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Cord
Featured studies
2 results- StudyRahab and the Scarlet Cord — Joshua 2 & 6A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Fall of JerichoNo siege engine, no battering ram: a city falls to a trumpet and a shout, and the book stages Rahab's faith against Achan's sin in the same campaign.
Verses
36 results- VerseJob 41:2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
- Verse2 Samuel 22:6The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
- VersePsalms 18:4The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- VersePsalms 18:5The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
- VersePsalms 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
People
1 resultWords (Strong's)
16 results- WordH4340 מֵיתָר · mêythâr (Hebrew)a cord (of a tent). The Hebrew word stands 9 times in the original text.
- WordH2256 חֶבֶל · chebel (Hebrew)a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line. The Hebrew word stands 62 times in the original text.
- WordH2339 חוּט · chûwṭ (Hebrew)a string. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH3499 יֶתֶר · yether (Hebrew)properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder. The Hebrew word stands 102 times in the original text.
- WordH5688 עֲבֹת · ʻăbôth (Hebrew)something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliage. The Hebrew word stands 24 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeSalvationSalvation in Scripture is not a single transaction but a single story told from Eden to Revelation: God rescues a people who cannot rescue themselves, and He does it on His own…
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
1 resultApologetics
3 results- ApologeticsApostolic Martyrdom as Evidence of Sincere BeliefClement of Rome, writing from Rome around AD 96 within living memory of the events, records that Peter and Paul "bore testimony" and died there. Sean McDowell's 2015 study…
- ApologeticsThe Cyrus CylinderThe Cyrus Cylinder (539 BC), recovered in Babylon in 1879, records Cyrus restoring the gods and populations of cities his predecessors had deported - the imperial pattern the…
- ApologeticsDestruction of the Second Temple (AD 70)Jesus told his disciples the temple would be leveled — "there shall not be left here one stone upon another" (Matthew 24:2) — and on the tenth of the month Ab, AD 70, Titus'…
Voices
132 results- VoiceRemigius of RheimsRemigius — Rémi in French — was born about 437 in the region of Laon, in northern Gaul, into a Gallo-Roman family of rank. He was made bishop of Rheims at about twenty-two…
- VoicePalladius of GalatiaPalladius was born in Galatia, in central Asia Minor, about 363 or 364. In 386 he went to Egypt to see the monks, and the rest of his life came out of that decision. He spent…
- VoiceAbba PoemenPoemen is the Greek word for shepherd, and the name stuck to him. He was born in Egypt late in the fourth century, one of seven brothers who all left the world together for the…
- VoiceAcacius of CaesareaAcacius was the pupil, librarian and successor of Eusebius, the historian of the church. He took the see of Caesarea in Palestine about 340 and kept it until his death in 366…
- VoicePope Urban IUrban became bishop of Rome in 222, succeeding Callistus, and held the office until 230. His eight years fell in one of the strangest windows in the history of the early…
Apocrypha (study resources)
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H4340מֵיתָר mêythâr — a cord (of a tent)H2256חֶבֶל chebel — a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring lineH2339חוּט chûwṭ — a stringH3499יֶתֶר yether — properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainderH5688עֲבֹת ʻăbôth — something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or foliageH1366גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl — properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary