Amen, truly, so be it, verified truth
Amen, truly, so be it, verified truth. Liturgical confirmation of covenant curses and blessings, ratifying corporate agreement with God's word ('Amen and Amen', Psalm 41:13).
Old Testament • 5 Chapters
Lamentations (Old Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Esau ( Edom ). Key places: Zion , Jerusalem , Sodom , Edom. Opens with: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess am..."
Wiki Article • New Testament & Messiah
Following the ascension of Yeshua and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 1 –2, the apostolic community spread from Jerusalem and Judea to Samaria , Antioch , Corinth , Ephesus , and Rome , documented across Acts and the twenty-one New Testament Epistles.
Lamentations • Chapter 1 (22 verses)
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hat... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Zion , Jerusalem .
Lamentations • Chapter 2 (22 verses)
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel , and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob , and hath not pitied: he hath... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Judah , Zion , Jerusalem .
Lamentations • Chapter 3 (66 verses)
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations • Chapter 4 (22 verses)
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion , comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Even the sea m... Mentions: Esau ( Edom ), Zion , Sodom , Jerusalem , Edom.
Lamentations • Chapter 5 (22 verses)
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. Mentions: Judah , Zion .
expanse, firmament, sky
expanse, firmament, sky. Expanse, canopy, hammered-out vault of heaven; created on Day Two to separate waters above from waters below.
to dip, immerse, sink
to dip, immerse, sink. Primary meaning: to dip, immerse, sink, to overwhelm. Strong's: to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e. fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism. Lexical nuances: to dip , immerse , sink ; generally (in Polyb., iii, 72, of soldiers wading breast-deep; in i, 51, of the sinking of ships); metaph., to overwhelm ( Is 21:4 ; cf. MM, Exp. , x); c. cogn. acc., βάπτισμα β. , Mk 10:38 , 39 , Lk 12:50 . Mid., to perform ablutions , wash oneself , bathe ( IV Ki 5:14 , Jth 12:7 , Si 31 (34):30 ): Mk 7:4 ; aor. pass, in same sense, Lk 11:38 . Of ablution, immersion, ...
immersion, baptism
immersion, baptism. Primary meaning: immersion, baptism. Strong's: baptism (technically or figuratively). Lexical nuances: immersion , baptism ; metaph., of affliction: Mk 10:38 , 39 , Lk 12:50 . Of the religious rite of baptism; of John's baptism: Mt 3:7 21:25 , Mk 11:30 , Lk 7:29 20:4 , Ac 1:22 10:37 18:25 19:3 ; β. μετανοίας , Mk 1:4 , Lk 3:3 , Ac 13:24 19:4 ; of Christian baptism; Ro 6:4 , Eph 4:5 , Col 2:12 (Tr., -μῷ , q.v.), I Pe 3:21 (cf. Cremer, 130; Tr., Syn. § xcix).†
dinner, supper
dinner, supper. Primary meaning: dinner, supper. Strong's: dinner, i.e. the chief meal (usually in the evening). Lexical nuances: the chief meal of the day, dinner, supper : Mt 23:6 , Mk 12:39 , Lk 14:17 , 24 20:46 , Jo 13:2 , 4 21:20 , I Co 11:21 ; δ. ποιεῖν , Mk 6:21 , Lk 14:12 , 16 , Jo 12:2 ; κυριακὸν (q.v.) δ. , I Co 11:20 ; metaph. (Dalman, Words , 118), δ. τ. γάμου τ. ἀρνίου , Re 19:9 ; δ. τ. μέγα τ. Θεοῦ , Re 19:17 .†
a disposition, testament, will, a convention, arrangement, covenant
a disposition, testament, will, a convention, arrangement, covenant. Primary meaning: a disposition, testament, will, a convention, arrangement, covenant. Strong's: properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will). Lexical nuances: as usually in cl., a disposition, testament, will (Plat., al.): Ga 3:15 (R, mg., but v. Lft., in l.), He 9:16 , 17 (R, txt.; MM, Exp. , xi,; Milligan, NTD , 75; Abbott, Essays , 107; Deiss., LAE , 341; but v. infr.).
thankfulness, gratitude, giving of thanks, thanksgiving
thankfulness, gratitude, giving of thanks, thanksgiving. Primary meaning: thankfulness, gratitude, giving of thanks, thanksgiving. Strong's: gratitude; actively, grateful language (to God, as an act of worship). Lexical nuances: thankfulness, gratitude (Polyb.; Es, Si, II Mac, ll. c.): Ac 24:3 .
