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1921 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 …

1922 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Leviticus, 1.84

… other sexual sins; Leviticus 18:24 - 30, warnings.

1923 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 …

1924 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 …

1925 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Marriage.13

… ; and sexual maturity comes much earlier indeed in the East than with us in the West--in what we call childhood. The ancient Hebrews, in common with all Orientals …

1926 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Marriage.32

… Testament sexual morality. In this, as in other respects, the Jews had a message for the world. Yet we should not expect to find among them the Christian standard …

1927 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Naked; Nakedness.2

… high sexual morality needs no explanation.

1928 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Nose; Nostrils.5

… "male sexual member" (see Gesenius-Buhl, under the word; Levy, Nhb. Worterbuch, I, 544), and the whole passage as a reference to a sensuous Canaanite rite, such as is …

1929 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Passion, Passions.2

… slight sexual reference, but this must not be overstressed; the warning probably includes any violent over-emotion that robs a man of his self-control.

1930 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Phoenicia; Phoenicians.41

… of sexual characteristics to the chief deities of their pantheon, such as Baal and Ashtoreth, which led to licentious rites of the most abominable character …

1931 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Resurrection.38

… the sexual sphere as that of the angels. (The possibility of mutual recognition by husband and wife is irrelevant, nor is it even said that the resurrection …

1932 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Resurrection.47

… particular sexual relations ( Mark 12:25 ) and the processes of nutrition ( 1 Corinthians 6:13 ) cease. For this end the whole power of God is available. And it is insured …

1933 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.33

… of sexual impurity in his pagan congregations shows this. "This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; that each one …

1934 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Semites, Semitic Religion.22

… the sexual abominations of the Canaanite Baal and Astarte.

1936 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Tree of Life.5

… the sexual relation, and therefore the date-palm came to be regarded as the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But this difference came …

1937 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Uncleanness.34

… of sexual intercourse); Frazer, The Golden Bough (examples of taboo and similar laws and customs among various nations); Frazer, article "Taboo" in Encyclopedia …

1938 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Witch; Witchcraft.20

… have sexual commerce with devils and to be capable only of inflicting evil, both thoughts alien to oriental and therefore to Biblical magic.

1939 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Uncleanness.3 (William Smith)

… their sexual differences. There is an emphatic reminder of human weakness in the fact of birth and death—man’s passage alike into and out of his mortal state …

1940 Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (KJV), p. AHAB.2 (James Strong)

or raheb {aw-habe'}; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):--(be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.