, I, i, 297, 306). ... biblethesaurus.org/p/peraea.htm - 10k

Bacchus

... assault upon Jerusalem in the year 168 BC, he determined to extirpate the worship of Yahweh, which he recognized as the strength of the Jewish resistance, and ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bacchus.htm - 12k

Council (51 Occurrences)

... The Jewish councils were the Sanhedrim, or supreme council of the nation, which had subordinate to it smaller tribunals (the "judgment, " perhaps, in Matthew 5 ... biblethesaurus.org/c/council.htm - 24k

Custom (51 Occurrences)

... It had to be paid in Jewish coin (Matthew 22:17-19; Mark 12:14, 15). Money-changers (qv) were necessary, to enable the Jews who ... biblethesaurus.org/c/custom.htm - 28k

Antiochians

... dominions. He forbade the further observance of Jewish festivals, Sabbath, sacrifices in the temple and the rite of circumcision. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/antiochians.htm - 10k

Scourging (5 Occurrences)

... Deuteronomy 25:3 fixed the mode of a Jewish flogging and limits the number of blows to 40. Apparently the flogging was administered by a rod. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/scourging.htm - 12k

Scourge (24 Occurrences)

... Deuteronomy 25:3 fixed the mode of a Jewish flogging and limits the number of blows to 40. Apparently the flogging was administered by a rod. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/scourge.htm - 17k

Sivan (1 Occurrence)

... A Persian word (Assyr, sivanu, "bricks"), used after the Captivity as the name of the third month of the Jewish year, extending from the new moon in June to ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sivan.htm - 7k

Courts (59 Occurrences)

... and judicial authority, exercised autonomous authority to such an extent that it not only administered civil cases in accordance with Jewish law-for without ... biblethesaurus.org/c/courts.htm - 33k

Tahpanhes (7 Occurrences)

... Josephus explicitly mentions that Nebuchadnezzar, when he captured Tahpanhes, carried off a Jewish contingent from that city (Ant., IX, vii). ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tahpanhes.htm - 14k

Stephen (13 Occurrences)

... The speech of Stephen before the Jewish ruler is the first apology for the universalism of the gospel as a message to the Gentiles as well as the Jews. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/stephen.htm - 33k

Barefoot (7 Occurrences)

... XXI, 23-39) presents a view worth considering of going barefoot as a sign of mourning and then of grief in general (compare also Jewish Encyclopedia, article ... biblethesaurus.org/b/barefoot.htm - 13k

Haggai (14 Occurrences)

... his contemporary, and Malachi, who was about one hundred years later, being the other two) whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began ... biblethesaurus.org/h/haggai.htm - 28k

Time (7245 Occurrences)

... The days of the Messiah were to the Old Testament writers part of the future world, although to the later Jewish chiliasm they appeared as lying this side of it ... biblethesaurus.org/t/time.htm - 21k

Abomination (78 Occurrences)

... 1. The Historical Background: Since the invasion of the Assyrians and Chaldeans, the Jewish people, both of the Northern and of the Southern kingdom, had been ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abomination.htm - 55k

Pur (3 Occurrences)

... pur'-rim, pur (purim, "lots"; Septuagint Phrourai): The name of a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th and 15th days of the month Adar, the final month of ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pur.htm - 15k

Parable (52 Occurrences)

... Thus, eg every petition of the Lord's Prayer can be duplicated in the Jewish liturgies of the times, yet on Christ's lips these petitions have a significance ... biblethesaurus.org/p/parable.htm - 38k

Syria (73 Occurrences)

... Second, this was followed by a short period of independence, when the Jewish nation in the south was growing in power, until it reached its early zenith in the ... biblethesaurus.org/s/syria.htm - 60k

Samaritans (9 Occurrences)

... Luke 17:18) amalgamated with the Jews still remaining in the land, and gradually abandoned their old idolatry and adopted partly the Jewish religion. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/samaritans.htm - 16k

Asmoneans

... They belonged to that portion of the Jewish nation which under all trials and temptations remained loyal to Yahweh, even when the national life and religion ... biblethesaurus.org/a/asmoneans.htm - 27k

