What does Number mean in the Bible?

Greek / Hebrew Translation Occurance
בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר number 15
ἀριθμὸς a fixed and definite number. / an indefinite number 10
מִסְפַּ֣ר number 8
בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם number 7
ἀριθμὸν a fixed and definite number. / an indefinite number 5
מִסְפָּֽר number 5
מִסְפָּ֔ר number 5
מִסְפָּ֑ר number 4
בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר number 4
בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר number 4
מִסְפַּ֞ר number 3
מִסְפַּ֥ר number 3
לְמִסְפַּ֖ר number 3
מִסְפַּר֙ number 2
מִפְקַד־ muster 2
מִסְפָּרָם֙ number 2
מִסְפָּרָ֔ם number 2
מִסְפַּ֤ר number 2
מִסְפַּ֕ר number 2
בְּמִסְפַּר֙ number 2
וּמִסְפַּ֖ר number 2
ἀριθμοῦ a fixed and definite number. / an indefinite number 2
מִ֭סְפָּר number 2
מְעֹ֣ט to be or become small 1
מִסְפַּ֖ר number 1
לְמִסְפָּרָ֔ם number 1
וְהִמְעִ֖יטָה to be or become small 1
וּמִסְפָּ֖ר number 1
כְּמִסְפָּרָֽם number 1
מְעָ֑ט littleness 1
כַּמִּסְפָּ֖ר number 1
בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר number 1
בִּמְתֵ֣י male 1
מִסְפַּרְכֶ֔ם number 1
ἀριθμῆσαι to number. 1
סִפְרוּ֙ to count 1
פְּקֹד֙ to attend to 1
לָרֹ֔ב multitude 1
מֵֽרֻבְּכֶ֞ם multitude 1
לָרֹֽב multitude 1
וָרָ֖ב much 1
תִּפְקְדֵ֑ם to attend to 1
תִּפְקֹ֥ד to attend to 1
תִּפְקֹ֣ד to attend to 1
פְּקֹ֨ד to attend to 1
תִּפְקְדֵֽם to attend to 1
תִפְקֹ֔ד to attend to 1
לִסְפֹּ֣ר to count 1
תִּפְקְד֥וּ to attend to 1
בִּפְקֹ֥ד to attend to 1
בִּפְקֹ֣ד to attend to 1
לִפְקֻדֵיהֶם֒ to attend to 1
הָעֹדְפִ֖ים to remain over 1
הָעֹֽדְפִים֙ to remain over 1
סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫ה to count 1
תִּסְפְּר֖וּ to count 1
תִּסְפֹּ֣ר to count 1
יְסַפֵּ֣ר to count 1
תִּסְפּ֑וֹר to count 1
מִסְפָּ֣ר number 1
וּמִסְפַּ֥ר number 1
בְּמִכְסַ֣ת computation. 1
מִסְפָּרָֽם number 1
לְמִנְיָ֖ן number. 1
לִמְנ֣וֹת to count 1
וּמָנִ֨יתִי to count 1
לִמְנוֹת֙ to count 1
מְנֵ֥ה to count 1
לִמְנ֖וֹת to count 1
וְכֹ֣בֶד weight 1
בְּמִסְפָּ֨ר number 1
לְמַדַּ֔י sufficiency 1
גּֽוֹי nation 1
πλῆθος a multitude. 1
πλείονας greater in quantity. / greater in quality 1
ὄχλος a crowd. 1
αὐτό himself 1
ἀριθμῷ a fixed and definite number. / an indefinite number 1
מִסְפָּרָ֤ם number 1
לְֽמִסְפָּרָ֡ם number 1
מִֽסְפַּר־ number 1
לְמִסְפַּ֣ר number 1
וּמִסְפַּ֞ר number 1
בְמִסְפָּ֖ר number 1
מִסְפַּר־ number 1
בְּמִסְפָּ֥ר number 1
בְּמִסְפָּ֔ר number 1
בְּמִסְפָּ֑ר number 1
מִסְפַּ֨ר number 1
מִסְפַּ֧ר number 1
הַמִּסְפָּ֔ר number 1
בְּמִסְפָּֽר number 1
בְמִסְפָּ֑ר number 1
לְמִסְפַּר֙ number 1
מִסְפָּ֗ר number 1
כְּמִסְפַּ֖ר number 1
בְמִסְפָּ֣ר number 1
מִסְפָּרָ֣ם number 1
יִרְבּ֑וּן be or become great 1

Definitions Related to Number

G706


   1 a fixed and definite Number.
   2 an indefinite Number, a multitude.
   

H4557


   1 Number, tale.
      1a Number.
         1a1 Number.
         1a2 innumerable (with negative).
         1a3 few, numerable (alone).
         1a4 by count, in Number, according to Number (with prep).
      1b recounting, relation.
      

H6485


   1 to attend to, muster, Number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after, care for.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to pay attention to, observe.
         1a2 to attend to.
         1a3 to seek, look about for.
         1a4 to seek in vain, need, miss, lack.
         1a5 to visit.
         1a6 to visit upon, punish.
         1a7 to pass in review, muster, Number.
         1a8 to appoint, assign, lay upon as a charge, deposit.
      1b (Niphal).
         1b1 to be sought, be needed, be missed, be lacking.
         1b2 to be visited.
         1b3 to be visited upon.
         1b4 to be appointed.
         1b5 to be watched over.
      1c (Piel) to muster, call up.
      1d (Pual) to be passed in review, be caused to miss, be called, be called to account.
      1e (Hiphil). 1e1 to set over, make overseer, appoint an overseer. 1e2 to commit, entrust, commit for care, deposit.
      1f (Hophal).
         1f1 to be visited.
         1f2 to be deposited.
         1f3 to be made overseer, be entrusted.
      1g (Hithpael) numbered.
      1h (Hothpael) numbered.
   2 musterings, expenses.
   

H4591


   1 to be or become small, be few, be diminished.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to diminish.
         1a2 to be too small.
      1b (Piel) to become few.
      1c (Hiphil).
         1c1 to make small, make few, diminish.
         1c2 to give less.
         

H4662


   1 muster, appointment, appointed place.
      1a muster (of people).
      1b appointment.
      1c appointed place.
   2 (TWOT) Number.
   

H5608


   1 to count, recount, relate.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to count (things).
         1a2 to Number, take account of, reckon.
      1b (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered.
      1c (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare.
         1c1 to recount (something), rehearse.
         1c2 to talk.
         1c3 to count exactly or accurately.
      1d (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related.
   2 enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe.
      2a enumerator, muster-officer, secretary.
      2b learned man, scribe.
      

H4487


   1 to count, reckon, Number, assign, tell, appoint, prepare.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to count, Number.
         1a2 reckon, assign, appoint.
      1b (Niphal).
         1b1 to be counted, be numbered.
         1b2 to be reckoned, be assigned.
      1c (Piel) to appoint, ordain.
      1d (Pual) appointed (participle).
      

H7230


   1 multitude, abundance, greatness.
      1a multitude.
         1a1 abundance, abundantly.
         1a2 numerous.
      1b greatness.
      

G4128


   1 a multitude.
      1a a great Number, of men or things.
      1b the whole Number, the whole multitude, the assemblage.
         1b1 the multitude of the people.
         

G4119


   1 greater in quantity.
      1a the more part, very many.
   2 greater in quality, superior, more excellent.
   

H7235


   1 be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to become many, become numerous, multiply (of people, animals, things).
         1a2 to be or grow great.
      1b (Piel) to make large, enlarge, increase, become many.
      1c (Hiphil).
         1c1 to make much, make many, have many.
            1c1a to multiply, increase.
            1c1b to make much to do, do much in respect of, transgress greatly.
            1c1c to increase greatly or exceedingly.
         1c2 to make great, enlarge, do much.
   2 (Qal) to shoot.
   

H3514


   1 weight, heaviness, mass, great.
      1a heaviness, weight.
      1b mass, abundance.
      1c vehemence, heaviness.
      

G3793


   1 a crowd.
      1a a casual collection of people.
         1a1 a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place.
         1a2 a throng.
      1b a multitude.
         1b1 the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men.
         1b2 with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace.
      1c a multitude.
         1c1 the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order.
         

H5736


   1 to remain over, be in excess.
      1a (Qal).
         1a1 to be in excess.
            1a1a excess (subst).
            1a1b surplus (participle).
      1b (Hiphil) to have a surplus.
      

H7227


   1 much, many, great.
      1a much.
      1b many.
      1c abounding in.
      1d more numerous than.
      1e abundant, enough.
      1f great.
      1g strong.
      1h greater than adv.
      1i much, exceedingly.
   2 captain, chief.
   

H1471


   1 nation, people.
      1a nation, people.
         1a1 usually of non-Hebrew people.
         1a2 of descendants of Abraham.
         1a3 of Israel.
      1b of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.
      ).
      1c Goyim? = “nations”.
      

H4592


   1 littleness, few, a little, fewness.
      1a little, small, littleness, fewness, too little, yet a little.
      1b like a little, within a little, almost, just, hardly, shortly, little worth.
      

H4510


   1 Number.
   

H4962


   1 male, man.
      1a males, men.
      1b few men (in prose).
         1b1 less emphasis on sex.
      1c men (poetic).
         1c1 less emphasis on sex.
         

H4373


   1 computation.
      1a Number.
      1b worth, valuation.
      

G705


   1 to Number.
   

Frequency of Number (original languages)

Frequency of Number (English)

