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16601 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Timothy.22
… good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state. .... But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father …
16602 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Titus.8
… God, comforted us by the coming of Titus .... while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more" ( 2 Corinthians 7:6 - 7 ).
16603 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Transfiguration.4
… the comforting and inspiring fact that "spirit with spirit may meet."
16604 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Transfiguration, Mount of.6
… be comfortably climbed in the evening. Then on His descent next day the crowd might easily assemble from the country and the villages near by. How long our …
16605 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tychicus.4
… may comfort your hearts" (4:7,8). In almost identical words he writes in Ephesians, "But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and …
16606 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tychicus.7
… a comfort to him to have his friends beside him, yet the interests of the kingdom of Christ are uppermost in his thoughts, and he sends these friends to help …
16607 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Wanderings of Israel.50
… in comfort for some three weeks before the final march to the plain "before the mount" ( Exodus 19:1 - 2 ), which they reached two months after leaving Egypt. Here Amalek …
16608 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zenas.7
… be comfortably provided for on their intended journey. He is full of affectionate regard for them, interested in their welfare at every step; while he himself …
16609 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zophar.2
… and comfort him. He is from the tribe of Naamah, a tribe and place otherwise unknown, for as all the other friends and Job himself are from lands outside of Palestine …
16610 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Zoroastrianism.26
… the comfortable union of religion and the good things of the present life among the Persians may well have had an effect on certain of the Jews, especially …
16611 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Abishag.2 (William Smith)
Ab’ishag, a beautiful Shunammite (from Shunem, in the tribe of Issachar), taken into David’s harem to comfort him in his extreme old age. 1 Kings 1:1-4 .
16612 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Advocate.2 (William Smith)
… translated Comforter, i.e. (see margin of Revised Version) Advocate, Helper, Intercessor. This use of the word is derived from the fact that the Jews, being largely …
16613 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Aziel.2 (William Smith)
A’ziel ( whom God comforts ), a Levite. 1 Chronicles 15:20. The name is a shortened form of Jaaziel in ver. 1 Chronicles 15:18 .
16614 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Barnabas.2 (William Smith)
… or comfort ), a name given by the apostles, Acts 4:36, to Joseph (or Jose), a Levite of the island of Cyprus, who was early a disciple of Christ. In Acts 9:27 we find him introducing …
16615 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Colossians The Epistle to the.2 (William Smith)
… and comfort. The main object of the epistle is to warn the Colossians against a spirit of semi-Judaistic and semi-Oriental philosophy which was corrupting …
16616 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Comforter.1 (William Smith)
Comforter
16617 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Comforter.2 (William Smith)
Comforter. John 14:16. The name given by Christ to the Holy Spirit. The original word is Paraclete, and means first Advocate, a defender, helper, strengthener, as well as comforter.
16618 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Fire.2 (William Smith)
… , cheering, comforting, but also terrible and consuming. Parallel with this application of fire and with its symbolical meaning are to be noted the similar …
16619 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Isaiah Book of.4 (William Smith)
… the comforting assurance of the deliverance from Babylon by Koresh (Cyrus), who is even named twice. ch. Isaiah 41:25; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:13; Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah …
16620 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ishmael.3 (William Smith)
… out. Comforted by the renewal of God’s promise to make of Ishmael a great nation, Abraham sent them away, and they departed and wandered in the wilderness of …