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Cush
[Bible]Cush is the name the Old Testament uses for the region of the upper Nile south of Egypt and for its people. It is also the name of a son of Ham. The Septuagint rendered it "Ethiopia."
Chaldeans
[Bible]The Chaldeans were a people who lived in Babylonia in southern Mesopotamia. In the Old Testament, the name frequently designates the Neo-Babylonian Empire and its people.
Sidon
[Bible]Sidon was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, corresponding to present-day Saida in Lebanon. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighbor to the north of Israel, and in the New Testament it stands for Gentile territory.
Kenaz
[People]Kenaz is the name of several individuals in the Old Testament. The best known are a grandson of Esau who became a chief of Edom and the father of Othniel, the first judge. The term "Kenezite," applied to Caleb's family, also derives from this name.
Libnah
[Bible]Libnah is an Old Testament place name. It refers both to one of the sites where the Israelites camped in the wilderness after the Exodus and to a town in the lowland of Judah.
Negev
[Bible]The Negev is a biblical place name for the arid region of southern Judah around Beersheba. The Hebrew word is also used to mean "south," so many passages render it simply as "the south."
Inheritance
[Bible]Inheritance is a biblical term for a portion given by God or handed down from generation to generation. In the Old Testament it chiefly refers to the land that the tribes and families of Israel received by lot; in the New Testament it refers to the inheritance of salvation that believers will receive.
Succoth
[Bible]Succoth is a Hebrew place name meaning "booths." In the Old Testament it refers both to a town east of the Jordan River and to the place in Egypt that Israel first reached after setting out from Rameses at the Exodus.
Vision
[Bible]A vision is a means by which God makes something known to a person by showing scenes or meanings that cannot be perceived with ordinary sight. Visions appear frequently in the Old Testament prophetic books and in the Book of Acts.
Stoning
[Bible]Stoning is a method of execution in which an offender is put to death by a group of people throwing stones. The Old Testament law prescribed it for a number of grave offenses, and in the New Testament it appears in the account of the woman taken in adultery and in the martyrdom of Stephen.
Eshel Tree
[Bible]The eshel tree is a tree mentioned in the Old Testament in the narratives of Abraham and Saul in Genesis and 1 Samuel. Its name comes from the Hebrew word eshel, and today it is generally identified as the tamarisk.
Prophecy
[Bible]Prophecy is the act of receiving a message from God and conveying it to others, or the message so conveyed. In the Old Testament it was the ministry of the prophets; in the New Testament it appears as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Aleppo Codex
[Bible]The Aleppo Codex is a manuscript of the Hebrew Old Testament believed to have been produced in Tiberias, Galilee, in the first half of the tenth century. It is regarded as one of the most accurate witnesses to the Masoretic Text.
Emet
[Bible]Emet (אֱמֶת) is a Hebrew word meaning "firmness, faithfulness, truthfulness, truth." In the Old Testament it describes the character and word of God as well as human honesty. It is frequently paired with hesed.
Signs and Wonders
[Bible]"Signs and wonders" is a biblical word pair referring to the marvelous works God performs to reveal his will and power. The Old Testament applies the phrase mainly to the Exodus, and the New Testament to the ministry of Jesus and the apostles.
Shofar
[Bible]The shofar is an ancient Israelite trumpet made from the horn of an animal such as a ram. In the Old Testament it was used to proclaim feasts and the Jubilee, to signal in war, to mark the enthronement of kings, and in worship. The New Korean Revised Version usually renders it as "trumpet."
Amorites
[Bible]The Amorites were a people who lived in the hill country of Canaan and east of the Jordan River before Israel entered the land. In the Old Testament, the name also serves as a designation for the native inhabitants of Canaan as a whole.
Orphans and Widows
[Bible]"Orphans and widows" is a biblical word pair for people whose livelihood and legal protection were weakened by the loss of a husband or father. Often grouped with the sojourner, they represent the socially vulnerable for whom God shows special care.
Greece
[Bible]Greece is a biblical place name referring to the land of present-day Greece and its people. The Old Testament, in books such as Daniel, uses it for a kingdom yet to arise. The New Testament uses it for a region where Paul preached the gospel and as a name representing the Gentiles.
Valley of Rephaim
[Bible]The Valley of Rephaim was a valley southwest of Jerusalem that formed part of the boundary between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. It is known as the place where David twice defeated the Philistine army encamped there.