Dictionary

1910 New Catholic Dictionary - Number, Golden
Name applied to each of the 19 numbers representing the cycle of lunar years into which Meton (432 B.C.) divided the calendar subsequent to his discoyery that after 19 solar years had elapsed the new moon would occur on the same days in the years indicated by identical numbers. They are so called because the number for each current year was inscribed in gold on an Athenian temple pillar.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Number
NUMBER
1. Notation . The decimal scale of notation was used by the Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and, so far as we know, by the other nations mentioned in the Bible, i.e . they reckoned by units, tens, hundreds, etc.
2. Variety and range of numerical terminology . The Heb. language expressed the integers from one to any amount by words denoting units, tens, a hundred, two hundred, a thousand, two thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand, and by combinations of these words. Thus the highest number expressed by a single word is twenty thousand, the word used meaning double ten thousand. The word ‘millions’ in AV [1] of Genesis 24:60 is a mistranslation; it should be ‘ten thousands’ as in RV [2] . The number referred to in this verse,’ thousands of ten thousands,’ for the descendants hoped for from Rebekah, and the number of the angels in Daniel 7:10 , Revelation 5:11 , ‘thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him,’ if taken literally, would be the largest numbers mentioned in the Bible, but they are merely rhetorical phrases for countless, indefinitely large numbers. In Revelation 7:9 the redeemed are ‘a great multitude which no man could number’ (cf. Genesis 13:16 ) the nearest approach which the Bible makes to the mathematical idea of infinity.
The largest literal number in the Bible is the number of Israelites fit for warlike service, ascertained by David’s census as 1,100,000, in addition to the men of Judah 470,000 (1 Chronicles 21:6 ). In 2 Samuel 24:9 , however, the numbers are 800,000 and 500,000 respectively. Close to this comes the army of Zerah ( 2 Chronicles 14:9 ), ‘a thousand thousand,’ i.e . 1,000,000; and in 2 Chronicles 17:12 ff., Jehoshaphat has an army in five divisions, of 300,000, 280,000, 200,000, 200,000, 180,000 respectively. The number of fighting men amongst the Israelites is given in Numbers 2:32 as 603,550; and later on in Numbers 26:51 as 601,730.
Hebrew also possessed a few special forms for the ordinals, first, second, etc., and to denote ‘seven times,’ etc.; in other cases, especially for the higher numbers, the cardinals are used. There are also a few words for fractions, ‘a third,’ ‘a quarter.”
The Biblical Greek calls for no special comment; the writers had at their disposal the ordinary resources of Hellenistic Greek. We may, however, call attention to the disputed rendering in Matthew 18:22 , where RV [2] has ‘seventy times seven,’ RVm [4] ‘seventy times and seven.’
3. Symbols . In the Heb. text of the OT, and also for the most part in the Gr. text of the NT, numbers are denoted by words. This method is also the only one used in the two ancient Heb. inscriptions the Moabite Stone (rather later than Ahab), and the Siloam inscription (usually ascribed to the time of Hezekiah). As the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Phœnicians used figures as well as words to denote numbers, it is possible that the Israelites also had arithmetical figures; but at present there is no positive evidence of such a usage.
In later times the Jews used consonants as numerical signs; the units from one to nine were denoted by the first nine letters, the tens from ten to ninety by the next nine, and the hundreds from one hundred to four hundred by the remaining four letters. Other numbers were denoted by combinations of letters. A curious feature of this system is that the natural combination for 15, viz. Yod = 10, = Hebrews 5:1-14 , was not used because’ Yod, He ,’ or Yah was a form of the sacred name Yahweh , which might not be pronounced; accordingly Teth = 9 and Waw = 6 were substituted. This system is still commonly used to number the chapters and verses in Heb. Bibles. A similar system was also used by the Greeks, and is occasionally found in the NT; thus the Number of the Beast, 666, in Revelation 13:18 , is written by means of three letters.
4. Arithmetic . There is no evidence of proficiency in arithmetic beyond the simplest operations, but we have examples of addition in connexion with the census in the wilderness, the numbers of the separate tribes being given first and then the total ( Numbers 1:22 ff; Numbers 26:7 ff.); subtraction is referred to in Leviticus 27:18 ; an instance of multiplication is Leviticus 25:8 ; Leviticus 25:7 × 7 = 49; and Leviticus 25:50 implies a kind of rule of three sum.
5. Round Numbers . As in other languages, ‘round numbers,’ exact tens, hundreds, thousands, etc., must often have been used by the Israelites, on the understanding that they were only approximately accurate; and in the same way smaller numbers were sometimes used indefinitely for ‘a few’; cf. our ‘half a dozen.’ For Instance, the exact ten thousands of Jehoshaphat’s armies given above are doubtless round numbers. Again, in Leviticus 26:8 , ‘five of you shall chase a hundred,’ merely means, ‘a handful of you shall put to flight many times your own number.’ This indefinite use of a small number is specially common where two consecutive units are given as alternatives, e.g . Isaiah 17:6 , ‘two or three,’ ‘four or five.’ A variety of this idiom is the use of two consecutive units to Introduce emphatically the higher of the two; e.g . Proverbs 30:21 ‘For three things the earth doth tremble, and for four which it cannot bear’; then four things are enumerated. In addition to hundreds and thousands and ten thousands, the most common number used in this approximate way is ‘forty’: people constantly live or reign for ‘forty years’ or multiples of forty years. It is a matter of opinion how far the numerous ‘sevens,’ ‘tens,’ and ‘twelves’ were originally intended as exact numbers. Probably, however, in many cases what were originally round numbers were taken afterwards to be exact. For instance, David’s reign is given as 40 years, 2 Samuel 5:4 ; in the next verse this period is explained as made up of 7 1 / 2 years at Hebron and 33 at Jerusalem an explanation which implies that, apart from some odd months, the 40 years were the actual length of the reign. There are some indications, too. that the various 40’s and 80’s were added in with other numbers to obtain a continuous chronology. Again, in Numbers 3:39 the census gives 22,000 Levites, which one would naturally understand as a round number; but in Numbers 3:43-51 it is taken as an exact number, inasmuch as it is ordained that because the 22,273 firstborn exceed the Levites by 273, redemption-money shall be paid for the surplus.
In view of the references to captains of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens in Deuteronomy 1:15 , it has been suggested that these terms are sometimes not numerals, but names corresponding to our regiment, company, squad, etc., and denoting bodies of men whose numbers varied. ‘ Thousand ’ especially has been held to be a term denoting ‘tribe’ or ‘clan’ (see Judges 6:15 , 1 Samuel 10:19 ); so that ‘a thousand’ might contain comparatively few men. This view has been applied to make the census in the Bk. of Numbers more credible by reducing the total amounts; but it is clear that the narrative as it stands intends ‘thousand’ to be a numeral, and does not use the word for a ‘clan.’
6. Accuracy of numbers . Without attempting an exhaustive consideration of the accuracy of numbers as given by the original authors, we may point out that we should not expect a large measure of mathematical accuracy even in original numbers. Often, as we have seen, they are apparently given as round numbers. Moreover, in the case of large numbers they would seldom be ascertained by careful enumeration. The numbers of armies especially hostile armies of slain, and so forth, would usually he given on a rough estimate; and such estimates are seldom accurate, but for the most part exaggerated. Moreover, primitive historical criticism revelled in constructing hypothetical statistics on the slightest data, or, to put the matter less prosaically, the Oriental imagination loved to play with figures, the larger the better.
But apart from any question as to the accuracy of the original figures, the transmission of the text by repeated copying for hundreds and thousands of years introduces a large element of uncertainty. If we assume that numbers were denoted by figures in early times, figures are far more easily altered, omitted, or added than words; but, as we have seen, we have at present no strong ground for such an assumption. But even when words are used, the words denoting numbers in Hebrew are easily confused with each other, as in English. Just as ‘eight’ and ‘eighty’ differ only by a single letter; so in Hebrew, especially in the older style of writing, the addition of a single letter would make ‘three’ into ‘thirty, etc. etc. And, again, in copying numerals the scribe is not kept right by the context as he is with other words. It was quite possible, too, for a scribe to have views of his own as to what was probable in the way of numbers, and to correct what he considered erroneous.
A comparison of the various manuscripts, versions, etc., in which our books have been preserved, shows that numbers are specially subject to alteration, and that in very many cases we are quite uncertain as to what numbers were given in the original text, notably where the numbers are large. Even where the number of a body of men, the length of a period, etc., are given twice over or oftener in different passages of the Bible itself, the numbers are often different; those in Chronicles, for instance, sometimes differ from those in Samuel and Kings, as in the case of David’s census mentioned above. Then, as regards manuscripts, etc., we may take one or two striking instances. The chief authorities for the text of the Pentateuch are the Heb. text in Jewish MSS, the Hebrew text in Samaritan MSS, and the Greek translation, the Septuagint. Now the numbers connected with the ages of the patriarchs are largely different in these three authorities; e.g . in the Jewish text Methuselah lives to the age of 969, and is the longest lived of the patriarchs; in the Samaritan he lives only to be 720, and is surpassed by many of the other patriarchs; and the interval from the Creation to the Flood is 2262 years in the Septuagint, 1656 in the Jewish text, 1307 in the Samaritan text. Again, the number of persons on board the ship on which St. Paul was shipwrecked is given in some MSS as 276, and in others as 76 ( Acts 27:37 ); and similarly the number of the Beast is variously given as 666 and as 616 ( Revelation 13:18 ).
The probability that many mistakes in numbers have been introduced into the Bible by copyists in the course of the transmission of the text has long been admitted. For instance, in the fifth edition of Horne’s Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures , published in 1825, a thoroughly old-fashioned apologetic work, we are told that ‘Chronological differences,’ i.e . discrepancies, ‘do undoubtedly exist in the Scriptures.… Differences in chronology do not imply that the sacred historians were mistaken, but they arise from the mistakes of transcribers or expositors’; and again, ‘It is reasonable to make abatements, and not always to insist rigorously on precise numbers, in adjusting the accounts of scriptural chronology’ (i. 550 f.).
7. Favourite numbers and their symbolism . Naturally the units, and after them some of the even tens, hundreds, and thousands, were most frequently in use, and came to have special associations and significance, and a fraction would in some measure share the importance of its corresponding unit, e.g . where ‘four’ occurred often we should also expect to meet with a ‘fourth.’
One , suggesting the idea of uniqueness, self-sufficiency, and indivisibility, is specially emphasized in relation to the Divine Unity: ‘Jahweh our God, Jahweh is one’ ( Deuteronomy 6:4 ); and similarly Ephesians 4:5 f. ‘one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father’; and other Like passages.
Two . There were two great lights; men frequently had two wives (Lamech, Jacob, Elkanah); two sons (Abraham, Isaac, Joseph); two daughters (Lot, Laban, Saul). Or again, where a man had one wife, there was a natural couple; and so with animals; in one account of the Flood they go in ‘two by two.’ Two men often went together, e.g . Joshua’s spies ( Joshua 2:1 ); and the Twelve and the Seventy went out by twos. The fact that men have two eyes, hands, etc., also gave a special currency to the number. Two objects or animals are often required for ritual purposes ( e.g . Leviticus 14:22 ). There were two tables of stone. Similarly, a half would be a familiar fraction; it is most common in ‘the half tribe of Manasseh.’
As sets of two were common in nature and in human society, so in a somewhat less degree were sets of three, and in a continuously lessening degree sets of four, five, etc. etc. In each case we shall refer only to striking examples.
Three . Three is common in periods; e.g . David is offered a choice between three days’ pestilence, three months’ defeat, and three years’ famine ( 1 Chronicles 21:12 ; 2 Samuel 24:18 has seven years); Christ is ‘three days and three nights’ in the tomb ( Matthew 12:40 , cf. John 2:19 ).
Deities often occur in groups of three, sometimes father, mother, and child; e.g . the Egyptian Osiris, Isis, and Horus. There are also the Babylonian triads, e.g . Bel, Anu, and Ea. Division into three is common; an attacking army is often divided into three parts, e.g . Gideon’s ( Judges 7:16 ; cf. also Revelation 8:10 ; Revelation 8:12 ).
Four . The square, as the simplest plane figure, suggests four, and is a common shape for altars, rooms, etc.; hence four corners, pillars, the four winds, the four quarters of the earth, N., S., E., W. Irenæus argues that there must be four canonical Gospels because there are four cherubim, four winds, and four quarters of the earth.
Five, Ten , and multiples obtain their currency through the habit of reckoning in tens, which again is probably derived from counting on the ten fingers. The fraction tenth is conspicuous as the tithe; and fifth and tenth parts of measures occur in the ritual.
Six, Twelve , and multiples are specially frequent in reference to time: 12 months, and its half, six months, 12 hours, sixth hour, etc., partly in connexion with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, and the approximate division of the solar year into 12 lunar months. It is suggested that the number 12 for the tribes of Israel was fixed by the Zodiac; in the lists the number 12 is obtained only by omitting Levi or Dan, or by substituting Joseph for Ephraim and Manasseh. When the number 12 was established for the tribes, its currency and that of its multiples were thus further extended; e.g . the 12 Apostles, the 144,000 of the Apocalypse, etc.
Seven and multiples. A specially sacred character is popularly ascribed to the number seven; and although the Bible does not expressly endorse this idea, yet it is supported by the frequent occurrence of the number in the ritual, the sacred seventh day, the Sabbath; the sacred seventh year, the Sabbatical year; the Jubilee year, the year following seven times seven years; the seven-branched candlestick; sevenfold sprinkling ( Leviticus 4:6 etc.); seven lambs offered ( Numbers 28:11 ff.); forgiveness till 70 times 7 ( Matthew 18:22 ); the seven churches of Asia; seven angels; seven stars, etc.; fourteen generations ( Matthew 1:17 ); 70 descendants of Jacob ( Exodus 1:5 ); 70 years’ captivity, etc. ( Jeremiah 25:11 , Daniel 9:2 , Zechariah 7:5 ); 70 missioners ( Luke 10:1 ). A similar use of ‘seven’ is found in the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian religions, and is often derived from astral worship of the seven heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, and the five planets known to the ancients. It is also connected with the seven-day week as roughly a quarter of the lunar month, seven being the nearest integer to the quarter of 29 1 /2. The Pleiades also were thought of as seven (cf. Amos 5:8 ).
Eight . There were eight persons in the ark; a boy was circumcised on the eighth day. Ezekiel’s ritual has a certain predilection for the number eight.
Forty . This number apparently owes its vogue to the view that 40 was the approximate or perhaps average length of a generation; at least this is a common view. It is a little difficult to reconcile with the well-known Oriental custom of early marriage. The number might perhaps be obtained by taking the average of the years of a man’s age at which his children were born, though such an explanation does not appear very probable. Or the use of 40 for a generation might be a relic of the period when the youngest born succeeded to the family tent and sacra . At any rate 40 is well established as a moderate round number between ‘a few’ and ‘a very great many.’ Thus, in addition to the numerous reigns, oppressions, and deliverances of 40, 80 years, etc., Isaac and Esau marry at the age of 40; there are 40 years of the wandering; Ezekiel’s 40 years’ captivity ( Ezekiel 29:11 ); 40 days was the period Moses spent in the Mount, Elijah and Christ fasted in the wilderness, etc.
A certain mystical value is attached to numbers in later Jewish and Christian philosophy and superstition, perhaps due partly to the ideas suggested by the relations of numbers to each other, and to the practical power of arithmetic; the symbols which aided men so effectually seemed to have some inherent force of their own. Or, again, if ‘seven’ is sacred, to pronounce a formula seven times must be more effective than to pronounce it six or eight times.
Great importance is attached to numbers in the mediæval Jewish mystical system, the Kabbala . There are ten sephiroth or primary emanations from God, one original sephira , and three derivative triads; there are twelve channels of Divine grace; 613 commandments, etc.
8. Gematria , a Hebraized form of the Greek geometria , used to mean ‘reckoning by numbers,’ was a late development of which there are traces in the OT. It consisted in indicating a word by means of the number which would be obtained by adding together the numerical values of the consonants of the word. Thus in Genesis 14:14 Abraham has 318 ‘trained servants,’ 318 is the sum of the consonants of the name of Abraham’s steward Eliezer in its original Hebrew form. The number is apparently constructed from the name.
The Apocalyptic number of the Beast is often explained by Gematria, and 666 has been discovered to be the sum of the numerical values of the letters of some form or other of a large number of names written either in Hebrew, or Greek, or Latin. Thus the Beast has been identified with hundreds of persons, e.g . Mohammed, Luther, the Pope, Napoleon i., Napoleon iii. etc., each of whom was specially obnoxious to the ingenious identifier. Probably by a little careful manipulation, any name in some form or other, in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, could be made by Gematria to yield 666. The two favourite explanations are Lateinos = Latinus (the Roman Empire or Emperor), and Nero Cœsar . The latter has the special advantage that it accounts not only for 666, but also for the various reading 616 mentioned above; as Neron Cœsar it gives 666, and as Nero Cœsar , 616.
W. H. Bennett.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary - Number
After the captivity the Hebrew used the alphabet letters for numbers, 'Αleph ( א ) equalling 1; Βet[1] ( ב ) equalling 2, etc.; Υod[1] ( י ) equalling 10; Qoph ( ק ) equalling 100, etc. The final letters expressed 500 to 900; 'Αleph ( א ) + a line over it equalling 1000. Our manuscripts all write numbers at full length. But the variations make it likely that letters (which copyists could so easily mistake) originally were written for numbers: compare 2 Kings 24:8 with 1 Maccabees 4:52-560; Isaiah 7:8, where 65 is in one reading, 16 and 5 in another. 1 Samuel 6:19 has 50,070, but Syriac and Arabic 5070 (1 Kings 4:26 with 2 Chronicles 9:25). Numbers also have often a symbolical rather than a mere arithmetical value. But straining is to be avoided, and subtle trifling. The author's sense, history, the context, and the general analogy of the Scripture scheme as a whole are to be examined, in order to decide whether a figure is employed in a merely ordinary sense, or in an ordinary and symbolical, or in an exclusively symbolical sense.
Zechariah and Daniel dwell upon seven; Daniel and Revelation use several numbers to "characterize periods", rather than indicate arithmetical duration. Science reveals in crystallization and chemical combinations what an important part number plays in the proportion of combining molecules of organic and inorganic life.
Two notes "intensification" (Genesis 41:32), "requital in full" (Job 42:10; Jeremiah 16:18; Isaiah 61:7; Revelation 18:6); the proportions of the temple were double those of the tabernacle; two especially symbolizes "testimony" (Zechariah 4:11; Zechariah 11:7; Isaiah 8:2; Revelation 11:3), two tables of the testimony (Exodus 31:18), two cherubim over the ark of the testimony. God is His own witness; but that witness is twofold, "His word and His oath" (Hebrews 6:13; Hebrews 6:17), "Himself and His Son" (John 8:18).
Three, like seven, is "a divine number". The Trinity (Revelation 1:4; Revelation 4:8); three great feasts (Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:16); the threefold blessing (Numbers 6:14; Numbers 6:24); the thrice holy (Isaiah 6:3); the three hours of prayer (Daniel 6:10; Psalms 55:17); the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2). Christ is "the Way, the Truth, the Life," "Prophet, Priest, and King." The threefold theophany (Genesis 18:2; 1 Samuel 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:6; 1 Samuel 3:8; Numbers 33:1-501).
The number 3 1/2, one-half of 7, is "a period of evil cut short", shortened for the elect's sake (Matthew 24:22; James 5:17, three years' and a half drought in Israel; Luke 4:25; Revelation 11:2-3; Revelation 11:9; Revelation 12:6). Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:7, time, times, and a half, 1,260 days, three days and a half. The 42 months (30 days in each) answer to the 1,260 days; three years and a half equals 1,260 days (360 in each year). Probably the 1,260 years of the papal rule date from A.D. 754, when his temporal power began, and end 2014. (See ANTICHRIST.)
At the close of spurious Christianity's long rule open antichristianity and persecution will prevail for the three years and a half before the millennium. Witnessing churches will be followed by witnessing individuals, even as the apostate church will give place to the personal man of sin (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 11:2-3). The 2,300 (Daniel 8:14) years may date from Alexander's conquests (323 B.C.), and end about the same time as the 1,260, namely, 1977. The 1,290 (Daniel 12:11-12) and 1,335 days correspond to 1290, during which Antiochus Epiphanes profaned the temple, from the month Ijar, 145th year of the era of the Seleucidae, to Judas Maccabeus' restoration of worship, the 25th day of the ninth month Chisleu, 148th year (1 Maccabees 1:54; 1618384533_91); in 45 days more Antiochus died, ending the Jews' calamities; in all 1,335. Again, 1,260, 1,290 and 1,335 may be counted from Mahomet's retirement to the cave, A.D. 606-610, and his flight from Mecca, 622: these figures added may mark the closing epochs of Mahometan power.
Again, the 2,300 may be the years between 480 B.C., the time of Xerxes' invasion of Greece (Daniel 11:2), and A.D. 1820, when Ali Pasha cast off the yoke of the Porte and precipitated the Greek revolution. Thirdly, the 2,300 may date from Antichrist's profanation (Daniel 9:27). After the 1,260 days Jesus in person will deliver the Jews; during the 30 more their consciences are awakened to penitent faith, making 1,290; in 45 more Israel's outcasts are gathered, and the united blessing descends. These all are conjectures. Evidently these numbers symbolize the long "Gentile times" from the overthrow of Judah's kingdom by Babylon, and of Jerusalem by Titus, down to the restoration of the theocracy in Him "whose right it is" (Ezekiel 21:27). The seven times of Israel's punishment (Leviticus 26:18; Leviticus 26:21-24) are the times of the Gentile monarchies; the seven times of antichrist's tyranny in the Holy Land will be the recapitulation and open consummation of what is as yet "the mystery of iniquity."
The three and a half during which the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth is the sacred seven halved, for the antichristian world powers' time is broken at best, and is followed immediately by judgment on them. It answers to the three years and a half of Christ's witness for the truth, when the Jews disowned and the God-opposed world power crucified Him (Daniel 9:27). He died in the midst of the last of the 70 weeks; the three and a half which seemed the world's triumph over Him was immediately followed by their defeat in His resurrection (John 12:31). The world powers never reach the sacred fullness of seven times 360, i.e. 2,520, though they approach it in the 2,300 (Daniel 8:14). The 42 months answer to Israel's 42 sojournings in the desert (1618384533_97), contrasted with the sabbatic rest of Canaan. Three and a half represents "the church's time of toil, pilgrimage, persecution". Three and a half is "the antagonism to seven".
Four symbolizes "worldwide extension". The four winds and quarters of the earth (Revelation 7:1; Daniel 7:2). The four living creatures or cherubim with four wings and four faces (Ezekiel 1:5, etc.; Revelation 4:6, in contrast to the four beasts, Daniel 7; Daniel 2:40 the four kingdoms); Eden's four streams (Genesis 2:10; Ezekiel 40:47). Four expresses "the spread of God's kingdom over the earth". As Christ's seamless vest marks its unity, so the rending of the outer garment into four by the four Roman soldiers symbolizes its ultimate worldwide extension (John 19:23-24). The numbers especially symbolical are 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 40; 6 is so because coming short of the "sacred" 7, 8 as coming after 7 and introducing "a new series or era".
Three and a half is seven broken in two. The Bible begins with seven days, and ends with a succession of sevens. Seven represents "rest and release from toil", also "a divine work", in judgment or mercy or revelation (Genesis 4:24; Genesis 41:3; Genesis 41:7; Matthew 18:22; Exodus 7:25). Leviticus 26:18, "I will punish you seven times more for your sins," Leviticus 26:21-24; Leviticus 26:28; Isaiah 4:1; Isaiah 11:15; 2 Samuel 24:13. Daniel 4:16; Daniel 4:25, "seven times shall pass over thee" (Nebuchadnezzar). Revelation 15:1, "the seven last plagues." "divine fullness and completeness" is the thing signified; as Revelation 1:4, "the seven spirits ... before His throne" are "the one Holy Spirit in His manifold fullness"; Isaiah 11:2-3 corresponds.
So in offerings and divine rites: Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 12:5; Leviticus 13:4; Leviticus 13:6; Leviticus 13:21-26; Leviticus 13:31; Leviticus 13:33; Leviticus 13:50; Leviticus 13:54; Leviticus 14:7-8; Leviticus 14:9; Leviticus 14:16; Leviticus 14:27; Leviticus 14:38; Leviticus 14:51; Leviticus 15:13; Leviticus 15:19; Leviticus 15:28; Leviticus 16:14; Leviticus 16:19; Numbers 12:14; 2 Kings 5:10; 2 Kings 5:14. The seven days' grace (Genesis 7:1-10); and at the taking of Jericho (Joshua 5:13-6:20); the antitype, spiritual Babylon, shall fall at the sounding of the seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:13; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 14:8). The sevenfold candlestick (Exodus 25:37), the seven churches corresponding (Revelation 1:12; Revelation 1:20), the seven deacons (Acts 6), the sevenfold ministry (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12). Seven prayers are given in full in the Old Testament. (See PRAYER.) Seven petitions of the Lord's prayer in the New Testament. The seven beatitudes (Matthew 5; Psalms 12:7). Satan mimics the "divine" seven (Proverbs 6:16; Proverbs 26:25): Mary Magdalene's seven devils (Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2); the unclean spirit returning with seven (Matthew 12:45); the seven Canaanite nations subdued by Israel (Deuteronomy 7:1; Acts 13:19); the dragon with seven heads and s
King James Dictionary - Number
NUM'BER, n. Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to number. Number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is number.
1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating as, one is the first number a simple number. 2. An assemblage of two or more units. Two is a number composed of one and one added. Five and three added make the number eight. Number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification. Hence, 3. More than one many. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
4. Multitude. Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage.
5. In poetry, measure the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear. The harmony of verse consists in the proper distribution of the long and short syllables, with suitable pauses. In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic numbers. 6. Poetry verse. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
Here the first word numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure.
Yet shoud the Muses bid my numbers roll.
7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality. The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular number the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural number. Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural number. 8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished. cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. Ordinal numbers are those which express order as first, second, third, fourth, &c. Determinate number, is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three an indeterminate number, is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.
Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal.
Whole numbers, are called integers.
A rational number, is one commensurable with unity. A number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd.
A prime or primitive number, is divisible only by unity as three, five, seven, &c.
A perfect number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole number, as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. 7. 4. 2. 1. make the number 28.
An imperfect number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the number. This is abundant or defedtive abundant, as 12, whose aliquot parts, 6. 4. 3. 2. 1. make 16 or defective, as 16 whose aliquot parts, 8. 4. 2. 1. make 15 only.
A square number, is the product of a number multiplied by itself as, 16 is the square number of four.
A cubic number, is the product of a square number by its root as, 27 is the product of the square number 9 by its root 3.
Golden number, the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before.
NUM'BER,
1. To count to reckon to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude. If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 8 .
2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. He was numbered with the transgressors. Isaiah 53 .
Holman Bible Dictionary - Number Systems And Number Symbolism
