International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Comprehend

kom-pre-hend': Used in a twofold sense in both the Old Testament and New Testament. This double meaning appears in two Hebrew and two Greek words which signify in turn(1) mental...

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Conaniah

kon-a-ni'-a (konanyahu, "Jah has rounded or sustained"; the King James Version Cononiah):(1) A Levite, appointed with his brother Shimei by Hezekiah, the king, and Azariah, the ...

462

Conceal

kon-sel' (parakalupto): Found but once in the New Testament (Lu 9:45). The primary meaning is to cover by hanging something in front of the object hidden. The purpose of the one...

463

Conceit

kon-set': An idiomatic rendering of a phrase, phronimoi en heautois, inRo 11:25;12:16; meaning literally, "wise with one's self," i.e. "in one's own opinion," or, as in parallel...

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Conception, Immaculate

SeeIMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

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Conception; Conceive

kon-sep'-shun, kon-sev' (harah, and derivatives; sullambano): Physically, the beginning of a new life in the womb of a mother, "to catch on," used thus some forty times, as inGe...

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Concerning

kon-surn'-ing:The Revised Version (British and American) makes frequent changes, such as "for," "as for," "from," "about," for "concerning"; "concerning" instead of "for," "of,"...

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Concision

kon-sizh'-un (katatome, "mutilation," "cutting"): A term by which Paul contemptuously designates the merely fleshly circumcision upon which the Judaizers insisted as being neces...

468

Conclude

kon-klood' (sumbibazo): Used only inAc 16:10, where the King James Version has "assuredly gathering," i.e. "inferring." Where the King James Version has "conclude," the Revised ...

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Conclusion

kon-kloo'-zhun (coph): InEc 12:13the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "the end," namely, a summary of the entire argument of the book.

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Concordance

kon-kor'-dans:1. Nature of Work2. Classes of Concordances3. Their Indispensableness4. Concordances to Latin Vulgate5. Concordances to the Hebrew Old Testament6. Concordances to ...

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Concourse

kon'-kors (hamah, "to hum," "to make a noise"; sustrophe, "a turning" or "twisting together"): Hamah, usually translated by some word signifying "sound" is rendered "concourse" ...

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Concubinage

kon-ku'-bi-naj.SeeFAMILY.

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Concupiscence

kon-ku'-pi-sens (epithumia): Not used in the Revised Version (British and American), but in the King James Version,Ro 7:8;Col 3:5;1Th 4:5. The Greek noun, like the verb from whi...

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Condemn; Condemnation

kon-dem', kon-dem-na'-shun:1. In the Old Testament:(1) The causative stem of rasha` "to declare (or make) wrong," "to condemn," whether in civil, ethical or religious relations....

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Condescension, Of Christ

kon-de-sen'-shun.SeeKENOSIS.

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Conduct

kon'-dukt.SeeETHICS.

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Conduit

kon'-dit.SeeCISTERN.

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Coney

ko'-ni (shaphan (Le 11:5;De 14:7;Ps 104:18;Pr 30:26)): The word "coney" (formerly pronounced cooney) means "rabbit" (from Latin cuniculus). Shaphan is rendered in all four passa...

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Confection; Confectionary

kon-fek'-shun, kon-fek'-shun-a-ri (roqach "perfume," "spice," raqqahah, feminine "perfumer"):(1) "Confection" is found in the King James Version only and but once "a confection ...

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Confederate; Confederacy

kon-fed'-er-at, kon-fed'-er-a-si: "Confederate" as an adjective in the sense of united or leagued is twice the translation of berith "covenant," in several instances translated ...

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Confer; Conference

kon'-fer, kon'-ferens: The equivalent of three Greek words of different shades of meaning. InGa 1:16, prosanatithemi, had been used in classical writers for resorting to oracles...

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Confession

kon-fesh'-un (yadhah; homologeo, and their derivatives): The radical meaning is "acknowledgment," "avowal," with the implication of a change of conviction or of course of conduc...

483

Confidence

kon'-fi-dens (baTach, and forms, kecel; parrhesia; peitho, pepoithesis, hupostasis): The chief Hebrew word translated "confidence" (baTach, and its forms) means, perhaps, radica...

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Confirm; Confirmation

kon-furm, konfer-ma'-shun: In the Old Testament represented by several Hebrew words, generally with reference to an increase of external strength, as "c. the feeble knees" (Isa ...

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Confiscation

kon-fis-ka'-shun.SeePUNISHMENTS.

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Conflict

kon'-flikt (agon, "contest," "fight"): InPhp 1:30, "having the same c. which ye saw in me," andCol 2:1the King James Version;1Th 2:2(the King James Version "contention"); athles...