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- God Dwells with Humanity, a messianic prophecy.God will dwell directly with humanity for eternity - no more separation, death, sorrow, or pain.
- God Redeems Soul from the Grave, a messianic prophecy.The psalmist declares confidence that God will redeem his soul from Sheol (the grave). While applicable to all believers, this hope is definitively grounded in Messiah's prior…
- God: what we believe, a featured study.One God, eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, self-existent, holy, loving, and sovereign; the God who names himself I AM and who is both everywhere at once and particularly present…
Featured studies
3 results- StudyTheta (Θθ): the Greek letterThe letter that begins the word “God”, and was also the mark for the dead.
- StudyAleph (א): the Hebrew letterThe silent first letter, named for the ox, strength that serves.
- StudyGod: what we believeOne God, eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, self-existent, holy, loving, and sovereign; the God who names himself I AM and who is both everywhere at once and particularly present…
Subjects
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4,131 resultsPeople
22 results- PersonHagarSarah's Egyptian servant and mother of Ishmael; the first person to name God — “Thou God seest me” (El Roi, 16:13).
- PersonMelchizedekKing of Salem and priest of the Most High God, without recorded genealogy, who brings out bread and wine — the type of Christ's eternal priesthood (Heb 7; Ps 110:4).
- PersonAbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all nations are blessed.
- PersonJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.
- PersonEnochThe seventh from Adam who “walked with God, and he was not; for God took him” — translated without death, a pattern of the resurrection (Heb 11:5).
Places
16 results- PlacePenielThe ford of the Jabbok where Jacob wrestled God 'face to face' (Gen 32:30).
- PlaceUrThe city of the moon god in southern Mesopotamia that Abram was called out of, the place Scripture names as Ur of the Chaldees and Stephen names as the land where the God of…
- PlaceZiklagThe Philistine town David ruled from, burned by Amalekite raiders while his men were away, where David found strength in the LORD his God and recovered everything.
- PlaceCanaanThe land God promised to Abraham's seed, walked and marked with altars by the patriarchs and possessed under Joshua four centuries later.
- PlaceTemanEdomite region and clan (Gen 36:11), proverbial for wisdom (Jer 49:7; Obad 1:9); God comes from Teman in Habakkuk's theophany (Hab 3:3).
Manuscripts
1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH426 אֱלָהּ · ʼĕlâhh (Hebrew)God. The Hebrew word stands 95 times in the original text.
- WordH3069 יְהֹוִה · Yᵉhôvih (Hebrew){YHWH}. The Hebrew word stands 306 times in the original text.
- WordH433 אֱלוֹהַּ · ʼĕlôwahh (Hebrew)a deity or the Deity. The Hebrew word stands 57 times in the original text.
- WordH6697 צוּר · tsûwr (Hebrew)properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed). The Hebrew word stands 78 times in the original text.
- WordG2316 θεός · theós (Greek)a deity, especially (with ) the supreme Divinity. The Greek word stands 1,312 times in the original text.
Concepts
10 results- ConceptThe Image of GodHumanity made in God's likeness: the ground of every human life's worth, damaged at the fall and never revoked.
- ConceptThe Names of GodGod reveals himself by naming himself: each name a disclosure, not a label, and each one attached to a story.
- ConceptGloryThe weight of God made visible: כָּבוֹד, literally heaviness: filling a tabernacle, a temple, and finally a body.
- ConceptEdenThe garden God planted eastward: a sanctuary with a river, two trees, and a job description, lost by one command broken.
- ConceptDarknessNot merely the absence of light in Scripture but a realm and a power: one God parts, invades, and finally abolishes.
Themes
11 results- 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…
- 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…
- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- 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…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
Topics
12 results- TopicCondescension of GodA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicDisobedience to GodA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicForgetting GodA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicGifts from GodA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicGlorifying GodA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
52 results- ProphecyGod Dwells with HumanityGod will dwell directly with humanity for eternity - no more separation, death, sorrow, or pain.
- ProphecyGod Redeems Soul from the GraveThe psalmist declares confidence that God will redeem his soul from Sheol (the grave). While applicable to all believers, this hope is definitively grounded in Messiah's prior…
- ProphecyMighty GodThe Messiah would be called 'Mighty God.'
- ProphecySon of GodThe Messiah would be God's Son in a unique sense.
- ProphecyFirstborn of GodThe Messiah would be God's firstborn, preeminent over all.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsThe Moral Argument for God's ExistenceJ. L. Mackie, the twentieth century's most formidable atheist philosopher, agreed that objective moral values would be entities of a very strange sort, utterly different from…
- 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…
Voices
4 results- VoiceJohn G. LakeJohn Graham Lake grew up in a family that buried eight of its sixteen children, and the funerals made him hungry for a God who heals. He was doing well in insurance in Chicago…
- VoiceIgnatius of AntiochIgnatius was bishop of Antioch in Syria — the city where believers were first called Christians. He called himself Theophorus, "God-bearer." He was condemned to die in the…
- VoiceHilary of PoitiersHilary was born at Poitiers in western Gaul about 310, into a wealthy pagan family, and given a full classical education. He came to God the long way — by thinking. He…
- VoiceJames W. GollDr. James W. Goll (born 1952) is an American Charismatic prophetic teacher, author, and the President / founder of God Encounters Ministries (formerly Encounters Network). He…