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High Priest
[Bible]The high priest held the foremost position among the priests of Old Testament Israel, an office whose holder entered the Most Holy Place on the Day of Atonement to make atonement for the people. The New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews presents Jesus Christ as the eternal High Priest.
Jehovah
[Bible]Jehovah is the proper name of the God of Israel in the Old Testament. It is written with four Hebrew consonants (YHWH), and scholars often render it as "Yahweh."
Epistles
[Bible]The Epistles are the twenty-one books of the New Testament, from Romans through Jude, that were written in letter form. They are commonly divided into the Pauline Epistles, Hebrews, and the General Epistles, and within the Pauline Epistles the Prison Epistles and the Pastoral Epistles are often distinguished.
Angel
[Bible]In the Bible, an angel is a spiritual being who serves God and conveys His will. The Hebrew mal'akh and the Greek angelos both mean "one who is sent," that is, a messenger.
Dead Sea Scrolls
[Bible]The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish documents discovered beginning in 1947 in caves around Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea. They include the oldest extant Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament and are an important resource for the study of the biblical text.
Hades (Sheol)
[Bible]Eumbu (陰府, "Hades") is the Korean biblical term for the place to which the dead go. It translates the Old Testament Hebrew word Sheol and the New Testament Greek word Hades.
High Place
[Bible]A high place (Korean sandang, 山堂) is an Old Testament term for a local site of sacrifice, often located on elevated ground. It translates the Hebrew word bamah. In the books of Kings, the high places frequently serve as a criterion for evaluating the faithfulness of the kings.
Barak
[People]Barak was an Israelite military leader in the period of the judges who, at the summons of the prophetess Deborah, defeated Sisera, the commander of the army of the Canaanite king Jabin. He appears in Judges 4–5 and is named among the people of faith in Hebrews 11.
Anakim
[Bible]The Anakim were a people of great stature who lived in the southern hill country, centered on Hebron, before the conquest of Canaan. After the report of the twelve spies, they became the adversaries Israel feared.
Deuterocanonical Books
[Bible]The deuterocanonical books are books such as Tobit, Judith, and Maccabees that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church include in the Old Testament but that are absent from the Hebrew Bible and the Protestant Old Testament. Protestants commonly call them the Apocrypha.
Abner
[People]Abner was the commander of King Saul's army. After Saul's death he made Ish-bosheth king, later went over to David, and was killed by Joab at Hebron.
Talmai
[People]Talmai is the name of two men in the Old Testament. One was a descendant of Anak who lived in Hebron; the other was the king of Geshur, who was David's father-in-law and the maternal grandfather of Absalom.
Jehovah-shalom
[Bible]Jehovah-shalom is the name Gideon gave to the altar he built at Ophrah in Judges 6:24. In Hebrew it means "the LORD is peace."
Sons of the Prophets
[Bible]The sons of the prophets were groups in the northern kingdom of Israel who gathered around a prophet during the time of Elijah and Elisha. They appear mainly in 2 Kings, and the name renders a Hebrew expression meaning literally "sons of the prophets."
Lo-ammi
[People]Lo-ammi was the third child, a son, born to the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer. His name means "not my people" in Hebrew. A symbolic name expressing the broken relationship between God and the northern kingdom of Israel, it appears in Hosea 1.
Negev
[Bible]The Negev is a biblical place name for the arid region of southern Judah around Beersheba. Because the Hebrew word also means "south," the New Korean Revised Version usually renders it as "the south" (*nambang*).
Ephron
[People]Ephron, the son of Zohar, was a Hittite who appears in Genesis 23. He owned the field and cave of Machpelah near Hebron and sold them to Abraham for four hundred shekels of silver, and the cave became Sarah's burial place.
Shear-jashub
[People]Shear-jashub was a son of the prophet Isaiah. His name means "a remnant shall return" in Hebrew. Isaiah 7 records that he accompanied his father to meet Ahaz, king of Judah.
Negev
[Bible]The Negev is an Old Testament place name for the arid region south of the hill country of Judah, extending around Beersheba and Arad. In Hebrew the word can also denote the compass direction "south."
Firmament
[Bible]The firmament (Korean: gungchang, 穹蒼) is the expanse God made on the second day in Genesis 1 to divide the waters above from the waters below; God called it "Heaven." The term translates the Hebrew word raqia.