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A BIBLE WORD LIST
This list gives brief explanations of words in the Authorised Version
describing unfamiliar objects, animals and plants, weights, measures
and money, and words no longer in everyday use, or now used with a
different meaning. If the English word is used in more than one sense,
or stands for more than one Hebrew or Greek word, the list refers to
passages where the word is used with each meaning. In most cases
the list gives all the places where the word is found. An asterisk *
means that the word is used in other passages with its normal
meaning, or with one of the meanings given. This is not a complete list
of unfamiliar or archaic words. We would recommend that the reader
use a good English language dictionary to aid in understanding words
which this list does not define. The names of the Books of the Bible
with their abbreviations are printed at the end.
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agone – ago: 1 Sa. 30.13
algum – almug, sandalwood: 2 Chr. 2.8, 9.10,11
alleging – bringing evidence: Ac. 17.3
alleluia – praise the LORD: Rev. 19.1,3,4,6
allow* – approve of: Lu. 11.48; Ro. 7.15
all to – utterly: Judg. 9.53
almug – algum, sandalwood: 1 Ki. 10.11,12
amazement – terror: Ac. 3.10; 1 Pe. 3.6
amazed* – terrified, fearful: Mk. 9.15, 14.33
ambassage – ambassadors, a deputation: Lu. 14.32
amerce – fine, impose a penalty: Deu. 22.19
amiable – lovely: Ps. 84.1
anathema – under a curse: 1 Co. 16.22
ancients* – elders: Isa. 3.14
anon – immediately: Mt. 13.20; Mk. 1.30
apothecary* – perfume and spice dealer: Ex. 30.25
apparently – openly, manifestly: Nu. 12.8
apple of the eye – pupil of the eye: Deu. 32.10; Ps. 17.8; Pro. 7.2;
Lam. 2.18; Zech. 2.8
apprehend* – lay hold: Phil. 3.12,13
artillery – weapon, equipment: 1 Sa. 20.40
assay* – try, attempt: Deu. 4.34; Ac. 9.26
assuage – restrain: Ge. 8.1; Job 16.5,6
astonied* – astonished: Isa. 52.14
attent – attentive: 2 Chr. 6.40, 7.15
avoided – departed, escaped: 1 Sa. 18.11
avouched – declared: Deu. 26.17,18
away with – endure, tolerate: Isa. 1.13;
take away: Lu. 23.18; Jn. 19.15
axle trees – bars connecting wheels: 1 Ki. 7.32,33
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bank* – mound for besieging a city: 2 Sa. 20.15; 2 Ki. 19.32; Isa.
37.33
barbarian* – foreigner: 1 Co. 14.11
barbarous – foreign: Ac. 28.2
base* – lowly, humble: 1 Co. 1.28; 2 Co. 10.1
bath* – about 8 gallons or 36 litres: Isa. 5.10
beeves* – cattle, oxen, bulls, cows: Lev. 22.19
beggarly – worthless: Ga. 4.9
behemoth – large animal: Job 40.15
bekah – half-shekel, 7 grammes: Ex. 38.26
besom – broom: Isa. 14.23
bestead – beset with difficulties: Isa. 8.21
betimes* – early: Ge. 26.31
bewrayeth – betrays, reveals: Pro. 27.16, 29.24; Isa. 16.3; Mt. 26.73
bishop* – overseer: Phil. 1.1; 1 Pe. 2.25
bishoprick – oversight, office, charge: Ac. 1.20
blains – boils: Ex. 9.9,10
bolled – full of seed pods: Ex. 9.31
boss – knob at centre of shield: Job 15.26
botch – ulcer or boil: Deu. 28.27,35
bottom* – valley: Zech. 1.8
