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Primary meaning: ungodliness, impiety, ungodly deeds, desires for ungodly things. Strong's: impiety, i.e. (by implication) wickedness. Lexical nuances: ungodliness , impiety : Ro 1:18 11:26 , II Ti 2:16 , Tit 2:12 ; ἔργα ἀσεβείας , ungodly deeds , Ju 15 ; ἐπιθυηίαι τ. ἀσεβειῶν , desires for ungodly things or deeds , Ju 18 ( DB , iv, 532; Cremer, 523; MM, s.v.).†

Primary meaning: to announce, proclaim, to promise, to profess, to promise. Strong's: to announce upon (reflexively), i.e. (by implication) to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself. Lexical nuances: to announce, proclaim .

To revolt against rightful king, break allegiance, transgress divine covenant laws defiantly.

To pour out oil upon head of high priest or king in consecration, pour drink offerings, or cast metal for sanctuary.

Holy; applied to the angels ('holy watcher', Daniel 4:13) and the redeemed saints who inherit the eternal kingdom ('the saints of the Most High', Daniel 7:18, 22).

Jealous; exclusively applied to God in the Decalogue ('For I the LORD your God am a jealous God', El Qanna, Exodus 20:5; 34:14), guarding His covenant bride.

Earnest pleading for unmerited mercy, cry of the brokenhearted (1 Kings 8:30, Psalm 6:9, Zechariah 12:10).

To be ritually pure, morally purged; gracious act of God purifying sinner's heart ('Create in me a clean heart', Psalm 51:10).

Primary meaning: to purify, cleanse from defilement. Strong's: to make clean, i.e. (figuratively) sanctify (ceremonially or morally). Lexical nuances: to purify , cleanse from defilement ; ceremonially: Jo 11:55 , Ac 21:24 , 26 24:18 ; morally: Ja 4:8 , I Pe 1:22 , I Jo 3:3 .†

Pure, undefiled; used of pure gold in sanctuary, clean animals, and moral integrity ('clean hands and a pure heart', Psalm 24:4).

Passionate ardor, zeal for holiness, righteous jealousy; God's intense exclusivity intolerant of divided affection ('zeal of the LORD of hosts', Isaiah 9:7).

To lift, carry, bear; in soteriological context, to bear away iniquity as substitutionary bearer, hence to forgive ('bearing iniquity and transgression', Exodus 34:7; Isaiah 53:4, 12).

Physical purity, radiant clarity, cultic cleansing after childbirth (Leviticus 12:4-6) and clear sapphire theophany (Exodus 24:10).

Priesthood, sacred office and ministry of the priest; instituted as an everlasting covenant statute with Aaron and his sons.

Sacred, holy, set apart from moral impurity and creaturely existence; describes God's moral purity, transcendent majesty, and otherness ('Holy One of Israel').

Valued property, royal treasure; used of Israel as Yahweh's treasured people set apart from all nations through grace (Exodus 19:5).

Judge, magistrate administering divine and civil law in Ezra 7:25.

Shout of acclamation welcoming the King, blast of ram's horn on Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah, Leviticus 23:24), and war shout.

Love, affection, relational commitment; describes God's unprovoked love for Israel (Deuteronomy 7:8) and ardent marital covenant devotion.

To bind together, wait eagerly with stretched-out neck; 'Those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength' (Isaiah 40:31).

Resident alien living among Israel without tribal land; commanded to be loved as oneself because Israel was a stranger in Egypt (Leviticus 19:34).

Thanksgiving choir, thank offering sacrifice (Leviticus 7:12), confession of God's righteous truth; enter His gates with thanksgiving (Psalm 100:4).

Primary meaning: to cast into hell. Strong's: to incarcerate in eternal torment. Lexical nuances: to cast into hell : II Pe 2:4 (v. Mayor, in l.).†

Crookedness, perversity, iniquity, guilt, and the punishment incurred by twisted rebellion; theological triad with chatta'at and pesha (Exodus 34:7).

Crown of royalty, wreath of honor bestowed by wisdom ('wreath of grace', Proverbs 4:9), and royal crown of David (Psalm 21:3).

Passover, paschal lamb, festival commemorating Yahweh passing over blood-marked houses in Egypt; prime type of redemption by blood.

Singular form of Elohim, occurring primarily in poetic and wisdom texts (Job) to designate the transcendent God of all creation.

Piercing cry of joy, jubilant shouting of redeemed returning to Zion ('with singing unto Zion', Isaiah 35:10); also cry of prayer.

Abomination; that which is profoundly offensive to God's holy nature (idolatry, occultism, sexual perversions, dishonest scales, hypocritical worship).

To be slight, trifling; in Piel, to treat with contempt, insult, curse, declare despicable; contrasted with honoring/treating as weighty.

Simplicity, uprightness, unblemished moral integrity; walking before God with whole undivided heart (Psalm 26:1).

Primary meaning: brotherhood, brotherly affection, the brotherhood. Strong's: brotherhood (properly, the feeling of brotherliness), i.e. the (Christian) fraternity. Lexical nuances: abstract, brotherhood, brotherly affection (LXX). Concrete, the brotherhood , the Christian community: I Pe 2:17 5:9 (MM, VGT , s.v.).†

To flee for protection, take shelter under shadow of God's wings; vivid psalmic image of absolute spiritual safety.

Experiential knowledge, intimate moral perception; preeminently the knowledge of God (Da'at Elohim) uniting intellect and will.

Contribution, dedicated gift lifted up from common use and presented for building sanctuary or supporting priesthood.

State or substance of ritual or ethical defilement requiring water ablutions, sacrifice, or exile from camp.