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Year
Verses
744 results- VerseJeremiah 52:29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
- VerseLuke 4:19to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
- VerseGenesis 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.
- VerseIsaiah 14:28In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
- VerseGenesis 14:4For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
People
6 results- PersonUzziahJudah's powerful king (2 Chr 26), struck with leprosy for usurping the priesthood; the year of his death frames Isaiah's throne vision (Isa 6:1) and his reign dates Amos…
- PersonDarius IPersian king whose second year dates Haggai's and Zechariah's oracles (Hag 1:1; Zech 1:1) and whose decree confirmed Cyrus's authorization, letting the temple be finished in…
- PersonElisabethWife of Zacharias, kinswoman of Mary, and mother of John the Baptist. Barren and advanced in years, she conceives by promise; filled with the Holy Spirit at Mary's greeting…
- PersonFelixRoman procurator of Judea who kept Paul in custody at Caesarea for two years, sent for him often hoping for a bribe, and trembled when the prisoner reasoned with him about…
- PersonElijahThe Tishbite who shut heaven for three years and a half, called down fire on Carmel, heard the still small voice at Horeb, and went up by a whirlwind — the prophet whose return…
Places
6 results- PlaceEphesusGreat harbor city of Asia, home of the Artemis temple; Paul's three-year base where the word grew mightily; addressed in Ephesians and first of the seven churches of Revelation.
- PlaceCaesareaHerod's harbor city on the coast and the seat of the Roman governors of Judea, where Cornelius's household received the Spirit and where Paul spent two years in custody before…
- PlaceHaranThe city in upper Mesopotamia where Terah died and Abram received his call, where Jacob served Laban twenty years for his wives and flocks, and which the prophets later name…
- PlaceHebronThe city of the patriarchs, where Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah, Caleb took his inheritance, and David reigned seven years before Jerusalem.
- PlaceKadesh-BarneaThe oasis on Canaan's doorstep where the spies returned, the people refused, and a generation turned back into forty years of wilderness.
Manuscripts
3 results- ManuscriptThe Syriac Pentateuch of AD 463/464 (BL Add. 14425)The oldest biblical manuscript that tells you the year it was written — a Syriac Pentateuch, copied in AD 463 or 464.
- 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.
- ManuscriptThe Oxyrhynchus Mark Fragment (P137)A scrap of Mark the size of a matchbox — famous for six years as a first-century discovery it turned out not to be.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH8141 שָׁנֶה · shâneh (Hebrew)a year (as a revolution of time). The Hebrew word stands 877 times in the original text.
- WordG2094 ἔτος · étos (Greek)a year. The Greek word stands 48 times in the original text.
- WordG1763 ἐνιαυτός · eniautós (Greek)a year. The Greek word stands 14 times in the original text.
- WordH8140 שְׁנָה · shᵉnâh (Hebrew){a year (as a revolution of time)}. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH3117 יוֹם · yôwm (Hebrew)a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used…. The Hebrew word…
Themes
3 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…
- 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…
- 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…
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
13 results- ProphecyProclaims the Year of the Lord's FavorThe Messiah would proclaim a time of God's favor.
- ProphecyEgypt's Desolation for 40 YearsEgypt would experience a 40-year period of desolation.
- ProphecySatan Bound 1,000 YearsSatan will be imprisoned for 1,000 years, unable to deceive the nations.
- ProphecyHezekiah's Life Extended 15 YearsIsaiah prophesied King Hezekiah would recover from terminal illness and live exactly 15 more years—a specific numerical prediction.
- ProphecyJudah's Babylonian ExileJeremiah predicted a 70-year exile in Babylon followed by restoration—a specific timeframe given before the exile began.
Apologetics
7 results- ApologeticsThe Seventy-Year Babylonian CaptivityJeremiah fixed Judah's exile at seventy years in a dated oracle — the fourth year of Jehoiakim, 605 BC, the year Nebuchadnezzar broke Egypt at Carchemish (Jeremiah 25:1…
- ApologeticsTyre's Destruction: A 250-Year Prophecy Fulfilled to the LetterEzekiel 26 predicts seven specific details about Tyre's destruction that were fulfilled over 250 years by multiple nations, including the improbable detail that its ruins would…
- ApologeticsCyrus Named 150 Years Before His BirthIsaiah 44-45 names Cyrus the Great as Israel's deliverer roughly 150 years before his birth, describing his specific role in rebuilding Jerusalem and releasing the Jewish exiles.
- ApologeticsTyre: Tracing Ezekiel 26 Verse by VerseEzekiel 26:3-14 names specific outcomes for Tyre. This entry traces each clause against Nebuchadnezzar's 13-year siege (c. 585-573 BCE) and Alexander's 332 BCE causeway - with…
- ApologeticsNineveh's Total Obliteration Prophesied by NahumNahum predicted the 'utter end' of Nineveh including its specific mode of destruction by flood—fulfilled so completely that its location was unknown for 2,400 years until…
Featured studies
7 results- StudyThe Seventy Weeks: Daniel 9:24–27Seventy sevens decreed: the six goals of verse 24, the four candidate decrees, the 7 + 62 + 1 count, and the five ways the church has read it.
- StudyReading Plans: a pace through the whole BookFive ways through Scripture: the whole Bible in a year, the events in order, the New Testament in 90 days, four streams a day, and the promise traced in 30. No streaks, no guilt: your next day waits…
- StudySong of Solomon: the Study GuideThe Bible's one book of pure love poetry: the six-movement garden path from longing to the wedding to the seal upon the heart, the two refrains that carry it, and the church's two-thousand-year…
- StudyTwo Traditions, One SongAllegorical and natural, side by side against the same verses: the two-thousand-year argument over what the Song of Songs is really about, presented at full strength and attributed, not adjudicated.
- StudyThe Day of AtonementLeviticus 16, walked in the chapter's own order — one man, one day a year, within the veil; two goats that are one offering; and the letter to the Hebrews reading the whole day as a shadow of Christ.
Voices
9 results- VoicePolycrates Of EphesusAround the year 190 the churches of the Roman empire nearly split over a calendar. The question was when to keep the Passover — the Christian Pascha. The churches of Asia Minor…
- VoiceErasmus of RotterdamDesiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, most likely on October 28, 1466 — he was vague about the year, and had reason to be. He was the illegitimate son of a priest and a…
- VoiceGennadius 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…
- 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…
- VoiceDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
Apocrypha (study resources)
158 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:7So Alexander reigned twelve years, and then died.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 7:19The circuits of years, and the positions of stars:
- Study resource1 Esdras 1:22In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this passover kept.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 11:33Fare ye well. In the hundred forty and eighth year, and the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 11:21Fare ye well. The hundred and eight and fortieth year, the four and twentieth day of the month Dioscorinthius.
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H8141שָׁנֶה shâneh — a year (as a revolution of time)G2094ἔτος étos — a yearG1763ἐνιαυτός eniautós — a yearH8140שְׁנָה shᵉnâh — {a year (as a revolution of time)}H3117יוֹם yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)H3648כָּמַר kâmar — properly, to intertwine or contract, i.e. (by implication) to shrivel (as with heat)