bowels* – affections: 2 Co. 6.12;
tender mercies: Phil. 1.8, 2.1;
heart: Phlm. 12
bray* – to pound in a mortar: Pro. 27.22
bridechamber – bridal room;
children of the bridechamber – wedding guests: Mt. 9.15; Mk. 2.19;
Lu. 5.34
brigandine – coat of mail, breastplate: Jer. 46.4, 51.3
brimstone* – sulphur: Ge. 19.24
broided – braided, plaited: 1 Tim. 2.9
broidered* – embroidered: Ezek. 16.10
bruit – rumour, report: Jer. 10.22; Na. 3.19
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buckler* – small shield: 2 Sa. 22.31
bunches* – humps: Isa. 30.6
butler* – cup-bearer: Ge. 14.21
butlership – office of cup-bearer: Ge. 14.21
by* – with reference to, against: 1 Co. 4.4
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charger* – dish, large plate: Mt. 14.8
charity* – love: 1 Co. 13
check – rebuke: Job 20.3
chesnut – chestnut, or plane tree: Ge. 30.37; Ezek. 31.8
chimney – window (as in Ec. 12.3): Hos. 13.3
chode – complained: Ge. 31.36; Nu. 20.3
choler – anger: Dan. 8.7, 11.11
churl – mean, miserly person: Isa. 32.5,7
churlish – harsh, ill-tempered: 1 Sa. 25.3
clave* – spilt: Ge. 22.3;
clung: Ru. 1.14
clift – cleft, hollow: Ex. 33.22; Isa. 57.5
closet – private room: Joel 2.16; Mt. 6.6; Lu. 12.3
clouted – patched: Jos. 9.5
clouts – rags: Jer. 38.11,12
coasts* – borders, region, country: Ex. 10.14; Mt. 2.16
cockatrice – adder, cobra: Isa. 11.8, 14.29, 59.5; Jer. 8.17
cockle – weeds: Job 31.40
coffer – box: 1 Sa. 6.8,11,15
collops – lumps: Job 15.27
comeliness* – beauty: Isa. 53.2
companied – accompanied: Ac. 1.21
compass (fetch a) – go round, turn round: Ac. 28.13
compass* – circumference: Ex. 38.4;
make a circuit, surround: Jos. 6.3; Judg. 16.2
conceit* – opinion, conception: Pro. 18.11
concision – mutilation (circumcision): Phil. 3.2
concluded* – included: Ro. 11.32; Ga. 3.22
coney – hyrax, rock-badger, like a rabbit: Lev. 11.5; Deu. 14.7;
Ps. 104.18; Pro. 30.26
confectionaries – ointment-makers: 1 Sa. 8.13
contemn* – despise, scorn: Ps. 10.13
convenient * – suitable: Pro. 30.8; Eph. 5.4
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conversant – dwelling with: Jos. 8.35; 1 Sa. 25.15
conversation* – behaviour: Eph. 4.22; 2 Pe. 2.7;
citizenship: Phil. 1.27, 3.20
convince* – convict (as in Jn. 8.9): Jn. 8.46
convocation* – assembly: Nu. 28.18
coriander – plant with small round white spicy seeds: Ex. 16.31;
Nu. 11.7
couching place – place to lie down: Ezek. 25.5
coulter – blade, part of a plough: 1 Sa. 13.20
countervail – counterbalance, compensate for: Est. 7.4
cousin – kinsman, kinswoman: Lu. 1.36,58
covert* – cover, shelter, hiding place: 1 Sam. 25.20
creature* – created thing: Ro. 1.25; 1 Tim. 4.4
crookbackt – hump-backed, hunch-backed: Lev. 21.20
cruse* – small jar: 1 Ki. 14.3
cubit* – cubit of a man, from elbow to fingertip: Deu. 3.11;
large cubit – cubit and a handbreadth.: Ezek. 40.5
cuckow – gull: Lev. 11.16; Deu. 14.15
cumbered – distracted, worried: Lu. 10.40
cumbereth – waste, make worthless: Lu. 13.7
cumbrance – trouble, responsibility: Deu. 1.12
cummin – a plant like fennel with hot seeds used as a spice: Isa.
