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Hallelujah
[Bible]Hallelujah is a Hebrew exclamation meaning "Praise the LORD." In the Old Testament it appears only in the Psalms, and in the New Testament only in Revelation 19. Today it is widely used in churches as an expression of praise and as a greeting.
Mary, Wife of Clopas
[People]Mary, the wife of Clopas, was one of the women who stood by Jesus at his crucifixion. A New Testament figure, she appears under this name only in John 19:25.
Wilderness of Sinai
[Bible]The Wilderness of Sinai is the wilderness where Israel, after the Exodus, encamped before Mount Sinai for nearly a year, received the Law, and set up the tabernacle. It is the setting of the narrative that runs from Exodus 19 through Numbers 10.
Covenant of Salt
[Bible]The covenant of salt is an Old Testament expression that uses salt as an image of the eternal, unchanging nature of a covenant made with God. It appears in Numbers 18:19 and 2 Chronicles 13:5, and Leviticus 2:13 contains the related phrase "the salt of the covenant."
Pilate's Wife
[People]Pilate's wife was the wife of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who presided over the trial of Jesus. She appears only in Matthew 27:19, where, because of a dream, she sent word to her husband to have nothing to do with "that just man."
Hanun
[People]Hanun was king of the Ammonites in the time of David, succeeding his father Nahash at his death. By humiliating the envoys David sent to console him, he provoked war between Israel and Ammon (2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19).
Fishers of Men
[Bible]A phrase Jesus used when He called disciples who were fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It likens the work of bringing people to God to catching fish and appears in Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17.
Purity Laws
[Bible]The purity laws are regulations of the Old Testament law that distinguish between the "clean" and the "unclean" in persons and objects and prescribe the procedures by which those who have become unclean may be made clean again. They appear chiefly in Leviticus 11–15 and Numbers 19.
Gibeah
[Bible]Gibeah was a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It is the setting of the account of the Levite's concubine and the ensuing Benjamite civil war in Judges 19–21, and it was the hometown of Saul, the first king of Israel.
Company of Prophets
[Bible]The company of prophets was a group of prophets who gathered and prophesied together in the time of Samuel and Saul. They appear in 1 Samuel 10 and 19 and are discussed alongside the "sons of the prophets" of the era of Elijah and Elisha.
Laish
[Bible]Laish was the original name of a city at the northern extremity of Israel before the tribe of Dan captured it and renamed it "Dan." It appears in Judges 18, and Joshua 19:47 records it as "Leshem."
Pedaiah
[People]Pedaiah was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), king of Judah, and appears in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3. First Chronicles 3:19 records him as the father of Zerubbabel. Other passages name Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel, and this discrepancy has been the subject of discussion.
Ezekiel 30
[Bible]Ezekiel 30 contains a prophecy that "the day of the LORD" is coming upon Egypt and its allies (vv. 1–19) and a prophecy that God will break Pharaoh's arms and strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (vv. 20–26).
Tongsung Kido
[Christian Life]Tongsung kido is a form of prayer in which everyone gathered prays aloud at the same time, each in his or her own words. Since the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907, it has become one of the characteristic prayer practices of Korean Protestantism.
Shinto Shrine Worship
[History]Shinto shrine worship was a policy under Japanese colonial rule by which the Government-General of Korea compelled Koreans to bow at Shinto shrines (jinja), the sanctuaries of Japanese Shinto. In 1938 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church adopted a resolution accepting the practice, and the resistance movement that opposed it produced both prisoners and martyrs.
Christian Council of Korea
[Institutions]The Christian Council of Korea (CCK; Korean abbreviation Hangichong) is an interdenominational body of Korean Protestant denominations founded in 1989 under the leadership of Rev. Han Kyung-chik and other senior conservative church leaders. It was long regarded as the representative organization of conservative Korean Protestantism, but after a series of schisms in the 2010s its major member denominations withdrew.
National Council of Churches in Korea
[Institutions]The National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK), successor to the Korean National Christian Council founded in 1924, is a council of churches in which Korean Protestant denominations and the Korean Orthodox Church participate together.
Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
[Institutions]Korea Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVF) is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea that became a full member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in 1956. It is known for small-group Bible study on university campuses and for the books published by its publishing arm, IVP.
Youth With A Mission Korea (Yesu Jeondodan)
[Institutions]Youth With A Mission Korea (YWAM Korea), known in Korean as Yesu Jeondodan, is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, from a university student fellowship. Since 1980 it has operated as the Korean branch of the international mission organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
Salvation Sect (Guwonpa)
[Heresies & Cults]The Salvation Sect (Guwonpa) is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu, South Korea, in the early 1960s, and for the Lee Yo-han and Park Ock-soo lines, which either split from it or share its roots. Korea's major Protestant denominations have declared it heretical.