To understand properly the number systems of the biblical world, one must look to the neighbors of Israel. The Egyptians were already using relatively advanced mathematics by 3000 B.C. The construction of such structures as the pyramids required an understanding of complex mathematics. The Egyptian system was decimal. The Sumerians by that same time had developed their own number system. In fact, the Sumerians knew two systems, one based on ten (a decimal system) and one based on six or twelve (usually designated as a duodecimal system). We still make use of remnants of the Sumerian system today in our reckoning of time—12 hours for day and 12 hours for night, 60 minutes and 60 seconds as divisions of time. We also divide a circle into 360 degrees. Our calendar was originally based on the same division with the year having 12 months of 30 days for a total of 360. Even our units of the dozen (12) and gross (144) and inches to the foot may have their origin in the Sumerian mathematical system.
The Hebrews did not develop the symbols to represent numbers until the postexilic period (after 539 B.C.). In all preexilic inscriptions, small numbers are represented by individual strokes (for example, //// for four). Larger numbers were either represented with Egyptian symbols, or the name of the number was written out (“four” for the number 4). The Arad inscriptions regularly used Egyptian symbols for numbers, individual strokes for the units and hieratic numbers for 5,10, and larger numbers. The Samaria ostraca more frequently wrote out the number. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are first used to represent numbers on coins minted in the Maccabean period (after 167 B.C.).
With the coming of the Hellenistic and Roman periods to Palestine, Greek symbols for numbers and Roman numerals appeared. The Greeks used letters of their alphabet to represent numerals, while the Romans used the familiar symbols I,V,X,L,C,M, and so on
Biblical passages show that the Hebrews were well acquainted with the four basic mathematical operations of addition (Numbers 1:20-46 ), subtraction (Genesis 18:28-33 ), multiplication (Numbers 7:84-86 ), and division (Numbers 31:27 ). The Hebrews also used fractions such as a half (Genesis 24:22 ), a third (Numbers 15:6 ), and a fourth (Exodus 29:40 ).
In addition to their usage to designate specific numbers or quantities, many numbers in the Bible came to have a symbolic meaning. Thus seven came to symbolize completeness and perfection. God's work of creation was both complete and perfect—and it was completed in seven days. All of mankind's existence was related to God's creative activity. The seven-day week reflected God's first creative activity. The sabbath was that day of rest following the work week, reflective of God's rest (Genesis 1:1-2:4 ). Israelites were to remember the land also and give it a sabbath, permitting it to lie fallow in the seventh year (Leviticus 25:2-7 ). Seven was also important in cultic matters beyond the sabbath: major festivals such as Passover and Tabernacles lasted seven days as did wedding festivals (Judges 14:12 ,Judges 14:12,14:17 ). In Pharaoh's dream, the seven good years followed by seven years of famine (Genesis 41:1-36 ) represented a complete cycle of plenty and famine. Jacob worked a complete cycle of years for Rachel; then, when he was given Leah instead, he worked an additional cycle of seven (Genesis 29:15-30 ).
A major Hebrew word for making an oath or swearing, shava' , was closely related to the word seven , sheva' . The original meaning of “swear an oath” may have been “to declare seven times” or “to bind oneself by seven things.”
A similar use of the number seven can be seen in the New Testament. The seven churches (Revelation 2-3 ) perhaps symbolized by their number all the churches. Jesus taught that forgiveness is not to be limited, even to a full number or complete number of instances. We are to forgive, not merely seven times (already a gracious number of forgivenesses), but seventy times seven (limitless forgiveness, beyond keeping count) (Matthew 18:21-22 ).
As the last example shows, multiples of seven frequently had symbolic meaning. The year of Jubilee came after the completion of every forty-nine years. In the year of Jubilee all Jewish bondslaves were released and land which had been sold reverted to its former owner (Leviticus 25:8-55 ). Another multiple of seven used in the Bible is seventy. Seventy elders are mentioned (Exodus 24:1 ,Exodus 24:1,24:9 ). Jesus sent out the seventy (Luke 10:1-17 ). Seventy years is specified as the length of the Exile (Jeremiah 25:12 , Jeremiah 29:10 ; Daniel 9:1 : 2 ). The messianic kingdom was to be inaugurated after a period of seventy weeks of years had passed (Daniel 9:24 ).
After seven, the most significant number for the Bible is undoubtedly twelve. The Sumerians used twelve as one base for their number system. Both the calendar and and the signs of the Zodiac reflect this twelve base number system. The tribes of Israel and Jesus' disciples numbered twelve. The importance of the number twelve is evident in the effort to maintain that number. When Levi ceased to be counted among the tribes, the Joseph tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, were counted separately to keep the number twelve intact. Similarly, in the New Testament, when Judas Iscariot committed suicide, the eleven moved quickly to add another to keep their number at twelve. Twelve seems to have been especially significant in the Book of Revelation. New Jerusalem had twelve gates; its walls had twelve foundations (Revelation 21:12-14 ). The tree of life yielded twelve kinds of fruit (Revelation 22:2 ).
Multiples of twelve are also important. There were twenty-four divisions of priests (1 Chronicles 24:4 ), and twenty-four elders around the heavenly throne (Revelation 4:4 ). Seventy-two elders, when one includes Eldad and Medad, were given a portion of God's spirit that rested on Moses, and they prophesied (Numbers 11:24-26 ). An apocryphal tradition holds that seventy-two Jewish scholars, six from each of the twelve tribes, translated the Old Testament into Greek, to give us the version we call today the Septuagint. The 144,000 servants of God (Revelation 7:4 ), were made up of 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Three as a symbolic number often indicated completeness. The created cosmos had three elements: heaven, earth, and underworld. Three Persons make up the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Prayer was to be lifted at least three times daily (Daniel 6:10 ; compare Psalm 55:1 : 17 ). The sanctuary had three main parts: vestibule, nave, inner sanctuary (1 Kings 6:1 ). Three-year-old animals were mature and were, therefore, prized for special sacrifices (1 Samuel 1:24 ; Genesis 15:9 ). Jesus said He would be in the grave for three days and three nights (Matthew 12:40 ), the same time Jonah was in the great fish (Jonah 1:17 ). Paul often used triads in his writings, the most famous being “faith, hope and charity” (1 Corinthians 13:13 ). One must also remember Paul's benediction: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14 ).
Four was often used as a sacred number. Significant biblical references to four include the four corners of the earth (Isaiah 11:12 ), the four winds (Jeremiah 49:36 ), four rivers which flowed out of Eden to water the world (Genesis 2:10-14 ), and four living creatures surrounding God (Ezekiel 1:1 ; Revelation 4:6-7 ). God sent forth the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (Revelation 6:1-8 ) to bring devastation to the earth.
The most significant multiple of four is forty, which often represented a large number or a long period of time. Rain flooded the earth for forty days (Genesis 7:12 ). For forty days Jesus withstood Satan's temptations (Mark 1:13 ). Forty years represented approximately a generation. Thus all the adults who had rebelled against God at Sinai died during the forty years of the Wilderness Wandering period. By age forty, a person had reached maturity (Exodus 2:11 ; Acts 7:23 ).
A special system of numerology known as gematria developed in later Judaism. Gematria is based on the idea that one may discover hidden meaning in the biblical text from a study of the numerical equivalence of the Hebrew letters. The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph represented one; beth , the second letter represented two, and so on. With gematria one takes the sum of the letters of a Hebrew word and seeks to find some meaning. For example, the Hebrew letters of the name Eliezer, Abraham's servant, have a numerical value of 318. When Gensis Acts 14:14 states that Abraham took 318 trained men to pursue the kings from the east, some Jewish commentaries interpret this to mean that Abraham had but one helper, Eliezer, since Eliezer has the numerical value of 318. Likewise, the number 666 in Revelation is often taken as a reverse gematria for the emperor Nero. The name Nero Caesar, put in Hebrew characters and added up following gematria, total 666. Any interpretation based on gematria must be treated with care; such interpretation always remains speculative.
Joel F. Drinkard, Jr.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Number (And Forms)
Job 14:16 (c) This seems to indicate that the Lord watches every step that is taken by His child, and knows how many there are, and what is the number of each step that he takes. This indicates the very wonderful care of GOD for His child.
Psalm 90:12 (b) Evidently the Lord wants us to watch the details of our lives, for we only have a certain number of days to live, and we should know how many days are left in the ordinary course of life. If we do so, we will certainly endeavor to make every day count for eternity.
Matthew 10:30 (b) It does not say that GOD has counted our hairs, but rather that He has put a number on each hair. The lesson we learn from this is that each hair has its own number as a proof to us that the GOD of Heaven is interested in every detail of our lives. (See also Luke 12:7).
1910 New Catholic Dictionary - Golden Number
Name applied to each of the 19 numbers representing the cycle of lunar years into which Meton (432 B.C.) divided the calendar subsequent to his discoyery that after 19 solar years had elapsed the new moon would occur on the same days in the years indicated by identical numbers. They are so called because the number for each current year was inscribed in gold on an Athenian temple pillar.
1910 New Catholic Dictionary - Apocalyptic Number
The mystical number, 666, in the Apocalypse. The Greek letters of the word Lateinos (i.e., Pagan Rome) are also numerals which, added together, amount to this number. There are other interpretations, e.g., Antichrist.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words - Number
A — 1: ἀριθμός (Strong's #706 — Noun Masculine — arithmos — ar-ith-mos' ) number, "a number" (Eng., "arithmetic," etc.), occurs in Luke 22:3 ; John 6:10 ; Romans 9:27 ; elsewhere five times in Acts, ten times in the Apocalypse.
A — 2: ὄχλος (Strong's #3793 — Noun Masculine — ochlos — okh'-los ) "a multitude," is translated "number" in Luke 6:17 , RV (AV, "multitude"); in Mark 10:46 ; Acts 1:15 the renderings are reversed. See COMMON , COMPANY , CROWD MULTITUDE, PEOPLE.
B — 1: ἀριθμέω (Strong's #705 — Verb — arithmeo — ar-ith-meh'-o ) akin to A, is found in Matthew 10:30 ; Luke 12:7 ; Revelation 7:9 .
B — 2: καταριθμέω (Strong's #2674 — Verb — katgarithmeo — kat-ar-ith-meh'-o ) "to number" or "count among" (kata, and No. 1), is used in Acts 1:17 .
B — 3: ἐγκρίνω (Strong's #1469 — Verb — enkrino — eng-kree'-no ) "to reckon among" (en, "in," krino, "to judge or reckon"), is translated "to number ... (ourselves) with" in 2 Corinthians 10:12 (RV marg., "to judge ourselves among or ... with"), of the Apostle's dissociation of himself and his fellow missionaries from those who commended themselves.
B — 4: συγκαταψηφίζομαι (Strong's #4785 — Verb — sunkatapsephizo — soong-kat-aps-ay-fid'-zo ) "to vote or reckon (one) a place among" (sun, "with" or "among," kata, "down," and psephizo, "to count or vote," originally with pebbles, psephos, "a pebble"), is used of the "numbering" of Matthias with the eleven Apostles, Acts 1:26 .
Notes: (1) Some mss. have verse 28 in Mark 15 (AV), where logizomai, "to reckon," is translated "He was numbered." (2) For katalego 1 Timothy 5:9 (AV, "let ... be taken into the number"), see TAKE , Note (18). (3) In Mark 5:13 see the italicized words in RV. (4) In Hebrews 7:23 , RV, the adjective pleion, "more, many," is translated "many in number" (AV, "many"); in Acts 28:23 , RV, "a great number" (AV, "many").
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Number
Isaiah 65:11 . See GAD 3.
Smith's Bible Dictionary - Number
Like most Oriental nations, it is probable that the Hebrews in their written calculations made use of the letters of the alphabet. That they did so in post-Babylonian times we have conclusive evidence in the Maccabaean coins; and it is highly probable that this was the ease also in earlier times. But though, on the one hand, it is certain that in all existing MSS of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament the numerical expressions are written at length, yet, on the other, the variations in the several versions between themselves and from the Hebrew text, added to the evident inconsistencies in numerical statement between certain passages of that text itself seems to prove that some shorter mode of writing was originally in vogue, liable to be misunderstood, and in fact misunderstood by copyists and translators. These variations appear to have proceeded from the alphabetic method of writing numbers. There can be little doubt, however, that some at least of the numbers mentioned in Scripture are intended to be representative rather than determinative. Certain numbers, as 7,10,40,100, were regarded as giving the idea of completeness. Without entering into St. Augustine's theory of this usage, we may remark that the notion of representative numbers in certain cases is one extremely common among eastern nations, who have a prejudice against counting their possessions accurately; that it enters largely into many ancient systems of chronology, and that it is found in the philosophical and metaphysical speculations not only of the Pythagorean and other ancient schools of philosophy, both Greek and Roman, but also in those of the later Jewish writers, of the Gnostics, and also of such Christian writers se St. Augustine himself. We proceed to give some instances of numbers used, (a) representatively, and thus probably by design indefinitely, or, (b) definitely, but, as we may say, preferentially, i.e. because some meaning (which we do not in all cases understand) was attached to them.
Seven as denoting either plurality or completeness, perhaps because seven days completed the week is so frequent as to make a selection only of instances necessary, e.g. seven fold ( Genesis 4:24 ) seven times , i.e. completely, ( Leviticus 26:24 ; Psalm 12:6 ) seven (i.e. many) ways, (28:25)
Ten as a preferential number is exemplified in the Ten Commandments and the law of tithe.
Seventy , as compounded of 7 10:10, appears frequently e.g. seventy fold. ( Genesis 4:24 ; Matthew 18:22 ) Its definite use appears in the offerings of 70 shekels, (Numbers 7:13,19 ) ff,; the 70 elders, ch. (Numbers 11:16 ) 70 Years of captivity. (Jeremiah 25:11 )
Five appears in the table of punishments, of legal requirements, ( Exodus 22:1 ; Leviticus 5:16 ; 22:14 ; 27:15 ; Numbers 5:7 ; 18:16 ) and in the five empires of Daniel. (Daniel 2:1 ) ...
Four is used in reference to the 4 winds, ( Daniel 7:2 ) and the so-called 4 corners of the earth; the creatures, each with 4 wings and 4 faces, of Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 1:5 ) ff.; 4Rivers of Paradise (Genesis 2:10 ) 4Beasts, (Daniel 7:1 ) ... and Reve 4:6 The 4 equal-sided temple-chamber. (Ezekiel 40:47 )
Three was regarded, by both the Jews and other nations as a specially complete and mystic number.
Twelve (3X4) appears in 12 tribes 12 stones in the high priest's breastplate, 12 apostles, 12 foundation-stones, and 12 gates. ( Revelation 21:19-21 )
Lastly, the mystic number 666. (Revelation 13:18 )
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The Golden Number is that which marks theposition of any given year in the Lunar Cycle, which is a periodof nineteen years. Meton, an Athenian philosopher, discovered that,at the end of every such period, the new moons take place onthe same days of the months whereon they occurred before itscommencement. This discovery was considered to be so important,it became the custom to inscribe the rule for finding the moon'sage on a tablet in golden letters and placed in the market-placeat Athens; hence arose the term Golden Number. The Golden Numbermay be found by adding one to the year of our Lord, and dividingthe sum by 19, when the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number.If there be no remainder, the Golden Number is 19. One is addedto the year of our Lord because the first year of the Christian erawas the second of the Cycle. The time of Easter may be found bymeans of the Golden Number. (See Tables in Prayer Book.)
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Seven, Seventh - The Number of completeness. See Number Systems and Number Symbolism
Myriad - ) An immense Number; a very great many; an indefinitely large Number. ) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, Number; as, myriad stars. ) The Number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things
Number - Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to Number. Number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is Number. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating as, one is the first Number a simple Number. Two is a Number composed of one and one added. Five and three added make the Number eight. Number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over Numbers. Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage. In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic Numbers. I lisped in Numbers, for the Numbers came. ...
Here the first word Numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure. ...
Yet shoud the Muses bid my Numbers roll. The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular Number the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural Number. Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural Number. In mathematics, Number is variously distinguished. cardinal Numbers are those which express the amount of units as 1. Ordinal Numbers are those which express order as first, second, third, fourth, &c. Determinate Number, is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three an indeterminate Number, is referred to unity in general, and called quantity. ...
Homogeneal Numbers, are those referred to the same units those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal. ...
Whole Numbers, are called integers. ...
A rational Number, is one commensurable with unity. A Number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd. ...
A prime or primitive Number, is divisible only by unity as three, five, seven, &c. ...
A perfect Number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole Number, as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. make the Number 28. ...
An imperfect Number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the Number. ...
A square Number, is the product of a Number multiplied by itself as, 16 is the square Number of four. ...
A cubic Number, is the product of a square Number by its root as, 27 is the product of the square Number 9 by its root 3. ...
Golden Number, the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before. If a man can Number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be Numbered. He was Numbered with the transgressors
Tale - ]'>[1] generally means ‘number or sum,’ as Exodus 5:18 ‘Yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. ’ And the verb ‘to tell ’ sometimes means ‘to Number,’ as Genesis 15:5 ‘Tell the stars, if thou be able to Number them,’ where the same Heb. verb is translated ‘tell’ and ‘number
Multiplicator - ) The Number by which another Number is multiplied; a multiplier
Minuend - ) The Number from which another Number is to be subtracted
Nine - Denoting the Number composed of eight and one as nine men nine days. The Number composed of eight and one or the Number less by a unit than ten three times three
Assembler - ) One who assembles a Number of individuals; also, one of a Number assembled
Million - ) A very great Number; an indefinitely large Number. ) The Number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, - written 1,000, 000
Eighth - Noting the Number eight the Number next after seven the ordinal of eight
Multiplicand - ) The Number which is to be multiplied by another Number called the multiplier
Haplostemonous - ) Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in Number to the proper Number of petals; isostemonous
Dual - ) Expressing, or consisting of, the Number two; belonging to two; as, the dual Number of nouns, etc
Multiply - ) To add (any given Number or quantity) to itself a certain Number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the Number 56; to multiply two Numbers. ) To increase in Number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. ) To become greater in Number; to become numerous
Quotient - ) The Number resulting from the division of one Number by another, and showing how often a less Number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three
Septenary - ) The Number seven. ) Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary Number
Trillion - ) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the Number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the Number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the Number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed
Thousand - ) Hence, indefinitely, a great Number. ) The Number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. ) Hence, consisting of a great Number indefinitely
Harmonic - ) A musical note produced by a Number of vibrations which is a multiple of the Number producing some other; an overtone
Multiply - To increase in Number to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition as, to multiply men, horses or other animals to multiply evils. In arithmetic, to increase any given Number as many times as there are units in any other given Number. Thus 7x8=56, that Isaiah 7 multiplied by 8 produces the Number 56. MUL'TIPLY, To grow or increase in Number
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Abundant Number, in arithmetic, is one, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the Number itself. This is opposed to a deficient Number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1,2,7, the sum of which Isaiah 10 and to a perfect Number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1,2,3
Thrave - ) The Number of two dozen; also, an indefinite Number; a bunch; a company; a throng
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2 Kings 23:36 (c) The eleven years represent the Number six which is the Number of man's sufficiency joined with the Number five, the Number of human weakness. ...
Matthew 28:16 (c) The Number eleven reminds us that these men had sufficient instruction from CHRIST, sufficient inspiration from the Holy Spirit, and sufficient knowledge of GOD, yet they failed in so many respects. The Number eleven reminds us of the failure even of that which is planned and ordained of GOD while it is in human hands
Apocalyptic Number - The mystical Number, 666, in the Apocalypse. , Pagan Rome) are also numerals which, added together, amount to this Number
Multiplication - ) An increase above the normal Number of parts, especially of petals; augmentation. ) The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given Number or quantity a certain Number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; - the reverse of division. ) The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in Number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation
Five - ) The Number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects. ) A symbol representing this Number, as 5, or V
Assemble - ...
To collect a Number of individuals or particulars into one place, or body to bring or call togethe to convene to congregate. ...
ASSEM'BLE, To meet or come together to convene, as a Number of individuals
Many - ) Consisting of a great Number; numerous; not few. ) A large or considerable Number
Mene - ("numbered"), Chaldee. The first word of the mysterious handwriting (Daniel 5:25-26), "God hath Numbered thy kingdom and finished it," i. fixed its Number of years, and that Number is now complete
Amongst - ) Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the Number of; in the Number or class of
Three (2) - —See Number
Sephar - Book; scribe; Number
Every - Each individual of a whole collection or aggregate Number. The word includes the whole Number, but each separately stated or considered
Product - ) The Number or sum obtained by adding one Number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another Number; the Number resulting from the multiplication of two or more Numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35
Seven, Seventy - —See Number
Mass, Secret in the - The Number of Secrets varies according to the Number of feasts commemorated
Septillion - ) According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the Number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the Number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed
Secret in the Mass - The Number of Secrets varies according to the Number of feasts commemorated
Thousand - Denoting the Number of ten hundred. Proverbially, denoting a great Number indefinitely. The Number of ten hundred
Ten - See Number, § 7
Three - See Number, § 7
Twelve - See Number, § 7
Two - See Number, § 7
Seven - See Number, § 7
Equinumerant - ) Equal as to Number
Misnumber - ) To Number wrongly
Octillion - ) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the Number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the Number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed
Most - ) Consisting of the greatest Number or quantity; greater in Number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all
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Thousand - See Army, 2 ; Number
Antenumber - ) A Number that precedes another
Wheen - ) A quantity; a goodly Number
Sice - ) The Number six at dice
Outnumber - ) To exceed in Number
Multitude - The state of being many a great Number. A Number collectively the sum of many. A great Number, indefinitely. A crowd or throng the populace applied to the populace when assembled in great Numbers, and to the mass of men without reference to an assemblage
Cluster - ) A Number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. ) A Number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. ) A Number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob
Hundred - Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the Number of ten times ten as a hundred men. A collection, body or sum, consisting of ten times ten individuals or units the Number 100. But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certin that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that Number
Manifold - ) Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; - used to qualify nouns in the singular Number. ) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a Number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others. ) Various in kind or quality; many in Number; numerous; multiplied; complicated
Equimultiple - ) Multiplied by the same Number or quantity. ) One of the products arising from the multiplication of two or more quantities by the same Number or quantity
Heman - Their trouble; tumult; much; in great Number
Heptade - ) The sum or Number of seven
Any - ) One indifferently, out of an indefinite Number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be. ) Some, of whatever kind, quantity, or Number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?...
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Convoy Pennant - " (c) Over a signal Number, when it refers to the signal Number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register
Buttony - ) Ornamented with a large Number of buttons
Quotiety - ) The relation of an object to Number
Octonary - ) Of or pertaining to the Number eight
Mo - ) More; - usually, more in Number
Number - A — 1: ἀριθμός (Strong's #706 — Noun Masculine — arithmos — ar-ith-mos' ) Number, "a Number" (Eng. ...
A — 2: ὄχλος (Strong's #3793 — Noun Masculine — ochlos — okh'-los ) "a multitude," is translated "number" in Luke 6:17 , RV (AV, "multitude"); in Mark 10:46 ; Acts 1:15 the renderings are reversed. ...
B — 2: καταριθμέω (Strong's #2674 — Verb — katgarithmeo — kat-ar-ith-meh'-o ) "to Number" or "count among" (kata, and No. ...
B — 3: ἐγκρίνω (Strong's #1469 — Verb — enkrino — eng-kree'-no ) "to reckon among" (en, "in," krino, "to judge or reckon"), is translated "to Number . ...
B — 4: συγκαταψηφίζομαι (Strong's #4785 — Verb — sunkatapsephizo — soong-kat-aps-ay-fid'-zo ) "to vote or reckon (one) a place among" (sun, "with" or "among," kata, "down," and psephizo, "to count or vote," originally with pebbles, psephos, "a pebble"), is used of the "numbering" of Matthias with the eleven Apostles, Acts 1:26 . have verse 28 in Mark 15 (AV), where logizomai, "to reckon," is translated "He was Numbered. be taken into the Number"), see TAKE , Note (18). (4) In Hebrews 7:23 , RV, the adjective pleion, "more, many," is translated "many in Number" (AV, "many"); in Acts 28:23 , RV, "a great Number" (AV, "many")
Twenty - ) An indefinite Number more or less that twenty. ) The Number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score
Sextillion - ) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the Number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the Number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed
Divisor - ) The Number by which the dividend is divided
Cinque - ) Five; the Number five in dice or cards
Distributing - Dividing among a Number dealing out dispensing
Drused - ) Covered with a large Number of minute crystals
Ennead - ) The Number nine or a group of nine
Zalmonah - The shade; the sound of the Number; his image
Decennovary - ) Pertaining to the Number nineteen; of nineteen years
Ternion - ) The Number three; three things together; a ternary
Outparamour - ) To exceed in the Number of mistresses
Treeful - ) The quantity or Number which fills a tree
Denominate - ) Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or Number. See Compound Number, under Compound
Amongst - Conjoined or associated with, or making part of the Number. Of the Number as, there is not one among a thousand, possessing the like qualities
Minyan - ) A quorum, or Number necessary, for conducting public worship
Multiplying - Increasing in Number
Polyparous - ) Producing or bearing a great Number; bringing forth many
Myriophyllous - ) Having an indefinitely great or countless Number of leaves
Miz'Par - (number ); properly Mispar, the same as MISPERETH
Quadrillion - ) According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the Number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the Number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed
Select - ) To choose and take from a Number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal. ) Taken from a Number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice
Multitude - ) A great Number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. ) A great Number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly
Dyadic - ) Pertaining to the Number two; of two parts or elements
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Parisyllabical - ) Having the same Number of syllables in all its inflections
Polydactylism - ) The possession of more that the normal Number of digits
Unnage - ) The Number of guns carried by a ship of war
Mechanograph - ) One of a Number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically
Cluster - A bunch a Number of things of the same kind growing or joined together a knot as a cluster of raisins. A Number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body as a cluster of bees a cluster of people. A Number of things situated near each other as a cluster of governments in Italy
Phase Rule - It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness (number of degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the Number of components minus the Number of phases, plus two
Majority - ) The greater Number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. ) The amount or Number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the Number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes
Legion - The Number in a Roman legion varied at different periods, from three thousand to more than twice that Number. In the Bible a legion means a Number indefinitely large
Sixty, Sixtyfold - ...
Note: In Revelation 13:18 , the Number of the "Beast," the human potentate destined to rule with satanic power the ten-kingdom league at the end of this age, is given as "six hundred and sixty and six" (RV), and described as "the Number of (a) man. " The Number is suggestive of the acme of the pride of fallen man, the fullest development of man under direct satanic control, and standing in contrast to "seven" as the Number of completeness and perfection
Number (And Forms) - Job 14:16 (c) This seems to indicate that the Lord watches every step that is taken by His child, and knows how many there are, and what is the Number of each step that he takes. ...
Psalm 90:12 (b) Evidently the Lord wants us to watch the details of our lives, for we only have a certain Number of days to live, and we should know how many days are left in the ordinary course of life. ...
Matthew 10:30 (b) It does not say that GOD has counted our hairs, but rather that He has put a Number on each hair. The lesson we learn from this is that each hair has its own Number as a proof to us that the GOD of Heaven is interested in every detail of our lives
Golden Number - The Golden Number is that which marks theposition of any given year in the Lunar Cycle, which is a periodof nineteen years. This discovery was considered to be so important,it became the custom to inscribe the rule for finding the moon'sage on a tablet in golden letters and placed in the market-placeat Athens; hence arose the term Golden Number. The Golden Numbermay be found by adding one to the year of our Lord, and dividingthe sum by 19, when the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number. If there be no remainder, the Golden Number is 19. The time of Easter may be found bymeans of the Golden Number
Count-Wheel - ) The wheel in a clock which regulates the Number of strokes
Anisostemonous - ) Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in Number from the petals
Short-Handed - ) Short of, or lacking the regular Number of, servants or helpers
Tale - Number
Trebly - ) In a treble manner; with a threefold Number or quantity; triply
Mark of the Beast - This mark is equivalent to the beast's name or Number (13:17; Number is announced in 13:18 as 666. ...
The interpretive difficulty in understanding the mark of the beast resides in identifying what response John expected by his challenge in Revelation 13:18 to calculate the Number of the beast. The process of working from a Number to a name was an ancient process called gematria in Hebrew and isopsephia in Greek. The letter and Number ratio was known by all. 79) reads "I love her whose Number Isaiah 545 . ...
The history of interpretation concerning the correlation of a person with the Number 666 has only resulted in endless speculations. A rare rendering of his name into Neron Caesar, transliterated into Hebrew as nrwn qsr, renders the Number 666 (nun/50, resh/200, waw/6, nun/50, qof/100, samech/60, and resh/200 = 666). It is also noteworthy that a variant reading in Greek New Testament manuscripts exits that cites the Number as "616" rather than "666. " The transliteration of the normal Nero Caesar into the Hebrew nrw qsr, renders the Number 616. He proposed a Number of options, including lateinos, meaning a Latin (30 + 1 + 300 + 5 + 10 + 50 + 70 + 200 = 666), and thus a Roman ruler, and teitan, a Roman name with which he was enamored (Contra Haereses 5. A few modern scholars have noted that the Numbers can also argue for a connection with Babylon and Nimrod. The list is expanded with the creative use of Numbers during times of modern crises (e. ...
It is possible that John merely intended the Number to be symbolic of what the beast and his followers represent: humankind in their ultimate rebellion against God, his Lamb, and the followers of the Lamb. John explains in 13:18 that the Number 666 is the Number of man. The Number 7 is well established as a Number of completeness or perfection. The Number 6, being one less than 7, may symbolize humankind, which falls short of perfection. The Number 666 could well personify the imperfection of man, even implying in the triple Number the unholy trinity of the dragon, antichrist, and the false prophet. Meadors...
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Hundred, Tower of - The name perhaps refers to the height of the tower (100 cubits?), the Number of its steps, or the Number of troops in its garrison
Legion - A regiment of the Roman army, the Number of men composing which differed at different times. It originally consisted of three thousand men, but in the time of Christ consisted of six thousand, exclusive of horsemen, who were in Number a tenth of the foot-men
Manifold - Of divers kinds many in Number numerous multiplied. Exhibited or appearing at divers times or in various ways applied to words in the singular Number as the manifold wisdom of God, or his manifold grace
Purana - The principal Puranas are eighteen in Number, and there are the same Number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas
Nineteen - Noting the Number of nine and ten united as nineteen years
Distributed - Divided among a Number dealt out assigned in portions separated bestowed
Magazine Camera - A camera in which a Number of plates can be exposed without reloading
Medal Play - Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the Number of strokes
Anisomerous - ) Having the Number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens
Fewness - Smallness of Number paucity
Tetartohedral - ) Having one fourth the Number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry
Oology - ) The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and Number
Outvote - ) To exceed in the Number of votes given; to defeat by votes
Lobulimeter - ) An instrument for measuring the Number of red blood corpuscles in the blood
Tale - Sometimes means a Number, verified by counting, Exodus 5:8,18 ; 1 Chronicles 9:28
Repetitions - In prayers, which our Saviour censures, Matthew 6:7 , were short forms or particular expressions in prayer, which the Jews were accustomed to repeat a certain Number of times. , a great Number of times; and think that the oftener a prayer is repeated, the more meritorious and efficacious it is. The repeated cry of a soul in earnest is indeed welcome to God, Genesis 18:1-33 ; Matthew 26:44 ; Luke 18:1 ; but he regards the heart and not the lips; and the greater the Number of prayers one repeats as a task by which to acquire merit, the greater his sin
Million - The Number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. In common usage, a very great Number, indefinitely
Either - ) Each of two; the one and the other; both; - formerly, also, each of any Number. ) One of two; the one or the other; - properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger Number, for any one
Hemiholohedral - ) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants have the full Number of planes
Bendy - ) Divided into an even Number of bends; - said of a shield or its charge
Sexagesimal - ) Pertaining to, or founded on, the Number sixty
Fewness - ) The state of being few; smallness of Number; paucity
Fortieth - The fourth tenth noting the Number next after the thirty ninth
Taryag - �613� The Number of Biblical precepts, consisting of 248 positive commandments and 365 negative commandments...
Haemacytometer - ) An apparatus for determining the Number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood
Seven - This Number occurs frequently in Scripture, and in such connections as lead to the supposition that it has some typical meaning. The division of time into weeks of seven days each accounts for many instances of the occurrence of this Number. This Number has been called the symbol of perfection, and also the symbol of rest. "Jacob's seven years' service to Laban; Pharaoh's seven fat oxen and seven lean ones; the seven branches of the golden candlestick; the seven trumpets and the seven priests who sounded them; the seven days' siege of Jericho; the seven churches, seven spirits, seven stars, seven seals, seven vials, and many others, sufficiently prove the importance of this sacred Number" (see Leviticus 25:4 ; 1 Samuel 2:5 ; Psalm 12:6 ; 79:12 ; Proverbs 26:16 ; Isaiah 4:1 ; Matthew 18:21,22 ; Luke 17:4 ). Seven is the Number of sacrifice (2 Chronicles 29:21 ; Job 42:8 ), of purification and consecration (Leviticus 42:6,17 ; 8:11,33 ; 14:9,51 ), of forgiveness (Matthew 18:21,22 ; Luke 17:4 ), of reward (Deuteronomy 28:7 ; 1 Samuel 2:5 ), and of punishment (Leviticus 26:21,24,28 ; Deuteronomy 28:25 ). It is used for any round Number in such passages as Job 5:19 ; Proverbs 26:16,25 ; Isaiah 4:1 ; Matthew 12:45
Many - Numerous comprising a great Number of individuals. Psalms 34 ...
It is often preceded by as or so, and followed by so, indicating an equal Number. Exodus 34 ...
It precedes an or a, before a noun in the singular Number. A multitude a great Number of individuals the people
Caboodle - ) The whole collection; the entire quantity or Number; - usually in the phrase the whole caboodle
Polygonum - ) A genus of plants embracing a large Number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc
Eight - Twice four expressing the Number twice four
Orthosilicic - ) Designating the form of silicic acid having the normal or highest Number of hydroxyl groups
Tripartient - ) Dividing into three parts; - said of a Number which exactly divides another into three parts
Holohemihedral - ) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole Number of planes
Poorhouse - ) A dwelling for a Number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse
Orgue - ) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a Number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously. ) Any one of a Number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack
Tale - ) A Number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a Number reckoned or stated
Sley - ) The Number of ends per inch in the cloth, provided each dent in the reed in which it was made contained as equal Number of ends
Commensurable - ) Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same Number, quantity, or measure
Cinque-Pace - ) A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the Number five
Pulldevil - ) A Number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish
Chintz - ) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a Number of different colors, and often glazed
Passenger Mileage - Passenger miles collectively; the total Number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period
Polyandrous - ) Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any Number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle
Paripinnate - ) Pinnate with an equal Number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end
Pandemic - ) Affecting a whole people or a Number of countries; everywhere epidemic
Paucity - ) Fewness; smallness of Number; scarcity
Livraison - ) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a Number; a part
Probability - ) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the Number of favorable chances to the whole Number of chances, favorable and unfavorable
Ancients - They are clothed in white garments, have gold crowns, and Number 24. The Number is perhaps symbolical, representing the twelve Apostles and the twelve tribes of Israel or according to Bishop Blane, the twelve patriarchs of the Old Law
Radix - ) A Number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental Number of any system; a base
Unit - ) The least whole Number; one. ) A single thing, as a magnitude or Number, regarded as an undivided whole
General Theological Seminary - The Number of studentsaverage about 150 each year. Number of Alumni 1,800. Whole Numbermatriculated since 1822 about 2,300
Mizpar - Number, one of the Jews who accompanied Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra 2:2 ); called also Mispereth (Nehemiah 7:7 )
Pagination - ) The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in Numbering the pages; page Number
Dodecandria - ) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any Number of stamens between twelve and nineteen
Metrograph - ) An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the Number and duration of its stops
Talesman - ) A person called to make up a deficiency in the Number of jurors when a tales is awarded
Residue - ) Any positive or negative Number that differs from a given Number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given Number, the Numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc
Fourteen - Since the Number seven is the Number which indicates GOD's perfections in His creation activities, the Number fourteen may be used to represent that same precious truth doubled or repeated
Sise - ) Six; the highest Number on a die; the cast of six in throwing dice
Added - Joined in place, in sum, in mass or aggregate, in Number, in idea or consideration united put together
Tripartition - ) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any Number or quantity
Decuple - ) A Number ten times repeated
Microlepidoptera - ) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast Number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc
Laura - ) A Number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior
Chamberlains, Privy - (Active) Compose the College of Masters of Pontifical Ceremony, and are at present nine in Number (five monsignori and four supernumeraries)
Chromograph - ) An apparatus by which a Number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc
Bipartient - ) A Number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder
Atomicity - ) Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the Number of atoms in an elementary molecule
Phase Converter - A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different Number of phases and the same frequency
Quadripartition - ) A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or Number
Annuity - ) A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given Number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance
Anybody - ) Any one out of an indefinite Number of persons; anyone; any person
Polyandria - ) A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any Number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle
Phenyl - ) A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense Number of aromatic derivatives
Seven - (See Number
Forty - An indefinite Number a colloquial use
Warp Knitting - A kind of knitting in which a Number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side
Acatalectic - ) A verse which has the complete Number of feet and syllables
Haematometer - ) An instrument for determining the Number of blood corpuscles in a given quantity of blood
Matthias - A disciple chosen by lot to fill up the Number of the apostles after the fall of Judas Iseariot
Multitudinous - ) Consisting of a multitude; manifold in Number or condition; as, multitudinous waves
be'za-i - "Children of Bezai," to the Number of 328, returned from captivity with Zerubbabel ( Ezra 2:17 ; Nehemiah 7:23 ; 10:18 )
Zac'ca-i - The sons of Zaccai to the Number of 760, returned with Zerrubbabel
Elimination - ) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less Number of equations containing a less Number of unknown quantities
Velocity - ) Rate of motion; the relation of motion to time, measured by the Number of units of space passed over by a moving body or point in a unit of time, usually the Number of feet passed over in a second
Quaternity - ) The Number four
Etagere - ) A piece of furniture having a Number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use
Abundance - ) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: - strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of Number
Lakh - ) One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great Number; as, a lac of rupees
Hecatomb - ) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large Number of victims
Peziza - ) A genus of fungi embracing a great Number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors
Thereby - ) Thereabout; - said of place, Number, etc
Naioth - (1 Samuel 19:22) It is in the plural Number, and means beauties, from the same root
Myohaematin - ) A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large Number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate
Vernier - It is so graduated that a certain convenient Number of its divisions are just equal to a certain Number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument
Honeybee - Each swarm of bees consists of a large Number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a Number of males or drones, are produced
Eighteen - Judges 3:14 (c) Ten is the Number of human weakness and defeat, Eight is the Number of a new beginning. The Number of "eighteen," therefore, indicates deliverance from defeat and the beginning of new liberty
Thereabouts - ) Near that Number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts
Perissodactyla - ) A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd Number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; - opposed to Artiodactyla
Cousinry - ) A body or collection of cousins; the whole Number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons
Uinea-Pig Director - A director (usually one holding a Number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance
Aspersed - ) Having an indefinite Number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface
Innumerable - See Number. Not to be counted that cannot be enumerated or Numbered for multitude
Diffuseness - ) The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive Number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity
Tinchel - ) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a Number of deer and game within a narrow compass
Zoocyst - ) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large Number of granules, each of which becomes a germ
Totalizator - ) A machine for registering and indicating the Number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa
Oddly - ) In a manner measured by an odd Number
Tetrad - ) The Number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion
Penance - Besides fasting, alms, abstinence, and the like, which are the general conditions of penance, there are others of a more particular kind; as the repeating a certain Number of avemary's paternosters, and credos; wearing a hair shift, and giving oneself a certain Number of stripes
Golden - ...
Golden Number, in chronology, a Number showing the year of the moon's cycle
Bunch - A cluster a Number of the same kind growing together as a bunch of grapes. A Number of things tied together as a bunch of keys a bunch or rods
Bishop of the Camp - (bishop of the camp) ...
Latin title given to a bishop in charge of a Number of army chaplains (in Great Britain, also of the air force chaplains)
Camp, Bishop of the - (bishop of the camp) ...
Latin title given to a bishop in charge of a Number of army chaplains (in Great Britain, also of the air force chaplains)
Castrensis, Episcopus - (bishop of the camp) ...
Latin title given to a bishop in charge of a Number of army chaplains (in Great Britain, also of the air force chaplains)
Finite - ) Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; - opposed to infinite; as, finite Number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration
Poa - ) A genus of grasses, including a great Number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see)
Episcopus Castrensis - (bishop of the camp) ...
Latin title given to a bishop in charge of a Number of army chaplains (in Great Britain, also of the air force chaplains)
Enallage - ) A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, Number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another
Teleseme - ) A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite Number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators
Operameter - ) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the Number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter
Mitrailleuse - ) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a Number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly
Twenty - Proverbially, an indefinite Number
Census - The Number of men from twenty years old and upward was then 603,550 (Exodus 38:26 ). ...
Another census was made just before the entrance into Canaan, when the Number was found to be 601,730, showing thus a small decrease (Numbers 26:51 ). ...
The next census was in the time of David, when the Number, exclusive of the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, was found to be 1,300,000 (2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ). ...
After the return from Exile the whole congregation of Israel was Numbered, and found to amount to 42,360 (Ezra 2:64 )
Napoleon - ) A game in which each player holds five cards, the eldest hand stating the Number of tricks he will bid to take, any subsequent player having the right to overbid him or a previous bidder, the highest bidder naming the trump and winning a Number of points equal to his bid if he makes so many tricks, or losing the same Number of points if he fails to make them
Count - ) To Number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing. ) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole Number of units in a collection; to Number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon. ) The act of Numbering; reckoning; also, the Number ascertained by counting
Asteridea - The rays vary in Number and always have ambulacral grooves below
Chaplet - It is a string of beads, by which they measure or count the Number of their prayers
Race Suicide - The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a Number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate
Dentil - ) A small square block or projection in cornices, a Number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; - used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders
Ideographical - ) Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the Number itself
Sexagenary - ) Pertaining to, or designating, the Number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old
Thiophene - ) A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large Number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives
Leucocythemia - ) A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in Number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia
Severally - ...
I could not keep my eye steady on them severally so as to Number them
Pack - A Number of cards, or the Number used in games so called from being inclosed together. A Number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united. A Number of persons united in a bad design or practice as a pack of thieves or knaves. A great Number crowded together as a pack of troubles
Aliquot - ) An aliquot part of a Number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15
Chemitype - ) One of a Number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press
Epact - ) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the Number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year
Pyrites - ) A name given to a Number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color
Few - ) Not many; small, limited, or confined in Number; - indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people
Rhipidoglossa - ) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large Number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row
Protista - ) A provisional group in which are placed a Number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature
Adonikam - His "children," or retainers, to the Number of 666, came up to Jerusalem (8:13)
Chosen - ) Selected from a Number; picked out; choice
Farandole - ) A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large Number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room
Lernaeacea - ) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large Number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes
Tale - , the Number told off; the full Number (Exodus 5:18 ; see 1 Samuel 18:27 ; 1 Chronicles 9:28 )
Meni - Isaiah 65:11, "drink offering unto that Number," rather to Meni, an idol worshipped by apostate Jews at Babylon. The Arabs worshipped an idol Mannah, a large stone which a thousand years later Saad demolished, in the eighth year of the Hegira; from manah to "number" or "assign
Drove - A collection of cattle driven a Number of animals, as oxen, sheep or swine, driven in a body. We speak of a herd of cattle, and a flock of sheep, when a Number is collected but properly a drove is a herd or flock driven
Plurality - ) The greater Number; a majority; also, the greatest of several Numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. ) The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a Number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb
Coefficient - ) A Number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x. ) A Number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc
Mortality - ) The whole sum or Number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific Number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming
Sedilia - The Number of seats has since increased to four and five although the usual Number is three, the center one for the celebrant, that on the right for the deacon and on the left for the subdeacon
Centiped - they are many-jointed, and have a great Number of feet
Cooperation - ) The association of a Number of persons for their benefit
Aliquant - ) An aliquant part of a Number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16
Dakir - ) A measure of certain commodities by Number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs
Ascococcus - ) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large Number of spherical micrococci
Bathsheba - If from Shaboh, which is the Number seven; probably as Bath, is daughter, means, the seventh daughter
Legionary - ) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great Number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force
Seerth, Kurdistan, Iraq, Archdiocese of - Archbishop Ibrahim Addai-Cher (appointed 1002) and a Number of the villagers were massacred by the Turks, 1917
Division - A part of an army or militia a body consisting of a certain Number of brigades usually two, and commanded by a major general. A part of a fleet, or a select Number of ships under a commander, and distinguished by a particular flag or pendant. In arithmetic, the dividing of a Number or quantity into any parts assigned or the rule by which is found how many times one Number is contained in another
Crib - Feeding trough for the ox (Proverbs 14:1 ;Proverbs 14:1;4:1 KJV) or the ass ( Isaiah 1:3 ; compare Job 39:9 ) and probably for any Number of other domesticated animals
Ninth - The ordinal of nine designating the Number nine, the next preceding ten as the ninth day or month
Blunderbuss - ) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a Number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim
Pentamethylene - ) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large Number of derivatives; - so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues
Denary - ) The Number ten; a division into ten
Pluralism - ) The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural Number
Dozen - ) An indefinite small Number
Tetradite - ) A person in some way remarkable with regard to the Number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead
Bundle - A Number of things put together
Crowd - ) A Number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. ) To press together or collect in Numbers; to swarm; to throng. ) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of Numbers or quantity. ) A Number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a Number of things adjacent to each other
Team - ) A Number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a Number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc. ) Hence, a Number of animals moving together
Certain - ...
In the plural Number, a particular part or Number some an indefinite part, Number, or quantity
Meni - , "that Number;" RSV, "destiny"), probably an idol which the captive Israelites worshipped after the example of the Babylonians
Miphkad - ) It means "judgment", but is translated "number" 1 Chronicles 21:5; 2 Samuel 24:9
Botany Bay - A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; - so called from the Number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770
Beacon - Israel should be so reduced in prosperity and in Number as to become like a solitary 'tree bereft of branches,' margin
Helminthes - It is a large group including a vast Number of species, most of which are parasitic
Antilogarithm - ) The Number corresponding to a logarithm
Eighteen - ) The Number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects
Populous - ) Numerous; in large Number
Junto - ) A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a Number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians
Blanket Clause - A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a Number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them
Beadroll - ) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain Number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general
Flambeau - one made by combining together a Number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch
Tetragrammaton - ) The mystic Number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc
Population - ) The whole Number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions
Three - ) The Number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects
ne'Keb - A great Number of commentators have taken this name as being connected with the preceding
Bittern - The name “bittern” is applied to any Number of small or medium sized herons (Botaurus and related genera) with a characteristic booming cry. A Number of alternatives have been suggested: bustard (REB), (screech) owl (NIV, TEV), porcupine, hedgehog (NAS, NRSV), and lizard
Seven - (c) This Number is used to represent GOD's complete provision both in CHRIST and in His dealings with men. ...
The Number seven occurs very frequently throughout the book of Revelation, and in each case it indicates the perfect character of GOD, His perfect integrity, equity and justice in all His dealings with men
Odd - , are odd Numbers. ) Left over after a definite round Number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified Number; extra
Separatrix - ) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole Number which it follows
Chilcotin - They now Number about 450, all Catholics
Chadiasai - ) They are mentioned as returning, to the Number of 422, with Zerubbabel
Palatine Cardinal - They are two in Number, the cardinal-prodatary and the cardinal secretary of state
Cardinal, Palatine - They are two in Number, the cardinal-prodatary and the cardinal secretary of state
Apartment House - A building comprising a Number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc
Quadrable - ) That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; - said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite Number of algebraic terms
Entomostraca - ) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large Number of species, many of them minute
Taenioglossa - It includes a large Number of families both marine and fresh-water
Osmogene - ) An apparatus, consisting of a Number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis
