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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Special messengers in the East, sent on occasions of importance, when they rode swiftly, and in many cases with fresh horses or dromedaries awaiting them at convenient distances...
Potiphar
A high officer of Pharaoh, who purchased Joseph of the Midianites, and made him master of his house, but afterwards imprisoned him on a false charge. He is supposed by some to h...
Potiphera
Belonging to the sun, the priest of On, city of the sun, whose daughter Asenath was the wife of Joseph, Ge 41:45. The name is found, in various forms, on ancient Egyptian monume...
Pots
Job 41:20, applied in Scripture to a great variety of domestic vessels, of earthenware, iron, brass, and gold, used for cooking and serving food, etc., Jud 6:192Ki 4:40Ps 58:9Ec...
Potsherds
Broken pieces of earthenware, Job 2:8Isa 30:14, fit types of the worthlessness and fragility of man, Ps 22:15Pr 26:23Isa 45:9. The ruins of many of the most ancient cities in th...
Pottage
See EDOM and FOOD.
Potter
A maker of earthenware, Ge 24:14-15; Jud 7:16,19; Ps 2:9. Ancient Egyptian paintings represent the potter turning and shaping, on his small and simple wheel made to revolve rapi...
Potter’s Field
See ACELDAMA.
Pound
A weight and a sum of money, put, in the Old Testament, 1Ki 10:17Ezr 2:69Ne 7:71, for the Hebrew MANEH, which see; and in the New Testament, for the Attic MINA, which was equiva...
Power
For the use of this word in 1Co 11:10, see VEIL.
Prayer
Is the offering of the emotions and desires of the soul to God, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is the communion of the heart with ...
Preaching
The public and oral inculcation of the truths of religion, especially of the gospel of Christ, Isa 61:1Ac 8:42Co 5:20Eph 3:8. Public instruction in religion was no doubt given i...
Preparation
The day on which our Savior was crucified was called the "day of preparation," or "the preparation of the Passover," as preceding the Passover Sabbath, which commend at sunset, ...
Press
Not only the vat in which the juice was trodden out from the grapes, but in some cases the whole place for the reception of wine, grapes, and orchard-fruit. It was often a room ...
Pretorium
A name given in the gospels to the house in which dwelt the Roman governor of Jerusalem, Mr 15:16. Here he sat in his judicial capacity, and here Jesus was brought before him. S...
Prevent
In the Bible means, not to hinder, but to proceed, Ps 59:101Th 4:15; to anticipate, Ps 119:147,148Mt 17:25; or to seize, 2Sa 22:6Job 30:27.
Pricks
The points with which ox-goads were armed, by kicking against which a refractory bullock only hurt itself the more. Hence a proverb, found in Greek and Latin as well as in Hebre...
Priest
One who officiated in the public worship of God, especially in making expiation for sin, being "ordained for men in things pertaining to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices ...
Prisca Or Priscilla
The wife of Aquila. See AQUILA.
Prochorus
One of the seen original deacons, Ac 6:5, of whom nothing more is known.
Prognosticators
Isa 47:13, Chaldeans, who pretended to foretell future events by the varying aspects of the moon, or month by month.
Promise
Used by Paul to denote the spiritual gifts of God, chiefly the Messiah, the Holy Spirit, and the fullness of gospel blessings, of which an assurance was given to Abraham and oth...
Prophecy
The foretelling of future events, by inspiration from God. It is very different from a sagacious and happy conjecture as to futurity, and from a vague and equivocal oracle, with...
Prophets
A class of men of God, especially in the Old Testament dispensation, inspired to foretell future and secret events; and who also revealed he will of God as to current events and...
Propitiantion
The offering which appeases the wrath of one against whom an offence has been committed. Christ is "the propitiation for our sins," Ro 3:25, inasmuch as his sacrifice alone remo...
Proselyte
In the Jewish sense, a foreigner who adopted the Jewish religion, a convert from heathenism to Judaism. The laws of the Hebrews make frequent mention of "the stranger that is wi...