Delay
de-la': The noun "delay" (Ac 25:17, "I made no delay"; the King James Version "without any delay") means "procrastination." The verb "to delay" (Ex 22:29; 'achar) involves the i...
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Delectable
de-lek'-ta-bl (chamadh, "to desire"): Found only inIsa 44:9, King James Version: "Their delectable things shall not profit," the King James Version margin"desirable." the Americ...
Delicacy
del'-i-ka-si (to strenos): Found only inRe 18:3, King James Version: "The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies." the Revised Version (Br...
Delicate; Delicately
del'-i-kat, del'-i-kat-li (`edhen, `anogh; en truphe): "Delicate" usually an adjective, but once a substantive (Jer 51:34the King James Version). "He hath filled his belly (the ...
Deliciously
de-lish'-us-li (streniao "to live hard or wantonly"): "She (Babylon).... lived deliciously" (Re 18:7,9the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "wantonl...
Delight
de-lit' (verb, chaphets, ratsah, sha`a`; sunedomai): "To delight" is most frequently expressed by chaphets, which means originally "to bend" (compareJob 40:17, "He moveth his ta...
Delightsome
de-lit'-sum: chephets, is rendered "delightsome":Mal 3:12, "Ye shall be a delightsome land," literally, "a land of delight."
Delilah
de-li'-la (delilah, "dainty one," perhaps; Septuagint Daleida, Dalida): The woman who betrayed Samson to the Philistines (Jud 16). She was presumably a Philistine, though that i...
Deliver
de-liv'-er (natsal, nathan; rhuomai, paradidomi): Occurs very frequently in the Old Testament and represents various Hebrew terms.The English word is used in two senses,(1) "to ...
Delos
de'-los (Delos): An island, now deserted, one of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, about 3 miles long and 1 mile broad, with a rocky mountain (Cynthus) several hundred feet high i...
Deluge Of Noah
del'-uj1. The Biblical Account2. "Noah's Log Book"3. The Egyptian Tradition4. The Indian Tradition5. The Chinese Tradition6. The Greek Tradition7. The British Tradition8. The Am...
Delusion
de-lu'-zhun:(1)Isa 66:4, "I also will choose their delusions" (the Revised Version, margin "mockings"), Hebrew ta`alulim, which occurs only here andIsa 3:4(where it is translate...
Demand
de-mand': The peremptory, imperative sense is absent from this word in its occurrences in the King James Version, where it means no more than "ask," "inquire" (compare French, d...
Demas
de'-mas (Demas, "popular"): According toCol 4:14;2Ti 4:10;Phm 1:24, one who was for a time a "fellow-worker" with Paul at Rome (Col, Philem), but at last, "having loved this pre...
Demetrius (1)
de-me'-tri-us (Demetrios, "of" or "belonging to Demeter," an ordinary name in Greece):(1) Demetrius I, surnamed Soter ("saviour"), was the son of Seleucus IV (Philopator). He wa...
Demetrius (2)
de-me'-tri-us (Demetrios, "belonging to Ceres"): The name of two persons:(1) A Christian disciple praised by John (3Joh 1:12).(2) A silversmith of Ephesus who manufactured the l...
Demon; Demoniac; Demonology
dem'-mon, de-mo'-ni-ak, de-mon-ol'-o-ji (daimonion, earlier form daimon = pneuma akatharton, poneron, "demon," "unclean or evil spirit," incorrectly rendered "devil" in the King...
Demophon
dem'-o-fon (Demophon): A Syrian general in Palestine under Antiochus V (Eupator) who continued to harass the Jews after covenants had been made between Lysias and Judas Maccabeu...
Den
(ma`on, me`onah, "habitation"; me`arah, and spelaion, "cave"; me'urah (Isa 11:8), "a light-hole," from 'or, "light," perhaps for me`arah; cokh (Ps 10:9the King James Version), a...
Denarius
de-na'-ri-us (denarion): A Roman silver coin, 25 of which went to the aureus, the standard gold coin of the empire in the time of Augustus, which was equal in value to about one...
Denounce
de-nouns': Occurs inDe 30:18: "I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish." It is used here in the obsolete sense of "to declare," to make known in a solemn manne...
Deny
de-ni': This word is characteristic of the New Testament rather than the Old Testament, although it translates three different Hebrew originals, namely, kachash, "to lie," "diso...
Deposit
de-poz'-it (paratheke,1Ti 6:20;2Ti 1:12,14the Revised Version, margin, paraphrased in both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) into "that which...
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Deputy
dep'-u-ti: This is the correct rendering of nitsabh (1Ki 22:47). InEs 8:9,9:3the term improperly represents caghan, in the King James Version, and is corrected to "governor" in ...
Derbe
dur'-be (Derbe,Ac 14:20,21;16:1; Derbaios, 20:4; Derbetes, Strabo, Cicero): A city in the extreme Southeast corner of the Lycaonian plain is mentioned twice as having been visit...
Derision
de-rizh'-un: Three verbs are so translated luts, "scorn" (Ps 119:51); la`agh, "mock" (Ps 2:4;59:8;Eze 23:32); and sachaq, "laugh at" (Job 30:1;Ex 32:25margin, "a whispering"; co...