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97721 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galilee.3

… Joshua 12:23, where possibly we should read "king of the nations of Galilee" (legalil), instead of "Gilgal" (begilgal). Yet it was within this territory that, according …

97723 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galilee.17

… the 12 apostles were Galileans.

97724 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galilee, Sea of.3

… : Joshua 12:3; compare Joshua 11:2; 1 Kings 15:20 ). In 1 Maccabees 11:67 the sea is called "the water of Gennesar" (the Revised Version (British and American) "Gennesareth …

97725 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gall.3

… 6:12, "Ye have turned justice into gall"; Job 20:16, the "poison of asps": here rosh clearly refers to a different substance from the other references, the points in …

97727 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gallio.2

… 18:12 - 17 ). The trial was not of long duration. Although Gallio extended his protection to the Jewish religion as one of the religions recognized by the state …

97728 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.23

… Chronicles 12:8 ) were renowned for their speed, which can only have been the result of training and exercise. The same may be said of the feats of those who ran …

97729 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.24

… 16:12 f). Only by long practice could the 700 left-handed Benjamite slingers, every one of whom could sling stones at a hair-breadth and not miss ( Judges 20:16 ), and …

97730 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.25

… Zechariah 12:3, "I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone," literally, "a stone of burden," Jerome found an allusion to a custom which prevailed widely in Palestine …

97731 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.26

… Samuel 12:1 - 31 Benjamites and 2 Samuel 12:1 - 31 servants of David was not a sport but a combat like that of the Horatii and the Curiatii.

97732 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.32

… 15:12 f). Once the separation of the sexes is perhaps distinctly referred to ( Jeremiah 31:13 ). In public religious dances they may have occasionally united, as …

97733 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.37

… " ( Ezekiel 12:22 ), a scoffing jest rather than a proverb; (9) "As is the mother, so is her daughter" ( Ezekiel 16:44 ), two words in the Hebrew; (10) "The fathers have eaten sour …

97734 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.38

… Kings 12:10 f). Many old proverbs have no doubt perished. Dukes in his Rabbinische Blumenlese gives 665 proverbs and proverbial expressions from the Talmud …

97735 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.42

… ": Numbers 12:8; Psalms 49:4; 78:2; Daniel 5:12 (the Aramaic equivalent of chidhah); Daniel 8:23; Habakkuk 2:6. In Ezekiel 17:1 it describes the parable or allegory of the …

97736 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.44

… , etc., 12 f. Compare also Hamburger,RE ,II, 966 ff; articles on "Riddle" in Jew Encyclopedia, Smith’sDB ,HDB, larger and smaller; Murray’sDB; German Bible Dictionaries …

97737 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.45

… :9, 12 ) and frequented by priests ( 1 Maccabees 1:14 f), who are spoken of as "making of no account the honors of their fathers, and thinking the glories of the Greeks …

97738 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.46

… 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7, rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (except in the second passage), "conflict" or "fight"; the verb in Colossians 1:29; 4:12; 1 Timothy …

97739 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.51

… or 12 inches in diameter, which was a prominent feature of Greek athletics and is the subject of a famous statue, a copy of which is in the British Museum, is not …

97740 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.52

… ; Hebrews 12:1; 2 Timothy 4:7; for possible references see Acts 13:25; 20:24; Romans 9:16; Galatians 2:2; 5:7; Philippians 2:16; 2 Thessalonians 3:1. The second of these passages …