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Ground
Featured studies
9 results- StudyCursed Is the GroundA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Burning BushExodus 3–4: a bush that burns and is not consumed, the Angel in the flame, the Name I AM THAT I AM: and five objections from a man who did not want to go.
- StudyJustification by FaithThe courtroom at the center of Romans: the charge, the verdict-word dikaioo, the mercy-seat ground, and the faith counted for righteousness.
- StudyTitus: the Study GuideOrder, adorn, insist: qualified elders against the Cretan error, a household trained by grace between two appearings (2:11-14; 3:4-7), and good works as the fruit (never the ground) of a salvation…
- StudyThe Cane Ridge Camp MeetingCane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky — open ground on the American frontier.
Verses
251 results- VerseExodus 34:8Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.
- VerseJohn 8:8And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.
- VerseLamentations 3:16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
- VersePsalms 83:10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
- VersePsalms 107:33He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,
Places
3 results- PlaceLachishJudah's second city, besieged by Sennacherib in 701 BC, its siege carved on the walls of his palace at Nineveh and confirmed in the ground.
- PlaceMachpelahThe cave near Hebron that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite to bury Sarah, the burial place of the patriarchs and their only owned ground in the land.
- PlaceThe Jordan RiverThe river Israel crossed on dry ground into the land, where Elijah was taken up, Naaman was cleansed, and John baptized Jesus.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH127 אֲדָמָה · ʼădâmâh (Hebrew)soil (from its general redness). The Hebrew word stands 225 times in the original text.
- WordH776 אֶרֶץ · ʼerets (Hebrew)the earth (at large, or partitively a land). The Hebrew word stands 2,504 times in the original text.
- WordH2513 חֶלְקָה · chelqâh (Hebrew)properly, smoothness. The Hebrew word stands 29 times in the original text.
- WordH2758 חָרִישׁ · chârîysh (Hebrew)ploughing or its season. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordH6083 עָפָר · ʻâphâr (Hebrew)dust (as powdered or gray). The Hebrew word stands 110 times in the original text.
Concepts
1 resultThemes
7 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- 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…
- 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…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 results- ProphecyDeath Swallowed Up in VictoryIsaiah prophesied that God would personally defeat death and remove its power. Paul cites this as prophetic grounding for Christ's resurrection as the firstfruits and the…
- 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…
Voices
30 results- 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…
- VoiceCyril of JerusalemCyril was born about 313 and became bishop of Jerusalem around 350. He held the see, off and on, for thirty-five years — off and on because he was driven out of it three times…
- VoiceLanfranc of CanterburyLanfranc was born at Pavia in Lombardy about 1010, the son of a city magistrate, and trained in law. He crossed the Alps in his thirties, taught for a while in France, and then…
- VoicePhileas of ThmuisPhileas was a man of rank before he was a bishop. Eusebius describes him as distinguished by his public services and his standing in his own country, and by his skill in…
- VoicePapias the LexicographerPapias was an Italian scholar who worked in the 1040s and 1050s, probably at or near Pavia in Lombardy — which is why he is usually called Papias the Lombard, though even that…
Apocrypha (study resources)
30 results- Study resourceSirach 33:10And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth:
- Study resourceSirach 11:5Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 4:40And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
- Study resource2 Esdras 15:13They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 14:8Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.
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