Aspharasus
as-far'-a-sus (Aspharasos = Mispar (Ezr 2:2; Mispereth,Ne 7:7)): A leader of the captives, who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:8).
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Asriel
as'-ri-el ('asri'-el, "Vow of God"?): A man of Manasseh (Nu 26:31;Jos 17:2). The form Asrielites, i.e. family of Asriel, occurs inNu 26:31. According to1Ch 7:14, Asriel was born...
Ass
as (chamowr or chamor, compare Arabic chamar, apparently connected with Arabic root 'achmar, "red," but referred by some to root hamal, "to carry"; also, but less commonly, both...
Assalimoth
a-sal'-i-moth. SeeSALIMOTH(Apocrypha).
Assamias
a-sa-mi'-as (Codex Vaticanus, Assamias; Codex Alexandrinus, Asamias; the King James Version Assanias; compare Hashabiah (Ezr 8:24)): Assamias (chief priest) returned with Ezra t...
Assaphioth
a-sa'-fi-oth (Codex Alexandrinus, Asaphphioth; Codex Vaticanus, Assapheioth; the King James Version Azaphion): The head of a family, which returned with Zerubbabel from captivit...
Assarion
as-a'-ri-on. SeeFARTHING.
Assassination
a-sas-i-na'-shun.1. Meaning of the Term:The language of Scripture distinguishes less clearly than the modern juridical between assassination and murder. "Murderer" = rotseach (N...
Assassins
a-sas'-inz (sicarioi; the King James Version murderers): Josephus (BJ, II, xiii, 3, xvii) relates that "there sprang up in Jerusalem a class of robbers called Sicarii, who slew ...
Assault
a-solt' (tsur; horme): The Hebrew verbal form is used of pressing forward a siege (seeSIEGE), but also of a hostile attack upon a person then translated "assault" (Es 8:11). The...
Assay
a-sa' (ya'al; nacah; peirdzein; peirasthai; peiran lambanein): The Hebrew and Greek words which are rendered in the King James Version "assay" are so rendered in the Revised Ver...
Assemblies, Masters Of
a-sem'-bliz, (ba`ale 'acuppoth,Ec 12:11): the American Revised Version, margin "collectors of sentences," thus Qimchi, Grotius and others. This has been variously interpreted. T...
Assembly
a-sem'-bli (qahal; ekklesia): The common term for a meeting of the people called together by a crier. It has reference therefore to any gathering of the people called for any pu...
Assembly, Solemn
SeeCONGREGATION;FEASTS.
Assent
a-sent': Twice used in the King James Version as equivalent to "voice," and to "consent," and displaced in both instances in the Revised Version (British and American) by the li...
Assessor
a-ses'-er: Lit. one who sits by another, an assistant; among the ancients especially an assistant to the king (compare "The assessor of his throne," Dryden, Milton's P.L., Book ...
Asshur; Assur
ash'-oor, as'-oor. SeeASSYRIA.
Asshurim
a-shoo'-rim ('ashshurim): Mentioned among the sons of Dedan, son of Jokshah, son of Abraham by Keturah (Ge 25:3).
Assidaeans
as-i-de'-ans. SeeHASIDAEANS(Apocrypha).
Assiduous
a-sid'-u-us: Occurs only in The Wisdom of Solomon 8:18 the Revised Version (British and American), "In assiduous communing with her is understanding," i.e. "in continued exercis...
Assign
a-sin (nathan, "to give," or "grant," i.e. apportion): Used (Jos 20:8) of Moses setting apart Bezer as one of the three cities of refuge on the East of the Jordan (compareDe 4:4...
Assir
as'-er (accir, "captive"):(1) A Levite of the family of Korah (Ex 6:24;1Ch 6:22).(2) A son of Ebiasaph and grandson of Assir. Samuel was descended from him (1Ch 6:23).(3) A son ...
Associate
a-so'-shi-at: Only inIsa 8:9the King James Version, where the Hebrew ro`u, is variously interpreted, according to differences of opinion as to the verb whence it comes. The Revi...
Assos
as'-os (Assos): An ancient city of Mysia in the Roman province of Asia, at which, according toAc 20:13, Paul and Luke rested while on their way from Troas to Mitylene. Standing ...
Assuage
a-swaj' (the King James Version Asswage):Lit,. "sweeten," "soften down"; then, "mitigate," "abate"; used of "flood,"Ge 8:1("subside"); of grief,Job 16:5,6("restrain"); also appl...
Assumption Of Moses
a-sump'-shun. SeeAPOCALYPTIC LITERATURE.
Assur
as'-ur. SeeASUR.