Interactive Book Map • Lamentations
Geographic map plotting ancient cities, rivers, mountains, and events recorded across the Book of Lamentations .
New Testament • 16 Chapters
1 Corinthians (New Testament, 16 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Moses , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Adam . Key places: Corinth , Adam , Ephesus , Galatia , Jerusalem , Macedonia . Opens with: "Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,..."
New Testament • 5 Chapters
1 John (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Cain . Opens with: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have hand..."
New Testament • 5 Chapters
1 Peter (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Abram/Abraham , Noah . Key places: Pontus , Galatia , Cappadocia , Asia , Bithynia , Babylon . Opens with: "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus , Galatia , Cappadocia , Asia , and Bithynia ,..."
New Testament • 5 Chapters
1 Thessalonians (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah . Key places: Macedonia , Achaia , Philippi , Athens . Opens with: "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto..."
New Testament • 6 Chapters
1 Timothy (New Testament, 6 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Adam . Key places: Ephesus , Macedonia , Adam . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;..."
New Testament • 13 Chapters
2 Corinthians (New Testament, 13 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Moses , Abram/Abraham . Key places: Corinth , Achaia , Asia , Macedonia , Troas , Damascus . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth , with all the saint..."
New Testament • 1 Chapters
2 John (New Testament, 1 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah . Opens with: "The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;..."
New Testament • 3 Chapters
2 Peter (New Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Simon , Yeshua the Messiah , Noah , Lot . Key places: Sodom . Opens with: " Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of G..."
New Testament • 3 Chapters
2 Thessalonians (New Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah . Opens with: "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:..."
New Testament • 4 Chapters
2 Timothy (New Testament, 4 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , David , Moses . Key places: Asia , Rome , Ephesus , Antioch 1 , Iconium , Lystra . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,..."
New Testament • 1 Chapters
3 John (New Testament, 1 chapters). Opens with: "The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth...."
New Testament • 28 Chapters
Acts (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , James ( Jacob ), Simon , Judas , Mary . Key places: Jerusalem , Samaria , Galilee , Olivet , Mesopotamia , Cappadocia . Opens with: "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,..."
New Testament • 4 Chapters
Colossians (New Testament, 4 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah . Key places: Laodicea , Hierapolis . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,..."
New Testament • 6 Chapters
Ephesians (New Testament, 6 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel . Key places: Ephesus . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus , and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:..."
New Testament • 6 Chapters
Galatians (New Testament, 6 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Jacob/Israel . Key places: Galatia , Jerusalem , Arabia , Damascus , Syria , Cilicia . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)..."
New Testament • 13 Chapters
Hebrews (New Testament, 13 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Abram/Abraham , Moses , David , Aaron , Levi . Key places: Egypt , Salem , Abel , Esau , Jericho , Rahab . Opens with: "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,..."
New Testament • 5 Chapters
James (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: James ( Jacob ), Yeshua the Messiah , Abram/Abraham , Isaac . Key places: Rahab . Opens with: "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting...."
New Testament • 21 Chapters
John (New Testament, 21 chapters). Key figures: Moses , Yeshua the Messiah , Jacob/Israel , Simon , Joseph , Judas . Key places: Jerusalem , Jordan , Galilee , Bethsaida , Nazareth , Cana . Opens with: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...."
New Testament • 1 Chapters
Jude (New Testament, 1 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , James ( Jacob ), Michael , Moses , Cain , Enoch . Key places: Egypt , Sodom , Adam . Opens with: "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James , to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and c..."
New Testament • 24 Chapters
Luke (New Testament, 24 chapters). Key figures: Aaron , Jacob/Israel , Joseph , David , Mary , Abram/Abraham . Key places: Galilee , Nazareth , Syria , Bethlehem 1 , Jerusalem , Ituraea . Opens with: "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,..."
New Testament • 28 Chapters
Matthew (New Testament, 28 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , David , Abram/Abraham , Isaac , Jacob/Israel , Judah . Key places: Aram , Rahab , Babylon , Bethlehem 1 , Jerusalem , Egypt . Opens with: "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David , the son of Abraham ...."