Rites (6 Occurrences)

... Multi-Version Concordance Rites (6 Occurrences). John 2:6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rites.htm - 8k

Abiez'rites (3 Occurrences)

Abiez'rites. << Abi-ezrites, Abiez'rites. Abigail >>. Multi-Version Concordance Abiez'rites (3 Occurrences). Judges 6:24 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abiez'rites.htm - 7k

Sacraments

... idea corresponding to "sacrament," nor does the earliest history of Christianity afford any trace of the application of the term to certain rites of the church ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sacraments.htm - 19k

Righteousness (442 Occurrences)

... Back of the performance of religious rites was the fear of the group that the god of the group would be displeased if certain honors were not rendered to him. ... biblethesaurus.org/r/righteousness.htm - 56k

Astoreth

... The chief seat of the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was Erech, where prostitution was practiced in her name, and she was served with immoral rites by bands of ... biblethesaurus.org/a/astoreth.htm - 10k

Astarte (2 Occurrences)

... The chief seat of the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was Erech, where prostitution was practiced in her name, and she was served with immoral rites by bands of ... biblethesaurus.org/a/astarte.htm - 11k

Ashtoreth (3 Occurrences)

... The chief seat of the worship of Ishtar in Babylonia was Erech, where prostitution was practiced in her name, and she was served with immoral rites by bands of ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ashtoreth.htm - 14k

Rite (6 Occurrences)

... service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rite.htm - 8k

Red (124 Occurrences)

... The most likely is that purificatory rites originated in a very primitive stage when the female was thought to be the more sacred animal on account of its ... biblethesaurus.org/r/red.htm - 77k

Nonimmersionist

... They were all private cults into which men and women were received one by one, and that by rites of initiation which each had to pass through personally. ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nonimmersionist.htm - 38k

Non-immersionist

... They were all private cults into which men and women were received one by one, and that by rites of initiation which each had to pass through personally. ... biblethesaurus.org/n/non-immersionist.htm - 38k

Comparative

... SUPPOSED RESEMBLANCES TO REVEALED RELIGION 1. Rites 2. Dogmas 3. Asserted Parallels to Gospel History 4. Virgin Birth 5. Heathen Aspirations and Unconscious ... biblethesaurus.org/c/comparative.htm - 29k

View (86 Occurrences)

... They were all private cults into which men and women were received one by one, and that by rites of initiation which each had to pass through personally. ... biblethesaurus.org/v/view.htm - 81k

Mystery (31 Occurrences)

... But it is frequently found in the plural ta musteria, "the Mysteries," the technical term for the secret rites and celebrations in ancient religions only known ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mystery.htm - 42k

Heifer (22 Occurrences)

... The `eghlah figures specifically in religious rites only in the ceremony of Deuteronomy 21:1-9 for the cleansing of the land, where an unexpiated murder had ... biblethesaurus.org/h/heifer.htm - 30k

Judaism (5 Occurrences)

... 1. (n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses. 2. (n.) Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies. Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/judaism.htm - 8k

Law (670 Occurrences)

... (2.) The Ceremonial Law prescribes under the Old Testament the rites and ceremonies of worship. This law was obligatory only till ... biblethesaurus.org/l/law.htm - 101k

Galatians (2 Occurrences)

... from heathenism (4:8), but partly also of Jewish converts, who probably, under the influence of Judaizing teachers, sought to incorporate the rites of Judaism ... biblethesaurus.org/g/galatians.htm - 43k

Warfare (18 Occurrences)

... was with them to fight their battles (Deuteronomy 20:1-4). It was customary to open a campaign, or to enter an engagement, with sacrificial rites (1 Samuel 7:8 ... biblethesaurus.org/w/warfare.htm - 34k

War (529 Occurrences)

... was with them to fight their battles (Deuteronomy 20:1-4). It was customary to open a campaign, or to enter an engagement, with sacrificial rites (1 Samuel 7:8 ... biblethesaurus.org/w/war.htm - 64k

Funeral (3 Occurrences)

... 1. (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or ... biblethesaurus.org/f/funeral.htm - 10k

Tammuz (1 Occurrence)

... this temple in midsummer to celebrate the death of Adonis or Tammuz, and there arose in connection with this celebration those licentious rites which rendered ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tammuz.htm - 10k

Ritual (3 Occurrences)

... 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law. ... 4. (n.) A book containing the rites to be observed. Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/r/ritual.htm - 7k

Celebrate (66 Occurrences)

... 2. (vt) To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a ... biblethesaurus.org/c/celebrate.htm - 27k

Ceremonial (11 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Relating to external rite or ritual; as, a ceremonial occasion; according to the forms of established rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/ceremonial.htm - 10k

Asiarch

... (n.) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/asiarch.htm - 8k

Devils (48 Occurrences)

