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Tertius
Tertius was the amanuensis who took down the apostle Paul's Epistle to the Romans, a first-century Christian who added his own greeting in Romans 16:22.
Byzantine Text
The Byzantine text is the text type to which the majority of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts belong. Widely copied in the church of the medieval Byzantine Empire, it became the basis of the Textus Receptus and the King James Version.
Golden Rule
The Golden Rule is the traditional name for Jesus' teaching "whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them" (Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31).
Shulamite Woman
The Shulamite woman is the woman called "the Shulamite" in the Old Testament book of the Song of Songs. She is commonly understood to be the female speaker who exchanges songs of love with her beloved in the book.
Gabbatha
Gabbatha is the name of a place in Jerusalem mentioned in John 19:13. It refers to the "Pavement" where Pontius Pilate sat on the judgment seat and presented Jesus before the Jews.
Circumcision Party
The circumcision party (literally "those of the circumcision") is a New Testament expression for believers of Jewish origin who had been circumcised. It is used especially of those among them who required Gentile believers to be circumcised and to keep the Law of Moses.
Day Star (Gyemyeongseong)
Gyemyeongseong (啓明星), "day star," is a term for the star that rises brightly in the dawn sky, that is, the morning star. In the New Korean Revised Version (Gaeyeok Gaejeong), it appears in Isaiah 14:12 as a name for the king of Babylon, who is brought to ruin.
Ebed-melech
Ebed-melech was a Cushite eunuch who served in the palace of King Zedekiah in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah. He rescued the prophet Jeremiah, who had been left to die in a cistern, and for this deed he received God's promise of deliverance.
Jozadak
Jozadak was the son of Seraiah, the high priest in Jerusalem just before the Babylonian exile. He was carried into captivity when Judah fell, and Scripture records him as the father of Jeshua (Joshua), who became high priest after the return from exile.
Habakkuk (person)
Habakkuk was the prophet to whom the Old Testament Book of Habakkuk is attributed. Scripture gives his name only in the book's two headings and says nothing about his origins or life.
Census (Luke 2)
The census in Luke 2 was a registration of inhabitants carried out by order of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. Because of this census, Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.
King's Highway
The King's Highway was an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River. In Numbers, it is the road Moses referred to when he asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through, promising to travel only along that way.
Diaspora
Diaspora is a Greek word meaning "scattering." It refers to the Jews who lived in various regions outside Palestine and to their communities. In the New Testament the term was also applied to Christians living scattered throughout the world.
Geneva Bible
The Geneva Bible is an English Bible published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, by English Protestant exiles. Widely read for its verse numbering and extensive marginal notes (commentary printed alongside the text), it was the most popular Bible in the English-speaking world before the King James Version.
El Olam
El Olam is a Hebrew title meaning "the Everlasting God." Abraham used it when he called on God at Beersheba in Genesis 21:33, and it expresses the eternity of God.
Jehovah-shammah
Jehovah-shammah is a Hebrew name meaning "the LORD is there," given to the restored city in Ezekiel 48:35.
Gopher Wood
Gopher wood is the timber God instructed Noah to use in building the ark in Genesis 6:14. Because the word appears only once in the Bible, the kind of tree it refers to is uncertain.
On (Son of Peleth)
On was a son of Peleth of the tribe of Reuben. Numbers 16:1 names him as one of the group that, together with Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, rose up against Moses and Aaron during the wilderness period.
Josheb-basshebeth
Josheb-basshebeth was a Tahchemonite counted first among David's mighty men, the chief of the captains, who is recorded as having slain eight hundred men at one time (2 Samuel 23:8). He is generally identified with Jashobeam in 1 Chronicles 11:11.
Isshiah
Isshiah was a Levite recorded as the head (chief) among the sons of Rehabiah, the grandson of Moses. His name appears only once, in 1 Chronicles 24:21.