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H8578תִּנְיָן tinyân — secondH8145שֵׁנִי shênîy — properly, double, i.e. secondH4932מִשְׁנֶה mishneh — properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount)H8147שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim — twoH6471פַּעַם paʻam — a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)H8648תְּרֵין tᵉrêyn — two
Verses(4)
- VerseRevelation 20:14Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
- VerseRevelation 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- VerseRevelation 20:6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him…
- VerseRevelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with…
People(5+)
- PersonDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.
- PersonAbelThe second son; the first martyr, whose acceptable blood-offering is faith's first witness, and whose blood “speaketh better things” in Christ (Heb 11:4; 12:24).
- 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).
- PersonStephenOne of the Seven, full of grace and power; his Acts 7 defense retold Israel's story and its resisted prophets; the church's first martyr, whose death Saul of Tarsus approved.
- PersonSilasA leading man among the brethren, sent from Jerusalem to carry the Council's letter to Antioch, and then Paul's companion on the second journey — singing hymns at midnight in…
Places(4)
- 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.
- PlaceLachishJudah's second city, besieged by Sennacherib — the siege carved in relief on his palace walls at Nineveh, corroborating the biblical record.
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalem is the central city of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament — home to Solomon's Temple, the Second Temple, and the place where Christ was crucified and rose again.
- PlaceThe TempleThe house of the LORD in Jerusalem — Solomon's temple and the Second Temple — the place the Psalms long to enter and praise God (Ps 84; 122).
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Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordH8578 תִּנְיָן · tinyân (Hebrew)second
- WordH8145 שֵׁנִי · shênîy (Hebrew)properly, double, i.e. second
- WordH4932 מִשְׁנֶה · mishneh (Hebrew)properly, a repetition, i.e. a duplicate (copy of a document), or a double (in amount)
- WordH8147 שְׁנַיִם · shᵉnayim (Hebrew)two
- WordH6471 פַּעַם · paʻam (Hebrew)a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
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(5+)
- 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…
- ProphecyNo More Death or TearsDeath and suffering will be eliminated forever.
- ProphecyMessiah Cut OffThe Messiah would be cut off — put to death — after the sixty-two weeks Daniel counts. Scripture never states his age.
- ProphecyLeads Captivity CaptiveThe Messiah would triumph over captivity and death.
- ProphecyPriest Forever After MelchizedekAn everlasting priesthood requires an eternally living priest. The prophecy that Messiah would be priest 'for ever' necessitates resurrection and perpetual life, since death…
Apologetics(4)
- 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'…
- ApologeticsPool of Siloam DiscoveryIn June 2004 a sewer repair at the southern tip of the City of David cut into monumental stone steps, and Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron identified a trapezoidal Second Temple…
- 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…
- ApologeticsBiblical Foreknowledge: Scientific Statements Ahead of Their TimeIn 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis cut maternal deaths in the First Division of Vienna General Hospital from 18.27% in April to 2.2% in June by ordering hand-washing — a practice…
Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureThe Lake of Fire and the Second DeathRevelation drives every condemned power into one basin — and names what it empties into twice, so it cannot be missed.
- FeatureThe Sects of Second Temple JudaismA featured study.
- FeatureTheta (Θθ) — the Greek letterThe letter that begins the word “God” — and was also the mark for the dead.
Authors(5+)
- AuthorDesert FathersIn the second half of the third century, Christians began walking out of the Egyptian towns into the desert. By the middle of the fourth there were thousands of them, and by…
- AuthorAcacius 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…
- AuthorGennadius of ConstantinopleGennadius became patriarch of Constantinople in 458 and held the office until his death in 471. He came in at a hard moment: the Council of Chalcedon was only seven years old…
- AuthorVigilius of ThapsusVigilius was bishop of Thapsus, a coastal town in the African province of Byzacena, in the second half of the fifth century. He was alive and active in 484, and the date of his…
- AuthorThietland of EinsiedelnThietland was the second abbot of Einsiedeln, the monastery in the forested hills of what is now central Switzerland. He held the office from about 943 until he resigned in…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceThe Second Book of EsdrasThe Apocrypha — a study resource, outside the 66-book canon. 16 chapters, 874 verses.
- Study resourceThe Second Book of the MaccabeesThe Apocrypha — a study resource, outside the 66-book canon. 15 chapters, 555 verses.
- Study resource1 Esdras 3:11The second wrote, The king is strongest.
- Study resource2 Esdras 11:27And the second was sooner away than the first.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 5:1About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt: