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4441 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Names, Proper.33
… the choice of the name. There are instances also where no part of the name reappears in the words that state the reason for the use of the name. For example, the …
4442 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Names, Proper.36
… the choice of the name: In the case of Simeon, the root of the name is used ( Genesis 29:33 ). Words of this type (with the termination on) are formed from nouns and verbs …
4443 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Nineveh.31
… the choice of the site by the Babylonian settlers, and the foundation there of the great temple of Ishtar or Nina. The date of this foundation is unknown, but …
4444 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Obadiah, Book of.12
… . Our choice must be between a very early date (circa 845) and a date shortly after 587, with the scales almost evenly balanced.
4445 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Obedience of Christ.4
… voluntary choice under all representative conditions, culminating in that which was supremely hard, and at the limit which should reveal its perfection …
4446 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Olive Tree.5
… a choice stock and after another three or four years they may commence to bear fruit, but they take quite a decade more before reaching full fruition. Much …
4447 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Omniscience.9
… freewill choices of man implies that there enters into these choices, notwithstanding their free character, an element of predetermination, to which the …
4448 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Omri.5
… his choice of Samaria as the royal residence and capital of the Northern Kingdom. This step may have been suggested to Omri by his own easy conquest of Tirzah …
4449 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.19
… a "choice vine," and a rock-cut wine press exists at the site (SWP, III, 126). These 5 places, all close together, were also close to the Philistine grain lands ( Judges …
4450 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.22
… the choice of remaining with the husband's family, or of quitting his house (compare 1:8). The beating out of gleanings (2:17) by women is still a custom which accounts …
4451 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.25
… public choice by lot has been thought (Wellhausen, History of Israel, 1885, 252) to indicate a double narrative, but to a Hebrew there would not appear to be any …
4452 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Palestine, 2.30
… public choice of Saul, on the double visit to Hachilah, and on the fact that the gloomy king had forgotten the name of David's father. The history is not a "pious …
4453 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paraclete.7
… a choice of several words. Let us glance at them in order. The translation "Comforter" contains an element of the meaning of the word as employed in the Gospels …
4454 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Parchments.4
… few choice volumes or rolls, some portions of the Scriptures of the Old Testament, some volumes of the Law of Moses or of the Prophets or of the Psalms. Among …
4455 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pate.2
… the choice of the word lies evidently in the desire to make the Hebrew parallelism with "head" (ro'sh) apparent. The same object has, however, been achieved differently …
4456 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Paul, the Apostle, 4.25
… strange choice of a vessel to bear the message of Christ to the Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel ( Acts 9:15 ), but there was hope in the promise of chastisement …
4457 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Pentateuch, 2b.39
… the choice cannot be difficult. On the critical theory elaborate literary forgeries were accepted as genuine ancient laws; on the conservative theory …
4458 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Person of Christ, 1-3.43
… whole choice of the language in which our Lord's earthly life is described. It is because it is kept in mind that He still was "in the form of God," that is, that He …
4459 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Peter, Simon.29
… the choice of a successor to Judas ( Acts 1:15 - 26 ). On the day of Pentecost he preaches the first gospel sermon ( Acts 2:1 - 47 ), and later, in company with John, instrumentally …
4460 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Peter, the Second Epistle of.34
… made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe" ( Acts 15:7 ).