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3301 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Loving-Kindness.5
… a legal or other obligation.
3302 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Loving-Kindness.7
… a legal matter, and there are legal sanctions for infractions. Yet the relationship, if sound, far transcends mere legalities. The prophet Hosea applies the …
3303 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Offer.8
… serious legal cases so that God the great King and Judge could render a decision ( Joshua 7:14 ). In the eschaton all peoples are to gather before God; they are “to …
3304 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Plead.3
… a legal case, make a charge.” Found in both biblical and modern Hebrew, this term occurs as a verb some 70 times. It appears in the text for the first time in Genesis …
3305 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Possess.4
… his legal descendants was destined to be given to his servant. Hence his servant was his legally designated heir.
3306 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Possess.5
… one’s legal descendants. God told Abram: “I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it” ( Genesis 15:7 ). Yârash can …
3307 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Property.4
… a legal term usually used of land, especially family holdings to be passed down to one’s heirs. In Genesis 17:13 (an early occurrence of the word) Abram is promised …
3308 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Rebel.3
… , and legal literature). Some personal names are partly composed of the verb: Meraiah (“stubborn headed”; Nehemiah 12:12 ) and Miriam (“stubborn headed,” if actually …
3309 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Righteous, to Be.4
… a legal term which involves the whole process of justice. God “is righteous” in all of His relations, and in comparison with Him man is not righteous: “Shall mortal …
3310 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Righteous, to Be.11
… the legal relationship of humans is transferred to God in an absolute sense as the Lawgiver and with the perfections of justice and “righteousness.”
3311 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Righteous, to Be.12
… the legal status of a relationship is also present in the Old Testament. The locus classicus is Genesis 15:6 : “… And he [the Lord] counted it to him [Abraham] for righteousness …
3312 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Righteous, to Be.14
… are legal terms signifying justice in conformity with the legal corpus (the Law; Deuteronomy 16:20 ), the judicial process ( Jeremiah 22:3 ), the justice of the king …
3313 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Save.7
… that legal justice is executed.” Very often the psalmist has in view the spiritual aspect of God’s eternal covenant. This is clear in passages such as Psalms …
3314 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Seek.7
… supposed) legal right to it. In Genesis 31:39 (the first biblical occurrence of the verb) Jacob points out to Laban that regarding animals lost to wild beasts …
3315 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Set On, Set Up.8
… this legal use of śı̂ym is 1 Samuel 22:15, where it means “to impute” (lay to one’s charge), and Deuteronomy 22:8, where it means “to bring guilt upon oneself.” Other passages …
3316 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Sojourn, Dwell.11
… ). In legal cases the “client” could appeal directly to God the great feudal Lord ( Leviticus 24:22 ).
3317 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Strife.9
… extra-legal ( Genesis 13:8 ) and to a legal confrontation ( Numbers 27:14 ). Yarib appears 3 times to mean “disputant; opponent; adversary” ( Psalms 35:1; Isaiah 49:25; Jeremiah …
3318 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Teach.12
… the legalism of Roman law, forms the background of the New Testament tradition of law, especially as Paul struggles with it in his Letter to the church at Rome …
3319 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Violence.4
… this legal sphere. The expression “a witness in the case of violent wrongdoing” means someone who bears witness in a case having to do with such an offense (cf …
3320 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Vow.4
… (narrative, legal, poetic, but more rarely in the prophetic books). Beyond the Old Testament the verb occurs in the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic Hebrew, medieval …