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The Lamb
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The Lamb names 2 things on this site
- The Lamb, a featured study.Announced as the Lion of Judah, seen as a Lamb standing as though slain: the reversal that runs the whole book of Revelation.
- The Lamb, a concept traced across the canon.From Abraham's "God will provide himself a lamb" to the Lamb standing as slain in heaven: the Bible's longest single image.
Featured studies
9 results- StudyThe LambAnnounced as the Lion of Judah, seen as a Lamb standing as though slain: the reversal that runs the whole book of Revelation.
- StudyRevelation: the Study GuideThe unveiling of Jesus Christ: the book's own three-fold key, its architecture of sevens, and the garden lost in Genesis given back as a garden-city.
- StudyThe Marriage Supper of the LambA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyNew Heavens and New EarthThe Bible's first new creation set facing its last: Isaiah 65–66 and Revelation 21–22, line answering line.
- StudyThe ExodusPlagues, Passover, sea, and song: the deliverance every later rescue in Scripture is told in the vocabulary of, and the new-exodus echo through Isaiah, Luke, Paul, and Revelation.
Verses
196 results- VerseExodus 29:39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
- VerseNumbers 28:4Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
- VersePsalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- VerseRevelation 6:3And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
- VerseGenesis 21:28Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
People
1 resultPlaces
1 resultManuscripts
34 results- 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.
- ManuscriptChester Beatty Papyrus I (P45)The oldest surviving book that holds all four Gospels and Acts together — though only a fifth of it is left.
- ManuscriptChester Beatty Papyrus II (P46)The oldest substantial copy of Paul's letters — and it already treats Hebrews as one of them.
- ManuscriptChester Beatty Papyrus III (P47)The oldest substantial copy of Revelation — ten leaves from the middle of the book.
Events
5 results- EventDavid's Coronation at HebronDavid's anointing as king — first over the tribe of Judah at Hebron (c. 1010 BCE), then over all Israel (c. 1003 BCE).
- EventCrucifixion of ChristThe public execution of Jesus of Nazareth by Roman crucifixion in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate — the central event of the Christian faith.
- EventBabylonian Exile (586 BCE)The Neo-Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, and the resulting deportation of most of Judah's population — the central trauma of the Hebrew Bible.
- EventExodus from EgyptThe departure of Israel from Egyptian bondage under the leadership of Moses, foundational to Israel's self-understanding in the Hebrew Bible.
- EventGiving of the Law at SinaiThe covenant and law-giving at Mount Sinai following the Exodus; Israel receives the Ten Commandments and the broader Torah.
Words (Strong's)
17 results- WordH563 אִמַּר · ʼimmar (Hebrew)a lamb. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG721 ἀρνίον · arníon (Greek)a lambkin. The Greek word stands 30 times in the original text.
- WordG2983 λαμβάνω · lambánō (Greek)while is more violent, to seize or remove)). The Greek word stands 257 times in the original text.
- WordH2922 טְלָא · ṭᵉlâʼ (Hebrew)a lamb. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH2924 טָלֶה · ṭâleh (Hebrew)a lamb. The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
Concepts
2 resultsThemes
20 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…
- 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…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- 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…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
Prophecies
236 results- ProphecyTyre Never RebuiltThe ancient site of Tyre would become a fishing spot and never be rebuilt to its former glory.
- ProphecyTyre's Riches Thrown into the SeaTyre's building materials would be thrown into the sea.
- ProphecyBabylon Conquered by MedesThe Medes would be instrumental in Babylon's conquest.
- ProphecyEgypt No Longer Rules NationsEgypt would become a lowly kingdom and never again rule over other nations.
- ProphecyNile Dried Up at MemphisThe Nile channels at Memphis would dry up.
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 Problem of Evil: Christian ResponsesJ. L. Mackie framed the logical problem of evil in Mind in 1955; in 1982 he conceded that Alvin Plantinga's free will defence had answered it, and the philosophical debate…
Voices
1 resultApocrypha (study resources)
16 results- Study resourceSirach 13:17What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner with the godly.
- Study resource1 Esdras 7:7And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 19:9For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:66Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
- Study resourceSirach 46:16He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed upon him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.