28.25,27; Mt. 23.23
cunning* – skill, art, skillful: 1 Sa. 16.16; 1 Ki. 7.14
curious* – embroidered: Ex. 28.8
curious arts – magic, sorcery: Ac. 19.19
custom* – tribute, tax, toll: Mt. 9.9; Mk. 2.14; Lu. 5.27
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decline* – turn aside: Ps. 119.157; Pro. 4.5
delicately – daintily: 1 Sa. 15.32; Lam. 4.5
delicates – dainties: Jer. 51.34
deliciously – luxuriously: Rev. 18.7,9
describe* – divide, mark out: Jos. 18.4,6,8
descry – spy out, make search: Judg. 1.23
desired* – regretted, mourned: 2 Chr. 21.20
despite – contempt: Ezek. 25.6; Heb. 10.29
devotions – objects of worship: Ac. 17.23
diadem – head-dress: Job 29.14; Isa.28.5, 62.3; Ezek. 21.26
diet – daily allowance: Jer. 52.34
discomfited* – defeated, confused, routed: Judg. 4.15; Ps. 18.14
discover* – uncover, disclose: Pro. 25.9; Lam. 4.22
discovered* – come in view of: Ac. 21.3, 27.39
dispensation – administration, stewardship, distribution: 1 Co. 9.17;
Eph. 1.10, 3.2; Col. 1.25
disposition – ordinance, appointment: Ac. 7.53
distaff – rod to hold wool for hand-spinning: Pro. 31.19
divers* – diverse, various, different: Deu. 22.11; Mt. 4.24
divination* – prediction by magic or supernatural means: Nu. 22.7;
Deu. 18:10
diviner* – predictor using magic, etc.: Deu. 18.14; Zech. 10.2
doctor – teacher: Lu. 2.46, 5.17; Ac. 5.34
dragon* – jackal: Job 30.29; Isa. 13.22;
sea monster, crocodile, serpent: Ps. 74.13, 148.7; Rev. 20.2
drams* – darics, drachmae, coins: Ezr. 2.69, 8.27
draught – drain, sewer: 2 Ki. 10.27; Mt. 15.17; Mk. 7.19;
net full of fish: Lu. 5.4,9
drave* – drove: Ac. 7.45, 18.16
duke* – chief: Ex. 15.15; Jos. 13.21
dureth – endures, goes on: Mt. 13.21
earing, eared – ploughing, ploughed: Ge. 45.6, Ex. 34.21; Deu. 21.4
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earnest* – pledge, security, deposit: 2 Co. 1.22, 5.5; Eph. 1.14
Easter – passover: Ac. 12.4
emerods* – swellings, hemorrhoids: Deu. 28.27; 1 Sa. 5.6
endamage – damage, cause or suffer loss: Ezr. 4.13
endue* – endow: Ge. 30.20; Jas. 3.13
engines – machines: 2 Chr. 26.15;
battering rams: Ezek. 26.9
enlargement – freedom, relief: Est. 4.14
ensue – follow after: 1 Pe. 3.11
enterprise – purpose: Job 5.12
entreated* – treated: Ge. 12.16; Lu. 20.11
ephah* – about 8 gallons or 36 litres: Ex. 16.36; Ezek. 45.11
ephod* – embroidered cape worn by priest: Ex. 39.2.5
eschew – avoid, shun: Job 1.1,8, 2.3; 1 Pe. 3.11
espousals – time of betrothal: Jer. 2.2;
wedding: Song 3.11
espy – see, perceive: Jos. 14.7; Jer. 48.19
estate(s)* – chief estates – great men: Mk. 6.21;
estate of the elders – holding office as elders: Ac. 22.5
evidently – plainly, clearly: Ac. 10.3; Gal. 3.1
evilfavouredness – ugliness, deformity: Deu. 17.1
exchanger – money-changer or banker: Mt. 25.27
expecting* – waiting: Heb. 10.13
experiment – proving: 2 Co. 9.13
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fillets* – ornamental bands: Ex. 27.10
finer – refiner: Pro. 25.4
fining – refining: Pro. 17.3, 27.21
firkin – about 9 gallons or 40 litres: Jn. 2.6
firstling* – first offspring: Ge. 4.4, Ex. 13.12
fitches – fennel: Isa. 28.25,27;
a cereal like wheat: Ezek. 4.9
flags – reeds, papyrus: Ex. 2.3,5; Job 8.11; Isa. 19.6
flakes – folds: Job 41.23
flay* – remove the skin: Lev. 1.6; Mi. 3.3
flux – flow of blood: Ac. 28.8
forasmuch* – as, since, because, seeing that: 1 Ki. 13.21, 14.7;
Ezr. 7.14; Lu. 1.1; Ac. 15.24
foreship – bow or front of a ship: Ac. 27.30
forum – market place: Ac. 28.15
frame(d)* – manage: Judg. 12.6;
form: Ps. 103.14;
make: Hos. 5.4;
fitted together: Eph. 2.21;
completed: Heb. 11.3
frankly – freely: Lu. 7.42
fray – frighten: Deu. 28.26; Jer. 7.33; Zech. 1.21
fret* – grieve, be angry: Ps. 37.1,8
frontlets – headbands: Ex. 13.16; Deu. 6.8, 11.18
froward* – perverse, contrary, self-willed: Deu. 32.20; Ps. 18.26;
1 Pe. 2.18
fuller* – bleacher or cleaner of cloth: Mal. 3.2; Mk. 9.3
furbish * – polish, sharpen: Jer. 46.4
furniture* – equipment, harness: Ge. 31.34
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gazingstock – something to stare at in wonder: Na. 3.6; Heb. 10.33
gender(eth) – produce: Lev. 19.19; Job 38.29; 2 Tim. 2.23;
bear young: Job 21.10; Ga. 4.24
gerah* – one twentieth of a shekel: Ex. 30.13
Ghost * – (Holy Ghost) Holy Spirit: Jn. 14.26;
gave up the ghost – expired, died: Lu. 23.46; Ac. 5.5
gier eagle – vulture: Lev. 11.18; Deu. 14.17
gin* – snare, trap: Job 18.9; Isa. 8.14
give place* – make room for: Lu. 14.9;
give way, yield: Ga. 2.5; Eph. 4.27
glede – kite, vulture: Deu. 14.13
glistering – shining: 1 Chr. 29.2; Lu. 9.29
goeth about, going about* – endeavour(ing), try(ing): Jn. 7.20;
Ro. 10.3
good* – property: 1 Chr. 29.3
goodman* – master of the house: Pro. 7.19; Mt. 20.11
go to* – come now!: Ge. 11.3; Judg. 7.3
gotten* – got, obtained: Ge. 4.1; Isa. 15.7
graff, graffed – graft, grafted: Ro. 11.17.24
graving* – engraving: Ex. 32.4; Zech. 3.9
greaves – armour for the legs: 1 Sa. 17.6
Grecians* – Greek-speaking Jews: Ac. 6.1, 9.29, 11.20
grisled – grey: Ge. 31.10,12; Zech. 6.3,6
guilty of* – worthy of: Mt. 26.66
gutter* – channel, shaft, tunnel: 2 Sa. 5.8
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hardly* – with difficulty: Mt. 19.23; Mk. 10.23
hart* – deer: Deu. 12.15; Ps. 42.1
heady – headstrong: 2 Tim. 3.4
helve – axe-handle: Deu. 19.5
heretick – heretic, one who chooses a wrong belief: Titus 3.10
heretofore* – before, previously: Ex. 5.7; 2 Co. 13.2
highminded – puffed up with pride: Ro. 11.20; 1 Tim. 6.17;
2 Tim. 3.4
hin* – about 1½ gallons or 7 litres: Ex. 30.24
hither* – here, to this place: Jos. 3.9; Jn. 4.15
hitherto* – until now, before: Jn. 5.17; 1 Co. 3.2
hoised – hoisted: Ac. 27.40
hold to* – cleave to, cling to: Mt. 6.24; Lu. 16.13
holden* – held: Ps. 18.35; Lu. 24.16
holpen* – helped: Ps. 86.17; Lu. 1.54
homer* – 10 ephahs or baths, about 80 gallons or 360 litres:
Lev. 27.16; Isa. 5.10; Ezek. 45.11
honest* – honourable, good: Ro. 12.17; 2 Co. 13.7
horn* – symbol of strength and power: 1 Sa. 2.1; Ps. 18.2
hosanna* – save, we pray, a shout of praise: Mt. 21.9; Mk. 11.10;
