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Abyss

Abyss * For ABYSS see BOTTOM

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Abyss * For ABYSS see BOTTOM

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By * For BY See Note +, p. 9. Note: The phrase "by and by" in the AV is in several places misleading. The three words exautes, Mar 6:25, euthus, Mat 13:21, and eutheos, Luk 17:7, Luk 21:9, mean "straightway,"...

Abase

Abase signifies "to make low, bring low," (a) of bringing to the ground, making level, reducing to a plain, as in Luk 3:5; (b) metaphorically in the Active Voice, to bring to a humble condition, "to abase," 2C...

Abba

Abba is an Aramaic word, found in Mar 14:36, Rom 8:15 and Gal 4:6. In the Gemara (a Rabbinical commentary on the Mishna, the traditional teaching of the Jews) it is stated that slaves were forbidden to address...

Abhor

Abhor denotes "to shudder" (apo, "from," here used intensively, stugeo, "to hate") hence, "to abhor," Rom 12:9. "to render foul" (from bdeo, "to stink"), "to cause to be abhorred" (in the Sept. in Exo 5:21, Le...

Abide, Abode

Abide, Abode used (a) of place, e.g., Mat 10:11, metaphorically 1Jo 2:19, is said of God, 1Jo 4:15; Christ, Joh 6:56, Joh 15:4, etc.; the Holy Spirit, Joh 1:1-33, Joh 14:17; believers, Joh 6:56, Joh 15:4, 1Jo...

Ability, Able

Ability, Able is (a) "power, ability," physical or moral, as residing in a person or thing; (b) "power in action," as, e.g., when put forth in performing miracles. It occurs 118 times in the NT. It is sometime...

Aboard

Aboard "to go upon" (epi, "upon," baino, "to go"), is once translated "we went aboard," Act 21:2, the single verb being short for "going aboard ship." In Act 21:6 it is rendered "we went on board;" in Act 27:2...

Abolish

Abolish lit., "to reduce to inactivity" (kata, "down," argos, "inactive"), is translated "abolish" in Eph 2:15, 2Ti 1:10, in the RV only in 1Co 15:24, 1Co 15:26. It is rendered "is abolished" in the AV of 2Co...

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