Odograph - ) A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the Number of steps taken by a walker
Reprobation - ) The predestination of a certain Number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment
Tsilkotin - They now Number about 450, all Catholics
Roman Court - It comprises the elevan Roman Congregations, the Roman Tribunals, which Number three, and the five offices of Curia
Seven - As from the beginning this was the Number of days in the week, so it often has in Scripture a sort of emphasis attached to it, and is very generally used as a round or perfect Number. Their great feasts of unleavened bread and of tabernacles were observed for seven days; the Number of animals in many of their sacrifices was limited to seven. ...
Seven is often put for any round or whole Number, just as we use "ten" or "a dozen;" so in Matthew 12:45 1 Samuel 2:5 Job 5:19 Proverbs 26:16,25 Isaiah 4:1 Jeremiah 15:9
Cahier - ) A Number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in Numbers
Quorum - ) Such a Number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present
Phyllopoda - ) An order of Entomostraca including a large Number of species, most of which live in fresh water
Mallee - ) A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a Number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock
Aleph - This word signifies, prince, chief, or thousand, expressing, as it were, a leading Number
Underlease - ) A lease granted by a tenant or lessee; especially, a lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less Number of years than he himself holds; a sublease
Jenny - ) A machine for spinning a Number of threads at once, - used in factories
Drysalter - , and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a Number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs
Every - ) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate Number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber
Cormus - ) A vegetable or animal made up of a Number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached
Respectable - ) Moderate in degree of excellence or in Number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience
Pedigree Clause - A clause sometimes inserted in contracts or specifications, requiring that a material of construction, as cement, must be of a brand that has stood the test of a specified Number of years' use in an important public work
Rondeau - ) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited Number of rhymes recurring also by rule
Multiple - ) A quantity containing another quantity a Number of times without a remainder
Six - This Number is used to express man's sufficiency. (See Numbers 35:6). ...
The mystical Number of the antichrist is six hundred sixty-six, for he represents all that man can produce of human wisdom, power and provision. This Number is arrived at by adding together the numerical values of the letters in the Greek language which compose his name
Daughters of Wisdom - Founded by Blessed Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, 1703, by banding together a Number of poor and afflicted girls at the hospital of Poitiers where the founder was temporary chaplain. Since the first establishement at La Rochelle, 1713, the congregation has grown to over 420 houses in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy, South Africa, England, Canada, the United States, Haiti, and Colombia; the mother-house is at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, La Vendee, France; the total Number of religious Isaiah 4,912
Les Filles de la Sagesse - Founded by Blessed Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, 1703, by banding together a Number of poor and afflicted girls at the hospital of Poitiers where the founder was temporary chaplain. Since the first establishement at La Rochelle, 1713, the congregation has grown to over 420 houses in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy, South Africa, England, Canada, the United States, Haiti, and Colombia; the mother-house is at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, La Vendee, France; the total Number of religious Isaiah 4,912
Ang - ) A Number going in company; hence, a company, or a Number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves
Legion - The Number of men in it differed at various times. The word legion came in the course of time to express indefinitely a large Number; so it is used in Matthew 26:53; Mark 5:9; Mark 5:15; Luke 8:30; and so we frequently now use it
Reckon - To count to Number that is, to tell the particulars. To repute to set in the Number or rank of
Baseball - ) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in Number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball
Skulk - ) A Number of foxes together
Adoni'Kam, - The sons of Adonikam, 666 in Number, were among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel
Lexicon - ) A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable Number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language
Bination - The offering of Mass twice on the same day by the same celebrant; permitted on days when the faithful are obliged to assist at Mass and there are not enough priests for the Number of Masses needed by the congregations
Bastinado - The Number of blows could not exceed forty (Deuteronomy 25:2,3 )
Magbish - An unknown town, presumably in Benjamin, whose ‘children’ to the Number of 156 are said to have returned from the Exile ( Ezra 2:30 ); omitted in the parallel passage Nehemiah 7:33 , perhaps identical with Magpiash of Nehemiah 10:20
Seven - ) The Number greater by one than six; seven units or objects
Few - ...
Not many small in Number
Pygostyle - It is formed by the union of a Number of the last caudal vertebrae, and supports the uropigium
Plural - ) The plural Number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form
Fol'io - ) To put a serial Number on each folio or page of (a book); to page
Predominate - ) To be superior in Number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart
Vingt et un - The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a Number near to it
Photosculpture - ) A process in which, by means of a Number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition
Osculation - ) The contact of one curve with another, when the Number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve
Logography - ) A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, - a Number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words
Fol'io - ) To put a serial Number on each folio or page of (a book); to page
Ourselves - ...
We ourselves might distinctly Number in words a great deal farther than we usually do
Number Systems And Number Symbolism - To understand properly the Number systems of the biblical world, one must look to the neighbors of Israel. The Sumerians by that same time had developed their own Number system. ...
The Hebrews did not develop the symbols to represent Numbers until the postexilic period (after 539 B. In all preexilic inscriptions, small Numbers are represented by individual strokes (for example, //// for four). Larger Numbers were either represented with Egyptian symbols, or the name of the Number was written out (“four” for the Number 4). The Arad inscriptions regularly used Egyptian symbols for Numbers, individual strokes for the units and hieratic Numbers for 5,10, and larger Numbers. The Samaria ostraca more frequently wrote out the Number. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are first used to represent Numbers on coins minted in the Maccabean period (after 167 B. ...
With the coming of the Hellenistic and Roman periods to Palestine, Greek symbols for Numbers and Roman numerals appeared. The Greeks used letters of their alphabet to represent numerals, while the Romans used the familiar symbols I,V,X,L,C,M, and so on...
Biblical passages show that the Hebrews were well acquainted with the four basic mathematical operations of addition (Numbers 1:20-46 ), subtraction (Genesis 18:28-33 ), multiplication (Numbers 7:84-86 ), and division (Numbers 31:27 ). The Hebrews also used fractions such as a half (Genesis 24:22 ), a third (Numbers 15:6 ), and a fourth (Exodus 29:40 ). ...
In addition to their usage to designate specific Numbers or quantities, many Numbers in the Bible came to have a symbolic meaning. ”...
A similar use of the Number seven can be seen in the New Testament. The seven churches (Revelation 2-3 ) perhaps symbolized by their Number all the churches. Jesus taught that forgiveness is not to be limited, even to a full Number or complete Number of instances. We are to forgive, not merely seven times (already a gracious Number of forgivenesses), but seventy times seven (limitless forgiveness, beyond keeping count) (Matthew 18:21-22 ). ...
After seven, the most significant Number for the Bible is undoubtedly twelve. The Sumerians used twelve as one base for their Number system. Both the calendar and and the signs of the Zodiac reflect this twelve base Number system. The tribes of Israel and Jesus' disciples Numbered twelve. The importance of the Number twelve is evident in the effort to maintain that Number. When Levi ceased to be counted among the tribes, the Joseph tribes, Ephraim and Manasseh, were counted separately to keep the Number twelve intact. Similarly, in the New Testament, when Judas Iscariot committed suicide, the eleven moved quickly to add another to keep their Number at twelve. Seventy-two elders, when one includes Eldad and Medad, were given a portion of God's spirit that rested on Moses, and they prophesied (Numbers 11:24-26 ). ...
Three as a symbolic Number often indicated completeness. ...
Four was often used as a sacred Number. ...
The most significant multiple of four is forty, which often represented a large Number or a long period of time. Likewise, the Number 666 in Revelation is often taken as a reverse gematria for the emperor Nero
Basicity - ) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the Number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid
Flute - A musical instrument, probably composed of a Number of pipes, mentioned Daniel 3:5,7,10,15
Doeg - ) at Nob, together with all the priests to the Number of eighty-five persons
Cardinal - One of the chief governors of the Romish church, by whom the pope is elected out of their own Number, which contains six bishops, fifty priests, and fourteen deacons: these constitute the sacred college, and are chosen by the pope
Dissenters - The Number of dissenters in this kingdom is very considerable
Seventeen - ) The Number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects
Archipelago - It is studded with a vast Number of small islands
Posterity - ) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate Number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; - contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham
Six - ) The Number greater by a unit than five; the sum of three and three; six units or objects
Two - ) The sum of one and one; the Number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects
Eight - ) The Number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects
Year's Purchase - The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; - used in expressing the value of a thing in the Number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc
Selectman - The Number is usually from three to seven in each town
Underhew - ) To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater Number of cubic feet than it really does contain
Half - It is applied to quantity, Number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. We say, half a pound half a mile half the Number
All - ) The whole Number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. ) The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole Number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us)
All - ) The whole Number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. ) The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole Number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us)
Ten - (c) There are a Number of thoughts concerning the typical meaning and the significance of the Number ten. I shall use it as a Number that represents human infirmity and failure. ...
Here are some examples of this application:...
The ten spies failed to see GOD's power and provision, so they brought back an evil report ( Numbers 13:32)
Company - In military affairs, the soldiers united under the command of a captain a subdivision of a regiment, consisting usually of a Number from 60 to 100 men. But the Number is indefinite. It may be applied to a small Number, or any multitude whatever as in scripture we read of a company of priests, a company of prophets, and an innumerable company of angels also, a company of horses. A Number of persons untied for the same purpose, or in a joint concern as a company of merchants or mechanics a company of players
Count - To Number to tell or name one by one, or by small Numbers, for ascertaining the whole Number of units in a collection as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life to count the stars. Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23 . Reckoning the act of Numbering as, this is the Number according to my count. Number
Mary, Psalter of - Also, the Rosary, because of the 150 Hail Marys, corresponding to the Number of the psalms of David
Another - ) One more, in addition to a former Number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect
Accumulate - ) To grow or increase in quantity or Number; to increase greatly
Sixteen - ) The Number greater by a unit than fifteen; the sum of ten and six; sixteen units or objects
Siphonostomata - ) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large Number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans
Dicker - ) The Number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves
Chosen - Selected from a Number picked out taken in preference elected predestinated designated to office
Turnstile - ) A similar arrangement for registering the Number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like
Thirteen - ) The Number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects
Tales - ) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the Number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter
Fetters - They were usually made of brass, and also in pairs, the word being in the dual Number
Pedometer - ) An instrument for including the Number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over
Fringes - They were prescribed by God (Number 15), and served as reminders of His commandments
Colligation - ) That process by which a Number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse
Homogeneous - ) Possessing the same Number of factors of a given kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial
ad Valorem - A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or Number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent
Pod - ) A considerable Number of animals closely clustered together; - said of seals
Schema - ) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the Number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect
We - ) The plural nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a person in speaking or writing denotes a Number or company of which he is one, as the subject of an action expressed by a verb
Knight Banneret - A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater Number of attendants
Naphthalene - It is the type and basis of a large Number of derivatives among organic compounds
Twelve - ) The Number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen
Anti'Ochus - (an opponent ), the name of a Number of kings of Syria who lived during the interval between the Old and New Testaments, and had frequent connection with the Jews during that period
Any - Some an indefinite Number, plurally for though the word is formed from one, it often refers to many. Are there any witnesses present? The sense seems to be a small, uncertain Number
Parcel - ) An indiscriminate or indefinite Number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. ) A Number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet
Complement - ) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or Number required to fill a thing or make it complete. ) Full quantity, Number, or amount; a complete set; completeness
Share - A part or portion of a thing owned by a Number in common that part of an undivided interest which belongs to each proprietor as a ship owned in ten shares a Tontine buildind owned in a hundred shares. The part of a thing allotted or distributed to each individual of a Number divided separate portion
ha'Rim - ) ...
Bene-Harim, probably descendants of the above, to the Number of 1017, came from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:16 ) ...
Another family of Bene-Harim, 320 in Number, came from the captivity in the same caravan
Census - ) A Numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc. ) An official registration of the Number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country
Comminution - ) Fracture (of a bone) into a Number of pieces
North American College - The students, who Number about 100, attend the lectures at the Propaganda
Carbohydrate - ) One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable Number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6
Sistrum - An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a Number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle
Enumerate - ) To count; to tell by Numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to Number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation
Quaternary - ) The Number four
Singularly - ) So as to express one, or the singular Number
Elohim - Name commonly used for God in the Old Testament; a plural form, not of Number, but of majesty and rank, regarded by ancient Jewish and early Christian writers as derived from El, singular form for God
Luddite - ) One of a Number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc
Body - A collective mass a Number of individuals or particulars united as the body of mankind. Also, any Number of forces under one commander. A corporation a Number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation as the legislative body the body of the clergy body corporate body politic
Seven - The Number seven is consecrated, in the holy books and in the religion of the Jews, by a great Number of events and mysterious circumstances. The Number of seven days is observed in the octaves of the great solemnities of the passover, of tabernacles, and of the dedication of the tabernacle and the temple; the seven branches of the golden candlestick, the Number of seven sacrifices appointed on several occasions, Numbers 27:11 ; Numbers 29:17-21 , &c. In certain passages, the Number seven is put for a great Number
Osculatrix - ) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater Number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind
Each - ) Every one of the two or more individuals composing a Number of objects, considered separately from the rest
Cube - ) The product obtained by taking a Number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4
Tibni - Building of Jehovah, the son of Ginath, a man of some position, whom a considerable Number of the people chose as monarch
Epiphany, Sundays After - The Epiphany is continued in the Sundaysfollowing, the Number of which is variable being dependent on thetime Easter is kept
Bogey - ) A given score or Number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; - said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey
Rapeshot - ) A cluster, usually nine in Number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon
Edition - ) The whole Number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold
Abidan - ” Representative of the tribe of Benjamin in helping Moses and Aaron Number the people in the wilderness (Numbers 1:11 ) and captain of the tribe in the wilderness marches (Numbers 2:22 ; Numbers 7:60 ,Numbers 7:60,7:65 ; Numbers 10:24 )
Tournament - ) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a Number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle
a'Din - (dainty, delicate ), ancestor of a family who returned form Babylon with Zerubbabel, to the Number of 454, ( Ezra 2:15 ) or 655 according to the parallel list in (Nehemiah 7:20 ) (B
az'Gad - The children of Azgad, to the Number of 1222 (2322 according to) ( Nehemiah 7:17 ) were among the laymen who returned with Zerubbabel
Constant - ) A Number expressing some property or condition of a substance or of an instrument of precision; as, the dielectric constant of quartz; the collimation constant of a transit instrument. ) A Number whose value, when ascertained (as by observation) and substituted in a general mathematical formula expressing an astronomical law, completely determines that law and enables predictions to be made of its effect in particular cases
Estimate - ) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, Number, etc. , from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the Number of feet in a piece of land
Heap - ) A great Number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. ) A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great Number of persons
Reckon - ) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in Numbering or computing. ) To count as in a Number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. ) To count; to enumerate; to Number; also, to compute; to calculate
Parcel - A Number of persons on contempt. A Number or quantity in contempt as a parcel of fair words
Eight - The Number which indicates something new. ...
Ecclesiastes 11:2 (c) Seven, being the Number of perfection, this is an invitation to go further than the full amount required. The Number "eight" always represents something new. The chapters Numbered "eight" contain a new revelation not previously found in the Scriptures. ...
All the other chapters Number eight in the Bible express something new as these do
Army - ) A great Number; a vast multitude; a host
Cherokees - They Number about 20,000 of pure and mixed blood and have been admitted to citizenship
Refuge, Cities of - Were six in Number (Numbers 35 )
Assortment - ) A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a Number of things assorted
Ferris Wheel - An amusement device consisting of a giant power-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a Number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; - so called after G
Handful - A small quantity or Number
Ringleader - ) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a Number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals
Teamwork - ) Work done by a Number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew
a'Rah - (1 Chronicles 7:39 ) ...
The sons of Arah returned with Zerubbabel in Number 775 according to (Ezra 2:5 ) but 652 according to (Nehemiah 7:10 ) (B
Mora - ) A game of guessing the Number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, - much played by Italians of the lower classes
Tithing - A decennary a Number or company of ten householders, who dwelling near each other, were sureties or free- pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other
Millet, - A Number os species are cultivated in the East
Assay Ton - Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directly the Number of ounces to the ton
Crowfoot - ) A Number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by
Oak - There are a Number of varieties of oak in Palestine
Bushhammer - ) A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a Number of rows of such points; - used for dressing stone
Ampere Turn - The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the Number of its ampere turns
Artiodactyla - The functional toes of the hind foot are even in Number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - opposed to Perissodactyla
Quintilllion - ) According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a Number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed
Covey - ) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or Number of birds together; - said of game; as, a covey of partridges
Ton Mile - A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the Number of miles for which it is carried
Oophore - ) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless Number
Decimal - ) Of or pertaining to decimals; Numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage. ) A Number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction
Tithing - ) A Number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary
Legion, - The term does not occur in the Bible in its primary sense, but appears to have been adopted in order to express any large Number, with the accessory ideas of order and subordination
Three - Proverbially, a small Number
Yarn - Gesenius gives the sense of "number" as applying equally to the merchants and the horses: "A band of the king's merchants bought a drove (of horses) at a price
Cyrene - It contained latterly a large Number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, because he thought they would contribute to the security of the place. They increased in Number and influence; and we are thus prepared for the frequent references to them in connection with the early history of Christianity
Either - One or another of any Number. Here are ten oranges take either orange of the whole Number, or take either of them
Variation - ) One of the different arrangements which can be made of any Number of quantities taking a certain Number of them together
More - ) A greater quantity, amount, or Number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with. ) Greater in Number; exceeding in Numbers; - with the plural
Lot - ) A separate portion; a Number of things taken collectively; as, a lot of stationery; - colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot. ) A large quantity or Number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so
Severus, Bishop of Monorca - Stephen in the church at Magona (Port Mahon), where there were a large Number of Jews, one of whom, the rabbi Theodorus, was defensor civitatis. The conversion of a great Number of Jews, including Theodorus himself, followed
Canister - ) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a Number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; - called also canister shot
Domenico Barberi - He established the Passionist Order in England, and received into the Church a Number of remarkable converts of the Oxford Movement, among them John Dobree Dalgairns and John Henry Newman
Dominic of the Mother of God - He established the Passionist Order in England, and received into the Church a Number of remarkable converts of the Oxford Movement, among them John Dobree Dalgairns and John Henry Newman
Chamberlains of Honor of the Purple Habit - They Number at present 729
Notre Dame de Montreal, Congregation of - The mother-house is in Montreal; the total Number of religious is about 1,900
Middlemost - Being in the middle, or nearest the middle of a Number of things that are near the middle
Ono - The men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721 in Number, returned from Babylon (Nehemiah 7:37)
Pyridine - It is the nucleus of a large Number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned
Potlatch - ) Hence, a feast given to a large Number of persons, often accompanied by gifts
Pounder - ) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain Number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc
Denominator - ) That Number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided
American And Foreign Christian Union - It worked in North and South America and Europe, for a Number of years, withdrew from France, 1866, and from all Europe, 1873, and ultimately limited its efforts to supporting an American church in Paris
Augurs - They were originally three in Number, but finally sixteen
Barberi, Domenico - He established the Passionist Order in England, and received into the Church a Number of remarkable converts of the Oxford Movement, among them John Dobree Dalgairns and John Henry Newman
Time Signature - It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the Number of these to the measure
Tangram - ) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great Number of different figures
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A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain Number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court
Unsymmetrical - ) Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in Number
Permutation - ) The arrangement of any determinate Number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc
Writer - ) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain Number of years, became a factor
Ordinal - ) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal Numbers, first, second, third, etc. ) A word or Number denoting order or succession
Abarim - Nebo, Pisgah, and Peor, were in the Number. (Numbers 33:48; Deuteronomy 32:49-50; Deu 34:1
Longicornia - ) A division of beetles, including a large Number of species, in which the antennae are very long
Legion - ) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different Numbers at different periods, - from about four thousand to about six thousand men, - the cavalry being about one tenth. ) A great Number; a multitude
Hedonism - This happiness may be that of the agent, or that of the greatest Number
Ten - It is a kind of proverbial Number
Jehoiada - The Bible mentions a Number of people named Jehoiada
Martyrs, Acts of the - They may be classified as follows: ...
Official reports of the interrogatories, few in Number, among the most famous being the "Passio Cypriani" and the "Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum"
Non-official records, made either by eye-witnesses or by contemporaries recording the testimony of eye-witnesses, including "Martyrium San Polycarpi," "Acta SS. The result of these investigations has been to substantiate such main facts as the causes of the persecutions, the Number and heroism of the martyrs, the popularity of their cultus, and the historicity of the popular heroes
Folk - Originally and properly it had no plural, being a collective noun but in modern use, in America, it has lost its singular Number, and we hear it only in the plural. In scripture, the singular Number is used as a few sick folk impotent folk
Acts of the Martyrs - They may be classified as follows: ...
Official reports of the interrogatories, few in Number, among the most famous being the "Passio Cypriani" and the "Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum"
Non-official records, made either by eye-witnesses or by contemporaries recording the testimony of eye-witnesses, including "Martyrium San Polycarpi," "Acta SS. The result of these investigations has been to substantiate such main facts as the causes of the persecutions, the Number and heroism of the martyrs, the popularity of their cultus, and the historicity of the popular heroes
Week - Whether the week gave its sacredness to the Number seven, or whether the ascendency of that Number helped to determine the dimensions of the week, it is impossible to say
University of Rome - Numerous chairs were added by succeeding pontiffs, and the schools, especially that of law, flourished, although the student attendance was never large, often being smaller than the Number of professors. It has the usual Number of faculties and numerous associate schools
Rome, University of - Numerous chairs were added by succeeding pontiffs, and the schools, especially that of law, flourished, although the student attendance was never large, often being smaller than the Number of professors. It has the usual Number of faculties and numerous associate schools
Tale - Exodus 5 In packing, they keep a just tale of the Number. Number reckoned
You - But from the Belgic dialect, it appears to be in the singular as well as the plural, and our universal popular usage, in applying it to a single person with a verb in the singular Number, is correct. Yourself is in the singular Number