Jn. 12.13
hosen – trousers, stockings: Dan. 3.21
hough – cut the hamstring or hock: Jos. 11.6,9; 2 Sam. 8.4;
1 Chr. 18.4
hungered (an)* – hungry: Mt. 12.1; Mk. 2.25
husbandman* – one who works on the land: Ge. 9.20; Jas. 5.7
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inditing – overflowing: Ps. 45.1
infolding – flashing here and there: Ezek. 1.4
inkhorn – inkpot: Ezek. 9.2,3,11
inquisition – search, investigation: Deu. 19.18; Est. 2.23; Ps. 9.12
instant* – urgent, importunate: Lu. 23.23; Ro. 12.12;
instantly – earnestly: Lu. 7.4; Ac. 26.7
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lign-aloes – aromatic wood: Nu. 24.6
ligure – a precious stone: Ex. 28.19; 39.12
liking – good liking – good condition: Job 39.4;
worse liking – worse condition: Dan. 1.10
listeth – chooses, pleases; listed, chose, pleased: Mt. 17.12;
Mk. 9.13; Jn. 3.8; Jas. 3.4
litters – covered wagons: Isa. 66.20
lively – living: Ac. 7.38; 1 Pe. 1.3
loft – upper storey: 1 Ki. 17.19; Ac. 20.9
log – about one pint or half-litre: Lev. 14.10.24
look to* – look upon: 1 Sa. 16.12
lowring – gloomy: Mt. 16.3
lusty – vigorous, strong: Judg. 3.29
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Messiah, Messias – the Anointed One: Dan. 9.25,26; Jn. 1.41, 4.25
mete* – to measure: Mt. 7.2; Mk. 4.24
meteyard – measuring rod: Lev. 19.35
milch – giving milk: Ge. 32.15; 1 Sa. 6.7,10
mincing – with little steps: Isa. 3.16
mite – half of a farthing (Greek lepton): Mk. 12.42; Lu. 12.59, 21.2
mitre* – head-dress, turban: Ex. 28.4; Zech. 3.5
morrow* – morning: Jos. 5.11
mote – speck of dust: Mt. 7.3.5; Lu. 6.41,42
motions – impulses: Ro. 7.5
mount – mound, bank of earth: Jer. 6.6; Ezek. 4.2
muffler – scarf covering the lower part of the face: Isa. 3.19
munition – fortress, stronghold: Isa. 29.7, 33.16; Na. 2.1
murrain – cattle plague: Ex. 9.3
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onycha – shell used in perfume: Ex. 30.34
ossifrage – vulture which breaks the bones of its prey: Lev. 11.13;
Deut. 14.12
ouches – sockets, settings: Ex. 28.11.25; 39.6.18
outgoings* – limits or boundaries: Jos. 17.9; Ps. 65.8
outlandish – foreign: Neh. 13.26
overcharged* – overburdened: Lu. 21.34
overlive – outlive, survive: Jos. 24.31
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platter – dish: Mt. 23.25,26; Lu. 11.39
play* – fence, fight with swords: 2 Sa. 2.14
polled – cut hair: 2 Sa. 14.26
polls* – heads: 1 Chr. 23.3
pommels – bowl-shaped ornament on a pillar: 2 Chr. 4.12,13 (the
golden bowl In Ec. 12.6)
port – gate: Neh. 2.13
post* – messenger carrying letters: Job 9.25; 2 Chr. 30.6
potsherd* – piece of broken pottery: Ps. 22.15; Isa. 45.9
pottage* – soup, stew: Ge. 25.29; 2 Ki. 4.38
pound* – mina (100 of the pennies in Mt. 20.2): Lu. 19.13.25
pourtray – draw, carve: Ezek. 4.1, 8.10, 23.14
prating – chattering, babbling: Pro. 10.8,10; 3 Jn. 10
presently* – immediately: Pro. 12.16; Mt. 26.53
press* – crowd: Mk. 2.4, 5.27; Lu. 8.19, 19.3
pressfat – vat of a winepress: Hag. 2.16
prevent* – go before, anticipate: Am. 9.10; 1 Th. 4.15
