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Bethesda. (house of mercy, or the flowing water ), the Hebrew name of a reservoir or tank, with five "porches," close upon the sheep-gate or "market" in Jerusalem. ( John 5:2 ) The largest reservoir - Birket Israil - 360 feet long, 120 feet wide and 80 feet deep, within the walls of the city, close by St. Stephens Gate, and under the northeast ...
Apr 4, 2023 · Warp Up. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, smote is a past tense verb meaning “to hit or strike (someone or something) hard.”. In the Bible, smiting often refers to God’s judgement being carried out on sinners. The word “smote” means “to strike” in the Bible. This word is used to describe the act of physical violence.
Requite - dictionary definition, verses and Bible references on the topic of Requite using King James Bible Dictionary online....
Jezebel. chaste, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Zidonians, and the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel ( 1 Kings 16:31 ). This was the "first time that a king of Israel had allied himself by marriage with a heathen princess; and the alliance was in this case of a peculiarly disastrous kind. Jezebel has stamped her name on history as the ...
ORDAIN; ORDINATION. or-dan', or-di-na-shun (Latin ordinare, "to set in order" "to arrange"; in post-Augustan Latin "to appoint to office"; from ordo, gen. ordinis, "order," "arrangement"): In the King James Version the verb "to ordain" renders as many as 35 different words (11 Hebrew words in the Old Testament, 21 Greek words in Apocrypha and the New Testament, and 3 Latin words in Apocrypha).
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Prognosticator. Foretellers of the future. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels.