Birth Control - The voluntary prevention of conception through arrested coition or the use of contraconceptives, for the purpose of limiting the Number of offspring. While the Catholic Church does not urge married persons to beget the largest possible Number of children, and does not sanction the intemperate use of marriage, she does condemn each deliberate act of birth control as intrinsically evil (S. , birth control undermines the respect of husband for wife, and vice versa, and thereby increases unhappiness among married people and the consequent Number of divorces
Epidemical - ) Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great Numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. ) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large Number in a community; - applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc
Jesus-Mary, Congregation of - The mother-house is in Rome; the total Number of religious Isaiah 1,600
Preferential Voting - A system of voting, as at primaries, in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates for an office, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest Number of first and second choices together in nominated or elected
Acetylene - It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a Number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide
Pyrrol - It is the nucleus and origin of a large Number of derivatives
Exponent - ) A Number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated...
Pleomorphism - ) The theory that the various genera of bacteria are phases or variations of growth of a Number of Protean species, each of which may exhibit, according to undetermined conditions, all or some of the forms characteristic of the different genera and species
Beads at Prayer, Use of - (Middle English: bede, prayer) Beads strung together according to the kind, order, and Number of prayers in certain forms of devotion are in common use among Catholics as an expedient to ensure an accurate count of prayers occurring in more or less frequent repetition
Wheatworm - It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large Number of the minute young of the worm
a'Ter - (Ezra 2:42 ; Nehemiah 7:45 ) ...
The children of ATER OF HEZEKIAH to the Number of 98 returned with Zerubbabel, (Ezra 2:16 ; Nehemiah 7:21 ) and were among the heads of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah
Thessalonica - The Jews had a synagogue here, and their Number was considerable, Acts 17
Bundle - ...
2: πλῆθος (Strong's #4128 — Noun Neuter — plethos — play'-thos ) "a great Number" (akin to pleo, "to fill"), is the word for the "bundle of sticks" which Paul put on the fire, Acts 28:3
Centurion - At first there were, as the name implies, 100 men in each century; subsequently the Number varied according, to the strength of the legion
Spirit Wrestlers - They now Number over 9,000
pu'Rosh - The descendants of Parosh, in Number 2172, returned front Babylon with Zerubbabel
Big'va-i -
"Children of Bigvai," 2056 (Nehemiah 2067 ) in Number, returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel, (Ezra 2:14 ; Nehemiah 7:19 ) and 72 of them at a later date with Ezra
Power - ) A large quantity; a great Number; as, a power o/ good things. ) The product arising from the multiplication of a Number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a Number. ) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the Number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the Number of times it multiplies the apparent surface
Number - Number...
1. Thus the highest Number expressed by a single word is twenty thousand, the word used meaning double ten thousand. The Number referred to in this verse,’ thousands of ten thousands,’ for the descendants hoped for from Rebekah, and the Number of the angels in Daniel 7:10 , Revelation 5:11 , ‘thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him,’ if taken literally, would be the largest Numbers mentioned in the Bible, but they are merely rhetorical phrases for countless, indefinitely large Numbers. In Revelation 7:9 the redeemed are ‘a great multitude which no man could Number’ (cf. ...
The largest literal Number in the Bible is the Number of Israelites fit for warlike service, ascertained by David’s census as 1,100,000, in addition to the men of Judah 470,000 (1 Chronicles 21:6 ). In 2 Samuel 24:9 , however, the Numbers are 800,000 and 500,000 respectively. The Number of fighting men amongst the Israelites is given in Numbers 2:32 as 603,550; and later on in Numbers 26:51 as 601,730. ; in other cases, especially for the higher Numbers, the cardinals are used. text of the NT, Numbers are denoted by words. As the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Phœnicians used figures as well as words to denote Numbers, it is possible that the Israelites also had arithmetical figures; but at present there is no positive evidence of such a usage. Other Numbers were denoted by combinations of letters. This system is still commonly used to Number the chapters and verses in Heb. A similar system was also used by the Greeks, and is occasionally found in the NT; thus the Number of the Beast, 666, in Revelation 13:18 , is written by means of three letters. There is no evidence of proficiency in arithmetic beyond the simplest operations, but we have examples of addition in connexion with the census in the wilderness, the Numbers of the separate tribes being given first and then the total ( Numbers 1:22 ff; Numbers 26:7 ff. Round Numbers . As in other languages, ‘round Numbers,’ exact tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. , must often have been used by the Israelites, on the understanding that they were only approximately accurate; and in the same way smaller Numbers were sometimes used indefinitely for ‘a few’; cf. ’ For Instance, the exact ten thousands of Jehoshaphat’s armies given above are doubtless round Numbers. Again, in Leviticus 26:8 , ‘five of you shall chase a hundred,’ merely means, ‘a handful of you shall put to flight many times your own Number. ’ This indefinite use of a small Number is specially common where two consecutive units are given as alternatives, e. In addition to hundreds and thousands and ten thousands, the most common Number used in this approximate way is ‘forty’: people constantly live or reign for ‘forty years’ or multiples of forty years. It is a matter of opinion how far the numerous ‘sevens,’ ‘tens,’ and ‘twelves’ were originally intended as exact Numbers. Probably, however, in many cases what were originally round Numbers were taken afterwards to be exact. that the various 40’s and 80’s were added in with other Numbers to obtain a continuous chronology. Again, in Numbers 3:39 the census gives 22,000 Levites, which one would naturally understand as a round Number; but in Numbers 3:43-51 it is taken as an exact Number, inasmuch as it is ordained that because the 22,273 firstborn exceed the Levites by 273, redemption-money shall be paid for the surplus. , and denoting bodies of men whose Numbers varied. of Numbers more credible by reducing the total amounts; but it is clear that the narrative as it stands intends ‘thousand’ to be a numeral, and does not use the word for a ‘clan. Accuracy of Numbers . Without attempting an exhaustive consideration of the accuracy of Numbers as given by the original authors, we may point out that we should not expect a large measure of mathematical accuracy even in original Numbers. Often, as we have seen, they are apparently given as round Numbers. Moreover, in the case of large Numbers they would seldom be ascertained by careful enumeration. The Numbers of armies especially hostile armies of slain, and so forth, would usually he given on a rough estimate; and such estimates are seldom accurate, but for the most part exaggerated. If we assume that Numbers were denoted by figures in early times, figures are far more easily altered, omitted, or added than words; but, as we have seen, we have at present no strong ground for such an assumption. But even when words are used, the words denoting Numbers in Hebrew are easily confused with each other, as in English. It was quite possible, too, for a scribe to have views of his own as to what was probable in the way of Numbers, and to correct what he considered erroneous. , in which our books have been preserved, shows that Numbers are specially subject to alteration, and that in very many cases we are quite uncertain as to what Numbers were given in the original text, notably where the Numbers are large. Even where the Number of a body of men, the length of a period, etc. , are given twice over or oftener in different passages of the Bible itself, the Numbers are often different; those in Chronicles, for instance, sometimes differ from those in Samuel and Kings, as in the case of David’s census mentioned above. Now the Numbers connected with the ages of the patriarchs are largely different in these three authorities; e. Again, the Number of persons on board the ship on which St. Paul was shipwrecked is given in some MSS as 276, and in others as 76 ( Acts 27:37 ); and similarly the Number of the Beast is variously given as 666 and as 616 ( Revelation 13:18 ). ...
The probability that many mistakes in Numbers have been introduced into the Bible by copyists in the course of the transmission of the text has long been admitted. … Differences in chronology do not imply that the sacred historians were mistaken, but they arise from the mistakes of transcribers or expositors’; and again, ‘It is reasonable to make abatements, and not always to insist rigorously on precise Numbers, in adjusting the accounts of scriptural chronology’ (i. Favourite Numbers and their symbolism . , also gave a special currency to the Number. It is suggested that the Number 12 for the tribes of Israel was fixed by the Zodiac; in the lists the Number 12 is obtained only by omitting Levi or Dan, or by substituting Joseph for Ephraim and Manasseh. When the Number 12 was established for the tribes, its currency and that of its multiples were thus further extended; e. A specially sacred character is popularly ascribed to the Number seven; and although the Bible does not expressly endorse this idea, yet it is supported by the frequent occurrence of the Number in the ritual, the sacred seventh day, the Sabbath; the sacred seventh year, the Sabbatical year; the Jubilee year, the year following seven times seven years; the seven-branched candlestick; sevenfold sprinkling ( Leviticus 4:6 etc. ); seven lambs offered ( Numbers 28:11 ff. Ezekiel’s ritual has a certain predilection for the Number eight. This Number apparently owes its vogue to the view that 40 was the approximate or perhaps average length of a generation; at least this is a common view. The Number might perhaps be obtained by taking the average of the years of a man’s age at which his children were born, though such an explanation does not appear very probable. At any rate 40 is well established as a moderate round Number between ‘a few’ and ‘a very great many. ...
A certain mystical value is attached to Numbers in later Jewish and Christian philosophy and superstition, perhaps due partly to the ideas suggested by the relations of Numbers to each other, and to the practical power of arithmetic; the symbols which aided men so effectually seemed to have some inherent force of their own. ...
Great importance is attached to Numbers in the mediæval Jewish mystical system, the Kabbala . Gematria , a Hebraized form of the Greek geometria , used to mean ‘reckoning by Numbers,’ was a late development of which there are traces in the OT. It consisted in indicating a word by means of the Number which would be obtained by adding together the numerical values of the consonants of the word. The Number is apparently constructed from the name. ...
The Apocalyptic Number of the Beast is often explained by Gematria, and 666 has been discovered to be the sum of the numerical values of the letters of some form or other of a large Number of names written either in Hebrew, or Greek, or Latin
Productive - ) Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the Number or amount of products
Addai, Saint - (Addeus, or Thaddeus) Mentioned in the Syriac document, "Doctrine of Addai," as one of the 72 disciples of Christ, who preached at Edessa, converting King Abgar V and a great Number of his people
Matteucci, Carlo - He published a great deal in the English, French and Italian journals of science, besides a Number of books
Carlo Matteucci - He published a great deal in the English, French and Italian journals of science, besides a Number of books
Kinah - " Some must be compound names, otherwise the list would exceed the Number specified in Joshua 15:32
Meni - The KJV translated the god's name as “that Number
Beside - ) More than that; over and above; not included in the Number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition
Assemble - ) To meet or come together, as a Number of individuals; to convene; to congregate
Vedas - They are considered as the fountain of all knowledge, human and divine, and are four in Number
Dividend - ) A Number or quantity which is to be divided
Quadruple - ) four times the sum or Number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages
Adinu - to the Number of 454 ( Esther 5:14 Esther 5:14 , Ezra 2:15 ) or 655 ( Nehemiah 7:20 )
Pipe - They were sometimes double, as seen on the Egyptian monuments, and in present use in Egypt: a Number of them fastened together was called an 'organ
Aloe - ) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater Number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts
Gallows - Gallows is in the singular Number and should be preceded by a, a gallows
Utility - ) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest Number, - the foundation of utilitarianism
Zouave - ) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves, as was done by a Number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War, 1861-65
Addeus, Saint - (Addeus, or Thaddeus) Mentioned in the Syriac document, "Doctrine of Addai," as one of the 72 disciples of Christ, who preached at Edessa, converting King Abgar V and a great Number of his people
Latin - A Number of words in the Greek of the New Testament are borrowed from the Latin
Thou - ) The second personal pronoun, in the singular Number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style
Diana - She was one of the Number of the twelve superior deities, and was called by the several names of Hebe, Trivia, and Hecate
Anathema - To anathematize is generally understood to denote the cutting off or separating any one from the communion of the faithful, the Number of the living, or the privileges of society; or the devoting of an animal, city, or other thing, to destruction
Lobelia - ) A genus of plants, including a great Number of species
Halcyon - By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited Number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia
Thaddeus, Saint - (Addeus, or Thaddeus) Mentioned in the Syriac document, "Doctrine of Addai," as one of the 72 disciples of Christ, who preached at Edessa, converting King Abgar V and a great Number of his people
Scarce - Being few in Number and scattered rare uncommon
World - The earth on which we dwell, 1 Samuel 2:8 ; its inhabitants, John 3:16 , or a large Number of them, John 12:19
do'eg - ) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king's order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the Number of 85 persons, together with all their property
Seven - One obvious feature of the Bible is the frequent occurrence of the Number ‘seven’. The Number seems to have been used to indicate one complete unit – fulness, completion, perfection (e. A similar symbolic usage of the Number ‘seven’ is common in the book of Revelation (Revelation 1:20; Revelation 4:5; Revelation 5:1; Revelation 5:6; Revelation 8:2; Revelation 10:3; Revelation 12:3; Revelation 13:1; Revelation 15:1)
Justin Mccarthy - " He was a regular contributor to a Number of the foremost periodicals, a member of the British Parliament (1879-1896), a member of the Irish Land League, and chairman of the National Land and Labor League of Great Britain. Despite his active political career his greatest interest was in writing; his works include a Number of novels, a collection of essays, biographies of Peel, Leo XIII, and Gladstone, "History of Our Own Times," "Reminiscences of an Irishman," "History of the Four Georges," and numerous others
Mccarthy, Justin - " He was a regular contributor to a Number of the foremost periodicals, a member of the British Parliament (1879-1896), a member of the Irish Land League, and chairman of the National Land and Labor League of Great Britain. Despite his active political career his greatest interest was in writing; his works include a Number of novels, a collection of essays, biographies of Peel, Leo XIII, and Gladstone, "History of Our Own Times," "Reminiscences of an Irishman," "History of the Four Georges," and numerous others
Series - ) A Number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. ) An indefinite Number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series
Jashobeam - He slays 300 in Chronicles, where the Number may have crept in from 2 Samuel 23:18 in the case of Abishai; 800 is the correct Number in Samuel; not all at one blow, but with successive throws of his spear
Host - An army a Number of men embodied for war. Any great Number or multitude
Variety - ) A Number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks. ) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a Number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc
Ourselves - " (3) In 2 Corinthians 10:12 , AV, enkrino, "to Number" (RV), is translated "to make ourselves of the Number
Ornaments, Personal, - The Number, variety and weight of the ornaments ordinarily worn upon the person form one of the characteristic features of Oriental costume, in both ancient and modem times. (Genesis 35:4 ) The Number of personal ornaments worn by the Egyptians, particularly by the females, 19 incidentally noticed in (Exodus 3:22 )
Prime - ) Any Number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; - so called because these Numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1. ) A prime Number. ) Divisible by no Number except itself or unity; as, 7 is a prime Number
Cognate - ) One of a Number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates
Fleury, Abbey of - 640,on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa, and Fleury's records Number Cardinal Richelieu among its 89 abbots
Dominican Sisters - Many monasteries were established in Europe, a Number of which were suppressed during the revolutions which affected Catholic countries from the close of the 18th century
Ordines Romani - A considerable Number of Ordines are preserved among manuscripts from the 8th to the 12th century
Quaternion (2) - 8), and that there were that Number in charge of our Lord’s Crucifixion (John 19:23-24; cf
Impanation - It was never held by any large Number of adherents without variations, and is clearly opposed to the doctrine of transubstantiation
Number, Golden - Name applied to each of the 19 Numbers representing the cycle of lunar years into which Meton (432 B. ) divided the calendar subsequent to his discoyery that after 19 solar years had elapsed the new moon would occur on the same days in the years indicated by identical Numbers. They are so called because the Number for each current year was inscribed in gold on an Athenian temple pillar
Vial - The same word is used a Number of times in the Book of Revelation ( 1 Samuel 5:8 ; 1 Samuel 15:7 ; 1Samuel 16:1-4,1Samuel 16:8,1Samuel 16:10,1Samuel 16:12,1 Samuel 16:17 ; 1 Samuel 17:1 ; 1 Samuel 21:9 ; “bowls,” NAS, NIV, NRSV)
Nine - ...
Luke 17:17 (c) This is the Number of insufficiency wherein they failed to return, failed to bring their gratitude, failed to show themselves to the Lord, and were more content with the gift than with the Giver
Psalter - ) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the Number of the psalms
Halve - , to reach or play in the same Number of strokes as an opponent
Regiment - ) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a Number of companies, usually ten
Abbey of Fleury - 640,on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa, and Fleury's records Number Cardinal Richelieu among its 89 abbots
Ancilla Domini Sisters - The provincial mother-house for America is at Donaldson, Indiana; the total Number of religious Isaiah 4,008
Abundance - Great plenty an overflowing quantity ample sufficiency in strictness applicable to quantity only but customarily used of Number, as an abundance of peasants
Aristocracy - When the supreme power is exercised by a small Number, the government is called an oligarchy
Ashes - Without the singular Number
Golden Number - Name applied to each of the 19 Numbers representing the cycle of lunar years into which Meton (432 B. ) divided the calendar subsequent to his discoyery that after 19 solar years had elapsed the new moon would occur on the same days in the years indicated by identical Numbers. They are so called because the Number for each current year was inscribed in gold on an Athenian temple pillar
Moses - He was rejected and repudiated by Israel the same Number of times that JESUS was rejected while on earth
Infinite - en mispar , 'no Number:' only applied to the understanding of the Lord
Razee - ) To cut down to a less Number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article
Abanah - About 18 miles from Damascus, after dividing fan-wise into a Number of branches, it flows into the Meadow Lakes
Endlicher, Stephan Ladislaus - Besides publishing a Number of writings on botanical subjects and two works dealing with the Chinese language and geography, he collaborated with other botanists
Legion - In the Roman army a body of troops consisting of from three to five thousand; but the term is also used for an indefinite Number
Adonai - This word in the plural Number signifies my Lords
Roman Regulations - A considerable Number of Ordines are preserved among manuscripts from the 8th to the 12th century
Stephan Endlicher - Besides publishing a Number of writings on botanical subjects and two works dealing with the Chinese language and geography, he collaborated with other botanists
Sisters, Dominican - Many monasteries were established in Europe, a Number of which were suppressed during the revolutions which affected Catholic countries from the close of the 18th century
Second Order of Saint Dominic - Many monasteries were established in Europe, a Number of which were suppressed during the revolutions which affected Catholic countries from the close of the 18th century
ha'Shum -
Bene-Hashum, 223 in Number, came back from Babylon with Zerubbabel
Owl - A Number of species of the owl are mentioned in the Bible, (Leviticus 11:17 ; 14:16; Isaiah 14:23 ; 34:15 ; Zephaniah 2:14 ) and in several other places the same Hebrew word is used where it is translated ostrich
Irha-Heres - The prophecy here points to a time when the Jews would so increase in Number there as that the city would fall under their influence
Seven - The frequent recurrence of certain Numbers in the sacred literature of the Hebrews is obvious to the most superficial reader, but seven so far surpasses the rest, both in the frequency with which it recurs and in the importance of the objects with which it is associated, that it may fairly be termed the representative symbolic Number. The influence of the Number seven was not restricted to the Hebrews; it prevailed among the Persians, ancient Indians, Greeks and Romans. ( Numbers 23:1 ) and especially at the ratification of a treaty, the notion of seven being embodied in the very term signifying to swear, literally meaning to do seven times. (Genesis 31:28 ) Seven is used for any round Number, or for completeness, as we say a dozen, or as a speaker says he will say two or three words
Nethinims - We read, Ezra 8:20 , that the Nethinims were slaves devoted by David and the other princes to the ministry of the temple; and elsewhere, that they were slaves given by Solomon; the children of Solomon's servants, Ezra 2:58 ; and we see, in 1 Kings 9:20-21 , that this prince had subdued the remains of the Canaanites, and had constrained them to several servitudes; and, it is very probable, he gave a good Number of them to the priests and Levites for the service of the temple. The Nethinims were carried into captivity with the tribe of Judah, and there were great Numbers of them near the coast of the Caspian Sea, from whence Ezra brought some of them back, Ezra 8:17 . Those who returned with Ezra were to the Number of two hundred and twenty, Ezra 8:20 ; and those who followed Zerubbabel made up three hundred and ninety-two, Ezra 2:58 . This Number was but small in regard to the offices that were imposed on them; so that we find them afterward instituting a solemnity called Xylophoria, in which the people carried wood to the temple with great ceremony, to keep up the fire on the altar of burnt sacrifices
Alexandrian Library - Beside the books which he procured, his son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, added many more, and left in this library at his death a hundred thousand volumes; and the succeeding princes of this race enlarged it still more, till at length the books lodged in it amounted to the Number of seven hundred thousand volumes. As the museum was at first in the quarter of the city called Bruchion, the library was placed there; but when the Number of books amounted to four hundred thousand volumes, another library, within the Serapeum, was erected by way of supplement to it, and, on that account, called the daughter of the former. The books lodged in this increased to the Number of three hundred thousand volumes; and these two made up the Number of seven hundred thousand volumes, of which the royal libraries of the Ptolemies were said to consist. These, and others added to them from time to time, rendered the new library more numerous and considerable than the former; and though it was plundered more than once during the revolutions which happened in the Roman empire, yet it was as frequently supplied with the same Number of books, and continued, for many ages, to be of great fame and use, till it was burnt by the Saracens, A. " The sentence of destruction was executed with blind obedience: the volumes of paper or parchment were distributed to the four thousand baths of the city; and such was their Number, that six months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel
Life, Book of - It is plain that God by virtue of His omniscience must infallibly know the Number of the elect and the lost, which, however, does not imply that the fate of either the elect or the damned is sealed by God without prevision of each individual's merit
Calmet, Dom Augustine - He also wrote a history of the Old and New Testament and of the Jews, and compiled a biblical dictionary and a Number of historical works
Chamberlains of Honor Extra Urbem - (outside the city) Instituted under Pius VI, are chosen from the clergy of cities other than Rome, have the title monsignor, belong to the papal household, and have the same vestments, excepting the red hat, as chamberlains of honor, but as they are not able to wear this costume at all times in Rome, they are not then called monsignori, and are only Chamberlains of Honor extra urbem; their present Number Isaiah 47
Commonwealth - ) A state; a body politic consisting of a certain Number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws
Mene - Translated literally, Mene, "he is Numbered;" Mene, "he is Numbered;" Tekel, "he is weighed;" Upharsin, "they are divided. " "Peres," in the original language, is the same word with "Upharsin," but in a different case or Number
Divers - Several sundry more than one, but not a great Number
Proportional - ) Any Number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional
Army - A great Number; a vast multitude; as an army of locusts or caterpillars
Caves - Palestine is remarkable for its Number of caves, some of which are of great extent
Gad (3) - " Μeni ("that Number," margin Isaiah 65:11) was the lesser good fortune, Gad the greater
An - It is used before nouns of the singular Number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically
Augustine Calmet - He also wrote a history of the Old and New Testament and of the Jews, and compiled a biblical dictionary and a Number of historical works
Several - ) Consisting of a Number more than two, but not very many; divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took place
Decrease - ) To grow less, - opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, Number, duration, etc
Arah - Nehemiah 7:10 gives the Number as 652
An - It is used before nouns of the singular Number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically
Massacre - ) The killing of a considerable Number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. ) To kill in considerable Numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; - limited to the killing of human beings
Less - ) Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or Number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before
Sheep Market - It was adjacent to the temple, and was so named from the Number of sheep introduced through it for the temple service
Hearse - ...
The Tenebrae hearse is a triangular candlestick for fifteen candles; its use at Tenebrae dates from the 7th century, and the Number of candles has varied at different times and places
Holy Orders - Holy Scripture as well as ancient authors and the universalpractice of the Church bear witness to the fact that Almighty Godof His Divine Providence hath appointed "divers orders" in HisChurch and that these orders have always and in all places beenthree in Number, viz
Double - ) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural Number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. ) To be increased to twice the sum, Number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much. ) Twice as much; twice the Number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like. ) To increase by adding an equal Number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a Number, or length
Eternity - "It is a duration, " says a lively writer, "that excludes all Number and computation: days, and months, and years, yea, and ages, are lost in it, like drops in the ocean! Millions of millions of years, as many years as there are sands on the sea-shore, or particles of dust in the globe of the earth, and those multiplied to the highest reach of Number, all these are nothing to eternity
Humiliati - After suppressing a revolt in Lombardy, Emperor Henry II took a Number of nobles to Germany as captives. The wives of the first Humiliati formed a community under Clara Blassoni, and were joined by a Number of followers
Novatian - He set up a schismatical church, appointed himself as head of the sect, and had a large Number of adherents who enlarged the scope of his heresy. Though Saint Jerome mentions a Number of writings of Novatian, only two have come down to us, "De Cibis Judaicis" and "De Trinitate
Share - ) Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a Number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. ) Hence, one of a certain Number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares
Add - To increase Number. ...
In general, when used of things, add implies a principal thing, to which a smaller is to be annexed, as a part of the whole sum, mass, or Number
Courses - ...
Twenty-four is a Number seldom found in the scripture: there may therefore, as to Number, be an allusion to the 24 courses of priests in the 24 elders seated on thrones in Revelation 4:4 , etc
Roman Congregation - A department of the Roman Curia, consisting of a Number of cardinals, and permanently established to handle a certain class of administrative business. As first organized by Sixtus V, January 22, 1588, there were 15 congregations; but the Number has varied according to the needs of the times
