Banner
ban'-er (ENSIGN, STANDARDS): The English word "banner" is from banderia, Low Latin, meaning a banner (compare bandum, Latin, which meant first a "band," an organized military tr...
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Bannus
ban'-us (Bannous (1 Esdras 9:34) = Bani or Binnui (Ezr 10:29,30)): The sons of Bannus put away their "strange wives."
Banquet
ban'-kwet.1. The Ancient Hebrew Customs:(1) "Banquet" and "banqueting" in the King James Version always include and stand for wine-drinking, not simply "feast" or "feasting" in ...
Banuas
ban'-u-as (1 Esdras 5:26): A misprint forBANNAS(Revised Version), which see.
Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine)
I. THE TERM1. The Derivation2. The Meaning3. The Application4. Equivalent TermsII. THE ORDINANCE1. The Teaching of Scripture(1) An Authoritative Command(2) A Clear Declaration o...
Baptism (Non-Immersionist View)
I. THE SCRIPTURAL NAMES FOR THE RITEII. PRE-CHRISTIAN BAPTISM1. Baptism of Proselytes2. Baptism of John3. Baptism in the Pagan MysteriesIII. CHRISTIAN BAPTISM1. The administrati...
Baptism (The Baptist Interpretation)
I. MEANING OF BAPTISM1. Terminology2. Proselyte Baptism3. Greek Usage4. New Testament Usage5. The Didache6. Baptismal RegenerationII. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISMIII. THE PRESENT OBL...
Baptism For The Dead
(baptizomai huper ton nekron)._1. Paul's Argument:Some of the Corinthian Christians denied the resurrection of the dead, and Paul advances three arguments to convince them that ...
Baptism Of Fire
(en pneumati hagio kai puri): This expression is used inMt 3:11. The copulative kai requires that the baptism "in the Holy Ghost and in fire," should be regarded as one and the ...
Baptism Of The Holy Spirit
1. The Biblical Material:The expression "baptism of the Holy Spirit" is based on a number of predictions found in our four Gospels and in connection with these the record of the...
Baptism, Infant
SeeBAPTISM(I), II; (II), III, 3, v; (III), III, 3.
Baptismal Regeneration
bap-tiz'-mal re-jen-er-a'-shun: As indicated in the general articles on BAPTISM and SACRAMENTS, the doctrine ordinarily held by Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Meth...
Baptist
bap'-tist.SeeJOHN THE BAPTIST.
Bar (1)
bar (prefix): Aramaic for the Hebrew ben, "son." Compare Aramaic sections of Ezra and Daniel. In the Old Testament the word is found three times inPr 31:2and once in SyriacPs 2:...
Bar (2)
bar (substantive):(1) beriach = "a bolt" (Ex 26:26-29;35:11;36:31-34;39:33;40:18;Nu 3:36;4:31;De 3:5;Jud 16:3;1Sa 23:7;1Ki 4:13;2Ch 8:5;14:7;Ne 3:3,6,13-15;Job 38:10"bars and do...
Bar-Jesus
bar-je'-zus (Bariesous): "A certain sorcerer (Greek magos), a false prophet, a Jew" whom Paul and Silas found at Paphos in Cyprus in the train of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proco...
Bar-Jonah
bar-jo'-na (Bar-ionas): Simon Peter's patronymic (Mt 16:17). Bar is Aramaic for "son" (compare Bar-timaeus, Bartholomew, etc.), and corresponds to Hebrew ben. Thus we are to und...
Barabbas
ba-rab'-as (Barabbas): For Aramaic Bar-abba = literally, "son of the father," i.e. of the master or teacher. Abba in the time of Jesus was perhaps a title of honor (Mt 23:9), bu...
Barachel
bar'-a-kel (barakh'el, "God blesses"): Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was the father of Elihu, who was the last one to reason with Job (Job 32:2,6). CompareBUZ;RAM.
Barachiah
bar-a-ki'-a (Barachias; the King James Version Barachias;Mt 23:35): Father of Zachariah who was murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. It is possible that reference is ma...
Barachias
bar-a-ki'-as.SeeBARACHIAH.
Barak
ba'-rak (baraq, "lightning flash"): The name occurs in Sabeanbarqac, in Palmyrene baraq, and in Punic Barcas, as surname of Hamilcar; and as Divine name in Assyrian Ramman-Birqu...
Barbarian; Barbarous
bar-ba'-ri-an, bar'-ba-rus (barbaros): A word probably formed by imitation of the unintelligible sounds of foreign speech, and hence, in the mouth of a Greek it meant anything t...
Barber
bar'-ber:(1) The English word "barber" is from Latin barba, "beard" = a man who shaves the beard. Dressing and trimming the hair came to be added to his work. "Barber" is found ...
Barchus
bar'-kus (Codex Vaticanus, Bachous; Codex Alexandrinus, Barchoue; the King James Version Charchus, from Aldine edition, Charkous; 1 Esdras 5:32 = Barkos (Ezr 2:53;Ne 7:55)): The...
Barefoot
bar'-foot.1. Introductory:The word is found in the following passages: English Versions of the Bible, "He went barefoot" (2Sa 15:30); "(Isaiah) did so, walking.... barefoot" (Is...
Barhumite
bar-hu'-mit.SeeBAHARUMITE.