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Displaying: abb - ana
Abba (A-Z entry)
An Aramaic word for ‘father’. Jesus used it in prayer in Gethsemane ( Mark 14: 36 ), and it is twice taken up by ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abba (A-Z entry)
The word for “my father” or “the father.” This Aramaic word appears three times in the New Testament, followed by a translation into Greek: ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Abraham's Bosom (A-Z entry)
In Jesus' parable of Dives and Lazarus ( Luke 16: 19–31 ) both characters die, and in the abode of the dead, which is ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abraham's Bosom (A-Z entry)
This expression occurs in the parable of the Rich Man ( Dives ) and Lazarus ( Luke 16.19–31 ); after his death, Lazarus is ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Abyss (A-Z entry)
The abyss, or bottomless depth, appears in biblical tradition in several related senses. In the Hebrew Bible, tĕhôm (NRSV: “the deep”) usually refers to ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
abyss (A-Z entry)
The depths of the sea. Because the Hebrews disliked the sea (cf. Rev. 21: 1 ), deep waters were regarded as the abode of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Acrostic (A-Z entry)
An acrostic is a poem in which the initial letters of each successive line form a word, phrase, or pattern. Acrostics are found in ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Africa (A-Z entry)
Very little of the vast continent was known to writers of the Bible, but Egypt and Ethiopia are prominent in the narratives from Genesis ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Africa (A-Z entry)
Names and Words for Africa. Africa appears throughout the Bible from Genesis 2.11–13 , where the sources of the Nile River are located in ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
ʿAkedah (A-Z entry)
(Heb “binding”) the story of the binding of Isaac (Gen. ch 22).
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Alien (A-Z entry)
Also translated “sojourner,” “resident alien,” and “stranger,” an alien (Hebr. gēr ) is technically a person in a community who is not part of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
allegorical (A-Z entry)
a method of reading a work as an allegory; explaining or interpreting elements of a story as if they stood for something else. ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Alms (A-Z entry)
There is no word for “alms” or “almsgiving” in the Hebrew Bible, and there are almost no specific references to the practice of giving ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
alms (A-Z entry)
In the Graeco-Roman world charity as the source of material support for the poor and destitute was almost unknown. Gifts of food and money ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Alpha and Omega (A-Z entry)
The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, spoken in the book of Revelation to John as the self‐disclosure of God ( Rev. ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
amen (A-Z entry)
Hebrew, meaning ‘certainly’: it became a liturgical response by which worshippers identified themselves with the preceding prayer of praise or petition ( Ps. 41: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Amen (A-Z entry)
A Hebrew word meaning “certainly” or “may it be so.” In the Hebrew Bible amen appears as a response to someone else's statement. Sometimes ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Amos, The Book of (A-Z entry)
The early prophets of Israel— Samuel , Elijah , Elisha , and many others—are known from stories included in the historical books of Samuel ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
anachronism (A-Z entry)
(ah‐nah′‐krow‐nizm) an element in a story that is out of place because it did not exist at the time of the story. Anachronisms ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
anadiplosis (A-Z entry)
(a‐na‐di‐plo′‐sis) the “doubling,” or repetition, of a word or phrase. The author of Isa 40–55 often used this figure; for instance, “Awake, awake, ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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