Plumb-Line; Plummet
plum'-lin, plum'-et, plum'-it.SeeTOOLS.
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Pochereth-Hazzebaim
pok'-e-reth, po'-ke-reth, po-ke'-reth, -ha-ze-ba'-im (pokhereth hatstsebhayim (Ezr 2:57), or pokhereth ha-tsebhayim (Ne 7:59), "binder (feminine) of the gazelles"): Name of the ...
Poet
po'-et (poietes, "a maker"): Occurs in this sense only inAc 17:28, where Paul quotes from the general expression of Greek mythology. The quotation if intended to be exact is pro...
Poetry, Hebrew
po'-et-ri:I. IS THERE POETRY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?Poetry Defined:1. In Matter, Concrete and Imaginative2. In Form, Emotional and RhythmicalII. NEGLECT OF HEBREW POETRY: CAUSESII...
Poetry, New Testament
No one questions the presence of poetry of a high order in the Old Testament. The Study of the Old Testament as the literature of the ancient Hebrews has been critically made, a...
Points
points: The word occurs inEc 5:16, "In all points (`ummah) as he came, so shall he go"--a man leaves the world in all regards as helpless as he entered it, no matter what he may...
Poison
poi'-z'-n (chemah, ro'-sh; thumos, ios): Residents in Palestine must, from the first, have been acquainted with venomous serpents. Six species of these are widely diffused in th...
Pole
pol:Nu 21:8,9the King James Version for nes, Revised Version "standard."
Policy
pol'-i-si: Literally "method of government," and so "ability to manage affairs." In a bad sense, "cunning," "craft," inDa 8:25(sekhel, "understanding"); in a good sense in 1 Mac...
Polished
pol'-isht.See CORNER-STONE, (2).
Poll
pol: The word (on the derivation of which see Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 360) has been eliminated as a verb in the American Standard Revised...
Pollution
po-lu'-shun (ga'al, "to pollute"; alisgema, "contamination"): InMal 1:7, "Ye offer polluted bread," i.e. not actually unclean, but worthless, common (compareEzr 2:62), bread her...
Pollux
pol'-uks.SeeCASTOR AND POLLUX.
Polygamy
po-lig'-a-mi:1. Meaning of the Term2. Origin of Polygamy3. The Old Testament and Polygamy4. Polygamy UnnaturalThe Eunuch5. Weakness of Polygamy1. Meaning of the Term:Polygamy ha...
Pomegranate
pom'-gran-at, pom-gran'-at, pum'-gran-at (rimmon (tree and fruit); the Hebrew name is similar to the Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopic; rhoa):1. A Tree Characteristic of Palestine: O...
Pommel
pum'-el (2Ch 4:12,13): the Revised Version (British and American) reads "bowl" (which see).
Pond
SeeCISTERN;POOL.
Ponder
pon'-der: Occurs in the King James Version 5 times in the Book of Proverbs and nowhere else in the Old Testament. In each case it means "to consider carefully," "to weigh mental...
Pontius
pon'-shi-us, pon'-ti-us.SeePILATE.
Pontus
pon'-tus (Pontos): Was an important province in the northeastern part of Asia Minor, lying along the south shore of the Black Sea. The name was geographical, not ethnical, in or...
Pool; Pond; Reservoir
pool, pond, rez'-er-vwar, rez'-er-vwar ((1) berekhah, "pool"; compare Arabic birkat, "pool"; compare berakhah, "blessing," and Arabic barakat, "blessing"; (2) agham, "pool," "ma...
Pools Of Solomon
poolz.SeeCISTERN;POOL.
Poor
poor ('ebhyon, dal, `ani, rush; ptochos):I. In the Old Testament.The poor have great prominence in the Bible; it is said, indeed, that there should be no poor among the Hebrews ...
Poplar
pop'-lar (libhneh, "whiteness"; sturakinos, "storax" (Ge 30:37), leuke, "poplar" (Ho 4:13) (libhneh is so similar to the Arabic libna, the storax, that the latter certainly has ...
Poratha
po-ra'-tha, por'-a-tha (pora-tha'): One of the sons of Haman (Es 9:8). The etymology is uncertain; perhaps from the Persian purdata, "given by fate."
Porch
porch: Chiefly in the Old Testament 'alam, used of the temples of Solomon and Ezekiel (see TEMPLE); once micderon, a "vestibule," inJud 3:23. In the New Testament, the word occu...
Porch, Portico, Solomon's
por'-ti-ko, (he stoa he kaloumene Solomontos): This important element of Herod's temple, preserving in its name a traditional connection with Solomon, is thrice referred to in t...