Unicorn
u'-ni-korn (re'em (Nu 23:22;24:8;De 33:17;Job 39:9,10;Ps 22:21;29:6;92:10;Isa 34:7)): "Unicorn" occurs in the King James Version in the passages cited, where the Revised Version...
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Unity
u'-ni-ti:Ps 133:1for (yachadh, "unitedness," andEph 4:3,13for henotes "oneness." Also Sirach 25:1 the King James Version for homonoia "concord" (so the Revised Version (British ...
Unknown God
un-non', (agnostos theos): InAc 17:23(St. Paul's speech in Athens) the American Standard Revised Version reads: "I found also an altar with this inscription, To AN UNKNOWN GOD. ...
Unlearned
un-lur'-ned:Ac 4:13for agrammatos, literally "illiterate." But nothing more than "lacking technical rabbinical instruction" seems to be meant (compareJoh 7:15).1Co 14:16,23,24fo...
Unleavened
un-lev'-'-nd.SeeLEAVEN;PASSOVER;SACRIFICE.
Unnatural Vice
un-nat'-u-ral vis.SeeCRIMES;PUNISHMENTS.
Unni
un'-i (`unni, meaning unknown): (1) One of "the twelve brethren" (so Curtis for the Revised Version (British and American) "brethren of the second degree") appointed as singers ...
Unno
un'-o (`unno; the Septuagint omits the name, but in Codex Sinaiticus, a later hand has added Iana; the Qere of the Massoretic Text has `unni, as in1Ch 15:18, whence the King Jam...
Unpardonable Sin
un-par'-dn-a-bl.SeeBLASPHEMY.
Unquenchable Fire
un-kwench'-a-b'-l, pur asbestos): The phrase occurs inMt 3:12and its parallelLu 3:17in the words of the Baptist on the Messianic judgment: "The chaff he will burn up with unquen...
Untempered
un-tem'-perd (taphel): Used of mortar inEze 13:10-15;22:28. Taphel probably refers to mortar made with clay instead of slaked lime. In the interior of Palestine and Syria walls ...
Untoward
un-to'-erd, un-tord' (skolios): Appears only inAc 2:40, the King James Version "Save yourselves from this untoward generation." It means "perverse," "willful," "crooked," and is...
Unwalled
un-wold'.SeeVILLAGE;WALL.
Unwashen
un-wosh'-'-n (aniptos): Occurs only twice in the New Testament, not at all in the Hebrew or Greek Old Testament (Mt 15:20=Mr 7:2). Jesus is here denouncing the traditionalism of...
Unworthly
un-wur'-thi-li:1Co 11:27,29the King James Version for anaxios. In 11:29, the Revised Version (British and American), on convincing textual evidence, has omitted the word, which ...
Unwritten, Sayings
un-rit'-'-n.SeeAGRAPHA.
Upharsin
u-far'-sin (upharsin).See MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Uphaz
u'-faz ('uphaz): A gold-bearing region, mentioned inJer 10:9;Da 10:5, otherwise unknown. Perhaps in both passages Ophir, which differs in one consonant only, should be read. In ...
Upper Chamber; Upper Room
up'-er cham'-ber, (`aliyah (2Ki 1:2), etc.; anogeon (Mr 14:15;Lu 22:12), huperoon (Ac 1:13;9:37,39;20:8)): InJud 3:20the English Revised Version renders "summer parlor" and in t...
Ur
ur ('ur, "flame"; Codex Vaticanus Sthur; Codex Sinaiticus Ora): Father of Eliphal, one of David's "mighty men," in1Ch 11:35; in the parallel2Sa 23:34called "Ahasbai."
Ur Of The Chaldees
kal'-dez ('ur kasdim; he chora (ton) Chaldaion): For more than 2,000 years efforts have been made to identify the site of this city. The writers of the Septuagint, either being ...
Urbane
ur'-ban, -ban'.SeeURBANUS.
Urbanus
ur-ba'-nus (Ourbanos; the King James Version Urbane): A common slave name. Gifford says that it is found "as here, in juxtaposition with Ampliatus, in a list of imperial freedme...
Uri
u'-ri, oo'-ri (uri (uwri in1Ki 4:19), "fiery," unless the word be contracted for 'uriyah, "Uriah"):(1) Son of Hur, and father of Bezalel (Ex 31:2;35:30;38:22;1Ch 2:20;2Ch 1:5).(...
Uriah; Uruah
u-ri'-a, u-ri'-ja ('uriyah, inJer 26:20'uriyahu, "flame of Yahweh" or "my light is Yahweh"; the Septuagint and the New Testament Our(e)ias, with variants; the King James Version...
Urias (1)
u-ri'-as (Oureias; Codex Vaticanus (b) Ouria; Codex Alexandrinus Ouri; the King James Version Iri):(1) The father of Marmoth (1 Esdras 8:62) = "Uriah" ofEzr 8:33, and perhaps id...
Urias (2)
(Ourias): the King James Version; Greek form of "Uriah" (thus the Revised Version (British and American)). The husband of Bath-sheba (Mt 1:6).