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Red Heifer
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Verses(1)
People(5+)
- PersonRebekahIsaac's bride, drawn from Abraham's kindred by providence (ch. 24); mother of the twins, who receives the oracle “the elder shall serve the younger.”
- PersonSimon PeterThe fisherman Jesus named Cephas; he confessed Christ, denied Him three times, and was restored threefold by the Sea of Tiberias (John 21:15-19).
- PersonThe Samaritan WomanThe woman at Jacob's well to whom Jesus revealed living water and declared Himself Messiah; her testimony brought a Samaritan town to faith (John 4).
- PersonPontius PilateThe Roman prefect who found no crime in Jesus yet delivered Him to be crucified, asking "What is truth?" (John 18-19).
- PersonAquilaA Jewish tentmaker of Pontus who, with his wife Priscilla, labored alongside Paul and "laid down their own necks" for him (Rom 16:3-4; Acts 18).
Places(5+)
- PlaceMamreThe oaks where the LORD appeared to Abraham and the promise of Isaac and the plea for Sodom were spoken (Gen 18).
- PlacePool of SiloamThe Jerusalem pool ("Sent") where the man born blind washed and came seeing (John 9:7,11); recovered by excavation.
- PlaceDamascusThe Syrian city Saul was travelling to with letters of arrest when the light stopped him on the road; he entered it blind and left it preaching.
- PlaceSamariaThe region between Judea and Galilee, named in Acts 1:8 as the second zone of the mission and reached by Philip when persecution scattered the Jerusalem church.
- PlacePhilippiA Roman colony in Macedonia and the first city of Europe to hear the gospel — a riverside prayer meeting, a delivered slave girl, a midnight earthquake, and a jailer's…
Manuscripts(3)
- ManuscriptAleppo CodexA 10th-century Hebrew manuscript of the entire Tanakh with full Masoretic apparatus; considered one of the most authoritative witnesses to the Masoretic Text.
- ManuscriptThe Rylands Fragment of John (P52)A scrap of John's Gospel about the size of a credit card, and for most of a century the oldest piece of the New Testament anyone had.
- ManuscriptThe Cairo Geniza FragmentsA synagogue storeroom in Old Cairo that nobody emptied for nine hundred years — and roughly 200,000 pieces of writing came out of it.
Words (Strong's)(4)
- WordG1151 δάμαλις · dámalis (Greek)a heifer (as tame)
- WordH6510 פָּרָה · pârâh (Hebrew)a heifer
- WordH5697 עֶגְלָה · ʻeglâh (Hebrew)a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
- WordH1241 בָּקָר · bâqâr (Hebrew)beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing)
Themes(5+)
- 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…
- 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…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- 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(1)
Prophecies(1)
Apologetics(5+)
- 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…
- ApologeticsIsrael's Regathering: A Nation Reborn in a DayMultiple Old Testament prophets predicted that Israel would be scattered and then regathered from all nations—a prediction fulfilled uniquely in 1948 when the modern State of…
- ApologeticsHittite Empire ConfirmationNineteenth-century critics treated the Old Testament's Hittites as a people invented by the biblical writers. In 1906 Hugo Winckler's excavation at Boğazköy in central Turkey…
- ApologeticsThe Minimal Facts Resurrection ArgumentGerd Ludemann, an atheist New Testament scholar at Gottingen, wrote that it may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus' death…
- ApologeticsDaniel's Four Kingdoms: The Sweep of History ForetoldDaniel 2 and 7 predict a sequence of four world empires—Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome—centuries before their rise, culminating in a divine kingdom that crushes them all.
Authors(3)
- AuthorHarold R. EberleDr. Harold R. Eberle (born 1953) is an American charismatic-evangelical Bible teacher, author, and the founder/director of Worldcast Ministries and Worldcast Publishing…
- AuthorCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- AuthorAmmonas of EgyptAmmonas was a disciple of Anthony the Great and, after Anthony withdrew to the Inner Mountain by the Red Sea, his successor at Pispir on the Nile. He had already spent fourteen…
Apocrypha (study resources)(3)
- Study resource1 Enoch 85:3Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer, and along…
- Study resourceTobit 1:5Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.
- Study resource1 Enoch 85:5But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.’