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97541 Etymology dictionary, p. quarter day (n.).2
… (Nov. 11). Quarter in the sense "period of three months; one of the four divisions of a year" is recorded from late 14c. Related: Quarter days .
97542 Etymology dictionary, p. remembrance (n.).3
… Nov. 11 (originally in memory of the dead of World War I) is attested from 1921. A remembrancer (early 15c.) was a royal official of the Exchequer tasked with recording …
97543 Etymology dictionary, p. spring (n.1).9
… " (usually 11 to 14 weeks) is recorded from 1780; its transferred sense of "young person" is recorded by 1906. Baseball spring training is attested by 1889; the phrase …
97544 Etymology dictionary, p. threshold (n.).4
… , Feb. 11, 2015) revives an old theory that the second element is the Proto-Germanic instrumental suffix *-thlo and the original sense of threshold was a threshing …
97545 Etymology dictionary, p. toucan (n.).2
… the 11 added to Ptolemy's list in the 1610s by Flemish cartographer Petrus Plancius (1552-1622) after Europeans began to explore the Southern Hemisphere …
97546 Etymology dictionary, p. undecennial (adj.).2
"occurring every 11 years," 1858, in reference to solar activity cycle, from Latin undecim "eleven" + ending from biennial, etc.
97547 Etymology dictionary, p. zodiac (n.).3
… reckoned 11 but counted Scorpio and its claws (including what is now Libra) as a "double constellation." Libra was figured back in by the Romans. In Old English …
97548 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ab (1).2
… 17:11 - 14, 27 ), Isaac and Jacob and the heads of families being fathers in the same modified sense. The cases of Ishmael, Moab, etc., are similar. The traditional originator …
97549 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abaddon.3
… 15:11; 27:20 ). In one instance it is parallel with death, in one with the grave and in the remaining instance the parallel phrase is "root out all mine increase" ( Job …
97550 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abaddon.4
… 15:11 ). It is the world of the dead in its utterly dismal, destructive, dreadful aspect, not in those more cheerful aspects in which activities are conceived …
97551 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abaddon.6
… 9:11 ), the personalization becoming sharp. Abaddon is here not the world of the dead, but the angel who reigns over it. The Greek equivalent of his name is given …
97552 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abarim.2
… 21:11; 33:44 ). In Numbers 33:45 this station is called simply Iyim, "Mounds." It is to be distinguished from the place of the same name in southern Judah ( Joshua 15:29 …
97553 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abase.2
… 40:11; Ezekiel 21:26 ), and of its derivative shephal ( Daniel 4:37 ) = "bring down," "debase," "humble"; of `anah ( Isaiah 31:4 ) = "abase self," "afflict," "chasten self," "deal harshly with …
97554 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abate.2
… ( Numbers 11:2 ).
97555 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abba.2
… ( Matthew 11:25 - 26; 39, 42; Luke 10:21; 22:42; 23:34; John 11:41; 12:27; John 17:24 - 25 ). In Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15, and Galatians 4:6 ho pater, is appended even in direct address, in …
97556 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abda.2
… Neh (11:17). This "Abda the son of Shammua" is in the partly duplicate passage in 1 Ch (9:16) called "Obadiah the son of Shemaiah."
97557 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abdon (1).4
An effort has been made to identify Abdon with the Bedan mentioned in 1 Samuel 12:11, but the identification is precarious.
97558 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abed-nego.3
… Hebrews 11:33 - 34 .
97559 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abel (1).5
… " ( Hebrews 11:4 ). The "more abundant sacrifice," Westcott thinks, "suggests the deeper gratitude of Abel, and shows a fuller sense of the claims of God" to the best. Cain's …
97560 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Abel-cheramim.2
… Judges 11:33, along with Aroer, Minnith, and "twenty cities," in summarizing Jephthah's campaign against the Ammonites. The King James Version translates "the …