Bosor
bo'-sor (Bosor):(1) A city named among those taken by Judas Maccabeus "in the land of Gilead" (1 Macc 5:26,36). From the towns named it is evident that this phrase is elastic, c...
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Bosora
bos'-o-ra (Bosora): One of the strong cities of Gilead taken by Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc 5:26,28). It is identical with the Roman Bostra, the city whose extensive ruins lie on th...
Boss
bos: Occurs only in the plural as a translation of gabh = "arch," or "protuberance," referring to the curved ornaments of a shield (Job 15:26), the central knob of the buckler.
Botany
bot'-a-ni.1. General Characteristics of Palestinian Flora:On account of the great diversity in the climatic and topographical conditions Palestine is peculiarly rich in the vari...
Botch
SeeBOIL.
Botrys
bot'-ris (Botrus; modern Batrun): A town of Phoenicia on the coast some miles North of Gebal (Byblus) on the southern side of the bold promontory called in classic times Theopro...
Bottle
bot'-'-l (chemeth, no'-dh, nebhel, baqbuq, 'obh; askos): The most literal rendering of all the words for bottle in English Versions of the Bible is "skin," or "wine-skin," the R...
Bottom
bot'-um: Rendered by several Hebrew words:(1) sheresh, "root"; Chaldaic, shoresh (Job 36:30, "the bottom of the sea").(2) qarqa', "soil," "pavement of tesserae" (Am 9:3).(3) qet...
Bottomless, Pit
bot'-um-les, (to phrear tes abussou, "the pit of the abyss,"Re 9:1,2the King James Version): In the Revised Version (British and American), he abussos (always an adjective in cl...
Bough
bou.SeeBRANCH.
Bought (1)
bout (tawekh, "bisection," "middle"): The best part of a sling that contains the stone, "in the midst of the bought of a sling" (1Sa 25:29King James Version, margin, the King Ja...
Bought (2)
bot (adj. and vb.).SeeBUYING.
Bound
SeeBIND.
Bounds
boundz: gabhal = "to twist" (as a rope), "to make an enclosure" (as by a line) occurs inEx 19:12,23;Ps 104:9; gebhul = "a cord," hence, "a boundary," "territory" (Ex 23:31the Ki...
Bountifulness; Bounty
boun'-ti-fool-nes, boun'-ti (haplotes, "singleness," "benevolence,"2Co 9:11the King James Version; Tobh, "to be good" (Pr 22:9); eulogia, "good speech," "blessing" (2Co 9:6); ga...
Bow
bo.SeeARCHERY.
Bow, In The Cloud
bo: Reference to the promise made to Noah (Ge 9:13) preserved in the Constellation figures.SeeASTRONOMY, sec. II, 4.
Bow; Bowing
bou, bou'-ing.SeeADORATION;ATTITUDES.
Bowels
bou'-elz (me`ah, plural me`im, rechem, plural rachamim; splagchnion):(1) Literal: The literal meaning of these words is intestines, then the abdomen, the womb (matrix and uterus...
Bowing
bou'-ing (naTah, "to incline," "bulge"): The Psalmist's assailants expected that he would be "like a leaning (the King James Version "bowing") wall" (Ps 62:3) before their unite...
Bowl
bol:(1) The primitive Hebrews, like the wandering Bedouin of today, probably used bowls of wood, as less breakable than earthenware. Some hollow dish of the sort would be indisp...
Bowman
bo'-man: Israel seems not to have been equal to the surrounding peoples in the use of the bow. The battle of Gilboa was clearly lost through the superior skill of the Philistine...
Bowshot
bo'-shot: Found only inGe 21:16in the account of Hagar and her child: "And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot," literally "stretchi...
Box
The passages in which this word occurs are2Ki 9:1,3(Hebrew pakh, "cruet," "flask," the Revised Version (British and American) vial) and the synoptic passagesMt 26:7the King Jame...
Box-Tree
box'-tre (te'ashshur;Isa 41:19;60:13, "boxwood"Eze 27:6): A tree of uncertain identity, which must once have been common in the forests of Lebanon. According to Post (HDB, I, 31...
Boxing
SeeGAMES.
Boy
(yeledh, "child," na`ar, "lad," "youth"; ho pais and he pais): Refers to a child of any age, and is sometimes used of either sex:Joe 3:3;Zec 8:5;Mt 17:18;Lu 2:43;8:51,54fem.;Lu ...