Daysman
daz'-man (yakhach, "to argue, decide, convince," the Revised Version (British and American)UMPIRE): The use of this word appears to have been more common in the 16th century tha...
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Dayspring
da'-spring: This beautiful English word, in current use in the time of the King James Version, is found in the Old Testament as the translation of shachar, "Hast thou.... caused...
Deacon; Deaconess
de'-k'-n, de'-k'-n-es: The term diakonos, and its cognates occur many times in the New Testament, as do its synonyms huperetes, and doulos, with their respective cognates. It ma...
Dead
ded (muth; nekros): Used in several senses:(1) as a substantive, denoting the body deprived of life, as when Abraham speaks of burying his dead (Ge 23);(2) as a collective noun ...
Dead Body
SeeCORPSE.
Dead Sea, The
I. PRESENT AREAII. FORMER ENLARGEMENTIII. LEVEL OF THE DEAD SEA IN EARLY HISTORIC TIMESIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE WATERV. CLIMATEVI. ROADSVII. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS1. The Plain of th...
Dead, Baptism For The
SeeBAPTISM FOR THE DEAD.
Dead, State Of The
SeeHADES.
Deadly
ded'-li: In the Old Testament two words are used in the sense of a "mortal (Hebrew nephesh, "hateful," "foul") enemy" (Ps 17:9), and in the sense of "fatal disease," the destruc...
Deaf
def (cheresh; kophos): Used either in the physical sense, or figuratively as expressing unwillingness to hear the Divine message (Ps 58:4), or incapacity to understand it for wa...
Deal
del: The noun "deal" is not found in the Revised Version (British and American). The King James Version translation of `issaron, "the tenth deal" (Ex 29:40;Le 14:10, et al.) is ...
Dear; Dearly
der, der'-li ("held at a great price," "highly valued"): InAc 20:24, Paul does not hold his life "dear" (timios, "at a price"); compare1Co 3:12, "costly stones";1Pe 1:19, "preci...
Dearth
durth. SeeFAMINE.
Death
(maweth; thanatos):PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FIGURATIVE VIEWThe word "Death" is used in the sense of(1) the process of dying (Ge 21:16);(2) the period of decease (Ge 27:7);(3) as a poss...
Death, Body Of
SeeBODY OF DEATH.
Death, Second
(ho deuteros thanatos): An expression, peculiar to the Book of Rev.(Re 2:11;20:6,14;21:8) in Scripture, denoting the final penalty of the unrighteous; parallel with another expr...
Debate
de-bat': This word is used only once in the Revised Version (British and American) (Pr 25:9). It evidently refers to the settling of a difficulty with a neighbor, and anticipate...
Debir (1)
de'-ber (debhir, or debhir, "oracle"): King of Eglon, one of the five Amorite kings whose confederation against Israel was overcome and who were killed by Joshua (Jos 10:3).
Debir (2)
de'-ber (debhir; Dabeir): "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it: and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and t...
Deborah
deb'-o-ra (debhorah, signifying "bee"):(1) Rebekah's nurse, who died near Bethel and was buried under "the oak of weeping" (Ge 35:8margin).(2) A prophetess, fourth in the order ...
Debt; Debtor
det, det'-er: It is difficult nowadays to think of debt without associating with it the idea of interest, and even usury. Certain it is that this idea is associated with the Old...
Decalogue
dek'-a-log.SeeTEN COMMANDMENTS.
Decapolis
de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" (Mt 4:25;Mr 5:20;7:31), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Pera...
Decay
de-ka': Although this word is still in good use in both its literal sense, of the putrefaction of either animal or vegetable matter, and its derived sense, denoting any deterior...
Decease, In New Testament
de-ses' (teleutao, "to come to an end," "married and deceased" (Mt 22:25)): With thanato, "death," "die the death" (Mt 15:4;Mr 7:10, the Revised Version, margin "surely die"). E...
Decease, In The Old Testament And Apocyphra
de-ses' (rapha', plural repha'im, "ghosts," "shades," is translated by "dead," "dead body," and "deceased" in both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and Am...
Deceit
de-set' (mirmah; (dolos)): The intentional misleading or beguiling of another; in Scripture represented as a companion of many other forms of wickedness, as cursing (Ps 10:7), h...