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1901 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.52
… a sexual goddess into a goddess who severely judged the sins of men is one of the strangest phenomena in the history of this religion.
1902 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Burn; Burning.4
… with sexual desire ( 1 Corinthians 7:9 ), "For it is better to marry than to burn" and in 2 Corinthians 11:29 of the heat of the passions, here of grief, or anger, "Who is …
1903 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Caperberry.3
… of sexual desire is ancient and widespread. Various parts of this plant are still used for medical purposes by the modern peasants of Palestine.
1904 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Carnal.2
… indicates sexual intercourse shikhebhath zera`, "lying of seed," Leviticus 18:20; 19:20; Numbers 5:13 ). In the New Testament the words rendered "carnal" are derived …
1905 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Concupiscence.2
… to sexual desire, but includes all going forth of heart and will toward what God would not have us to have or be, as its use in the Septuagint of the Ten Commandments …
1906 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Continency.2
… their sexual passions, and hold them in complete subjection to Christian motives ( 1 Corinthians 7:9 ). The same Greek verb is used in 1 Corinthians 9:25, and translated …
1907 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Crime; Crimes.54
… of sexual relation of persons within the degrees of relationship forbidden by the Levitical law, as for instance, that of Lot's daughters with their father …
1908 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Defile; Defilement.3
… physical, sexual, ethical, ceremonial, religious, the last four, especially, overlapping. (1) Physical: "I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?" ( Song of Solomon …
1909 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Defile; Defilement.4
… mentioned. Sexual defilement appears, in a figurative sense: "These are they that were not defiled with women" ( Revelation 14:4 ). Ceremonial defilement is found …
1910 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Embrace.2
… have sexual intercourse ( Proverbs 4:8; 5:20; Ecclesiastes 3:5 ). It seems to have acquired this technical sense in later Jewish usage.
1911 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Essenes.82
… of sexual intercourse was regarded as unclean ( Leviticus 15:16 - 18 ). In the Pauline Epistles uncleanness is used as equivalent to fornication ( Romans 1:24; 6 …
1912 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Essenes.85
… to sexual sin--a prominence that seems to be symptomatic of the unhealthy mental state engendered by celibacy. These writings are the product of a school …
1913 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eunuch.4
… the sexual passion. It is possible for men to attain as complete control of this strong instinct as if they were physically sexless, and the resultant victory …
1914 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.9
… and sexual passions, and from a state of childlike innocence changed in this respect to manlike maturity (Eerdman's De Beteekenis van het Paradijsverhaal …
1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Female.3
(1) neqebhah, which is merely a physiological description of the sexual characteristic (from naqabh, "to perforate"), and which corresponds to zakhar, "male" (see under the word).
1916 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gezer.17
… the sexual organs.
1917 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hammurabi, Code of.47
Rigid laws are made against abuses in sexual life. The wife who kills her husband for the sake of a lover is impaled upon a stake (section 153). Incest is punished, according to the circumstances, with exile or death (sections 154 ff).
1918 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Harlot.2
… of sexual immorality is said to be guilty of porneia ( Matthew 5:32; 19:9; compare Amos 7:17 Septuagint). These and cognate words are applied especially in the Old …
1919 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Harlot.6
… of sexual morality were widely prevalent in the generation in which Christ lived is evident both from His casual references to the subject and from His …
1920 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Idolatry.3
… the sexual; also through associations produced by intermarriage and through the appeal to patriotism, when the help of some cruel deity was sought in time …