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Ara
Verses
204 results- VerseJoshua 15:52Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
- VerseEzra 2:5the descendants of Arah, 775;
- VerseGenesis 10:23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
- VerseHosea 12:12Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- VerseJoshua 18:22Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
People
2 results- PersonNaamanCaptain of the host of Aram, a great man and a leper, healed in the Jordan's seventh dip at Elisha's word — the Gentile grace Jesus cited at Nazareth (Luke 4:27).
- PersonHazaelThe Aramean officer over whose face Elisha wept, foreseeing the cruelty of his coming reign; king of Aram and scourge of Israel.
Places
3 results- PlaceAraratThe mountains of the old kingdom of Urartu where the ark came to rest as the waters went down, where Noah built his altar and saw the bow, and where a later king’s sons fled…
- PlacePaddan-aramThe region of Laban's household where Jacob sojourns, marries, and prospers (Gen 28–31).
- PlaceSamariaThe hill Omri bought and built his capital on, where Ahab raised a temple to Baal, where the four lepers found the Aramean camp empty, which fell to Assyria in 722 BC, and…
Manuscripts
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- WordH733 אָרַח · ʼÂrach (Hebrew)Arach, the name of three Israelites. The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH6152 עֲרָב · ʻĂrâb (Hebrew)Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of Palestine. The Hebrew word stands 6 times in the original text.
- WordH6163 עֲרָבִי · ʻĂrâbîy (Hebrew)an Arabian or inhabitant of Arab (i.e. Arabia). The Hebrew word stands 9 times in the original text.
- WordH6160 עֲרָבָה · ʻărâbâh (Hebrew)a desert. The Hebrew word stands 61 times in the original text.
- WordH758 אֲרָם · ʼĂrâm (Hebrew)Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants. The Hebrew word stands 143 times in the original text.
Concepts
19 results- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise: a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptGloryThe weight of God made visible: כָּבוֹד, literally heaviness: filling a tabernacle, a temple, and finally a body.
- ConceptLightGod's first spoken word and his own self-description: light before the sun, and a Light no darkness can put out.
- ConceptEdenThe garden God planted eastward: a sanctuary with a river, two trees, and a job description, lost by one command broken.
- ConceptTreesThe Bible's story turns at trees: two in the garden, one bearing a curse, one bearing healing for the nations.
Themes
11 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics
65 results- TopicAharahA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAnaharathA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAnathema Maran-athaA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAraA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicArabA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
2 results- ProphecyIsrael Preserved as a Distinct PeopleJeremiah predicted that Israel would remain a distinct people as long as sun, moon, and stars continued—a preservation guarantee.
- ProphecyEzekiel's Prophecy of Gog and MagogEzekiel 38-39 describes a future attack on Israel after its regathering. The preparatory conditions—Israel regathered from many nations onto formerly desolate mountains—have…
Apologetics
4 results- ApologeticsDaniel's Seventy Weeks: A Timeline to MessiahDaniel 9:24-27 predicts the exact timing of Messiah's appearance by counting 483 years from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem—a calculation that terminates precisely during…
- ApologeticsCaiaphas Ossuary DiscoveryIn November 1990 a bulldozer broke through the roof of a first-century burial cave in Jerusalem's Peace Forest, exposing twelve limestone ossuaries; the most ornate was…
- ApologeticsWalls of Jericho StratigraphyAt Tell es-Sultan the mudbrick city wall collapsed outward into a climbable ramp at the foot of its stone revetment, the city burned under three feet of debris, and the storage…
- ApologeticsEarly Church Creedal Formulas1 Corinthians 15:3-7 is not Paul's composition — he says he "received" it, and its Aramaic name-forms, non-Pauline vocabulary and balanced clauses mark it as a fixed formula…
Voices
102 results- VoiceAratorArator was born in Liguria in northern Italy around 490 and orphaned young. He was raised and educated under the care of Laurentius, bishop of Milan, and trained as a lawyer…
- VoiceA.W. PinkArthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, on April 1, 1886, into a corn merchant's family. He was a bright young man who went looking for spiritual reality in the…
- VoicePrudentiusAurelius Prudentius Clemens was born in 348 in Roman Spain, probably at Calahorra or Saragossa. He tells his own story in a short preface written when he was fifty-seven, and…
- VoiceFastidiusAlmost everything known about Fastidius comes from a single paragraph. Gennadius of Massilia, writing his catalogue of Christian authors in the late fifth century, recorded…
- VoiceAdamantiusAdamantius is a name attached to a book rather than a life. The book is a Greek dialogue called *On the True Faith in God* — in Latin, *De recta in Deum fide* — and it was…
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Study a word
H733אָרַח ʼÂrach — Arach, the name of three IsraelitesH6152עֲרָב ʻĂrâb — Arab (i.e. Arabia), a country East of PalestineH6163עֲרָבִי ʻĂrâbîy — an Arabian or inhabitant of Arab (i.e. Arabia)H6160עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh — a desertH758אֲרָם ʼĂrâm — Aram or Syria, and its inhabitantsG686ἄρα ara — a
particle denoting an inference more or less decisive (as
follows)