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1921 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 …
1922 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 …
1923 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 …
1924 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 …
1925 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 …
1926 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.
1927 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 …
1928 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 …
1929 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 …
1930 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 …
1931 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).
1932 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gezer.17
… the sexual organs.
1933 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).
1934 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 …
1935 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 …
1936 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 …
1937 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Law in the Old Testament.72
… - 33 sexual acts which were lawful rendered unclean equally with those which were unlawful, in H, adultery and incest are denounced as rendering specially …
1938 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Leviticus, 1.84
… other sexual sins; Leviticus 18:24 - 30, warnings.
1939 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Leviticus, 1.89
… a sexual nature ( Leviticus 20:9 - 18 ). It is a question whether the first in the second group ( Leviticus 20:14 ), i.e. the sixth in the whole series, was intended to be …
1940 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Magic; Magician.30
… strengthen sexual love, and we read in Arabic literature of the very same superstition in connection with what is called Yabruch, almost certainly the same …