Descend; Descent
de-send', de-sent' (yaradh; katabaino, "go down"); (katabasis): Of Yahweh (Ex 34:5); of the Spirit (Mt 3:16); of angels (Ge 28:12;Mt 28:2;Joh 1:51); of Christ (1Th 4:16;Eph 4:9)...
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Descent, Of Jesus
de-sent'.SeeAPOCRYPHAL GOSPELS.
Describe
de-skrib': This verb, now obsolete, in the sense used inJos 18:4,6,8,9andJud 8:14, is a translation of kathabh, usually rendered "to write" or "inscribe." But in the above passa...
Descry
de-skri': This word like "describe" came into the English through the French descrire (Latin, describere); it occurs only in the King James Version ofJud 1:23: "And the house of...
Desert
dez'-ert midhbar, chorbah, yeshimon, `arabhah, tsiyah, tohu; eremos, eremia: Midhbar, the commonest word for "desert," more often rendered "wilderness," is perhaps from the root...
Desire
de-zir': The verb "to desire" in the Scriptures usually means "to long for," "to ask for," "to demand," and may be used in a good or bad sense (compareDe 7:25the King James Vers...
Desire Of All Nations
This phrase occurs only inHag 2:7(King James Version, the English Revised Version "desirable things," the American Revised Version, margin "things desired"), and is commonly app...
Desolate
des'-o-lat (very frequently in the Old Testament for shamem, and its derivatives; less frequently, charebh, and its derivatives, and other words. In the New Testament it stands ...
Desolation, Abomination Of
SeeABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.
Despair
de-spar': The substantive only in2Co 4:8, "perplexed, but not in (the Revised Version (British and American) "yet not unto") despair," literally, "being at a loss, but not utter...
Despite; Despiteful
de-spit', de-spit'-fool: "Despite" is from Latin despectus, "a looking down upon." As a noun (= "contempt") it is now generally used in its shortened form, "spite," while the lo...
Dessau
des'-o, des'-a-u (Dessaou (2 Macc 14:16)): the Revised Version (British and American)LESSAU(which see).
Destiny, (Meni)
des'-ti-ni: A god of Good Luck, possibly the Pleiades.SeeASTROLOGY, 10;MENI.
Destroyer
de-stroi'-er: In several passages the word designates a supernatural agent of destruction, or destroying angel, executing Divine judgment.(1) InEx 12:23, of the "destroyer" who ...
Destruction
de-struk'-shun: In the King James Version this word translates over 30 Hebrew words in the Old Testament, and 4 words in the New Testament. Of these the most interesting, as hav...
Destruction, City Of Heliopolis Or City Of The Sun
(Isa 19:18). SeeASTRONOMY, sec. I, 2; IR-HA-HERES; ON.
Determinate
de-tur'-mi-nat (horismenos, "determined," "fixed"): Only inAc 2:23, "by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of. God," Greek horismenos, from horizo, "to set boundaries," "...
Determine
de-tur'-min:(1) "To resolve," "decide." This is the primary meaning of the word and it is also the one that is the most common. In the New Testament the Greek word krino, is tra...
Detestable, Things
de-tes'-ta-b'-l, (shiqquts; sheqets, synonymous with to`ebhah, "abomination," "abominable thing"): The translation of shiqqutsim inJer 16:18;Eze 5:11;7:20;11:18,21;37:23; a term...
Deuel
du'-el, de-u'-el de`u'el, ("knowledge of God"): A Gadite, the father of Eliasaph, the representative of the tribe of Gad in the census-taking (Nu 1:14), in making the offering o...
Deutero-Canonical, Books
du-ter-o-ka-non'-i-kal: A term sometimes used to designate certain books, which by the Council of Trent were included in the Old Testament, but which the Protestant churches des...
Deuteronomy
du-ter-on'-o-mi:1. Name2. What Deuteronomy Is3. Analysis4. Ruling Ideas5. Unity6. Authorship7. Deuteronomy Spoken Twice8. Deuteronomy's Influence in Israel's History9. The Criti...
Device
de-vis': "A scheme," "invention," "plot." In the Old Testament it stands for six Hebrew words, of which the most common is machashebheth (from chashabh, "to think," "contrive")....
Devil
dev'-'-l. SeeDEMON;SATAN.
Devoted, Things
de-vot'-ed, (cherem).SeeCURSE;DEDICATE.
Devotion; Devotions
de-vo'-shun, (sebasmata): For the King James Version "your devotions" (Ac 17:23), the Revised Version (British and American) has "the objects of your worship," which is probably...
Devout
de-vout' (eulabes, eusebes, sebomai, "pious," "dutiful," "reverential"): The word is peculiar to Luke. Applied to Simeon (Lu 2:25), Cornelius (Ac 10:2,7), Ananias (Ac 22:12). "D...