Aedias
a-e-di'-as (Aedeias). Mentioned in 1 Esdras 9:27, being one of those who agreed to divorce their alien wives. This name is supposed to be a corruption of the Greek Helia, there ...
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Aelia
e'-li-a.SeeJERUSALEM.
Aeneas
e-ne'-as ('Aineas): A paralytic at Lydda, who, after he "had kept his bed eight years," was miraculously healed by Peter (Ac 9:33,34).
Aenon
e'-non (Ainon): The place where John was baptizing "because there was much water there" (Joh 3:23). It was on the west side of the Jordan, the place where John baptized at the f...
Aeon
e'-on: This word originally meant "duration," "dispensation." In the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle the word is aion, from which this word is transliterated. In the Gnostic p...
Aesora
e'-so-ra, the King James Version Esora, e-so'-ra (Aisora): A town in the borders of Samaria, mentioned in connection with Beth-boron and Jericho (Judith 4:4), and from this asso...
Affect; Affection
a-fekt', a-fek'-shun: The literal meaning of "affect" is to act upon (Latin ad, "to," "upon," facio, "to do"). It has various shades of meaning, and occurs in the following sens...
Affinity
a-fin'-i-ti (chathan "to join one-self"): This term is used three times in the Old Testament:(1) in1Ki 3:1, where we read that "Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh King of Egypt"...
Affirm; Affirmatives
a-fur'-ma-tivs (diischurizomai). The verb "affirm" occurs in several passages of the New Testament in the sense of "assert"Lu 22:59;Ac 12:15;25:19pha-sko;Ro 3:8phemi; 1Ti 17,Tit...
Affliction
a-flik'-shun: Represents no fewer than 11 Hebrew words in the Old Testament, and 3 Greek words in the New Testament, of which the most common are (oni), (thlipsis). It is used(1...
Affright
a-frit': Designates a state of terror occasioned by some unexpected and startling occurrence; not as strong as "amazed," which refers more to the stupor resulting from fright. I...
Afoot
a-foot' (pezeuo, "to go on foot"): By walking from Troas to Assos Paul avoided the tedious voyage round Cape Lectum (Ac 20:13the King James Version; compareMr 6:33).
Afore
a-for': Archaic for "before" of time, or "formerly"; frequently occurs as compound, as in "aforetime," "aforehand," etc.; in the New Testament most commonly for the Greek prefix...
Afresh
a-fresh': Only inHeb 6:6, "seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh," where it stands for the prefix of the Greek anastaurountas. It has been disputed whether in ...
Africa
af'-ri-ka: The name of this tract, as a continent, does not occur in the Bible, and it was only in later days known as one of the quarters of the world, under the name of Libya-...
After; Afterward
aft'-er, aft'-er-werd: The fundamental thought, in which all shades of meaning unite, is that of succession either in time or place. This succession may be immediate or remote. ...
Afternoon
af-ter-noon' (neToth ha-yom, "the declining of the day";Jud 19:8the King James Version): The expression kechom ha-yom, "in the heat of the day" (Ge 18:1) refers to the early aft...
Agaba
ag'-a-ba: A fortress in Judea. The first of 22 "strong places" which by its commander Galestus was given over to Aristobulus, the son of Alexander Janneus and Alexandra, when he...
Agabus
ag'-a-bus (Agabos): A Christian prophet of Jerusalem, twice mentioned in Acts.(1) InAc 11:27f, we find him at Antioch foretelling "a great famine over all the world," "which," a...
Agade
ag'-a-de: Ancient name for Akkad (orACCAD, which see), one of the chief cities of Babylonia (Ge 10:10), and the capital city of Sargon, who lived and ruled in Babylonia circa 35...
Agag
a'-gag ('aghagh, or 'aghagh, meaning unknown, possibly "violent," BDB): A name, or title, applied to the king of the Amalekites, like Abimelech in Philistia and Pharaoh in Egypt...
Agagite
a'-gag-it, ('aghaghi, from, 'aghagh, "a member of the house of Agag"): A title of opprobrium given to Haman (Es 3:1,10;8:3,5;9:24). Jewish tradition always assigned the arch-ene...
Again
a-gen': Advb. denoting repetition; in New Testament, generally for palin, "back," "once more." Occasionally, it has the force of a connective, synonymous with "moreover," as inR...
Again; Born
SeeREGENERATION.
Against
a-genst' (kata; enantion; pros): Preposition expressing contrast. When used of direction, equivalent to "toward" (Mt 10:35;12:14, etc.); when of position, meaning "opposite," "f...
Agape
ag'-a-pe (agape).1. The Name and the Thing:The name Agape or "love-feast," as an expression denoting the brotherly common meals of the early church, though of constant use and i...
Agar
a'-gar (Agar). Found once in the Apocrypha in the Greek (Baruch 3:23) probably for the Old Testament Hagar, mother of Ishmael, whose children are mentioned with the merchants of...