Odd - Not even not divisible into equal Numbers as one, three, five, seven, &c. Good luck lies in odd Numbers. Left or remaining after the union, estimate or use of even Numbers or remaining after round Numbers or any Number specified as the odd Number the odd man
Shook - ) A set of staves and headings sufficient in Number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form
Deacons, Seven - Men elected by the original Christian community at Jerusalem and ordained by the Apostles, their office being chiefly to look after the poor, as the Number of believers among the Grecian Jews had rapidly increased and their widows and children were being neglected
Secant - ) A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the Number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle
Capable - ) Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large Number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault
Censor - ) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the Number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct
Wool - (Leviticus 13:47 ; 22:11; Job 31:20 ; Proverbs 31:13 ; Ezekiel 34:3 ; Hosea 2:5 ) The importance of wool is incidentally shown by the notice that Mesha's tribute was paid in a certain Number of rams "with the wool
Cabala - It assumes that every letter, word, Number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings
Tontine - Thus, an annuity is shared among a Number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced
Except - ) To take or leave out (anything) from a Number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit
Agreement - ) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, Number, case, or person
Exogen - The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the Number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl
Fraction - ) One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole Number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude
Utmost - ) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, Number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness
Rowth - ) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, Number, frequency, strength, etc
Utilitarianism - ) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest Number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions
Leash - ) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the Number three in general
Seven Deacons - Men elected by the original Christian community at Jerusalem and ordained by the Apostles, their office being chiefly to look after the poor, as the Number of believers among the Grecian Jews had rapidly increased and their widows and children were being neglected
Vine - A plant that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great Number of varieties
Twelve - The Number in general is regarded as suggestive of Divine administration
Proper Psalms - Thus in addition to the ProperLessons there are also Proper Psalms, and the days for which theyare appointed with the Number of the Psalms to be read are to befound in the Table prefixed to the Psalter in the Prayer-book
Census - It was a part of the Mosaic law that when the people were Numbered, every one, from twenty years old and upwards should give unto the Lord a half shekel as a ransom for his soul, that there might be no plague among them. The Numbering was an opportunity when flesh might exalt itself as to their Numbers collectively, as well as each individual being noticed. At Sinai in the second month of the second year when they declared their pedigree after their families; there were 603,550, Exodus 38:26 ; Numbers 1:1-46 (stated in round Numbers as 600,000 in Exodus 12:37 ). Numbers 3:39-51 . On the plains of Moab, 38 years after, when the Number was 601,730, the Numbering at that time being needed for the division of the land. The Levites Numbered 23,000. Numbers 26:51,62 . In 2 Samuel 24:9 the Number is 1,300,000; but in 1 Chronicles 21:5 it is 1,570,000. We read that Joab did not finish the Numbering of the people "because there fell wrath for it against Israel," 1 Chronicles 27:24 : so that the Number in Samuel may be of those actually counted, and that in Chronicles may include an estimate of the districts not canvassed. It is added "neither was the Number put in the account of the chronicles of king David. " If the above Numbers be multiplied by 3. 3 the result will give approximately the Number of the population
Disciple - The Latin Church gives the Number of disciples of Our Lord as either 72 or 70
Joseph Marcoux - Father Marcoux translated into Iroquois, Father De Ligny's "Life of Christ," and published in that language a collection of prayers, hymns, and canticles, a catechism; calendar of Catholic ritual, and a Number of sermons
Marcoux, Joseph - Father Marcoux translated into Iroquois, Father De Ligny's "Life of Christ," and published in that language a collection of prayers, hymns, and canticles, a catechism; calendar of Catholic ritual, and a Number of sermons
Brethren White - His apparent sanctity and devotion drew together a Number of followers
Heteromerous - ) With the parts not corresponding in Number
Breakdown - ) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a Number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down
Capstan - It is operated either by steam power or by a Number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket
Ballet - ) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a Number of persons, usually women
Stork - One of a Number of large, long-legged birds that usually wade for their food
Showbread - The loaves, twelve in Number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel
Ratio - ) Hence, fixed relation of Number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress
Quaternion - ) The Number four
Erund - ) A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular Number, and governing cases like a participle
Contribution - ) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their Number for the common benefit
Unison - ) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the Number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies
Orange - It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in Number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe
Much - wanting, but supplied by) Many in Number
Mort - ) A great quantity or Number
Star - The Number of the stars was looked upon as infinite. And the Psalmist, to exalt the power and magnificence of God, says, that he Numbers the stars and calls them by their names; and so are they put to express a vast multitude, Genesis 15:5 ; Genesis 22:17 ; Exodus 33:13
Bush - The Number of these bushes in this region seems to have given the name to the mountain Sinai
Legion - In Roman antiquity, a body of infantry consisting of different Numbers of men at different periods, from three to five thousand. A great Number
Denarius - It took its name from its being first equal to ten "asses," a Number afterwards increased to sixteen
Beb'a-i -
"Sons of Bebai," 623 (Nehe 6:28) in Number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, (2:11; Nehemiah 7:16 ) (B
Epistles -
Paul's Epistles, fourteen in Number, including Hebrews. But the case was different when the Christian Church came to consist of a Number of scattered parts, stretching from Mesopotamia in the east to Rome or even Spain in the far west. It was only natural that the apostle by whom the greater Number of these communities had been founded should seek to communicate with them by letter
Sand - ...
Psalm 139:18 (a) This is a description of the great Number of GOD's wonderful thoughts of peace and love toward David. ...
Hosea 1:10 (a) This represents the great Number of people of Israel and their diversified beauty as the grains of sand. ...
Revelation 20:8 (a) This is a type of the countless Number of the unsaved, and their prevalence all over the earth
Gad - The tribe of Gad came out of Egypt in Number forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. After the defeat of the kings Og and Sihon, Gad and Reuben desired to have their lot in the conquered country, and alleged their great Number of cattle. After David had determined to Number his people, the Lord sent to him the Prophet Gad, to offer him his choice of three scourges: seven years' famine, or three months' flight before his enemies, or three days' pestilence
Gad - The tribe of Gad came out of Egypt in Number forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty, Genesis 46:16 Numbers 1:24 . After the defeat of the kings Og and Sihon, Gad and Reuben desired to have their allotment east of Jordan, alleging their great Number of cattle. Moses granted their request, on condition that they should accompany their brethren, and assist in conquering the land west of Jordan, Numbers 32:1-42 . MENI in the same verse, translated "number," is supposed by some to mean destiny; by others, the planet Benus, and the goddess of good fortune
Tribe - A Number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common as a tribe of plants a tribe of animals. A division a Number considered collectively. A Number of persons of any character or profession in contempt as the scribbling tribe
Lessons of the Roman Breviary - Considerable diversity existed regarding the choice, Number, and length of the scriptural lessons, though undoubtedly their suitability to the various feasts and seasons of the Christian year determined the choice of many of the lessons. The scriptural lessons from the Old Testament and New Testament, recited in the first nocturn of Matins, are usually three in Number; the three historical lessons, recited in the second nocturn, contain a brief biography of the saint or an account of the feast that is celebrated; the third group of three lessons, recited in the third nocturn, is a homily from one of the Doctors or Fathers of the Church on the Gospel proper to the feast of the day
Thessalonica - 42 ( Acts 17:5 knows this fact), and was ruled by its own magistrates under the rather rare title ‘politarchs,’ who were 5 or 6 in Number. There were many Jews here, as the possession of a synagogue shows ( Acts 17:1 ), and a Number of proselytes ( Acts 17:4 )
Three - 1: τρέχω (Strong's #5143 — Verb — treis — trekh'-o ) is regarded by many as a Number sometimes symbolically indicating fullness of testimony or manifestation, as in the three persons in the Godhead, cp. , the phrase "the third day" in Matthew 17:23 ; 20:19 ; Luke 9:22 ; 18:33 , where the repetition of the article lends stress to the Number, lit
Battery - ) A Number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. ) A Number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc
Quantity - ) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the Number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the Number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations
Party - ) A Number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp. ) A Number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party
Concord - In grammar, agreement of words in construction as adjectives with nouns in gender, Number and case or verbs with nouns or pronouns in Number and person
Roman Breviary, Lessons of the - Considerable diversity existed regarding the choice, Number, and length of the scriptural lessons, though undoubtedly their suitability to the various feasts and seasons of the Christian year determined the choice of many of the lessons. The scriptural lessons from the Old Testament and New Testament, recited in the first nocturn of Matins, are usually three in Number; the three historical lessons, recited in the second nocturn, contain a brief biography of the saint or an account of the feast that is celebrated; the third group of three lessons, recited in the third nocturn, is a homily from one of the Doctors or Fathers of the Church on the Gospel proper to the feast of the day
Eldad - Though "they were of them that were written" in Moses' list (implying that the 70 were permanently appointed) they did not go with the rest to the tabernacle, but prophesied in the camp (Numbers 11:26). So, Jesus' disciples were jealous for His honor, but were reproved by Moses' Antitype (Mark 9:38-39), For "and did not cease," Numbers 11:25, trans. The Number 70 symbolically represented the elect nation, the sacred Number for perfection, 7, being raised to tens, the world Number. Accordingly, it was our Lord's Number for the disciples sent two by two before His face (Luke 10:1)
Certain - ) A certain Number or quantity
Helix - ) A genus of land snails, including a large Number of species
Equivalence - ) The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the Number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency
Indians, Babine - Present Number about 610, all Catholic
Irish Sisters of Charity - The mother-house is at Dublin; the total Number of religious exceeds 500, there being 418 in Australia alone
Meat - In the law of the Church, as it stands now, the restriction regarding meat is much lessened as to the Number of days on which it is not allowed
Liturgy, Ethiopic - There are also a Number of other anaphoras which, on occasion, are joined to the first part of the liturgy, in place of its own canon
Benthamism - The utilitarian theory of Jeremy Bentham, an English jurist (1748-1832), who taught that happiness (pleasure) is the object of life and that the highest morality consists in securing the greatest happiness of the greatest Number, a formula taken from Priestly
Church Club - Throughout the American Church there are a Number ofChurch Clubs composed of laymen, associated together for thepurpose of discussing problems of Church work and belief andstudying out more thoroughly what this Church teaches and what itshistory is
Combination - ) The different arrangements of a Number of objects, as letters, into groups
Cabal - ) A Number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto
Community - Hence a Number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests
Ballot - ) The whole Number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district
Lily - In biblical usage, any of a Number of distinctive flowers ranging from the lotus of the Nile (1 Kings 7:19 ) to wild field flowers in Palestine (Matthew 6:28 )
Life of Tre Believer: Interesting - I heard a gentleman assert that he could walk almost any Number of miles when the scenery was good; but, he added, 'When it is flat and uninteresting, how one tires!' What scenery enchants the Christian pilgrim; the towering mountains of predestination, the great sea of providence, the rocks of sure promise, the green fields of revelation, the river that makes glad the city of God, all these compose the scenery which surrounds the Christian, and at every step fresh sublimities meet his view
Heft - ) A Number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication
Jot - It has a numerical value of ten and is used in the Hebrew language both as a letter and as a Number and also as an article by which the value and meaning of another letter is changed
Shilhim - ) The Imperial Bible Dictionary connects Shilhim with Shiloah or Siloam from shaalach "send," waters sent from a fountain (John 9:7; Nehemiah 3:15), and identifies with el Birein, "the wells" four in Number, each 25 or 30 ft
Valence - ) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the Number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc
Ortho - (1):...
The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest Number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid
Pinna - The byssus consists of a large Number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity
Ethiopic Liturgy - There are also a Number of other anaphoras which, on occasion, are joined to the first part of the liturgy, in place of its own canon
Mood - , without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, Number, etc
Babine Indians - Present Number about 610, all Catholic
Thou - The second personal pronoun, in the singular Number the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn style
Kibroth-Hattaavah - The graves of lust, one of the encampments of Israel in the wilderness, where they desired of God flesh for their sustenance, declaring they were tired of manna, Numbers 11:34,35 33:16 . Quails were sent in great quantities; but while the meat was in their mouths, God smote so great a Number of them, that the place was called "the graves of those who lusted," Psalm 78:30-31 , a monument to warn mankind against the sin of discontent, 1 Corinthians 10:6
Crowd - See COMPANY , MULTITUDE , Number , PEOPLE
Indians, Lillooet - Twelve villages have churches, while a Number of children are being educated at Saint Mary's Mission under the Oblate Fathers and the Sisters of Saint Anne
Lillooet Indians - Twelve villages have churches, while a Number of children are being educated at Saint Mary's Mission under the Oblate Fathers and the Sisters of Saint Anne
Dungal - A Number of poems are ascribed to him
Indians, Hare - Today they do not Number more than 600 and these are all Catholics
Palatine Prelate - They have the right of residence in the papal palace and are four in Number: ...
majordomo
maestrodi camera
auditor to the pope
master of the sacred palace
The office of auditor was discontinued as unnecessary by Pope Pius X
Small - ...
2: ὀλίγος (Strong's #3641 — Adjective — oligos — ol-ee'-gos ) "little, small" (of amount, Number, time), is translated "small" in Acts 12:18 ; 15:2 ; 19:23 ; 19:24 , AV (RV, "little"); 27:20
Luciferians - (1) A class name for a Number of early sects which revived Gnostic and Manichean principles and worshiped the devil, in some instances cursing God while they did so
Luciferites - (1) A class name for a Number of early sects which revived Gnostic and Manichean principles and worshiped the devil, in some instances cursing God while they did so
College - ) A building, or Number of buildings, used by a college
Biscuit - Usually a Number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card
Association - Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a Number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches
Meni - means ‘to Number,’ and so ‘to apportion. ’ The name of this god of Destiny has been seen in Manasseh and in the name of one of the sons of Anak, Ahiman , in Numbers 13:22
Mess - A Number of persons who eat together among seamen and soldiers
Ampleforth, Abbey of - In 1928 there were 30 monks, who serve a Number of missions in the vicinity and conduct a preparatory school and a college offering courses in preparation for university, navy, army, and air force examinations
Abbey of Ampleforth - In 1928 there were 30 monks, who serve a Number of missions in the vicinity and conduct a preparatory school and a college offering courses in preparation for university, navy, army, and air force examinations
Adonai - The proper meaning of the word is "my Lords, " in the plural Number; as Adoni is my Lord, in the singular
Marcosians - The Marcosians had a great Number of apocryphal books which they held for canonical, and of the same authority with ours
Sheminith - Hengstenberg takes it as indicating the time measured according to the Number eight
Module - Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain Number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection
Middle - ) Equally distant from the extreme either of a Number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age
Stedingers - (1) A class name for a Number of early sects which revived Gnostic and Manichean principles and worshiped the devil, in some instances cursing God while they did so
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus - When Saint Radegunde received a relic of the True Cross, Fortunatus composed a Number of religious poems, two of which, "Vexilla Regis prodeunt" and "Pange Lingua," are read in the Liturgy
Them - In our mother tongue, them is an adjective, answering to the, in the dative and ablative cases of both Numbers. The common people continue to use it in the plural Number as an adjective, for they say, bring them horses, or them horses are to be led to water
Separate - To set apart from a Number for a particular service
Almanac, Church - An annual publication setting forth the datesand times of the Holy Days and Seasons of the Church's year, withthe table of Lessons, directions concerning the Church colors andother information about the Church, such as the organization ofthe Dioceses, Number of communicants; clergy list, the GeneralConvention and other organizations; also, the list of the AmericanBishops, both living and departed
Homilies - They treat ofsuch topics as "Good Works," "Repentance," "Prayer," "The Number ofthe Sacraments," "The Right Use of the Church," etc
Bible, Editions of the - Handwritten copies, even if made by painstaking scribes, inevitably contain variations from the original, and the Number of such variants were greatly increased by the hands of careless or ignorant copyists. Therefore, by the middle of the 15th century, when printing was invented, there existed a vast Number of manuscript copies of the original Bible text, differing from one another in thousands of passages
Magi - Matthew gives no Number, names, or royal positions to the magi. From the three gifts, the deducation was made that they were three in Number
Raskolnik - The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are believed to Number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod officially puts the Number at about 2,000,000
Editions of the Bible - Handwritten copies, even if made by painstaking scribes, inevitably contain variations from the original, and the Number of such variants were greatly increased by the hands of careless or ignorant copyists. Therefore, by the middle of the 15th century, when printing was invented, there existed a vast Number of manuscript copies of the original Bible text, differing from one another in thousands of passages
Simeon - Before entering Canaan, the tribe of Simeon had become the lowest of the tribes in point of Number. Numbers 1:23; Numbers 26:14. To the Simeonites was assigned the territory in the southwest, with a Number of towns, which had been allotted to Judah
Solomon - Many scholars think that the Number of his wives and concubines should be set at 70,300, respectively, and that the last Number may have represented female slaves in attendance upon the women
Verse - In poetry, a line, consisting of a certain Number of long and short syllables, disposed according to the rules of the species of poetry which the author intends to compose. according to the Number of feet in each
Thousand - (2) Murias, "a myriad, a vast Number," "many thousands," Luke 12:1 , RV; Acts 21:20 ; it also denotes 10,000, Acts 19:19 , lit. of murios), an adjective signifying "numberless," is used in this indefinite sense in 1 Corinthians 4:15 ; 14:19 ; it also denotes the definite Number "ten thousand," Matthew 18:24
Score - ) The Number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl. , a large Number. ) The Number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket
Captivity - But we believe that all, except the Number that probably allied themselves with Judah and shared in their restoration under Cyrus, are finally lost. But Jehoiachin's counsellors displeasing Nebuchadnezzar, he again a third time turned his army against Jerusalem, and carried away to Babylon a second detachment of Jews as captives, to the Number of 10,000 (2 Kings 24:13 ; Jeremiah 24:1 ; 2 Chronicles 36:10 ), among whom were the king, with his mother and all his princes and officers, also Ezekiel, who with many of his companions were settled on the banks of the river Chebar (q. 586), and all that remained of the people, except a Number of the poorest class who were left to till the ground and dress the vineyards, were carried away captives to Babylon. The Number of the people forming the first caravan, under Zerubbabel, amounted in all to 42,360 (Ezra 2:64,65 ), besides 7,337 men-servants and maid-servants. A considerable Number, 12,000 probably, from the ten tribes who had been carried away into Assyria no doubt combined with this band of liberated captives. The whole Number of the exiles that chose to remain was probably about six times the Number of those who returned
Contingent - ) That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a Number; a suitable share; proportion; esp
Herd - A Number of animals kept together under human control. Herds were a source of meat and dairy products, of agricultural labor (1 Chronicles 12:40 ; Isaiah 46:1 ), and of sacrifices (Numbers 7:3 ; Psalm 69:31 ; Isaiah 66:3 )
Damian, Peter, Saint - He attended a Number of synods and was sent on many important missions
Canons on Hunting - The law distinguishes between ordinany hunting, described by the authors as that species in which a man goes out for game with one or two dogs and without much paraphernalia; and the chase (venatio clamorosa) again described as that which is attended by a large Number with many dogs, horsemen, and the like
Asiarchs - Each city chose one deputy, and out of the whole Number ten were chosen, over whom one presided, selected by the Roman proconsul
Six - It sometimes suggests incompleteness, in comparison with the perfect Number seven
Dial - The shadow would cover a greater or smaller Number of steps, according as the sun was low or high
Buddhism - Their Number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000
Hunting, Canons on - The law distinguishes between ordinany hunting, described by the authors as that species in which a man goes out for game with one or two dogs and without much paraphernalia; and the chase (venatio clamorosa) again described as that which is attended by a large Number with many dogs, horsemen, and the like
Moyer's Lectures - A great Number of English writers having endeavoured, in a variety of ways, to invalidate the doctrine of the Trinity, this opulent and orthodox lady was influenced to think of an institution which should produce to posterity an ample collection of productions in defense of this branch of Christian faith
Commutation Ticket - , a ticket for a certain Number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb
Comprehension - ) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite Number for an indefinite
Factorial - ) The product of the consecutive Numbers from unity up to any given Number
Vain - self-conceit, usually a translation of a Number of words that mean, “nothingness” or “unreliability
Seven Churches - A perfect Number was chosen out of the many assemblies then existing, showing that they were symbolical of the church generally, and prophetical of the history of the church to the end
Equality - ) Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; - denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same Number and kind of units of measure that x does
Consultation - The persons who consult together a Number of persons seeking mutually each others opinions and advice a council for deliberation as, a consultation of physicians was called
Each - Every one of any Number separately considered or treated. Numbers 1 ...
Simeon and Levi took each man his sword
Eternity - ...
By repeating the idea of any length of duration, with the endless addition of Number, we come by the idea of eternity
Apostolicity - One of the marks by which the Church founded by Christ on His Apostles can always be recognized among the large Number of dissident creeds
Traffic - , with reference to the Number of passengers or the amount of freight carried
Council - ...
A kind of jury or privy council, (Acts 25:12 ) consisting of a certain Number of assessors, who assisted Roman governors in the administration of justice and in other public matters
Fontevrault, Abbey of - Her successor, Anne of Orleans, reestablished discipline in a Number of priories and gained a victory over the rebellious religious at Fontevrault. This resulted in the admission of a great Number of novices
Fontevrault, Order of - Her successor, Anne of Orleans, reestablished discipline in a Number of priories and gained a victory over the rebellious religious at Fontevrault. This resulted in the admission of a great Number of novices
Order of Fontevrault - Her successor, Anne of Orleans, reestablished discipline in a Number of priories and gained a victory over the rebellious religious at Fontevrault. This resulted in the admission of a great Number of novices
Most - Consisting of the greatest Number. The greatest Number or part
Abbey of Fontevrault - Her successor, Anne of Orleans, reestablished discipline in a Number of priories and gained a victory over the rebellious religious at Fontevrault. This resulted in the admission of a great Number of novices
Volume - A book consisting of sheets once folded, is called a folio, or a folio volume of sheets twice folded, a quarto and thus according to the Number of leaves in a sheet, it is called an octavo, or a duodecimo. The Number of volumes in the Royal Library, in rue de Richlieu, at Paris, is variously estimated
More - Greater in Number exceeding in Numbers as more men more virtues more years. Added to some former Number additional. A greater quantity, amount or Number
Marriage - Their Number far exceeds the Number of those who belong to GOD. The Jewish nation has remained few in Number, while among the Gentiles the Gospel has brought multitudes into the family of GOD
Tribes of Israel - The Number of the tribes of Israel varied at different periods. The Number 12 is an artificial one, as is seen from its application to the descendants of Ishmael ( Genesis 17:20 ; Genesis 25:13-15 ), of Nahor ( Genesis 22:20-24 ), and of Esau ( Genesis 36:15-19 ; Genesis 36:40-43 ). 146) correctly remarks, several of the largest tribes Judah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Gad contained many minor tribes which surpassed in Number, possessions, and political significance several of those counted in the twelve tribes. ...
The Number of the tribes, according to JE [2] ’s genealogy (Genesis 29:1-35 ; Genesis 30:1-43 ), is not 12 but 13, and in the following order:...
Leah tribes Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah 4 Bilhah (Rachel) tribes Dan, Naphtali 2 Zilpah (Leah) tribes Gad, Asher 2 Leah tribes Issachar, Zebulun 2 Rachel tribes Joseph = (Manasseh, Ephraim) 2 Benjamin (born in Palestine), Genesis 35:18 1 13 To obtain the Number 12 from this scheme it is necessary to omit Levi, or to count Manasseh and Ephraim as one. ...
Why the Number twelve was chosen cannot be answered with certainty
Manasses - At the time of the census taken in the Desert of Sinai, the tribe Numbered 32,200 men "that were able to go forth to war" (Numbers 1), the smallest Number among all the tribes; but at the second census, taken in the Plains of Moab, 52,700 men "twenty years old and upward" are recorded (Numbers 26). Moses assigned a part of territory east of the Jordan to one half of the tribe (Numbers 32), and Josue gave a section in Palestine proper to the remaining half, the boundaries of which are given in Josue 17
Irregularity - The new Code of Canon Law limits once for all the Number and kind of irregularities as pertaining to the common law of the Church
Oetinga - The Number of pilgrims who visit this shrine is so great that it has been necessary for the Augustmians to seek the aid of the Jesuits, Franciscans, Capuchins, Redemptorists, and some secular priests
Oettingen - The Number of pilgrims who visit this shrine is so great that it has been necessary for the Augustmians to seek the aid of the Jesuits, Franciscans, Capuchins, Redemptorists, and some secular priests
Jouin, Louis - His works include "Evidences of Religion" and a Number of excellent text-books on philosophy and ethics
Lorrain, Claude de - He left a large Number of canvases, among the best-known being "The Embarcation of the Queen of Sheba," and the "Nuptials of Isaac and Rebecca," both in the National Gallery in London, and "The Village Dance" in the Louvre
Daemon - They belong to the Number of those angels that "kept not their first estate," "unclean spirits," "fallen angels," the angels of the devil (Matthew 25:41 ; Revelation 12:7-9 )
