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95781 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Viper.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 23:33 ) for any poisonous snake. The viper mentioned in Acts 28:3 was probably the vipera aspis, or the Mediterranean viper. (See ADDER .)
95782 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Virgin.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 23:12 ), “O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon;” and of the people of Israel, Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 18:13 ) says, “The virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing …
95783 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Vision.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Vision — ( Luke 1:22 ), a vivid apparition, not a dream (comp. Luke 24:23; Acts 26:19; 2 Corinthians 12:1 ).
95784 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wafers.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Wafers — thin cakes ( Exodus 16:31; Exodus 29:2, Exodus 29:23; Leviticus 2:4; Leviticus 7:12; Leviticus 8:26; Numbers 6:15, Numbers 6:19 ) used in various offerings.
95785 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wall.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… :9-12; 1 Kings 20:30; Mark 13:1, Mark 13:2 ). The term is used metaphorically of security and safety ( Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 60:18; Revelation 21:12-20 ). (See FENCE .)
95786 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Watches.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ; Luke 12:38 ). (See DAY .)
95787 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Weaving, weavers.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 38:12 (A.V.) should be, as in the Revised Version, “from the loom,” or, as in the margin, “from the thrum.” We read also of the “warp” and “woof” ( Leviticus 13:48, Leviticus 13:49 …
95788 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Week.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 8:12; Genesis 29:28 ). The references to this division of days becomes afterwards more frequent ( Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 12:5; Numbers 28:26; Deuteronomy 16:16; 2 Chronicles …
95789 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Weights.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Weights — Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah ( Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47 ), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight. It was the twentieth part of a shekel, and equal to 12 grains.
95790 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Weights.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
(4.) Ma’neh, “a part” or “portion” ( Ezekiel 45:12 ), equal to 60 shekels, i.e., to 2 lbs. 6 oz.
95791 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Whale.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 7:12 ). The words of Job ( Job 7:12 ), uttered in bitter irony, where he asks, “Am I a sea or a whale?” simply mean, “Have I a wild, untamable nature, like the waves of the sea, which …
95792 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Whale.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Matthew 12:40, that here the Gr. ketos means properly any kind of sea-monster of the shark or the whale tribe, and that in the book of Jonah ( Jonah 1:17 ) it is only said …
95793 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wheat.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ; Acts 12:20 ).
95794 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wheat.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ( Matthew 12:1; Mark 2:23; Luke 6:1 ). Before any of the wheat-harvest, however, could be eaten, the first-fruits had to be presented before the Lord ( Leviticus 23:14 ).
95795 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. White.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
White — a symbol of purity ( 2 Chronicles 5:12; Psalm 51:7; Isaiah 1:18; Revelation 3:18; Revelation 7:14 ). Our Lord, at his transfiguration, appeared in raiment “white as the light” ( Matthew 17:2, etc.).
95796 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Widows.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 26:12; Deuteronomy 27:19, etc.). In the New Testament the same tender regard for them is inculcated ( Acts 6:1-6; 1 Timothy 5:3-16 ) and exhibited.
95797 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wilderness.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 65:12; Isaiah 42:11; Jeremiah 23:10; Joel 1:19; Joel 2:22 ); an uncultivated place. This word is used of the wilderness of Beersheba ( Genesis 21:14 ), on the southern border …
95798 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wilderness.7 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ; Job 12:24; comp. Genesis 1:2, “without form”). The wilderness region in the Sinaitic peninsula through which for forty years the Hebrews wandered is generally …
95799 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Window.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 54:12 ought rather to be rendered “battlements” (LXX., “bulwarks;” R.V., “pinnacles”), or as Gesenius renders it, “notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having …
95800 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Winds.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ( Luke 12:54 ) does from November to February. The south was a hot wind ( Job 37:17; Luke 12:55 ). It swept over the Arabian peninsula. The rush of invaders is figuratively …