International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Juniper

joo'-ni-per (rothem; rhathmen,1Ki 19:4f, margin "broom";Ps 120:4, m "broom";Job 30:4translated "broom"): This is quite certainly the Arabic ratam (Retama retem, Natural Order, L...

461

Jupiter

joo'-pi-ter, ju'-pi-ter (Zeus): "Jupiter" is mentioned in 2 Macc 6:2;Ac 14:12,13, with "Zeus" in the Revised Version margin in all cases. In addition the Greek stem appears in d...

462

Jupiter And Mercury

See ASTROLOGY, sec. III, 1; MERCURY; JUPITER.

463

Jurisdiction

joo-ris-dik'-shun (exousia): The word exousia is well known in New Testament Greek. It is derived from the word exesti, and suggests the absence of any hindrance to an act. It c...

464

Jushab-Hesed

joo'-shab-he'-sed (yushabh checedh, "loving-kindness is returned"): Son of Zerubbabel. The name is probably symbolical (1Ch 3:20); compare SHEAR-JASHUB.

465

Justice

jus'-tis (tsedhaqah; tsedheq; dikaiosune): The original Hebrew and Greek words are the same as those rendered "righteousness." This is the common rendering, and in about half th...

466

Justification

jus-ti-fi-ka'-shun (tsedheq, verb tsadheq; Septuagint and New Testament dikaioma, dikaiosis, verb dikaioo, "justification" "to justify," in a legal sense, the declaring just or ...

467

Justle

jus'-l (shaqaq): The word occurs once inNa 2:4(in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)), where the American Standard Revised Version has "rush t...

468

Justus

jus'-tus (Ioustos): There are three of this name mentioned in the New Testament.(1) It was the Roman surname of JOSEPHBARSABBAS(which see) (Ac 1:23).(2) A Corinthian proselyte (...

469

Juttah; Jutah

jut'-a, joo'-ta (yuTTah,Jos 21:16; Septuagint Tanu; and inJos 15:55the King James Version, Septuagint Itan, A, Ietta); ju'-ta (~yaTah],Jos 15:55): A town in the hill country of ...