City
sit'-i (`ir, qiryah; polis):I. THE CANAANITE CITY1. Origin2. Extent3. Villages4. Sites5. External Appearance6. GeneralII. THE CITY OF THE JEWISH OCCUPATION1. Tower or Stronghold...
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City Of Confusion
kon-fu'-zhun (qiryath-tohu): A name applied to Jerusalem (Isa 24:10the King James Version).
City Of David
SeeZION.
City Of Destruction
de-struk'-shun `ir ha-herec; (Septuagint Base-dek): In his prediction of the future return of Egypt to Yahweh, Isaiah declares, "In that day there shall be five cities in the la...
City Of Palm Trees
pam'-trez (`ir ha-temarim).SeeJERICHO(De 34:3;Jud 1:16;3:13;2Ch 28:15).
City Of Salt
SeeSALT, CITY OF.
City Of Waters
SeeRABBAH.
City, Golden
SeeGOLDEN CITY.
City, Royal
SeeRABBAH.
City, Rulers Of
rool'-erz: The English Versions of the Bible rendering of the politarchai, of Thessalonica, before whom Jason and the other Christians were dragged by the mob (Ac 17:6,8). The t...
Clap
An emphatic expression of joy, "They clapped their hands (nakhah), and said, Long live (the King James Version "God save") the king" (2Ki 11:12); "Oh clap your hands (taqa`), al...
Clasps
klasps (qerec): The word occurs nine times in Ex 26; 36, 39; which record the specifications for the erection of the tabernacle and their subsequent carrying out. In each of the...
Clauda
SeeCAUDA.
Claudia
klo'-di-a (Klaudia): A member of the Christian congregation at Rome, who, with other members of that church, sends her greetings, through Paul, to Timothy (2Ti 4:21). More than ...
Claudius
klo'-di-us (Klaudios): Fourth Roman emperor. He reigned for over 13 years (41-54 AD), having succeeded Caius (Caligula) who had seriously altered the conciliatory policy of his ...
Claudius Lysias
klo'-di-us lis'-i-as (Klaudios Lysias): A chief captain who intervened when the Jews sought to do violence to Paul at Jerusalem (Ac 21:31;24:22). Lysias, who was probably a Gree...
Claw
klo (parcah, literally, "hoof"): One of the marks of a "clean" animal is stated thus: "Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, ye shall eat" (D...
Clay
kla (chomer, chacaph, TiT, meleT, `abhi, ma`abheh, abhTiT; pelos, "wet clay," "mud"): True clay, which is a highly aluminous soil, is found in certain localities in Palestine, a...
Clean
klen (Anglo-Saxon cloene, "clear," "pure"): Rendering four Hebrew roots: bar, etc., "purify," "select," "make shining"; zakh, etc., "bright," "clean" "pure"; naqi, "free from," ...
Cleanse
klenz: "Make clean," "purify" being a frequent rendering of the original. It is found often (American Revised Version) instead of "purge," "purify" (the King James Version), ren...
Clear; Clearness
kler, kler'-nes (bar; diablepo): Equivalent of several Hebrew and Greek words for bright, unclouded, shining without obstruction, distinct, brilliant; "clearer than the noon-day...
Cleave
klev: Is used in the Bible in two different senses:(1) baqa` "to split," or "to rend." We are told that Abraham "clave the wood for the burnt-offering" (Ge 22:3), and that "they...
Cleft; Cliff; Clift
kleft, klif, klift: The first of these words, from cleave, "to split," is a crevice or narrow opening, as "of the ragged rocks" (Isa 2:21); "under the clefts of the rocks" (Isa ...
Clemency
klem'-en-si (epietkeia, "fairness," "sweet reasonableness,"Ac 24:4): The Greek word is rendered elsewhere "gentleness,"2Co 10:1;Tit 3:2, "meekhess";Jas 3:17;1Pe 2:18.
Clement
klem'-ent (Klemes, "mild"): A fellow-worker with Paul at Philippi, mentioned with especial commendation inPhp 4:3. The name being common, no inference can be drawn from this sta...
Cleopas
kle'-o-pas (Kleopas, "renowned father"): One of the two disciples whom Jesus met on the way to Emmaus (Lu 24:18). The name is a contraction of Cleopatros, not identical with Clo...
Cleopatra
kle-o-pa'-tra (Kleopatra, "from a famous father"): A daughter of Ptolemy VI (Philometor) and of Queen Cleopatra, who was married first to Alexander Balas 150 BC (1 Macc 10:58; J...