Chalphi
kal'-fi (Chalphi; the King James Version Calphi): Father of Judas, who, along with Mattathias, steadily supported Jonathan at the battle of Gennesar when the hosts of Demetrius'...
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Chamber
cham'-ber (the translation of the following Hebrew words: chedher, chuppah, yatsia`, yatsua`, lishkah, nishkah, `aliyah, tsela`, and the Aramaic word `illith): For the most part...
Chamber, Roof
SeeCHAMBER.
Chambering
cham'-ber-ing: Illicit intercourse; the rendering in English Versions of the Bible since Tyndale of koitias (literally "beds,"Ro 13:13). The Greek usage is paralleled in classic...
Chamberlain
cham'-ber-lin: In the Old Testament the word rendered chamberlain, caric, is more properly "eunuch," an officer which oriental monarchs placed over their harems (Es 1:10,12,15;2...
Chambers In The Heavens
SeeASTRONOMY;DIAL OF AHAZ.
Chambers In The South
SeeASTRONOMY;SOUTH, CHAMBERS OF THE.
Chambers Of Imagery
im'-aj-ri, im'-a-jer-i (maskith): The reference (Eze 8:12) is to chambers in the temple where the elders of Israel were wont to assemble and practice rites of an idolatrous char...
Chameleon
ka-me'-le-un (koach, the Revised Version (British and American)LAND CROCODILE(Le 11:30); tinshemeth, the King James Version mole, the Revised Version (British and American)CHAME...
Chamois
sham'-i, sha-mwa', sha-moi' (zemer; kamelopdrdalis): Occurs only once in the Bible, i.e. in the list of clean animals inDe 14:5. Gesenius refers to the verb zamar, "to sing," an...
Champaign
sham-pan', sham'-pan (`arabhah, biq`ah): A champaign is a flat open country, and the word occurs inDe 11:30the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "th...
Champion
cham'-pi-un ('ish habenayim): In1Sa 17:4,23this unusual expression occurs in the description of Goliath. It means literally "the man of the two spaces," "spaces," or "space betw...
Chanaan; Chanaanite
ka'-nan, ka'-na-an, ka'-nan-it (Chanaan), the King James Version in the Apocrypha (Judith 5:3,16) and New Testament (Ac 7:11;13:19) for the Revised Version (British and American...
Chance
chans: The idea of chance in the sense of something wholly fortuitous was utterly foreign to the Hebrew creed. Throughout the whole course of Israel's history, to the Hebrew min...
Chancellor
chan'-sel-er: The rendering inEzr 4:8,9,17of the Hebrew be`el Te`em; Septuagint Baal (4:9), Balgam (4:17), the latter being an incorrect translation of Hebrew `ayin. In 1 Esdras...
Change
chanj: A word which seeks to express the many shades of meaning contained in 13 variations of 9 Hebrew words and 5 Greek. These signify, in turn, "to change" "to exchange," "to ...
Change Of Raiment
ra'-ment.SeeDRESS.
Changer
chan'-jer (kollubistes, "money-changer," and so renderedMt 21:12;Mr 11:15): A banker or other person who changes money at a fixed rate. Indignant at the profane traffic in the t...
Channel
chan'-el ('aphiq (root 'aphaq, "to hold or contain," "to be strong"; compare Arabic 'afaq "to overcome" and 'afiq, "preeminent"); shibboleth (shabhal, "to go," "to go up or grow...
Chanoch; Hanochites
ha'-nok, ha'-nok-its (chanokh, "initiation," "dedication"):(1) A grandson of Abraham by Keturah, and an ancestral head of a clan of Midian (Ge 25:4;1Ch 1:33, the King James Vers...
Chant
(paraT): Occurs only once in the King James Version inAm 6:5, and the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. ParaT corresponds to an Arabic root meaning to anticipate. It may there...
Chanuneus
ka-nun'-e-us (Chanounaios; the King James Version Channuneus): A Levite in the list of 1 Esdras 8:48, probably corresponding to "Merari" inEzr 8:19.
Chapel
chap'-el (miqdash, "a holy place"; the Revised Version (British and American)SANCTUARY, which see): "It is the king's chapel" (Am 7:13the King James Version), an expression indi...
Chaphenatha
ka-fen'-a-tha (Chaphenatha; the King James Version Caphenatha): A name apparently given to part of the eastern wall of Jerusalem or a fort in that neighborhood which is said (1 ...
Chapiter
chap'-i-ter.SeeARCHITECTURE;JACHIN AND BOAZ;TEMPLE, II, 4.
Chapman
chap'-man (plural 'anshe ha-tarim): Word used only once in the King James Version (2Ch 9:14, the American Standard Revised Version "the traders"; compare also1Ki 10:15the Revise...
Chapt
(chathath): The Hebrew term chathath means "broken," "terrified" or "dismayed." This term as it occurs inJer 14:4is rendered "chapt" in English Versions of the Bible, "cracked" ...