Pruning-Hook
proon'-ing-hook.See HOOK, (3); VINE.
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Psalms, Book Of
samz, (tehillim, "praises," cepher tehillim, "book of praises"; Psalmoi, Psalterion):I. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS1. Title2. Place in the Canon3. Number of Psalms4. Titles in the Hebre...
Psalms, Imprecatory
im'-pre-ka-to-ri, im-pre-ka'-ter-i.See PSALMS, VI, 7.
Psalter, (Psalms), Of Solomon
sol'-ter.See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, sec. III, 1; BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS, sec. IV, 1, (1), (b).
Psaltery
sol'-ter-i.SeeMUSIC.
Psaltiel
sol'-ti-el: Syriac and the Revised Version margin = "Phaltiel" of 2 Esdras 5:16.
Pseudo-Matthew, Gospel Of
su'-do-math'-u.See APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS, III, 1, (b).
Psychology
si-kol'-o-ji:1. Introduction: Scope of Biblical Psychology2. Nature and Origin of the Soul3. False Theories4. Creationism and Traducianism5. Trichotomy6. Scriptural Terms7. Paul...
Ptolemais
tol-e-ma'-is (Ptolemais): Same as "Acco" inJud 1:31. Ptolemais was the most prominent town on the Phoenician seacoast in Maccabean times (1 Macc 5:15,55; 10:1,58,60; 12:48), and...
Ptolemy
tol'-e-mi (Ptolemaios, but usually called Ptolemy--"the Warlike"): The name Ptolemy is rather common from the days of Alexander the Great, but is best known as the dynastic name...
Puah; Puvah
pu'-a, pu'-va: (1) pu'ah: One of the Hebrew midwives whom the king of Egypt commanded to kill all male children of the Hebrews at birth. The midwives, fearing God, refused to ob...
Publican
pub'-li-kan.See TAX, TAXING.
Publius
pub'-li-us (Poplios, from the Latin praenomen Publius, derived from populus, "popular"; according to Ramsay it is the Greek form of the Latin nomen Popilius; the Greek title mea...
Pudens
pu'-denz, pu'-dens (Poudes, literally, "bashful" (2Ti 4:21)):1. Faithful to Paul:One of the Christians in Rome who remained loyal to Paul during his second and last imprisonment...
Puhites
pu'-hits (puthi).SeePUTHITES.
Pul
pul:(1) An Assyrian king (2Ki 15:19).See TIGLATH-PILESER.(2) An African country and people (Isa 66:19).SeePUT.
Pulpit
pool'-pit:Ne 8:4, "Ezra the scribe stood upon a mighdol of wood." Mighdol is one of the commonest words in the Old Testament and means simply a high object--here a scaffolding o...
Pulse
puls (zero'-im (Da 1:12margin, "herbs"), zere'onim (Da 1:16); compare zerua`, "sowing seed" (Le 11:37), and zeru'im, "things sown" (Isa 61:11)):(1) InDa 1:12,16, it must mean he...
Punishment, Everlasting
pun'-ish-ment:I. PRELIMINARY ASSUMPTIONS1. Survival after Death2. Retribution for Sin3. Conscious Suffering in FutureII. SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT1. Old Testament and Jewish Conception...
Punishments
pun'-ish-ments ('awon, "fault," "iniquity," "punishment for iniquity," "sin" (Ge 4:13;Le 26:41;Job 19:29;Ps 149:7;La 4:22;Eze 14:10margin;Am 1:3,6,9,11,13;2:1,4,6), `onesh, "tri...
Punites
pu'-nits (puni, probably "dark"): Descendants of Puvah, of the tribe of Issachar (Nu 26:23; compareGe 46:13;Jud 10:1;1Ch 7:1).
Punon
pu'-non (punon): A desert camp of the Israelites, the second after leaving Mt. Hor (Nu 33:42,43). Eusebius (Onom 299 85; 123 9) mentions an Idumean village, North of Petra, in t...
Pur
pur (Es 3:7;9:26).SeePURIM.
Purah
pu'-ra (purah, "branch"): Gideon's "servant," literally, "young man," i.e. armor-bearer (Jud 7:10f, the King James Version "Phurah").
Purchase
pur'-chats: In modern English, "to acquire by payment," in Elizabethan English, "to acquire" by any means. In the Old Testament, the King James Version has used "purchase" to re...
Pure; Purely; Purity
pur, pur'-li, pu'-ri-ti: This group of words has in the Old Testament and the New Testament an almost exclusively ethical significance, though the word "pure" is of course used ...
Purge
purj: A number of words in both the Old Testament and the New Testament are so rendered in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), although freque...