I-iii

... Scriptures, etc. 3. Old Testament and New Testament II. LANGUAGES III. COMPASS AND DIVISIONS 1. The Jewish Bible Josephus, etc. 2. The ... biblethesaurus.org/i/i-iii.htm - 31k

Punishment (417 Occurrences)

... SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT 1. Old Testament and Jewish Conceptions 2. New Testament Teaching (1) "Eternal" (2) Equivalent Expressions (3) The Last Judgment 3. Teaching ... biblethesaurus.org/p/punishment.htm - 62k

Almsgiving (3 Occurrences)

... The teaching of Jesus on the subject is important, first, as bearing upon Jewish ideas and practices, and second, as bearing upon present-day Christian ideas ... biblethesaurus.org/a/almsgiving.htm - 17k

Judith (1 Occurrence)

... Though a tale of Jewish patriotism written originally in Hebrew, this book was never admitted into the Hebrew Canon, and the same applies to the Book of Tobit. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/judith.htm - 27k

Introduction (3 Occurrences)

... Scriptures, etc. 3. Old Testament and New Testament II. LANGUAGES III. COMPASS AND DIVISIONS 1. The Jewish Bible Josephus, etc. 2. The ... biblethesaurus.org/i/introduction.htm - 33k

According (7613 Occurrences)

... But it seems not to have acquired at any time ecclesiastical standing outside the very limited circles of Jewish Christians who preferred it. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/according.htm - 62k

Trumpets (52 Occurrences)

... In fact the spring New Year never succeeded in becoming a specially recognized feast, and to Jewish ears "New Year's Day" (ro'sh ha-shanah) invariably ... biblethesaurus.org/t/trumpets.htm - 32k

Lampstand (38 Occurrences)

... This form continued into Jewish times, but was gradually changed until the spout was formed by drawing the rim of the sides together, forming a narrow open ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lampstand.htm - 24k

Calendar

... CALENDAR. kal'-en-dar (Latin calendarium, "an account book," from calendae, "day on which accounts were due"): The Hebrew or Jewish calendar had three stages of ... biblethesaurus.org/c/calendar.htm - 13k

Maccabees

... It is supposed to have been derived from the Hebrew word (makkabah) meaning "hammer," as suggestive of the heroism and power of this Jewish family, who are ... biblethesaurus.org/m/maccabees.htm - 52k

Phylactery

... The writer in his youth found one of these in a comparatively remote locality, evidently lost by a Jewish peddler, which contained only the 2nd text (Exodus 13 ... biblethesaurus.org/p/phylactery.htm - 13k

Last (1087 Occurrences)

... (If there has been no redaction in the latter part of this section, its date is prior to 165 BC) Hereafter the idea is so prevalent in the Jewish writings that ... biblethesaurus.org/l/last.htm - 18k

Paradise (6 Occurrences)

... 2. Use in Jewish Literatare: In the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature the word is extensively used in a spiritual and symbolia sense, signalizing the ... biblethesaurus.org/p/paradise.htm - 16k

Philosophy (1 Occurrence)

... but speculation was mainly confined within the limits of ecclesiastical orthodoxy; there were, however, some independent Arabian and Jewish speculations; (c ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philosophy.htm - 27k

Feet (2931 Occurrences)

... Most of all, Jesus was not scrupulous about keeping the customs or practices of the Jews; compare Jesus' breaking of the Jewish Sabbath (Mark 2:23-26); the ... biblethesaurus.org/f/feet.htm - 17k

Alms (13 Occurrences)

... The teaching of Jesus on the subject is important, first, as bearing upon Jewish ideas and practices, and second, as bearing upon present-day Christian ideas ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alms.htm - 22k

Magic (12 Occurrences)

... Simon, a magician, was found by Philip at Samaria (Acts 8:9-24); and Paul and Barnabas encountered Elymas, a Jewish sorcerer, at Paphos (13:6-12). ... biblethesaurus.org/m/magic.htm - 29k