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9 results- PersonPaul the ApostleFirst-century apostle to the Gentiles; former Pharisee turned missionary and author of a significant portion of the New Testament.
- PersonPaul the ApostleThe apostle to the Gentiles — once Saul the persecutor, arrested by the risen Christ on the Damascus road; author of Romans and thirteen New Testament letters.
- PersonPeter (Simon Peter)Fisherman of Galilee called by Jesus; leader of the Twelve; confessed Jesus as the Christ; denied him and was restored; preached at Pentecost and opened the gospel to the…
- PersonSimeonA righteous and devout man of Jerusalem on whom the Holy Spirit rested, promised he would not die before seeing the Lord's Christ. Taking the infant Jesus in his arms he sings…
- PersonJames, the Lord's BrotherNot a follower during Jesus' ministry, and the leader of the Jerusalem church afterwards; the most rigorously observant figure in the leadership, and the one who pronounced…
Places
5 results- PlaceGoshenThe fertile delta region where Jacob's family settles in Egypt (Gen 47).
- PlaceZarephathThe Sidonian town where a starving Gentile widow shared her last meal with Elijah and her jar of flour did not run out, the story Jesus cited at Nazareth.
- PlaceAntioch (Syrian)Third city of the Roman empire and the first great Gentile church; where the disciples were first called Christians and every Pauline mission was launched and reported.
- PlaceBashanThe fertile tableland east of the Sea of Galilee, the kingdom of Og and the giant clans, taken by Israel before the Jordan crossing and remembered for its oaks, its bulls and…
- PlaceRomeThe capital of the empire and home of the mixed Jewish and Gentile church to which Paul wrote Romans, and where he later arrived in chains.
Words (Strong's)
3 results- WordH3843 לְבֵנָה · lᵉbênâh (Hebrew)a brick (from the whiteness of the clay). The Hebrew word stands 12 times in the original text.
- WordH5508 סֹחֵרֶת · çôchêreth (Hebrew)probably a (black) tile (or tessara) forlaying borders with. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG2766 κέραμος · kéramos (Greek)earthenware, i.e. a tile (by analogy, a thin roof or awning). The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
5 results- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
Topics
4 results- TopicGentilesA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicLentilesA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicPestilenceA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicTileA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
5 results- ProphecyJerusalem Trampled by GentilesJerusalem would be controlled by Gentile nations for an extended period.
- ProphecyMinistry in GalileeIsaiah prophesied that a great light would shine in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali — Galilee of the Gentiles.
- ProphecyA Light to the GentilesThe Messiah's mission would extend beyond Israel to all nations — he would be a light to the Gentile world.
- ProphecySidon Continues but Tyre DestroyedUnlike Tyre (which was condemned to utter destruction), Sidon was predicted to suffer judgment—pestilence, blood, sword—but not complete annihilation. Ezekiel's language for…
- ProphecyNorthern Tribes Scattered and LostHosea predicted the northern tribes would be 'swallowed up' among the Gentiles and become 'wanderers among the nations.'
Apologetics
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8 results- VoiceRemigius of RheimsRemigius — Rémi in French — was born about 437 in the region of Laon, in northern Gaul, into a Gallo-Roman family of rank. He was made bishop of Rheims at about twenty-two…
- VoiceJohn of the CrossJuan de Yepes y Álvarez was born in 1542 at Fontiveros, a village near Ávila in Castile. His father came from a family of silk merchants, married beneath his class, and was…
- VoiceThomas AquinasThomas was born about 1225 at Roccasecca, between Rome and Naples, the youngest son of the count of Aquino. His family sent him at five to the great Benedictine abbey of Monte…
- VoiceArchelaus of CarrhaeIn the third century a Persian prophet named Mani announced a new religion. It taught two eternal powers, light and darkness, locked in a war that had produced the world; it…
- VoiceJohn of DalyathaJohn was born early in the eighth century in Ardamut, in the region of Beth Nuhadra, in the mountains of what is now northern Iraq. He entered the monastery of Mar Yozadaq as a…
Apocrypha (study resources)
28 results- Study resource1 Esdras 8:69The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the…
- Study resource2 Esdras 15:49I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
- Study resourceTobit 1:10And when we were carried away captives to Nineve, all my brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the Gentiles.
- Study resourceTobit 13:3Confess him before the Gentiles, ye children of Israel: for he hath scattered us among them.
- Study resourceJudith 2:21And they went forth of Nineve three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.