prey* – booty, spoil: Nu. 31.12,26
pricks – goads for driving cattle: Nu. 33.55; Ac. 9.5, 26.14
printed – inscribed: Job 19.23
prised – priced, value: Zech. 11.13
privily* – secretly: Judg. 9.31; Mt. 1.19
privy* – secret, private: Ezek. 21.14;
knowing a secret: Ac. 5.2
profane* – common, unholy: Ezek. 42.20;
to dishonour: Mal. 2.11
prognosticators – forecasters: Isa. 47.13
proper – personal: 1 Chr. 29.3;
one’s own: Ac. 1.19; 1 Co. 7.7;
handsome, beautiful: Heb. 11.23
proselyte – a convert to Judaism: Mt. 23.15; Ac. 2.10, 6.5, 13.43
prove* – test, try: Ex. 16.4; 1 Tim. 3.10
provide* – consider beforehand, take thought for: Ro. 12.17
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providence – forethought: Ac. 24.2
psaltery* – stringed instrument: Ps. 33.2; Neh. 12.27
publican* – tax collector: Mt. 5.46; Lu. 5.27
pulse – vegetables, beans: 2 Sa. 17.28; Dan. 1.12,16
purchase* – obtain: 1 Tim. 3.13
purtenance – internal organs, inward parts: Ex. 12.9
put to* – apply, use: Ezr. 6.12; Ec. 10.10
pygarg – antelope: Deu. 14.5
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rid* – clear away, remove: Lev. 26.6
rie – rye, spelt, a cereal like wheat: Ex. 9.32; Isa. 28.25
rifled – plundered: Zech. 14.2
ringstraked – streaked, striped: Ge. 30.35.40, 31.8.12
riot* – dissolute behaviour: Titus 1.6
riotous* – dissolute: Lu. 15.13
road – raid: 1 Sa. 27.10
room* – space: Ps. 31.8;
place at table: Mt. 23.6; Lu. 14.7
rude – inexpert, untrained: 2 Co. 11.6
rue – a garden herb: Lu. 11.42
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settle* – base, pedestal, ledge: Ezek. 43.14, 45.19
set to his seal* – affixed his seal: Jn. 3.33
severally – separately, individually: 1 Co. 12.11
shambles – meat-market: 1 Co. 10.25
shamefacedness – a sense of shame: 1 Tim. 2.9
sheepcote – pasturage, sheep pens: 1 Sa. 24.3; 2 Sa. 7.8;
1 Chr. 17.7
shekel* – about ½ ounce or 14 grammes: Ex. 38.24,25
sherd – fragment: Isa. 30.14; Ezek. 23.34
shipping – took shipping, they got into the boats: Jn. 6.24
shittim, shittah* – thorny acacia tree: Ex. 25.5; Isa. 41.19
shroud – cover, shelter: Ezek. 31.3
silly – simple, foolish: Hos. 7.11; 2 Tim. 3.6
silverlings – silver coins: Isa. 7.23
simple* – ignorant, without guile, innocent: Pro. 9.4; Ro. 16.19
sincere* – pure: 1 Pe. 2.2
sith – since: Ezek. 35.6
sixscore – 120: 1 Ki. 9.14; Jon. 4.11
skill* (verb) – to know how, to be skilled: 1 Ki. 5.6; 2 Chr. 2.8
sleight – deceitfulness, slyness: Eph. 4.14
slime – mud, bitumen: Ge. 11.3, 14.10; Ex. 2.3
snuff dishes* – pans for wick-trimmings: Ex. 25.38
sod – boiled: Ge. 25.29; 2 Chr. 35.13
sodden* – boiled: Ex. 12.9
sodering – soldering: Isa. 41.7
sojourn* – dwell for a time: Ge. 12.10
sometime(s)* – formerly, at one time, once: Co. 1.21; 1 Pe. 3.20
sort* – manner: 2 Cor. 7.11; 3 Jn. 6
sottish – foolish: Jer. 4.22
spoken for – asked in marriage: Song 8.8
spring* – dawn: Judg. 19.25; 1 Sa. 9.26
stacte – aromatic gum from a tree: Ex. 30.34
stand upon* – attack: 2 Sa. 1.9,10
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stay* – support: Ps. 18.18; Isa. 3.1;
