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3221 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil — stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life ( Genesis 2, Genesis 3 ). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take …
3222 Etymology dictionary, p. arbor vitae (n.).2
also arbor-vitae, type of evergreen shrub, 1660s, name given by French physician and botanist Charles de Lécluse, Latin, literally "tree of life;" see arbor (n.2) + vital. Also used in late 18c. rogue's slang as a cant word for "penis."
3223 Etymology dictionary, p. banyan (n.).3
… . The tree develops roots from branches; these and the broad shade of its crown made them natural market places. The banians also were noted as rigorous abstainers …
3224 Etymology dictionary, p. family (n.).6
… domestic life" is 1856 (earlier it meant "thief," 1788, from family in a slang sense of "the fraternity of thieves"). Family tree "graph of ancestral relations" attested …
3225 Etymology dictionary, p. fasces (n.).2
… bark of the linden tree"). Carried before a lictor, a superior Roman magistrate, as a symbol of power over life and limb: the sticks symbolized punishment by whipping …
3226 Etymology dictionary, p. plant (n.).3
Broader sense of "any small vegetable life, vegetation generally" (sometimes popularly excluding trees), "an individual living being with material organization but not animal in nature" is recorded by 1550s.
3227 Etymology dictionary, p. sap (n.1).2
… blood of plant life," Middle English sap, from Old English sæp, from Proto-Germanic *sapam (source also of Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch sap, Old High German …
3228 Etymology dictionary, p. stripper (n.).2
… from trees, etc.), agent noun from strip (v.). The meaning "machine or appliance for stripping" is by 1835. The sense of "strip-tease performer" is by 1930 (see strip-tease …
3229 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abstinence.16
… example of this class in Banus, who "lived in the desert, clothed himself with the leaves of trees, ate nothing save the natural produce of the soil, and bathed …
3230 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.5
… trees, the tree of life, whose fruit seems to have the potency of conferring immortality (compare Genesis 3:22 ), and the tree of the knowledge of good and …
3231 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.9
… garden. Of all the trees he may freely eat, including the tree of life; save only the
3232 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.10
… located of all, the tree of "knowledge of good and evil" The being fitted to this habitat is a man adult in stature and intelligence, but still like a child; not …
3233 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.14
… privileges of life which are ignored or postponed, besides, the life it symbolized was the perpetuation of the garden-life they were living, such life as man …
3234 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament.16
… a life of sin and depravity. This was the idea of a later time. By the nature of the case, however, he was committed to the fallibility and lack of wisdom of his own …
3235 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Adam in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.4
… curse of brief life and heavy labor, since should he eat--or continue to eat?--of the fruit of the "tree of life," not previously forbidden, he might go on living forever …
3236 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Anthropology.48
… supporter of Darwinism, Professor J. A. Thomson, admits that "there is no logical proof of the doctrine of descent" (Darwinism and Human Life, 22)--a statement which …
3237 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabah.3
… masses of tangled vegetation with streams of water running in all directions, birds fluttering from every tree, the whole country alive with life; nowhere …
3238 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabia.47
… shelter of the palm groves. The dates, which are the staff of life of the Arab, differ in quality in each locality, each district producing a variety of its own …
3239 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Areopagus.3
… olive trees of Athens; and it supervised the religious sentiments of the people, the moral conduct of the citizens, as well as the education of the youth. Without …
3240 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Asherah.10
… symbol of the goddess. The trunk of the tree was often provided with branches, and assumed the form of the tree of life. It was as a trunk, however, that it was forbidden …