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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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
analogy (A-Z entry)
Analogies, much employed in the Bible, are a means of reasoning by the use of parallel cases, and ‘analogy’ is therefore an umbrella term ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
anaphora (A-Z entry)
(ah‐nah′‐for‐ah) the repetition of a word or phrase in successive lines or sentences. “As the eyes of servants look to the hand of ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Anathema (A-Z entry)
A Greek word corresponding to Hebr. ḥērem ( See Ban ) and designating an object dedicated or devoted to a deity either for consecration ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
apocalyptic (A-Z entry)
A modern term which summarizes the OT hope of a future salvation at the end of the current experience of national humiliation and suffering. ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Apocalyptic Literature (A-Z entry)
The words “apocalyptic” and “apocalypse” (from a Greek root meaning “to uncover,” “to reveal”) are terms that came to be used from the second ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Apostle (A-Z entry)
The Greek word apostolos (“someone who has been sent”) is seldom used in classical Greek, but it occurs eighty times in the New Testament, ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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