... necromancers themselves (Septuagint translates 'obhoth by eggastromuthoi = ventriloquists) who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/devils.htm - 31k

Demons (54 Occurrences)

... necromancers themselves (Septuagint translates 'obhoth by eggastromuthoi = ventriloquists) who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/demons.htm - 34k

Communion (8 Occurrences)

... necromancers themselves (Septuagint translates 'obhoth by eggastromuthoi = ventriloquists) who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/communion.htm - 30k

With (66342 Occurrences)

... necromancers themselves (Septuagint translates 'obhoth by eggastromuthoi = ventriloquists) who practiced ventriloquism in connection with their magical rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/w/with.htm - 20k

Demonology

... safe distance. Leviticus 17:7 (see COMMUNION WITH DEMONS) refers to participation in the rites of heathen worship. The two passages ... biblethesaurus.org/d/demonology.htm - 24k

Demoniac (7 Occurrences)

... safe distance. Leviticus 17:7 (see COMMUNION WITH DEMONS) refers to participation in the rites of heathen worship. The two passages ... biblethesaurus.org/d/demoniac.htm - 26k

Demon (26 Occurrences)

... safe distance. Leviticus 17:7 (see COMMUNION WITH DEMONS) refers to participation in the rites of heathen worship. The two passages ... biblethesaurus.org/d/demon.htm - 32k

Salvation (386 Occurrences)

... prevalence. Nor is the study of origins of much help for the meaning attached to the rites by the Jews in historic times. General ... biblethesaurus.org/s/salvation.htm - 67k

Education (4 Occurrences)

... part of the mature members of a social group (tribe, nation, or religious fellowship) to initiate the immature members by means of solemn rites and ceremonies ... biblethesaurus.org/e/education.htm - 40k

Greece (15 Occurrences)

... THE FUTURE LIFE 1. Funeral Rites 2. Future Life in the Homeric Poems 3. Later Beliefs in Immortality V. SIN, EXPIATION, AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE 1. Greek Idea of ... biblethesaurus.org/g/greece.htm - 59k

Blood (435 Occurrences)

... Blood rites, blood ceremonies and blood feuds are common among primitive tribes. ... This is the climactic observance of blood rites recorded in the Bible. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/blood.htm - 54k

Place (9195 Occurrences)

... Saucer-shaped depressions, into which sacrifices could be poured, are a remnant of very primitive rites (to this day in Samaria the paschal lamb is cooked in a ... biblethesaurus.org/p/place.htm - 28k

Ancient (64 Occurrences)

... THE FUTURE LIFE 1. Funeral Rites 2. Future Life in the Homeric Poems 3. Later Beliefs in Immortality V. SIN, EXPIATION, AND THE RELIGIOUS LIFE 1. Greek Idea of ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ancient.htm - 98k

Jehoiakim (37 Occurrences)

... As to religion, he let matters go on as they had been under Manasseh, probably introducing also the still more strange and heathenish rites from Egypt and the ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jehoiakim.htm - 33k

Baal (94 Occurrences)

... 8:31; 1 Chronicles 9:40) and Beeliada (1 Chronicles 14:7). After the time of Ahab, however, the name became associated with the worship and rites of the ... biblethesaurus.org/b/baal.htm - 53k

Oil (281 Occurrences)

... Storage 3. Uses (1) As a Commodity of Exchange (2) As a Cosmetic (3) As a Medicine (4) As a Food (5) As an Illuminant (6) In Religious Rites (a) Consecration (b ... biblethesaurus.org/o/oil.htm - 60k

Apocrypha

... From quite early times the philosophers of ancient Greece distinguished between the doctrines and rites which could be taught to all their pupils, and those ... biblethesaurus.org/a/apocrypha.htm - 48k

Phoenicians

... a few miles South of Jebail (Gebal) is the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim), which comes down from 'Afqa (Apheca equals Aphek, Joshua 13:4), noted for the rites of Venus ... biblethesaurus.org/p/phoenicians.htm - 38k

Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)

... a few miles South of Jebail (Gebal) is the Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim), which comes down from 'Afqa (Apheca equals Aphek, Joshua 13:4), noted for the rites of Venus ... biblethesaurus.org/p/phoenicia.htm - 40k

Abigail (18 Occurrences)

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Zimri (16 Occurrences)

... and "they (ie the Moabite women) called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods" (25:2), ie as explained by 25:5 to take part in the immoral rites of the ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zimri.htm - 18k

Nuptial (1 Occurrence)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies. 2. (n.) Marriage ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nuptial.htm - 6k

Jo'ash (44 Occurrences)

... (DBY RSV). Judges 8:32 And Gideon the son of Jo'ash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Jo'ash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiez'rites. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jo'ash.htm - 19k

Jeremy (2 Occurrences)

... aim is ostensibly to warn them beforehand by showing how helpless and useless the idols worshipped are, and how immoral as well as silly the rites of the Bah ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jeremy.htm - 12k

Gate (248 Occurrences)

... which has existed for generations. The first mention made of dung is in connection with sacrificial rites. The sacred law required ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gate.htm - 63k

Gebal (3 Occurrences)

... Philo mentions the tradition that it was founded by Kronos, and was sacred to the worship of Beltis and, later, of Adonis, whose rites were celebrated yearly ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gebal.htm - 11k

Impose (12 Occurrences)

... a toll or tribute. 3. (vt) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. 4. (vt) To arrange in ... biblethesaurus.org/i/impose.htm - 10k

Imagery (5 Occurrences)

... ri, im'-a-jer-i (maskith): The reference (Ezekiel 8:12) is to chambers in the temple where the elders of Israel were wont to assemble and practice rites of an ... biblethesaurus.org/i/imagery.htm - 10k

Initiate (1 Occurrence)

... 3. (vt) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies. ... biblethesaurus.org/i/initiate.htm - 7k

Incense (167 Occurrences)

... 5. (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity. ... biblethesaurus.org/i/incense.htm - 44k

Frankincense (22 Occurrences)

... (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, from trees the genus Boswellia, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. ... biblethesaurus.org/f/frankincense.htm - 19k

Friend (139 Occurrences)

... 4. (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. ... biblethesaurus.org/f/friend.htm - 40k

Tradition (13 Occurrences)

... 2. (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tradition.htm - 17k

Teraphim (14 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/teraphim.htm - 13k

Tabor (12 Occurrences)

... Nazareth. The mountain has retained its sacred character, and is still a place of pilgrimage, only the rites being changed. The ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tabor.htm - 21k

Rudiments (5 Occurrences)

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

Rithmah (2 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/r/rithmah.htm - 7k

Raven (7 Occurrences)

... carefully taught, and by its uncanny acts has made itself a bird surrounded by superstition, myth, fable, and is connected with the religious rites of many ... biblethesaurus.org/r/raven.htm - 14k

Enchant (1 Occurrence)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites. 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/e/enchant.htm - 6k

Expiate (1 Occurrence)

... guilt, or sin. 2. (vt) To purify with sacred rites. 3. (a.) Terminated. Multi-Version Concordance Expiate (1 Occurrence). Isaiah 47 ... biblethesaurus.org/e/expiate.htm - 7k

Exorcism

... largely upon faith in the power of magical formulas, ordinarily compounded of the names of deities and pronounced in connection with exorcistic rites, upon the ... biblethesaurus.org/e/exorcism.htm - 14k

Exorcist (1 Occurrence)

... largely upon faith in the power of magical formulas, ordinarily compounded of the names of deities and pronounced in connection with exorcistic rites, upon the ... biblethesaurus.org/e/exorcist.htm - 15k

Evenings (15 Occurrences)

... Numbers 9:3 on the fourteenth day in this month between the two evenings, ye shall hold it at its set time; according to all the rites of it, and according to ... biblethesaurus.org/e/evenings.htm - 11k

Defilement (12 Occurrences)

... especially defiling; Leviticus 13:14), or with the dead (Numbers 6:12), or with one unclean by such contact (Numbers 19:22), or by funeral rites (Leviticus 21:1 ... biblethesaurus.org/d/defilement.htm - 21k

Dionysia

... The members refrained from eating the flesh of animals. They possessed holy scriptures and had peculiar propitiatory rites. The ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dionysia.htm - 10k

Dung (27 Occurrences)

... which has existed for generations. The first mention made of dung is in connection with sacrificial rites. The sacred law required ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dung.htm - 20k

Defile (63 Occurrences)

... especially defiling; Leviticus 13:14), or with the dead (Numbers 6:12), or with one unclean by such contact (Numbers 19:22), or by funeral rites (Leviticus 21:1 ... biblethesaurus.org/d/defile.htm - 38k

Dispersion (4 Occurrences)

... act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dispersion.htm - 44k

Dirge (5 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. Multi-Version Concordance ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dirge.htm - 8k

Manners (6 Occurrences)

... American) "an extreme of Greek fashions"; 2 Maccabees 6:9, the "manners of the Gentiles," the Revised Version (British and American) "the Greek rites"; in 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/m/manners.htm - 17k

Manner (351 Occurrences)

... American) "an extreme of Greek fashions"; 2 Maccabees 6:9, the "manners of the Gentiles," the Revised Version (British and American) "the Greek rites"; in 2 ... biblethesaurus.org/m/manner.htm - 45k

Mosaic (2 Occurrences)

... 4. (a.) of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mosaic.htm - 7k

Priest (500 Occurrences)

... 4. (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of ... biblethesaurus.org/p/priest.htm - 88k

Pharisee (14 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pharisee.htm - 11k