TESTAMENT, NEW
[NEW TESTAMENT; BIBLE] NEW TESTAMENT - 3186
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TESTAMENT, OLD
[OLD TESTAMENT; BIBLE] OLD TESTAMENT - 3249
TETRARCH
properly the sovereign or governor of the fourth part of a country. (Matthew 14:1; Luke 3:1; 9:7; Acts 13:1) The title was, however, often applied to any one who governed a Roma...
THADDEUS
one of the twelve apostles. (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18) From a comparison with the catalogue of St. Luke, (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13) it seems scarcely possible to doubt that the three...
THAMAH
(daughter). "The children of Thamah" were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:53)
THAMAR
TAMAR, 1. (Matthew 1:3)
THANK OFFERING, OR PEACE OFFERING
the properly eucharistic offering among the Jews, in its theory resembling the meat offering and therefore indicating that the offerer was already reconciled to and in covenant ...
THARA
Terah the father of Abraham. (Luke 3:34)
THARRA
(Esther 12:1) a corrupt form of Teresh.
THARSHISH
In this more accurate form the translators of the Authorized Version have given in two passages -- (1 Kings 10:22; 22:48) --the name elsewhere presented as Tarshish.A Benjamite,...
THEATRE
For the explanation of the biblical allusions, two or three points only require notice. The Greek term, like the corresponding English term, denotes the place where dramatic per...
THEBES
(Authorized Version No, the multitude of No. populous No), a chief cite of ancient Egypt, long the capital of the upper country, and the seat of the Diospolitan dynasties, that ...
THEBEZ
(conspicuous), a place memorable for the death of the brave Abimelech, (Judges 9:50) was known to Eusebius and Jerome, in whose time it was situated "in the district of Neapolis...
THELASAR
[TEL-ASSAR]
THEOPHILUS
(friend of God) the person to whom St. Luke inscribes his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1) From the honorable epithet applied to him in (Luke 1:3) it ha...
THESSALONIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE
was written by the apostle Paul at Corinth, a few months after he had founded the church at Thessalonica, at the close of the year A.D. 62 or the beginning of 53. The Epistles t...
THESSALONIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE
appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus were still with St. Paul. (2 Thessalonians 1:1) In the former letter we saw c...
THESSALONICA
The original name of this city was Therma; and that part of the Macedonian shore on which it was situated retained through the Roman period the designation of the Thermaic Gulf....
THEUDAS
(God-given), the name of an insurgent mentioned in Gamaliel’s speech before the Jewish council, (Acts 6:35-39) at the time of the arraignment of the apostles. He appeared, accor...
THIEVES, THE TWO
The men who under this name appear in the history of the crucifixion were robbers rather than thieves, belonging to the lawless bands by which Palestine was at that time and aft...
THIMNATHAH
a town in the allotment of Dan. (Joshua 19:43) only. It is named between Elon and Ekron. The name is the same as that of the residence of Samson’s wife. [See TIMNA, OR TIMNAH, T...
THISTLE
[THORNS AND THISTLES]
THOMAS
(a twin), one of the apostles. According to Eusebius, his real name was Judas. This may have been a mere confusion with Thaddeus, who is mentioned in the extract. But it may als...
THORNS
and Thistles. There appear to be eighteen or twenty Hebrew words which point to different kinds of prickly or thorny shrubs. These words are variously rendered in the Authorized...
THREE TAVERNS
A station on the Appian Road, along which St. Paul travelled from Puteoli to Rome. (Acts 28:15) The distances, reckoning southward from Rome are given as follows in the Antonine...
THRESHING
[AGRICULTURE]
THRESHOLD
Of the two words so rendered is the Authorized Version, one,miphthan,,seems to mean sometimes a projecting beam or corbel. (Ezekiel 9:3; 10:4,18)