American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Redeemer

A name given to Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, because he redeems mankind from the bondage and guilt of their sins, by dying in their place, and thus paying their ranso...

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Reed

Sometimes a stalk or rod of any plant, as of the hyssop, Mt 27:48Joh 19:29.Usually, however, the word reed denotes a reed or cane growing in marshy grounds, Job 40:21Isa 19:6; s...

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Refuge, Cities Of

To provide security for those who should undesignedly kill a man, the Lord commanded Moses to appoint six cities of refuge, or asylums, that any one who should thus shed blood m...

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Regeneration

The new birth; that work of the Holy Spirit by which the soul, previously dead in sins, is created anew in Christ unto righteousness. It is expressed in Scripture by being born ...

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Rehabiah

A grandson of Moses, and the only son of Eliezer; his numerous posterity are mentioned as betokening the divine favor, 1Ch 23:17.

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Rehob

1. A Levitical city in Asher, Jos 19:28; 21:31, on the northern border of the Holy Land, called also Beth-rehob, and lying in a valley south of Anti-Lebanon, not far north of Da...

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Rehoboam

The son and successor of Solomon, by Naamah, an Ammonitess, 1Ki 12:1-33 14:21-31 2Ch 10:1-12:16. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and was therefore born at the...

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Rehoboth

1. A city of ancient Assyria, site unknown, Ge 10:11.2. A place in the wilderness south of Gerar and Beersheba, so named by Isaac on the occasion of his digging a well there, Ge...

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Rehum

An officer of the king of Persia, in Samaria, during the rebuilding of the temple; by an insidious letter to the king he procured an edict for the discontinuance of this work fo...

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Reins

OrKIDNEYS. The Hebrews often make the reins the seat of the affections, and ascribe to them knowledge, joy, pain, pleasure; hence in Scripture it is said that God searches the h...

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Remphan

An idol, the same as Chiun. Compare Am 5:26Ac 7:43. SeeCHIUN.

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Repentance

A change of mind, accompanied with regret and sorrow for something done, and an earnest wish that it was undone. Such was the repentance of Juda, Mt 27:3; and so it is said that...

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Repetitions

In prayers, which our Saviour censures, Mt 6:7, were short forms or particular expressions in prayer, which the Jews were accustomed to repeat a certain number of times. So Roma...

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Rephaim

The Hebrew word is used in two distinct significations.1.REPHAIMis used to comprehend all the gigantic races of the Canaanites, of whom there were several families. There were R...

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Rephidim

An encampment of the Israelites between the wilderness of Sin and mount Sinai, where the people murmured, and God gave them water from the rock. Here also the Amalekites attacke...

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Reprobate

Rejected as not enduring the test of worthiness, Jer 6:30. Some men are spoken of as reprobate even in this life, being hardened in sin and unbelief, Ro 1:282Ti 3:8Tit 1:16.

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Resen

An ancient Assyrian city, between Nineveh and Calah, Ge 10:12. Its exact position cannot now be determined.

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Respect Of Persons

The judges of the Hebrews were directed to give sentence strictly according to truth and justice, without regard to the comparative wealth, influence or other advantage of one p...

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Rest

In Ac 9:31, refers to the respite from persecution enjoyed by the Christians in Palestine, after the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, during the last two years of Caligula’s short ...

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Restitution

Job 20:10,18. The repairing of wrongs done, and the restoring of what one has wrongfully taken from another, are strictly enjoined in Scripture, and are a necessary evidence of ...

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Resurrection Of Christ

This is of fundamental importance in Christianity, both historically and doctrinally. As a fact indisputable proved, it was the crowning demonstration of the truth of all Christ...

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Resurrection Of The Dead

It is the peculiar glory of the New Testament that it makes a full revelation of this great doctrine, which was questioned or derided by the wisest of the heathen, Ac 17:32. In ...

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Reuben

Behold, a son! The eldest son of Jacob and Leah, so-called in reference to the sentiment of his mother, "The Lord hath looked on my affliction," Ge 29:32. Reuben, having defiled...

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Revelation

An extraordinary and supernatural disclosure made by God, whether by dream, vision, ecstasy, or otherwise, of truths beyond man’s unaided power to discover. Paul, alluding to hi...

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Revenger

OrAVENGER OF BLOOD, is a name given in Scripture to the man who had the right, according to the Jewish polity, of taking revenge on him who had killed one of his relations. If a...

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Rezeph

A city conquered by the Assyrians, 2Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12. It is thought to have been afterwards called Rasapha, and to have stood some twenty-five miles west of the Euphrates tow...

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Rezin

A king of Damascene Syria, who united with Pekah king of Israel to invade Judah, B. C. 742, 2Ki 15:1-38,37; 16:5-10; Isa 7:1. Turning away from before Jerusalem, Rezin extended ...