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Azotus
[Bible]Azotus is the Greek name of Ashdod, an ancient Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast. In the New Testament it is the place where Philip the evangelist was found after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:40).
Mamre
[Bible]Mamre is a place near Hebron where Abraham pitched his tent and built an altar. There he received a visit from three men and heard the promise that Isaac would be born. In the Bible, the name occurs only in Genesis.
Stephen Langton
[People]Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228) was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury who is widely known for establishing the chapter divisions used in Bibles today.
Beth-dagon
[Bible]Beth-dagon, meaning "house (temple) of Dagon," is an Old Testament place name. It appears twice in the book of Joshua: once as a town of the tribe of Judah and once as a point on the border of the tribe of Asher.
Hebrew Servant
[Bible]In Old Testament law, a Hebrew servant was an Israelite who had been sold into the service of a fellow Israelite because of debt or poverty. The law required that, after six years of service, such a servant go free in the seventh year without payment.
William Tyndale
[People]William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was an English reformer and Bible translator. He produced the first printed New Testament translated into English from the original Greek and was executed on charges of heresy.
The Fear of the Lord
[Bible]The fear of the Lord is a central Old Testament expression for an attitude of reverence and awe toward God. It is presented especially in the wisdom literature, including Proverbs, Psalms, and Job, as the foundation of wisdom and knowledge.
Gog
[People]Gog is the figure prophesied in Ezekiel 38–39 as the leader of an army that comes from the north against Israel in the last days. In Revelation 20, "Gog and Magog" serves as a name for the nations that oppose God.
Ellen G. White
[People]Ellen G. White (1827–1915) was an American religious leader and author and a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Adventists recognize her as having received the gift of prophecy.
Theodore of Mopsuestia
[People]Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350–428) was an early church theologian and biblical commentator and the leading representative of the Antiochene school. He served as bishop of Mopsuestia and was condemned after his death over Christological questions.
Yoke
[Bible]A yoke is a wooden frame placed on the neck of a draft animal such as an ox so that it can pull a plow or cart. In the Bible it is a figure for domination and bondage, and also for obedience and the life of discipleship.
Eutyches
[People]Eutyches (c. 380–after 454) was an archimandrite (abbot) in Constantinople. He taught that in Christ the divine and human natures were united into a single nature, and he was condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
John Wycliffe
[People]John Wycliffe (c. 1330–1384) was an English theologian, philosopher, and church reformer. He led the effort to produce the first translation of the entire Bible into English and is regarded as a forerunner of the Reformation for his advocacy of church reform.
Thomas Watson
[People]Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *A Body of Divinity*, a collection of sermons expounding the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
George Whitefield
[People]George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a priest of the Church of England and an itinerant preacher. He is regarded as one of the figures who sparked the eighteenth-century Great Awakening through his open-air preaching in Britain and the North American colonies, and he was a leader of Calvinistic Methodism.
John R. Mott
[People]John R. Mott (1865–1955) was an American Methodist lay leader. He led the Student Volunteer Movement, the YMCA, and the World Student Christian Federation, chaired the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.
Martin Luther King Jr.
[People]Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American civil rights movement. He led a nonviolent movement to end racial discrimination in the United States and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Tim Keller
[People]Tim Keller (Timothy Keller, 1950–2023) was an American Presbyterian pastor and author of Christian apologetics. In 1989 he founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York. His books, including The Reason for God, also became widely known in Korean churches.
C. Peter Wagner
[People]C. Peter Wagner (1930–2016) was an American missionary and missiologist. He taught church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and later championed the New Apostolic Reformation, which brought him into controversy with a number of denominations.
Columba
[People]Columba (c. 521–597) was an Irish monk and missionary. He founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and, using it as his base, spread Christianity in Scotland and northern England.