Divorce In The Old Testament
di-vors':1. Subordinate Position of Woman:Woman, among the Hebrews, as among most nations of antiquity, occupied a subordinate position. Though the Hebrew wife and mother was tr...
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Doctor
dok'-ter: (InLu 2:46didaskalos) "doctor" is equivalent to "teacher," which latter is the translation of the Revised Version (British and American). So inLu 5:17;Ac 5:34, the Kin...
Doctrine
dok'-trin: Latin doctrina, from doceo, "to teach," denotes both the act of teaching and that which is taught; now used exclusively in the latter sense.1. Meaning of Terms:(1) In...
Docus
do'-kus. SeeDOK.
Dodai
do'-di, do'-da-i (1Ch 27:4). SeeDODO.
Dodanim
do'-da-nim (dodhanim, "leaders"): InGe 10:4, the son of Javan, the son of Japheth. This would place the Dodanim among the Ioninns. The parallel passage1Ch 1:7, with the Septuagi...
Dodavahu
do-dav'-a-hu (dodhawahu, "loved of God"; the King James Version Dodavah): Father of Eliezer of Mareshah, a prophet in the days of Jehoshaphat (2Ch 20:37).
Dodo; Dodai
do'-do, (dodho, dodhay, "beloved"):(1) The grandfather of Tola of the tribe of Issachar, one of the judges (Jud 10:1).(2) "The Ahohite," father of Eleazar, one of David's heroes...
Doe
do. SeeDEER.
Doeg
do'-eg (do'-egh "anxious," "cared for"): "The Edomite," a servant of Saul, who watched David's intercourse with the priest Ahimelech, then denounced the priest to the king, and ...
Dog
kelebh; (compare Arabic kelb, "dog"); kuon; (and diminutive kunarion): References to the dog, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, are usually of a contemptuous c...
Dogma
dog'-ma (dogma, from dokeo, "that which seems," "an opinion," particularly the opinion of a philosopher):1. As Law and Ordinance:In the decadent period of Greek philosophy, the ...
Dok
dok (Dok, Dagon): A small fortress, "little stronghold" near Jericho (1 Macc 16:15), built by Ptolemy, son of Abubus, where he entertained and murdered his father-in-law Simon M...
Doleful
dol'-fool ('oach, "howling"): The "doleful creatures" referred to inIsa 13:21are probably "jackals," although some have suggested "leopard," or "hyena." The older English Versio...
Dolphin
dol'-fin. SeeBADGER.
Dominion
do-min'-yun: InEph 1:21;Col 1:16the word so translated (kuriotes) appears to denote a rank or order of angels. The same word is probably to be so interpreted inJude 1:8(the King...
Doom
doom: Occurs only once in the King James Version (2 Esdras 7:43), "The day of doom shall be the end of this time" (the Revised Version (British and American) "the day of judgmen...
Door
dor: Most commonly the rendering of Hebrew pethach, "doorway," deleth, "door" proper (the two distinguished inGe 19:6), or of Greek thura, which represents both meanings. The do...
Doorkeeper
dor'-kep-er (sho`er): The gates of an oriental city and of the temple courts so closely resembled the door of a house that the same Hebrew word was used for doorkeeper and gatek...
Doorpost
dor'-post. SeeHOUSE.
Dophkah
dof'-ka (dophqah, "drover"): A desert camp of the Israelites, the first after leaving the wilderness of Sin (Nu 33:12,13). SeeWANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
Dor; Dora
dor, do'-ra (do'r, dor, "habitation," "circle"; Dor; Josephus, Dora; modern TanTurah): A town of the coast of Palestine, South of Carmel (Apion, II, 10; Vita, 8), about 8 miles ...
Dorcas
dor'-kas (Dorkas, the Greek equivalent of Aramaic tabitha, "a gazelle"): The name was borne by a Christian woman of Joppa. She is called a disciple (mathetria:Ac 9:36, the only ...
Dorymenes
do-rim'-e-nez (Dorumenes): Father of Ptolemy Macron (1 Macc 3:38; 2 Macc 4:45); probably the same man who fought against Antiochus the Great (Polyb. v.61).
Dositheus
do-sith'-e-us (Dositheos):(1) A captain of Judas Maccabeus (2 Macc 12:19-25); along with Sosipater he captured Timotheus after the battle of Carnion, but granted him his life an...
Dotaea
do-te'-a (the King James Version, incorrectly, Judea; Dotaia): Another form of the nameDOTHAN(which see).
Dote
dot: "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed inEze 23:5ff; in the former, inJer 50:36the King James Version (the ...