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3021 Etymology dictionary, p. teenage (adj.).2
also teen age, teen-age; "in or including the teen years," 1911, from teen (n.1) + age (n.). Originally in reference to Sunday School classes. The form teen-aged (adj.) is from 1922.
3022 Etymology dictionary, p. vale (n.).2
… of years "old age" is from "Othello." Vale of tears "this world as a place of trouble" is attested from c. 1400. An older phrase in the same sense was dale of dol (mid-15c …
3023 Etymology dictionary, p. veteran (n.).2
… - (2) "year" (source also of Sanskrit vatsa- "year," Greek etos "year," Hittite witish "year," Old Church Slavonic vetuchu "old," Old Lithuanian vetušas "old, aged;" and compare …
3024 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 13-outline.89
… in the Apostolic Age (1909); Burton, Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age (1895); Doellinger, The First Age of the Church (translation, 1867); Dobschutz, Christian …
3025 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Acts of the Apostles, 8-12.5
… :9 ), the length of the voyage ( Acts 27:27 ), the duration of the stay in Melita ( Acts 28:11 ), and the times spent in Rome at the close of the book, "two whole years" ( Acts 28:30 …
3026 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.4
… after the murder of Abel. According to Genesis 5:3, 5 Adam is aged 130 years at the birth of Seth and lives to the age of 930 years.
3027 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Age; Old Age.2
… 30 years of age"). "Old age," "aged," are the translation of various words, zaqen (zaqan, "the chin," the beard"), perhaps to have the chin sharp or hanging down, often translated …
3028 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ahaz.4
2. The Accession: Ahaz was the son of Jotham, king of Judah. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 20 years (according to another reading 25). The chronology of …
3029 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexandria.9
… the conceptions of the sphericity of the earth, its poles, axis, the equator, the arctic and antarctic circles, the equinoctial points, the solstices, the inequality …
3030 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Alexandria.12
… after the school disbanded its tenets were combated by the "school of Antioch," but by the 8th century the Alexandrian theology was accepted by the whole Christian …
3031 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amaziah.3
1. The Edomite War: The young king's plan for the rehabilitation of his people was the restoration of the kingdom's military prestige, so severely lowered …
3032 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amaziah.5
… of the captives being thrown from the rock, the face of which is now covered with rock-cut tombs of the Greek-Roman age.
3033 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amaziah.8
… 54 years old and had reigned for 29 years. The Chronicler ( 2 Chronicles 26:1 ) hardly conceals the popular rejoicings at the exchange of sovereigns, when Uzziah …
3034 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Amos (1).46
… " whom the Lord "brought up out of the land of Egypt" ( Amos 3:1 ), to the Divine leading of the people "forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite …
3035 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ancient.2
… , the "ancient river"; Isaiah 19:11 "ancient kings"). (2) zaqen, "old" in years. Whereas the King James Version generally renders the word by "old" (or "elders" when the plural …
3036 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Anna.4
… at the time of Jesus' birth ( Luke 2:36 - 38 ). "Of a great age," she must have been considerably over 100 years, having been a widow 84 years after a short married life of …
3037 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Antediluvian Patriarchs.3
… is the same in the three texts, except that the Septuagint has 100 years more in the first column in each case save that of Noah, and 100 years less in the second …
3038 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Antediluvian Patriarchs.5
… 100 years in the Septuagint over the other texts for the age of the patriarch at the birth of the son, and the variously divergent data for the total age of Jared …
3039 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Antediluvian Patriarchs.8
… , 100 years were borrowed from the years that elapsed between parenthood and death and were added to the age of the three men at the time of begetting a son. This …
3040 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Antediluvian Patriarchs.9
… youthful age than 150 years, the translators of the Septuagint added 100 years; on the other hand the Samaritan struck off 100 years when necessary in order …