Trees, Shady
sha'-di.SeeLOTUS TREES.
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Trees, Thick
SeeTHICK TREES.
Trench
trench, trensh.See SIEGE, (5), (8).
Trespass
tres'-pas: To pass over, to go beyond one's right in place or act; to injure another; to do that which annoys or inconveniences another; any violation of law, civil or moral; it...
Trespass Offering
SeeSACRIFICE.
Trial
tri'-al.See COURTS, JUDICIAL; SANHEDRIN.
Trial Of Jesus
See JESUS CHRIST, THE ARREST AND TRIAL OF.
Tribe
trib (in the Old Testament always for matteh, 183 times, or shebhet, 145 times, also spelled shebhet; Aramaic shebhat (Ezr 6:17)): Both words mean "staff," and perhaps "company ...
Tribulation
trib-u-la'-shun (tsar, tsar, "staid," "narrow," "pent up"; compareNu 22:26):1. In the Old Testament:Closely pressed, as of seals (Job 41:15(7)); of streams pent up (Isa 59:9marg...
Tribute
trib'-ut (mac, "tribute," really meaning "forced laborers," "labor gang" (1Ki 4:6;9:15,21); also "forced service," "serfdom"; possibly "forced payment" is meant inEs 10:1; the i...
Tribute Money
(to nomisma tou kensou (Mt 22:19), "the coin used in payment of the imperial taxes"): Lit. "the lawful money of the tax," which, in the case of the poll tax, had to be paid in c...
Triclinium
tri-klin'-ti-um (Latin from Greek triklinion, from tri and kline, "a couch"): A couch for reclining at meals among the ancient Romans, arranged along three sides of a square, th...
Trim
The only non-modern use is inJer 2:33, "How trimmest thou thy way to seek love!" used for yatabh, "to make good," here "to study out," and the whole phrase means "to walk in an ...
Trine Immersion; Triune Immersion
trin tri'-un i-mur'-shun:I. LINGUISTIC BASIS1. Immersion2. Triple ActionII. DOCTRINAL ARGUMENTIII. HISTORICAL PRACTICE1. The Jews2. John the Baptist3. The Didache4. Justin Marty...
Trinity
trin'-i-ti1. The Term "Trinity"2. Purely a Revealed Doctrine3. No Rational Proof of It4. Finds Support in Reason5. Not Clearly Revealed in the Old Testament6. Prepared for in th...
Tripolis
trip'-o-lis (Tripoils, "triple city"): Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having fled from Rome, collected "a mighty host and fleet," sailed into the haven of Tripoils, took the cit...
Triumph
tri'-umf (thriambeuo, "to lead in triumph"): The word is used by Paul to express an idea very familiar to antiquity, and to the churches at Corinth and Colosse: "But thanks be u...
Troas
tro'-as (Troas): The chief city in the Northwest of Asia Minor, on the coast of Mysia in the Roman province of Asia. From here, according toAc 16:8, Paul sailed. Here, also, acc...
Trogyllium
tro-jil'-i-um, tro-gil'-i-um (Trogullion): According toAc 20:15the King James Version, the American Revised Version margin, the ship in which Paul sailed to Caesatea on his retu...
Troop
troop.SeeARMY.
Trophimus
trof'-i-mus (Trophimos, literally, "a foster child" (Ac 20:4;21:29;2Ti 4:20)): An Asiatic Christian, a friend and companion-in-travel of the apostle Paul.1. An Ephesian:In the f...
Trough
trof.SeeSHEEP TENDING;BREAD.
Trow
tro: An obsolete verb meaning "to believe"; compare "trust" and the German trauen. It occurs only inLu 17:9, the King James Version "Doth he thank that servant....? I trow not,"...
Trucebkeaker
troos'-brak-er: The King James Version rendering in2Ti 3:3of aspondos, literally, "without a libation." As a libation always accompanied the making of a treaty in Greek lands, t...
Trump; Trumpet
trump, trum'-pet, trum'pit.SeeMUSIC.
Trumpets, Feast Of
1. Description:InLe 23:23-25the first day (new moon) of the seventh month is set apart as a solemn rest, "a memorial of blowing of trumpets" (the Hebrew leaves "of trumpets" to ...
Trust, Breach Of
The clearest reference to the crime designated by this modern expression is found inLe 6:2-7, where the transgression is defined and the penalty set forth. Breach of covenant or...