stop, hold back: Lev. 13.5; 2 Sa. 24.16
stead* – place: Ge. 30.2; 2 Co. 5.20
stomacher – beautiful dress: Isa. 3.24
stout(ness)* – hard(ness), bold(ness): Isa. 9.9, 10.12
strait* – narrow: Mt. 7.13; Lu. 13.24;
strict: Ac. 26.5
straitened* – limited, restricted: Job 18.7; 2 Co. 6.12
straitly* – strictly, closely: Ge. 43.7; Mk. 1.43
straitness* – distress: Deu. 28.53
strake sail – lowered sail: Ac. 27.17
strakes – streaks: Ge. 30.37; Lev. 14.37
strawed* – strewed, scattered: Ex. 32.20; Mt. 21.8
stricken in age (years)* – aged: Ge. 18.11; Lu. 1.7
strike hands – clasp hands concluding an agreement: Job 17.3;
Pro. 17.18, 22.26
subtil, subtilty* – cunning: Ge. 3.1; Mt. 26.4;
insight, perception: Pro. 1.4
suppliant – one praying or pleading: Zeph. 3.10
surfeiting – sickness from over-eating or drinking: Lu. 21.34
sycamine – mulberry: Lu. 17.6
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tares – weeds, darnel: Mt. 13.25.40
target* – shield: 1 Ki. 10.16
taxation – compulsory payment: 2 Ki. 23.35
taxing – registration, census: Lu. 2.2; Ac. 5.37
teil tree – oak tree (as in Ge. 35.4): Isa 6.13
tell* – count: Ge. 15.5; Ps. 22.17
tempt* – try, test: Ge. 22.1; Mt. 4.7
teraphim* – images: Judg. 17.5; Hos. 3.4
tetrarch* – ruler over a fourth part of a country: Mt. 14.1; Lu. 3.1
Thee-ward – toward Thee: 1 Sa. 19.4
thought* – anxiety: Mt. 6.25
thyine – sweet-smelling wood: Rev. 18.12
tire* – head-dress: Isa. 3.18
tithe* – give a tenth: Deu. 14.22; Lu. 11.42
tittle – small projection of some Hebrew letters, hence anything very
small: Mt. 5.18; Lu. 16.17
told* – counted: 2 Ki. 12.10
tormentor – torturer: Mt. 18.34
traffick* – trade: Ge. 42.34; 1 Ki. 10.15
translate – transfer, take up to heaven: 2 Sa. 3.10; Col. 1.13;
Heb. 11.5
travail* – labour: Ge. 38.27; Isa. 53.11
trespass* – sin, transgress: Ge. 50.17; Mt. 18.15
trim* – arrange carefully: Jer. 2.33
trow – think, suppose: Lu. 17.9
trump – trumpet: 1 Co. 15.52; 1 Th. 4.16
turtle* – turtle-dove: Lev. 12.8; Song 2.12; Jer. 8.7
tutor – guardian: Ga. 4.2
twain* – two: Isa. 6.2; Mt. 5.41; Eph. 2.15
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undertake – be surety for: Isa. 38.14
unicorn* – wild bull: Nu. 23.22; Job 39.10
unperfect – imperfect, unformed: Ps. 139.16
upbraid – reproach: Judg. 8.15; Mt. 11.20; Mk. 16.14; Jas. 1.5
usury* – interest on money lent: Ex. 22.25
usward – toward us: Ps. 40.5; Eph. 1.19; 2 Pe. 3.9
utmost* – outermost: Nu. 22.36,41
utter* – outer: Ezek. 42.1
uttermost* – outermost: Ex. 26.4;
last: Mt. 5.26
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ward (in)* – under guard: Ge. 40.3;
on guard, on watch: Isa. 21.8
ware* – merchandise: Neh. 10.31;
aware: Ac. 14.6;
wore: Lu. 8.27
watch* first – 6.00pm to 9.00pm (not mentioned);
second – 9.00pm to midnight: Lu. 12.38;
third – midnight to 3.00am: Lu. 12.38;
fourth – 3.00am to 6.00am: Mt. 14.25;
middle – 10.00pm to 2.00am: Judg. 7.19;
morning – 2.00am to 6.00am Ex. 14.24. (In pre-Roman times the
Jews had three watches of four hours.)
