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Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureTheta (Θθ) — the Greek letterThe letter that begins the word “God” — and was also the mark for the dead.
- FeatureAleph (א) — the Hebrew letterThe silent first letter, named for the ox — strength that serves.
- FeatureGod — 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 with his people.
Verses(5+)
People(5+)
- 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(5+)
- PlacePenielThe ford of the Jabbok where Jacob wrestled God 'face to face' (Gen 32:30).
- PlaceBethel'The house of God' — the site of Jacob's ladder-vision and vow, revisited at God's recall.
- PlaceZionThe Temple hill and, by extension, Jerusalem as the dwelling-place of God — the gravitational center of the Psalms (Ps 48; 132; 137).
- PlacePatmosSmall rocky island of the Aegean where John was exiled "for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus" and received the Revelation on the Lord's day.
- PlaceAthensThe city full of idols where Paul reasoned in the marketplace daily and then addressed the Areopagus on the unknown God, the appointed day, and the man God had ordained.
Manuscripts(1)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Concepts(5+)
- 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(5+)
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ThemeObedienceObedience enters the story at the very first command. In Eden, the boundary God sets — one tree, one prohibition — is the whole test of the relationship (Gen 2:17), and the…
Topics(5+)
- 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(5+)
- 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)
- 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…
Authors(4)
- AuthorJohn 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…
- AuthorMark VirklerDr. Mark Virkler is an American Charismatic-evangelical teacher, author, and the co-founder (with his wife Patti Virkler) of Communion with God Ministries (CWG…
- AuthorIgnatius 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…
- AuthorHilary 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…