Agarenes
ag-a-renz': Baruch 3:23 the King James Version. In the Old Testament the word isHAGARENES(which see).See alsoAGAR.
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Agate
SeeSTONES, PRECIOUS.
Age
aj: A period of time or a dispensation. In the above sense the word occurs only once in the King James Version, in the sing, as the translation of dor, which means, properly, a ...
Age; Old Age
In individual lives (cheledh; helikia): We have scarcely any word in the Old Testament or New Testament which denotes "age" in the familiar modern sense; the nearest in the Old ...
Agee
a'-ge (aghe', "fugitive"): A Hararite, father of Shammah, one of David's "three mighty men" (2Sa 23:11). In1Ch 11:34we read of one "Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite." The...
Ages, Rock Of
Applied to Yahweh as an encouragement for trust (Isa 26:4the Revised Version, margin; the King James Version "everlasting strength").
Aggaba
a-ga'-ba (Aggaba, and Agraba; the King James Version, Graba) = Hagabah (Ezr 2:45) and Hagaba (Ne 7:48): The descendants of Abraham (temple-servants) returned with Zerubbabel to ...
Aggaeus
a-ge'-us (Aggaios; the King James Version Aggeus). Haggai, one of the Minor Prophets. Abraham prophesied in the second year of the reign of Darius (compareEzr 4:24;5:1) with Zac...
Agia
a'-gi-a (Agia; the King James Version Hagia) = Hattil (Ezr 2:57;Ne 7:59): The descendants of Abraham (sons of the servants of Solomon) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 E...
Agone
a-gon': In the King James Version of1Sa 30:13. Old past participle of "to go." the Revised Version (British and American) has "ago," namely, "three days ago," literally, "the th...
Agony
ag'-o-ni (agonia; Vulgate agonia):A word occurring only once in the New Testament (Lu 22:44), and used to describe the climax of the mysterious soul-conflict and unspeakable suf...
Agrapha
ag'-ra-fa (agrapha).1. The Term and Its History:The word agraphos of which agrapha is the neuter plural is met with in classical Greek and in Greek papyri in its primary sense o...
Agrarian Laws
a-gra'-ri-an loz: 1. The Sabbath Year 2. The Jubilee 3. Its Object 4. The Legal Rules 5. Ideas and Circumstances of the Legislation 6. Form of the Legislation 7. Its Operation a...
Agree
a-gre' (sumphoneo, "to be of the same mind," "to come to a mutual understanding"): This is the sense of the word inMt 20:2;Joh 9:22, and other passages. InMr 14:56the word is is...
Agriculture
ag'-ri-kul-tur, ag'-ri-kul-chur:I. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTUREII. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND FERTILITYIII. AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS1. Growing of Grain (1) Plowing and Sowing (2) Reapin...
Agrippa
a-grip'-a. SeeHEROD.
Ague
a'-gu (qaddachath): InLe 26:16the King James Version is one of the diseases threatened as a penalty for disobedience to the law. The malady is said to "consume the eyes, and mak...
Agur
a'-gur ('aghur, seeming, from comparison with Arabic roots, to mean either "hireling," or "collector," "gatherer"): One of the contributors to Proverbs; his words being included...
Ah
In proper names. SeeAHI.
Ah; Aha
a, a-ha': Interjections of frequent occurrence in the Old Testament, representing different Hebrew words and different states of feeling.(1) 'ahah, expressing complaint and foun...
Ahab
a'-hab ('ach'abh, Assyrian a-cha-ab-bu; Septuagint Achaab, butJer 29:21f, Achiab, which, in analogy with '-h-y- m-l-k, (')-h-y-'-l, etc., indicates an original 'achi'abh, meanin...
Ahab And Zedekiah
a'-hab, zed-e-ki'-a ('ach'abh, "uncle"; tsidhqiyahu, "Yahweh is my righteousness"): Ahab, son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah, were two prophets against whom Jeremiah ...
Aharah
a'-har-a, a-har'-a ('achrach; A, Aara; B, Iaphael, "brother of Rach," or, a brother's follower, though some regard it as a textual corruption for Ahiram): A son of Benjamin (1Ch...
Aharahel
a-har'-hel ('acharchel, "brother of Rachel"; Septuagint adelphou Rechab, "brother of Rechab"): A son of Harum of the tribe of Judah (1Ch 4:8).
Ahasai
a'-ha-si, a-ha'-si. SeeAHZAI.
Ahasbai
a-has'-bi ('achacbay, "blooming"): The father of Eliphelet, a Maacathite, a soldier in David's army (2Sa 23:34). He was either a native of Abel-beth-maacah (2Sa 20:14) or, more ...
Ahasuerus; Asseurus
a-haz-u-e'-rus, (Septuagint Assoueros, but in Tobit 14:15 Asueros; the Latin form of the Hebrew 'achashwerosh, a name better known in its ordinary Greek form of Xerxes): It was ...