Diminish
di-min'-ish: the Revised Version (British and American) has retained nearly all passages of the King James Version where "to diminish" is used. Some of these uses have become ob...
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Dimnah
dim'-na (dimnah, "dung"; Damna): A city of the Merarite Levites in the territory of Zebulun (Jos 21:35). The name is probably a clerical error for Rimmon.
Dimon; Dimonah
di'-mon, di-mo'-na. SeeDIBON.
Dinah
di'-na (dinah, "justice"): The daughter of Jacob and Leah, whose violation by Shechem, son of Hamor, caused her brothers, especially Simeon and Levi, to slay the inhabitants of ...
Dinaites
di'-na-its (dinaye'): A people mentioned inEzr 4:9, as settled in the city of Samaria by Osnappar (Assurbanipal). The identification is uncertain.
Dinhabah
din'-ha-ba, din-ha'-ba (dinhabhah): The royal city of Bela, son of Beor; king of Edom (Ge 36:32;1Ch 1:43). There may be a resemblance in the name of Hodbat et-Teneib. about 8 mi...
Dinner
din'-er (ariston;Mt 22:4;Lu 11:38(the Revised Version, margin "breakfast");Lu 14:12; compareRu 2:14;Joh 21:13): In oriental as in classical lands it was customary, in ancient ti...
Dionysia
di-o-nish'-i-a (Dionusia, "festivals of Dionysus" (Bacchus)): The rural (vintage) Dionysia were celebrated in the month of Poseideon (19th day), which is roughly our December. T...
Dionysius
di-o-nish'-i-us (Dionusios, surnamed "the Areopagite"): One of the few Athenians converted by Paul (Ac 17:34). We know nothing further about him (seeAREOPAGUS). According to one...
Dionysus, (Bacchus)
di-o-ni'-sus (Dionusos): The youngest of the Greek gods. In Homer he is not associated with the vine. In later Greek legend he is represented as coming from India, as traversing...
Dioscorinthius
di-os-ko-rin'-thi-us: A certain (unidentified) month (2 Macc 11:21). SeeCALENDAR;TIME.
Dioscuri
di-os'-ku-ri (Dioscouroi; inAc 28:11, the King James Version Castor and Pollux, the Revised Version (British and American)THE TWIN BROTHERS; in margin, "Dioscuri"): The sign of ...
Diotrephes
di-ot'-re-fez (Diotrephes): A person mentioned in3Joh 1:9,10as contentiously resisting the writer's authority and forbidding others from exercising the Christian hospitality whi...
Dip
Priests when offering a sin offering were required to dip a finger into the blood of the sacrificed bullock and "to sprinkle of the blood seven times before Yahweh" (compareLe 4...
Diphath
di'-fath (diphath): A son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah (1Ch 1:6), calledRIPHATH(which see) in the corresponding genealogy inGe 10:3.
Disallow
dis-a-lou': "To disallow" as used in the Scriptures means either "to oppose," "not permit" (Hebrew no',Nu 30:5,8,11), or "to reject" (Greek apodokimazo, literally, "to consider ...
Disannul
dis-a-nul'. SeeANNUL.
Disappoint
dis-a-point': "To disappoint" may be used transitively or intransitively. In the former case it naturally has a more forceful meaning. Therefore the Revised Version (British and...
Discern
di-zurn': Five Hebrew words are thus translated: bin, yadha`, nakhar, ra'ah and shama`. It may simply mean "observe" (bin), "I discerned among the youths" (Pr 7:7); or discrimin...
Discernings Of Spirits
di-zurn'-inz, (diakriseis pneumaton, "judicial estimation," "through judgment or separation"): Occurs in1Co 12:10as being one of the gifts of the Spirit. The Greek word occurs i...
Disciple
di-si'-p'-l:(1) Usually a substantive (mathetes, "a learner," from manthano, "to learn"; Latin discipulus, "a scholar"): The word is found in the Bible only in the Gospels and A...
Discipline
dis'-i-plin (mucar): In the King James Version only inJob 36:10, where it refers to moral discipline, the strenuous cultivation of the righteous life; the Revised Version (Briti...
Discomfit; Discomfiture
dis-kum'-fit, dis-kum'-fi-tur (hum, mehumah): These words are now obsolete or at least obsolescent and are confined in Biblical literature wholly to the Old Testament. The meani...
Discourse
dis-kors': In the Revised Version (British and American) ofAc 20:7,9, the translation of Greek dialegomai (the King James Version "preach"), elsewhere rendered, according to the...
Discover
dis-kuv'-er: In modern usage the word "discover" signifies "to get first sight or knowledge of," "to ascertain," or "to explore." Such usage appears in1Sa 22:6of the discovery o...
Discrepancies, Biblical
dis-krep'-an-siz, bib'-li-kal:1. Definition:By this term should be understood substantial disagreements in the statements of Biblical writers. Such disagreements might subsist b...
Discus
dis'-kus (diskos, "the summons of the discus," 2 Macc 4:14 margin, "to the game of the discus," the King James Version "the game of discus"): The discus was a round stone slab o...