waymarks – guideposts: Jer. 31.21
what* – why: Lu. 22.71
whelp* – young lion: Ge. 49.9;
bear cub: Pro. 17.12
when as* – when: Mt. 1.18
whether* – which of two: Mt. 21.31
which* – who: Mt. 6.9; Lu. 11.2; Ro. 3.30
whit* every whit – everything: 1 Sam. 3.18;
completely: Jn. 7.23;
(not a) whit – not in anything: 2 Co. 11.5
whither, no whither* – where, nowhere: 2 Ki. 5.25
will* – wish, desire: Mt. 11.37; Titus 3.8
wimples – shawls, cloaks: Isa. 3.22
winefat – wine-vat, wine press: Isa. 63.2; Mk. 12.1
winked at* – overlooked: Ac. 17.30
wist* – knew: Ex. 16.15; Mk. 9.6; Lu. 2.49
to wit* – to know: Ge. 24.21; Ex. 2.4;
that is to say: Ro. 8.23;
I do you to wit, I am letting you know: 2 Co. 8.1
withal* – also, with: Ac. 25.27; Job 2.8
without* – outside: Mt. 12.46; Mk. 11.4
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withs – cords: Judg. 16.7,8,9
witty – clever, skilful: Pro. 8.12
woe worth the day – alas for the day: Ezek. 30.2
wont* – accustomed: Ex. 21.29; Mt. 27.15; Ac. 16.13
worship (have worship)* – have respect, honour: Lu. 14.10
wot, wotteth* – know, knoweth: Ex. 32.1; Ge. 39.8; Ac. 3.17;
Ro. 11.2
would (to) God* – oh that!: Nu. 11.29; 2 Ki. 5.3; Ac. 26.29
wreathen* – twisted, like cord: Ex. 28.14
wrest* – twist, distort: Ps. 56.5; 2 Pe. 3.16
wringed – wrung: Judg. 6.38
wroth* – angry: Mt. 18.34
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Reading the Bible
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First Year
January February
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March April
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May June
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July August
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September October
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November December
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Second Year
January February
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March April
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May June
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July August
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September October
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November December
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Abbreviations of the Books of the Bible
The Books of the Old Testament
Genesis Ge. Ecclesiastes Ec.
Exodus Ex. Song of Solomon Song
Leviticus Lev. Isaiah Isa.
Numbers Nu. Jeremiah Jer.
Deuteronomy Deu. Lamentations Lam.
Joshua Jos. Ezekiel Ezek.
Judges Judg. Daniel Dan.
Ruth Ru. Hosea Hos.
1 Samuel 1 Sa. Joel Joel
2 Samuel 2 Sa. Amos Am.
1 Kings 1 Ki. Obadiah Ob.
2 Kings 2 Ki. Jonah Jon.
1 Chronicles 1 Chr. Micah Mi.
2 Chronicles 2 Chr. Nahum Na.
Ezra Ezr. Habakkuk Hab.
Nehemiah Ne. Zephaniah Zeph.
Esther Est. Haggai Hag.
Job Job Zechariah Zech.
Psalms Ps. Malachi Mal.
Proverbs Pro.
The Books of the New Testament
Matthew Mt. 1 Timothy 1 Tim.
Mark Mk. 2 Timothy 2 Tim.
Luke Lu. Titus Titus
John Jn. Philemon Phlm.
Acts Ac. Hebrews He.
Romans Ro. James Jas.
1 Corinthians 1 Co. 1 Peter 1 Pe.
2 Corinthians 2 Co. 2 Peter 2 Pe.
Galatians Ga. 1 John 1 Jn.
Ephesians Eph. 2 John 2 Jn.
Philippians Phil. 3 John 3 Jn.
Colossians Col. Jude Jude
1 Thessalonians 1 Th. Revelation Rev.
2 Thessalonians 2 Th.
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