Testament, New
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Testament, Old
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Testament, Old, New.
TES'TAMENT, OLD, NEW. 2 Cor 3:6. See Bible.
Testament.
TES'TAMENT. Heb 9:15. The word "testament," when applied to our Scriptures (as "the Old and New Testaments"), is used in the same sense with "covenant." The old covenant is spoken of in Ex 24:8, and …
Testimony
(1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thess. 1:10). (2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa. 8:16, 20). (3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (J…
Testimony, Tabernacle Of
The tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained “the testimony”, i.e., the “two tables” (Ex. 38:21). The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the “ark of the testimony” …
Testimony, Testimonies.
TESTIMONY, TES'TIMONIES. Ps 119:88, Ps 119:99. These terms sometimes denote the whole revelation of God's will. They frequently occur in this sense in the above Psalm. They also refer to the tables o…
Tetrarch.
TE'TRARCH. This title was given to a sovereign prince, and strictly denotes one who governs the fourth part of a province or kingdom. Matt 14:1. In our Scriptures, however, it is applied to any one w…
Thaddaeus.
THAD'DAEUS. Matt 10:3. See Jude.
Thaddeus
one of the twelve apostles. (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18) From a comparison with the catalogue of St. Luke, (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13) it seems scarcely possible to doubt that the three names, of Judas, Lebb…
Thahash
A badger, a son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother (Gen. 22:24).
Thamah.
THA'MAH. Ezr 2:53. See Tamah.
Thamar.
THA'MAR. Greek form of Tamar, 1. Matt 1:3.
Thammuz
THAM'MUZ. See Tammuz.
Thank Offering, Or Peace Offering
the properly eucharistic offering among the Jews, in its theory resembling the meat offering and therefore indicating that the offerer was already reconciled to and in covenant with God. Its ceremoni…
Thank-offering
THANK-OFFERING. See Offerings.
Thara.
THA'RA. Luke 3:34. See Terah.
Tharah
same as Terah
Tharra
(Esther 12:1) a corrupt form of Teresh.
Tharshish,
THAR'SHISH, a more accurate form of Tarshish, which see. 1 Kgs 10:22; 1 Kgs 22:48.
Theatre,
THE'ATRE, a place of public amusement, where popular assemblies, courts, elections, etc., were often held. Acts 19:29, 1 Chr 24:31. "The taste for theatrical amusements was never strongly developed a…
Thebes.
THEBES. See No-amon.
Thebez
Brightness, a place some 11 miles north-east of Shechem, on the road to Scythopolis, the modern Tabas. Abimelech led his army against this place, because of its participation in the conspiracy of the…
Theft
Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2 Sam. 12:6. If the thief could not pay the fine, he was to be sold to a Hebrew master till he could pay (Ex. 22:1-4). A night-thief mig…
Thelasar.
THELA'SAR. 2 Kgs 19:12. See Telassar.
Thelassar
THELAS'SAR. See Telassar.
Theocracy
A word first used by Josephus to denote that the Jews were under the direct government of God himself. The nation was in all things subject to the will of their invisible King. All the people were th…
Theophilus
Lover of God, a Christian, probably a Roman, to whom Luke dedicated both his Gospel (Luke 1:3) and the Acts of the Apostles (1:1). Nothing beyond this is known of him. From the fact that Luke applies…
Thessalonians
THESSALO'NIANS, EPIS'TLES TO. They were written by the apostle Paul to the church of the Thessalonians, and are the earliest of his writings and the oldest portions of the N.T. They were probably wri…
Thessalonians, Epistles To
THESSALO'NIANS, EPIS'TLES TO. They were written by the apostle Paul to the church of the Thessalonians, and are the earliest of his writings and the oldest portions of the N.T. They were probably wri…