Cracknels
CRACK'NELS denotes crumbcakes, so called because of the "sharp noise made when breaking." 1 Kgs 14:3.
Crane,
CRANE, next to the ostrich, the largest bird found in the Holy Land, measuring 4 feet in height and 7 feet from tip to tip of its extended wings. The crane (Grus cinerea) feeds upon frogs, fish, worm…
Create,
CREATE', Ps 61:10, CREA'TOR, Eccl 12:1, CREA'TION. Mark 10:6. The word "creation" sometimes denotes all living things, and at others the act of creation. To create is to cause anything to exist that …
Creation
“In the beginning” God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things …
Creature
Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine a…
Creditor
[Loan]
Crescens
Increasing, probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He was one of Paul’s assistants (2 Tim. 4:10), probably a Christian of Rome.
Crete,
CRETE, now Candia, a large island in the Mediterranean Sea, midway between Syria and Italy. It is about 140 miles long by 35 miles wide. Its surface is mountainous, the classic Mount Ida being one of…
Cretes
(Acts 2:11) Cretans, inhabitants of Crete.
Crib
CRIB,a stall for cattle or fodder, Prov 14:4; Job 39:9; Isa 1:3; or perhaps simply the manger out of which the cattle were to eat.
Crimson
See COLOUR.
Crisping-pin
(Isa. 3:22; R.V., “satchel”), some kind of female ornament, probably like the modern reticule. The Hebrew word harit properly signifies pouch or casket or purse. It is rendered “bag” in 2 Kings 5:23.
Crisping-pins
CRISP'ING-PINS. The word is not properly translated in Isa 3:22, for it denotes a reticule, probably richly ornamented.
Crispus
Curled, the chief of the synagogue at Corinth (Acts 18:8). He was converted and, with his family, baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14).
Cross
In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used…
Cross, Crucify
CROSS, CRUCIFY. Matt 23:34; Matt 27:32. Crucifixion is a mode of execution of great antiquity, and still prevails among the Hindoos and Chinese. It was regarded by the Romans as the basest and most i…
Crown
(1.) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest’s mitre (Ex. 29:6; 39:30). The same Hebrew word so rendered (ne’zer) denotes the diadem worn by Saul in battle (2 Sam. 1:10), and also t…
Crown Of Thorns
Our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Matt. 27:29). The object of Pilate’s guard in doing this was probably to insult, and not specially to inflict pain. There is nothing to show tha…
Crucifixion
A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the …
Crucify
CRU'CIFY. See Cross.
Cruse
A utensil; a flask or cup for holding water (1 Sam. 26:11, 12, 16; 1 Kings 19:6) or oil (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). In 1 Kings 14:3 the word there so rendered means properly a bottle, as in Jer. 19:1, 1…
Crystal
(Ezek. 1:22, with the epithet “terrible,” as dazzling the spectators with its brightness). The word occurs in Rev. 4:6; 21:11; 22:1. It is a stone of the flint order, the most refined kind of quartz.…
Cubit
Heb. ‘ammah; i.e., “mother of the arm,” the fore-arm, is a word derived from the Latin cubitus, the lower arm. It is difficult to determine the exact length of this measure, from the uncertainty whet…
Cuckoo
(Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning “to be lean; slender.” This bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15 (R.V., “seamew”). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by “petrel” or “shearwater…
Cucumber
CU'CUMBER. Num 11:5. A garden-vegetable well known in this counrty. Squirting Cucumber. (From Eiehm.) c. Section of the Fruit. a. Plant. b. Fruit. Cucumbers, melons, and onions are now among the lead…
Cucumbers
(Heb. plur. kishshuim; i.e., “hard,” “difficult” of digestion, only in Num. 11:5). This vegetable is extensively cultivated in the East at the present day, as it appears to have been in earlier times…
Cummin
(Heb. kammon; i.e., a “condiment”), the fruit or seed of an umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum sativum, still extensively cultivated in the East. Its fruit is mentioned in Isa. 28:25, 27. In the New Te…
Cunning
CUN'NING is used in the Bible in its original sense of "knowing," "skilful." Gen 25:27; 1 Sam 16:16, etc. In 2 Pet 1:16 the word "cunningly" is used in a similar sense.
Cup
A wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament…
Cup Of Blessing
CUP OF BLESSING. See Blessing.