Grain.
GRAIN. See Corn.
Grape
The fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as “tender” (Cant. 2:13, 15), “unripe” (Job 15:33), “sour” (Isa. 18:5), “wild” (Isa. 5:2, 4). (See Rev. 14:1…
Grapes
GRAPES, the fruit of the vine. Gen 49:11. When fully ripe and dried they are called "raisins." 1 Sam 25:18; 1 Sam 30:12; 2 Sam 16:1; 1 Chr 12:40. The soil and climate of Palestine are pre-eminently w…
Grass.
GRASS. Isa 51:12. This word is frequently applied in the Scriptures to herbage generally, Isa 15:6, though sometimes distinction is made between such herbs as are used by man as grain and vegetables,…
Grasshopper,
GRASS'HOPPER, an insect of the locust species, often mentioned in the sacred writings. Eccl 12:5. The word rendered "grasshopper" in the above-cited passage is rendered "locust" in 2 Chr 7:13. Grassh…
Grate
A network of brass for the bottom of the great altar of sacrifice (Ex. 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30).
Grate, Brazen
GRATE, BRA'ZEN. See Altar.
Grave.
GRAVE. See Burial, Engrave, Hell.
Graven Image
Deut. 27:15; Ps. 97:7 (Heb. pesel), refers to the household gods of idolaters. “Every nation and city had its own gods...Yet every family had its separate household or tutelary god.”
Graving
(1.) Heb. hatsabh. Job 19:24, rendered “graven,” but generally means hewn stone or wood, in quarry or forest. (2.) Heb. harush. Jer. 17:1, rendered “graven,” and indicates generally artistic work in …
Great Sea
GREAT SEA. Num 34:6. The Mediterranean Sea; called also "utmost sea" and "the hinder sea." Joel 2:20; Zech 14:8. See Sea.
Greaves.
GREAVES. See Armor.
Grecia
GRE'CIA. See Greece.
Grecian
The term Grecian, or Hellenist, denotes a Jew by birth or religion who spoke Greek. It is used chiefly of foreign Jews and proselytes in contrast with the Hebrews speaking the vernacular Hebrew or Ar…
Grecians
Hellenists, Greek-Jews; Jews born in a foreign country, and thus did not speak Hebrew (Acts 6:1; 9:29), nor join in the Hebrew services of the Jews in Palestine, but had synagogues of their own in Je…
Greece,
GREECE, or HELLAS, the well-known country in the south-east of Europe. It is named four times in the O.T. as Greece or Grecia, Zech 9:13; Dan 8:21; Num 10:20; Matt 11:2, and once in the N.T., Acts 20…
Greece, Greeks, Grecians
The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In (Genesis 10:2-5) Moses mentions the descendants of Javan as peopling the isles of the Gentiles; and when the Hebrews cam…
Greek
Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between “Greek” and “Grecian” (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed t…
Greeks
GREEKS, GRECIANS. These terms should be more distinguished. The "Greeks" were the Greeks by race. Acts 16:1, Acts 16:3; Josh 18:17, or else Gentiles as opposed to Jews. Rom 2:9-10, marg. But "Grecian…
Greeks, Grecians
GREEKS, GRECIANS. These terms should be more distinguished. The "Greeks" were the Greeks by race. Acts 16:1, Acts 16:3; Josh 18:17, or else Gentiles as opposed to Jews. Rom 2:9-10, marg. But "Grecian…
Greyhound
(Prov. 30:31), the rendering of the Hebrew zarzir mothnayim, meaning literally “girded as to the lions.” Some (Gesen.; R.V. marg.) render it “war-horse.” The LXX. and Vulgate versions render it “cock…
Grind.
GRIND. See Mills.
Grinders
GRIND'ERS, in Eccl 12:3, represent the double teeth used in mastication.
Grinding
[Mill]
Grizzled,
GRIZ'ZLED, black and white intermingled in small spots. Gen 31:10; Zech 6:3, 1 Kgs 6:6.
Grove.
GROVE. The translation, except in Gen 21:33, of the Hebrew word asherah; but since asherah is regarded by the best interpreters to be an "idol" or an idolatrous pillar (an image of Astarte, and not a…
Guard
(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) an…
Guard -chamber
GUARD -CHAM'BER, the apartment occupied by the king's guard. 1 Kgs 14:28.
Gudgodah.
GUD'GODAH. Deut 10:7. See Hor-Hagidgad.
Guest-chamber
The spare room on the upper floor of an Eastern dwelling (Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11). In Luke 2:7 the word is translated “inn” (q.v.).