Biblical Place • Samaria • 32.280°N, 35.198°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Amos 4:3 (identified with Samaria ).
The Biblical Antinomy, Second Temple Philosophical Sects, and Monergism vs Synergism
Scripture uncompromisingly affirms both God's unconditional sovereign decree ( Eph 1:11 , Rom 9 ) and genuine human moral accountability ( Josh 24:15 , Ezek 18:32 ). Harmonizing this biblical tension represents the definitive theological debate between Monergism (Augustinian/Reformed) and Synergism (Cassian/Arminian/Molinist).
The Fourth Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 14 (20 verses)
And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love. O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! Sacred and harmonious concert of th... Mentions: Abram/Abraham .
peace, wholeness, well-being
Completeness, soundness, welfare, safety, wholeness, peace; covenantal flourishing and harmonious reconciliation between God, humanity, and creation resulting from righteousness.
Derivation: From שָׁלַם (H7999) to be complete, restore.
to make peace
Primary meaning: to make peace. Strong's: to be a peace-maker, i.e. (figuratively) to harmonize. Lexical nuances: to make peace : Col 1:20 .†
Derivation: from G1518 (εἰρηνοποιός);
The Fourth Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 7 (25 verses)
The reasoning of our father Eleazar , like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions, and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of vict... Mentions: Eleazar , Aaron , Isaac , Abram/Abraham , Jacob/Israel .
Biblical Place • 37.925°N, 29.125°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Col 4:13 .
Biblical Place • 33.931°N, 36.152°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Ezek 47:16 .
Biblical Place • Arumah • 32.155°N, 35.318°E
?. Referenced in 2 Kgs 23:36 .
a flock
Primary meaning: a flock. Strong's: a flock, i.e. (figuratively) group (of believers). Lexical nuances: a flock , prop., of sheep. Metaph., of Christians: Lk 12:32 , Ac 20:28 , 29 , I Pe 5:3 ; τ. θεοῦ , I Pe 5:2 .†
Derivation: neuter of a presumed derivative of G4167 (ποίμνη);
Biblical Place • Madmannah • 31.392°N, 34.941°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 19:5 , 1 Chr 4:31 (identified with Madmannah ).
Generation 33 • Child of Jesse
Nethanel is a biblical figure in Generation 33, child of Jesse . ( 1 Chronicles 2:14 )
to curse, accursed, under a curse
Primary meaning: to curse, accursed, under a curse. Strong's: to execrate; by analogy, to doom. Lexical nuances: to curse : c. acc., Mk 11:21 ; opp. to εὐλογέω , Lk 6:28 , Ro 12:14 , Ja 3:9 ; pass. pf. ptcp., accursed , under a curse (v. M, Pr. , 221): Mt 25:41 .†
Derivation: middle voice from G2671 (κατάρα);
a ransom
Primary meaning: a ransom. Strong's: a redemption-price. Lexical nuances: a ransom : I Ti 2:6 (v. CGT , in l.; and cf. λύτρον ).†
Derivation: from G473 (ἀντί) and G3083 (λύτρον);
Biblical Place • Mount Tabor • 32.687°N, 35.391°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Judg 5:23 (identified with Mount Tabor ).
heaven
Primary meaning: heaven. Strong's: the sky; by extension, heaven (as the abode of God); by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel (Christianity). Lexical nuances: heaven ; of the vault or firmament of heaven, the sky and the aerial regions above the earth: opp. to ἡ γῆ , He 1:10 , II Pe 3:5 , 10 ; ὁ οὐ. καὶ ἡ γῆ , i.e. the world, the universe, Mt 5:18 , Mk 13:31 , Lk 10:21 , Ac 4:24 , Re 10:6 , al.; ἀπ’ ἄκρων οὐ. ἕως ἄ. αὐτῶν (on the absence of art. aft. prep., v. Bl., § 46, 5), Mt 24:31 ; ὑπὸ τὸν οὐ. , Ac 2:5 , Col 1:23 ; ὑψωθῆναι ἕως τοῦ οὐ. , fig., Mt...
Derivation: perhaps from the same as G3735 (ὄρος) (through the idea of elevation);
from heaven
Primary meaning: from heaven. Strong's: from the sky. Lexical nuances: from heaven : Ac 14:17 26:13 .†
Derivation: from G3772 (οὐρανός) and the enclitic of source;
Ezekiel • Chapter 48 (35 verses)
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon , as one goeth to Hamath , Hazar–enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath ; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan . And by the border of Dan , from the... Mentions: Dan, Asher , Naphtali , Manasseh , Ephraim , Hethlon , Hamath, Damascus .
Ezekiel • Chapter 41 (26 verses)
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side...
Biblical Place • Ezion-geber • 29.758°N, 35.031°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Kgs 21:19 (identified with Ezion-geber ).
Biblical Place • Kibzaim • 31.833°N, 35.300°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Chr 6:68 (identified with Kibzaim ).
The Distribution of Grace, Edification of the Church, and Cessationist vs Continuationist Debates
The existence and divine distribution of spiritual gifts for building the Church is biblical-primary ( Rom 12 , 1 Cor 12 -14, Eph 4 ). However, whether miraculous sign gifts (tongues, prophecy, apostolic miracles) ceased with the apostolic age (Cessationism) or continue today (Continuationism) is a primary scholarly debate.
Biblical Place • Jokneam • 32.665°N, 35.109°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 4:12 (identified with Jokneam ).
Biblical Place • Calneh • 32.127°N, 45.230°E
?; from Arch. Enc. of Holy Land. Referenced in Ezek 3:15 .
before, in the presence of (God/King)
Before, in the immediate presence of; standing before the Ancient of Days or earthly monarch.
Derivation: Aramaic corresponding to קֶדֶם (H6924).
2 Chronicles • Chapter 27 (9 verses)
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem . His mother's name also was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok . And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he ent... Mentions: Jotham , Zadok , Azariah (or Uzziah), Judah , Ammonites , Jerusalem , Ophel , Ammon .