Apollinarians - This, with other laws enacted against them, reduced them to a very small Number; so that at last they dwindled away
Ape - of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same Number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches
Louis Jouin - His works include "Evidences of Religion" and a Number of excellent text-books on philosophy and ethics
Circular - ) Addressed to a circle, or to a Number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter
Chemistry - ) That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the Number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms
Barabbas - ...
According to Origen, supported by a relatively small Number of late manuscripts at Matthew 27:16 , Barabbas was named “Jesus Barabbas
Firework - A Number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored
Altotting - The Number of pilgrims who visit this shrine is so great that it has been necessary for the Augustmians to seek the aid of the Jesuits, Franciscans, Capuchins, Redemptorists, and some secular priests
Concord - ) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, Number, person, or case
Beg - Each beg has the command of a certain Number of spahis, or horse, denominated ...
timariots
Growth - Increase in Number, bulk or frequency
Antichrist - His Number Isaiah 666 (Revelation 13:18)
Luciferians - There were but two Luciferian bishops, but a great Number of priests and deacons
Ido - For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the "greatest facility for the greatest Number of people
Parabola - ) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole Number or a positive fraction
Tenacity - ) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, - usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the Number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture
Thousandth - ) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great Number; very small; minute; - used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time
Metre - ; poetical measure, depending on Number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter
Adullam - It is frequently mentioned in the history of Saul and David; and is chiefly memorable from the cave in its neighbourhood, where David retired from Achish, king of Gath, when he was joined by the distressed and discontented, to the Number of four hundred, over whom he became captain, 1 Samuel 22:1
Phut - Nahum 3:9 , reckons this people in the Number of those who ought to come to the assistance of No-Ammon, or Diospolis
a'Mos, Book of - The chief peculiarity of the style consists in the Number of allusions to natural objects and agricultural occupations, as might be expected from the early life of the author
Ape - of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same Number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches
Lazarus - He was raised from the tomb by Christ in the presence of the family and a Number of Jews, after he had been dead four days
Liberality - In this sense, it has the plural Number
Sisters Adorers of the Most Precious Blood (Gurtwe - Schools and academies were subsequently opened and in 1870 a Number of the sisters came to America and were established in what was then the Diocese of Alton, Illinois and later in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis
Havoth-ja'ir - ( Numbers 32:41 ; 3:14) In the records of Manasseh in (Joshua 13:30 ) and 1 Chronicles 2:23 The Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities. No less doubtful is the Number of the Havoth-Jair
Ben'Jamin, the Land of - The general level of this part of Palestine is not less than 2000 feet above the Mediterranean or than 3000 feet above the valley of the Jordan, the surrounding country including a large Number of eminences--almost every one of which has borne some part in the history of the tribe--and many torrent beds and deep ravines
Men-Stealers - , in a catalogue of property and in combination with tetrapoda, "four-footed things" (andrapodon, aner, "a man," pous, "a foot"); andrapodon "was never an ordinary word for slave; it was too brutally obvious a reminder of the principle which made quadruped and human chattels differ only in the Number of their legs" (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab
Two Hundred - The larger Number is by no means improbable: Josephus sailed for Rome in A
Altar Lights - This isevidenced by the table in the Tourist's Church Guide for 1898, inwhich it appears that in 1882 there were 581 churches in which theAltar Lights were used, while in 1898 the Number had increased to4,334
Asiarch - The titles occur rarely in literature, much more often in inscriptions; and the lessons we learn from inscriptions are in direct proportion to their Number. This Diet of Asia was a body composed of a Number of representatives, one or more of whom were elected by each of a Number of cities in the province. There was only one ἀρχιερεὺς Ἀσίας (without further designation) at a time, whereas there were a Number of Asiarchs. This is only one, however, of a Number of indications that the Empire was at first disposed to look with a kindly eye on the new religion
Many - 1: πολύς (Strong's #4183 — Adjective — polus — pol-oos' ) "much, many, great," is used especially of Number when its significance is "many," e. 1, is translated "many" in Acts 2:40 ; 13:31 ; 21:10 ; 24:17 ; 25:14 ; 27:20 ; 28:23 (AV; RV, "in great Number"); with the article, "most," RV (or rather, "the more part"), Acts 19:32 ; 1 Corinthians 10:5 , and Philippians 1:14 (for AV, "many," an important change); in 2 Corinthians 2:6 , RV, "the many" (marg. , "the more part"); in Hebrews 7:23 , RV, "many in Number" (AV, "many"). ...
3: ἱκανός (Strong's #2425 — Adjective — hikanos — hik-an-os' ) "sufficient," when used of Number sometimes signifies "many," suggesting a sufficient Number, (a) with nouns, Luke 8:32 ; 23:9 ; Acts 9:23,43 ; 20:8 ; 27:7 ; (b) absolutely, some noun being understood, e
Census - Μiphqad , "numbering combined with lustration" or "purification. " By the law (Exodus 30:12-13) half a shekel was to be paid by every man above 20 years as a ransom for his soul, that there should be no plague whenever a Numbering of the people took place. The Number at the census in the third or fourth month after the Exodus was 603,550 above 20 years (Exodus 38:26); in Exodus 12:37 the round Number 600,000. There were besides 22,000 male Levites of a month old and upwards (Numbers 3:39). In Numbers 3:43 all the firstborn males for whom the Levites were accepted as a substitute are stated to be 22,273, which, if it were the suni of the firstborn sons in the entire nation, would require there to be 40 males begotten of each father in each family to make up 608,550 men of 20 years and upward, or a population of more than 1,000,000 males. It appears from Numbers 3:13; Numbers 8:17, God had actually sanctified already all the firstborn to Himself by having protected His people from the destroyer on the paschal night (Exodus 12:22-23; Exodus 4:22), and had adopted the whole nation in instituting the Passover. The Number of Levites (Numbers 3:39; Numbers 3:51), Numbers 3:22; Numbers 3:000, does not agree with the Numbers assigned to the three families 7,500 + 8,600 + 6,200 = 22,300. But the total is correct; for it is written, the Number of the firstborn, 22,273, exceeded that of the Levites by 273. ...
Probably there is a copyist's error in the Number of one of the Levitical families, perhaps in Numbers 3:28 read 8,300 for 8,600. The earlier Numbering for collecting atonement money from every male of 20 or upward (Exodus 30:11-16; Exodus 38:25-26) gave the same Number, 603,550, as that nine months later (Numbers 1:1-3-46; Exodus 40:17), in the second month of the second year, four weeks after the rearing of the tabernacle. This latter mustering merely consisted in registering those already Numbered in the public records according to their families and fathers' houses; probably according to Jethro's suggestion of classification for administering justice, namely, in thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens (Exodus 18:25). The supernumerary units would be used to balance the changes that had taken place in the actual condition of the families and fathers' houses between the earlier provisional Numbering and the subsequent preparation of the master rolls, so that the few changes that had taken place during the nine months' interval among those fit for war was made no account of, but the Number was left the same. A new census was taken 38 years afterwards in the plains of Moab (Numbers 26) for the division of Canaan among the tribes according to their families (Numbers 33:54). The Number then was 601,730, of 20 years and upward, of whom Joshua and Caleb alone were in the former census, the whole generation having died in the wilderness. The tribe of Simeon especially suffered a diminution of its Numbers; probably owing to the plague which followed Zimri's sin with Cozbi the Midianite woman (Numbers 25:9-15; Numbers 26:51; Numbers 26:63-65; compare Numbers 11:21). The total of Israel, including the 23,000 Levite males from a month old upwards, would be thus about 2,000,000 (Numbers 26:62). The objection of rationalists that the peninsula of Sinai could not have sustained such a Number is answered by the consideration (1) that Israel was sustained by a miracle, (2) the peninsula yielded much more anciently than at present. ...
The next Numbering was that by David, contrary to Joab's advice (2 Samuel 24:1-9; 1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 Chronicles 21:5; 1 Chronicles 27:24). "Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to Number Israel. When David, after the plague sent for Numbering the people, sacrificed upon an altar of burnt offering on the threshing floor of Araunah on mount Moriah, Jehovah by fire from heaven consecrated the place as "the house of God," even before the actual building of the temple (compare 1 Chronicles 22:1-2 with Genesis 28:17-19). The Number in 1 Chronicles 21:5 is 1,100,000 of Israel and 470,000 of Judah. ...
The Number was never put "in the account of the chronicles of King David" (1 Chronicles 27:24). Benjamin, which came last in order on the return home to Jerusalem, had not been Numbered when the census was interrupted (1 Chronicles 21:6). The 30,000 difference in the Number of Judah, as given in Chronicles and according to Samuel, was perhaps due to Benjamin being given in Samuel but not in Chronicles. ...
These were in actual service; the larger Numbers in the census are those capable of service. At best, oral tradition was the basis of the Numbers here, seeing that it was not recorded in the chronicles of David. The whole population would thus amount to about 5,000,000; a Number not too large for the well attested fertility of the land then to sustain. 66, just before the Roman siege of Jerusalem, a census taken by the priests at the Passover gave the approximate Number 2,700,000, independently of foreigners and those ceremonially defiled. Solomon completed David's census by causing the resident foreigners to be Numbered and employed on his great works, namely, 153,600 (2 Chronicles 2:17-18; compare Joshua 9:27). ) Numbered 1496, exclusive of women and children (Ezra 8:1-14). ...
The Septuagint and Josephus confirm in the main the correctness of the Scripture Numbers
Flight - A Number of beings flying or moving through the air together as a flight of angels. A Number of things passing through the air together a volley as a flight of arrows
Carthage - The Number of persons martyred there in the arena was almost as great as that in Rome and among this Number were Felicitas and Perpetua whose dungeon now serves as a chapel
Cherethims - ...
Crete seems a kindred name to Cherethites; it was famed for archery, as were they; for which David chose a Number of them as his body guard. Gittites of the Philistine Gath, to the Number of 600, under Ittai, similarly followed David (2 Samuel 15:18-19)
Month - A common practice was to refer to a month by its Number rather than by its name; for example, ‘the fourth month’ rather than ‘Tammuz’ (2 Kings 25:3). ...
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The above table follows the calendar used for religious festivals, most of which were regulated according to the new moon and the full moon (Leviticus 23:6; Leviticus 23:24; Leviticus 23:39; Numbers 28:11). In everyday speech people often referred to the time of the year not according to the Number or name of the month, but according to the festival season (John 2:13; John 5:1; John 6:4; John 7:2; Acts 2:1; Acts 12:3; Acts 20:6; Acts 20:16; see FEASTS)
Class - An order or rank of persons a Number of persons in society, supposed to have some resemblance or equality, in rank, education, property, talents, and the like as in the phrase, all classes of men in society. A Number of students in a college or school, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies
Type - ) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any Number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed. ) A general form or structure common to a Number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group
Praetorium - Augustus retained the name, but raised the Number to ten cohorts of 1000 each, quartering only 3 cohorts in the city at a time. Under Vitellius their Number was raised to 16,000
Lay Sisters - In some orders they recite daily the Little Office of Our Lady, but usually their office consists of a certain Number of Paters, Aves, and Glorias
Metropolitan - (Greek: metropolis, city) ...
An archbishop who is placed over a certain section of a country, comprising a certain Number of suffragan dioceses
Kyriale - The book takes its name from the first Number, the Kyrie
John Baptist Mary Vianney, Saint - Persons of all ranks and conditions of life sought his advice and in 1855 the Number of pilgrims to Ars had reached 20,000 a year
Johann Eccard - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Johann Eckhard - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Johann Eckhart - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Meister Johann Eckhart - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Irvingites - Statistics are not available, but the Number of churches is not more than 80 throughout the world
Horse - But Solomon, from his connection with Egypt, greatly multiplied their Number (1 Kings 4:26 ; 10:26,29 )
Chamberlains of Honor of Sword And Cape - They are divided into two classes, chamberlains di numero (at present five in Number), having a life tenure; and supernumeraries, at present Numbering 218
Fifteen, Fifteenth - translations give the Number as 75 in Genesis 46:27 and in Exodus 1:5 , and this Stephen follows, being a Grecian Jew
Combine - ) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate Number of pips equals those of the card played
Nest - An abode a place of residence a receptacle of Numbers, or the collection itself usually in an sense as a nest of rogues. A Number of boxes, cases or the like, inserted in each other
Mystical Body of Christ - Growth, increase, both intensively (sanctity), and extensively (in Numbers) depends on this vivifying union, which is fostered and preserved principally by the Holy Eucharist. Notwithstanding Number and diversity of members, there is but one body
Quaternion - (τετράδιον, from τετράς, ‘the Number four’; Vulg
Decalogue - The church of Rome has struck the second commandment quite out of the decalogue; and, to make their Number complete, has split the tenth into two
Floater - ...
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A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a Number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own
Add - ) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the Number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add Numbers; to add up a column
Extension - ) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller Number of objects; - correlative of intension
Penny - ) The Greek silver coin, (Latin denarius , from whence the French denier ,) bearing the head of the reigning Roman emperor, the date of his tribunitian power or consulate, or the Number of times he was saluted emperor (Matthew 22:19-21)
Terrier - ) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, Number of acres, or the like
Verse - ) A line consisting of a certain Number of metrical feet (see Foot, n
Troop - ) A collection of people; a company; a Number; a multitude. ) To move in Numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops
Turn-Out - ) The aggregate Number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose
Eccard, Meister Johann - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Eckhard, Meister Johann - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Eckhart, Meister Johann - The papal Bull which condemned a Number of his propositions declared also his profession of faith, repudiation of error, and submission to the Holy See
Money - , coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any Number of such pieces; coin
Money - , coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any Number of such pieces; coin
Leaf, Leaves - The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural Number in three different senses
Sisters, Lay - In some orders they recite daily the Little Office of Our Lady, but usually their office consists of a certain Number of Paters, Aves, and Glorias
Sixtus v, Pope - During his pontificate he exterminated the bandits in the Papal States; rearranged the papal finances; fixed the Number of cardinals at seventy; and established 15 permanent Congregations
Vianney, John Baptist Mary, Saint - Persons of all ranks and conditions of life sought his advice and in 1855 the Number of pilgrims to Ars had reached 20,000 a year
Sanctuary Lamp - According to present ecclesiastical legislation, at least one lamp must burn continually before the tabernacle; several may be used, but their Number should be uneven
Saint - SAINT, To Number or enroll among saints by an official act of the pope to canonize
Scripture - The word is used either in the singular or plural Number, to denote the sacred writings or divine oracles, called sacred or holy, as proceeding from God and containing sacred doctrines and precepts
Sect - A body or Number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men
Persep'Olis, - Here, on a platform hewn out of the solid rock the sides of which face the four cardinal points, are the remains of two great palaces, built respectively by Darius Hytaspes and his son Xerxes, besides a Number of other edifices, chiefly temples
Adversary, the - Satan, the adversary, stood up against Israel and provoked David to Number Israel
Stratonice, Martyr at Cyzicum - The wife of a leading magistrate of the town, she came to see a large Number of Christians tortured
Exile - 598 (Jeremiah 52:28 ; 2 Kings 24:12 ), in the beginning of Jehoiachin's reign (2 Kings 24:8 ), Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive 3,023 eminent Jews, including the king (2 Chronicles 36:10 ), with his family and officers (2 Kings 24:12 ), and a large Number of warriors (16), with very many persons of note (14), and artisans (16), leaving behind only those who were poor and helpless. The entire Number Nebuchadnezzar carried captive was 4,600 heads of families with their wives and children and dependants (Jeremiah 52:30 ; 43:5-7 ; 2 Chronicles 36:20 , etc. ...
When Cyrus granted permission to the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1:5 ; 7:13 ), only a comparatively small Number at first availed themselves of the privilege. ...
Large Numbers had, however, settled in the land of Babylon, and formed numerous colonies in different parts of the kingdom
Sacrament - ) Of sacraments, in this sense of the word, Protestant churches admit of but two; and it is not easy to conceive how a greater Number can be made out from Scripture, if the definition of a sacrament be just which is given by the church of England. ) The Romanists, however, add to this Number confirmation, penance, extreme unction, ordination, and marriage, holding in all seven sacraments. ) Numerous, however, as the sacraments of the Romish church are, a sect of Christians sprung up in England, early in the last century, who increased their Number
Legion - In both cases the reference is to the large Number of persons who compose a legion: in the one case the legions of angels are at the disposal of Jesus, if He asks for them; in the other the great Number of evil spirits can be described only by the name ‘legion. , and the sight of these magnificent troops, as they marched in column along the great roads of the country, must have powerfully impressed the natives with the Numbers and power of the Roman people. An innumerable Number of persons came to be spoken of as a legion
Train - A retinue a Number of followers or attendants. The Number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time. Train of artillery, any Number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army
Multitude - , Luke 6:17 , RV, "a (great) multitude (of His disciples)," AV, "the company;" Acts 1:15 , "a multitude (of persons)," RV, AV, "the Number (of names);" Acts 24:18 , RV, "crowd" (AV, "multitude"). 1, Number. , Mark 3:7,8 ; Luke 6:17 ; John 5:3 ; Acts 14:1 ; of angels, Luke 2:13 ; (2) with the article, the whole Number, the "multitude," the populace, e
Lamp Lampstand - But there are many peculiarities in regard to shape, the mode of base and of handle, the Number of wick-holes, the size of the reservoir opening, the presence of a slit for raising the wick, etc. In the type that retains the old saucer form, account must be taken of the Number of points-one, four, and even seven (‘multiple radiating’ lamps)-which implies a corresponding Number of wicks. ), the lampstands are single and Number seven, instead of being one shaft, divided into seven branches. The parallel to Zechariah 4:2 does not extend to the Number of the lampstands (two in Revelation 11:4, one in Zec. ), although the Number of the olive trees is the same
Army Organization - In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to serve a given Number of years. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full Number of years or up to the age limit
Michael - When, in the time of Daniel, the Jews suffered a Number of setbacks because of opposition from the ruling Persian authorities, Michael came to the Jews’ rescue. ...
Among Jewish writings of the period between the Old and New Testaments, there are a Number that mention Michael
Equal - ) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or Number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal. ; - applied to Number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc
Other - Correlative to each, and applicable to any Number of individuals. Other is used as a substitute for a noun, and in this use has the plural Number, and the sign of the possessive case
Order of Saint Benedict - A Number of the greatest universities of Europe developed from schools of the Benedictines, including those of Paris, Bologna, and Cambridge. Cluny's centralized method of government was followed by a Number of monasteries which united themselves in groups, the groups later forming congregations. At present the Benedictines Number 15 congregations, viz: the Cassinese, English, Hungarian, Swiss, Bavarian, Brazilian, French, American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, Beuronese, Cassinese of Primitive Observance, Austrian (of the Immaculate Conception), Austrian (of Saint Joseph), Saint Ottilien, and Belgian. As the abbeys of the Benedictine monks increased in Number, monasteries for women were also established. England, Germany, and other parts of the continent saw the rise of many convents, rivaling in Number the abbeys of the monks in the Middle Ages
Benedictine Order - A Number of the greatest universities of Europe developed from schools of the Benedictines, including those of Paris, Bologna, and Cambridge. Cluny's centralized method of government was followed by a Number of monasteries which united themselves in groups, the groups later forming congregations. At present the Benedictines Number 15 congregations, viz: the Cassinese, English, Hungarian, Swiss, Bavarian, Brazilian, French, American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, Beuronese, Cassinese of Primitive Observance, Austrian (of the Immaculate Conception), Austrian (of Saint Joseph), Saint Ottilien, and Belgian. As the abbeys of the Benedictine monks increased in Number, monasteries for women were also established. England, Germany, and other parts of the continent saw the rise of many convents, rivaling in Number the abbeys of the monks in the Middle Ages
Benedictines - A Number of the greatest universities of Europe developed from schools of the Benedictines, including those of Paris, Bologna, and Cambridge. Cluny's centralized method of government was followed by a Number of monasteries which united themselves in groups, the groups later forming congregations. At present the Benedictines Number 15 congregations, viz: the Cassinese, English, Hungarian, Swiss, Bavarian, Brazilian, French, American-Cassinese, Swiss-American, Beuronese, Cassinese of Primitive Observance, Austrian (of the Immaculate Conception), Austrian (of Saint Joseph), Saint Ottilien, and Belgian. As the abbeys of the Benedictine monks increased in Number, monasteries for women were also established. England, Germany, and other parts of the continent saw the rise of many convents, rivaling in Number the abbeys of the monks in the Middle Ages
Bible: the Spirit More Than the Letter - Eight hundred and forty-eight marginal notes are observed and preserved, for the more facility of the text: the middle verse of every book noted; the Number of the verses in every book reckoned: and not a vowel that misseth ordinary grammar which is not marked
Assemblies of God - An individual and evangelistic type of mission began in a Number of churches, missions, and assemblics after the great revival in 1907
Chime - A set of bells, arranged to swing, and tuned to produce melodies; a set of a large Number of bells is known as a carillon
Estate - ]'>[1] almost an equal Number of times, and with the same meaning
Meshech - "During the ascendency of the Babylonians and Persians in Western Asia, the Moschi were subdued; but it seems probable that a large Number of them crossed the Caucasus range and spread over the northern steppes, mingling with the Scythians
Jair - Son of Manasseh who took possession of a Number of villages in Gilead (Numbers 32:41 )
Eonians - He left behind him a Number of followers, whom persecution and death, so weakly and cruelly employed, could not persuade to abandon his cause, or to renounce an absurdity, which, says Mosheim, one would think, could never have gained credit but in such a place as Bedlam
Shephati'ah - ) ...
The family of Shephatiah, 372 in Number, returned with Zerubbabel
Berth - ) A room in which a Number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside
Naboth - Hebrew law only allowed farmland to be leased for the Number of crops until the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:15-16 )
Scourge - The Number of blows was set in Deuteronomy 25:3 at forty, but later reduced to thirty-nine
Ministration - They state the Number and qualifications of the new officials, leave the election to the whole body of Christians, and ordain the elected
Wilhelminians - She persuaded a large Number that the Holy Ghost was become incarnate in her person for the salvation of a great part of mankind
Promises of God - Abundant as to their Number
Quadrate - ) Produced by multiplying a Number by itself; square
Skat - The value of hands depends upon the game played, trump suit, points taken, and Number of matadores
People - ) Persons, generally; an indefinite Number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; - sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity
Altars, Consecration of - When a Number of portable altar-stones are consecrated, Mass is said on one of them
Abbey - The community must Number at least twelve religious
Herd - ) A Number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle
Herbert of Lea, Elizabeth, Lady - She devoted most of her energy to writing, translating a Number of biographies from the French, among them those of Saint Monica, Saint John Baptist de Rossi, Monsignor de Merode, etc
Corban - It consists in killing the Number of sheep, and distributing them among the poor
Meeting-House - The Number of meeting-houses in London, may, perhaps, amount to about 150, though some reckon upwards of 200
Above - ) Surpassing in Number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred
Pedrail - The tread consists of a Number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes
Remain - ) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a Number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised
Elizabeth, Lady Herbert of Lea - She devoted most of her energy to writing, translating a Number of biographies from the French, among them those of Saint Monica, Saint John Baptist de Rossi, Monsignor de Merode, etc
Ross - ) The Number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens
Cana - From their appearance, and the Number of them, it was quite evident that a practice of keeping water in large stone pots, each holding from eighteen to twenty-seven gallons, was once common in the country
Antioch of Pisidia - There were several other cities of the same name, sixteen in Number, in Syria and Asia Minor, built by the Seleucidae, the successors of Alexander in these countries; but the above two are the only ones which it is necessary to describe as occurring in Scripture
Booty - spoils taken in war, Numbers 31:27-32 . According to the law of Moses, the booty was to be divided equally between those who were in the battle and those who were in the camp, whatever disparity there might be in the Number of each party
Innumerable - 1: ἀναρίθμητος (Strong's #382 — Adjective — anarithmetos — an-ar-ith'-may-tos ) a, negative, n, euphonic, arithmeo "to Number," is used in Hebrews 11:12 . ...
2: μυριάς (Strong's #3461 — Noun Feminine — murias — moo-ree'-as ) denotes either "ten thousand," or, "indefinitely, a myriad, a Numberless host," in the plural, Acts 19:19 ; lit. "five ten-thousands," Revelation 5:11 ; 9:16 ; in the following, used of vast Numbers, Luke 12:1 , AV, "an innumerable multitude," RV, "the many thousands" (RV marg
Ross - ) The Number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens
Naboth - Hebrew law only allowed farmland to be leased for the Number of crops until the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:15-16 )
Elders of Israel - Ever afterwards we find this Number of seventy, or rather, seventy-two, elders; six from each tribe
Oak - There are a Number of varieties of oak in Palestine
Heap - 1), is used metaphorically in 2 Timothy 4:3 of appropriating a Number of teachers to suit the liking of those who do so
Gaza - ...
Gaza features in a Number of Old Testament stories, among them those concerning Samson (Judges 16:1-3; Judges 16:21-30)
Asher - ...
Like the other Israelite tribes, Asher did not drive out the local Canaanites, who still occupied a Number of towns and districts
Berlin, Germany, City of - At the time of the Reformation the city Numbered about 18 churches, but in 1539 the new faith was formally accepted by the nobility, and a few months later the Lord's Supper, according to the Lutheran Rite, was celebrated for the first time, in the Dominican church, later transformed into the Protestant cathedral. The partition of Poland, followed by secularization, added further to the Number of Catholics in Berlin, but it was not until 1848 that comparative freedom was obtained. Since then the Number of Catholics has grown consistently with the development of the city, and now forms 11 per cent of the total population of 4,024,165
Mystical Numbers - The Fathers of the Church have regarded Numbers in Scripture as full of mystical meaning. He is thrice holy; three times His name is pronounced in the priest's blessing to the people (Numbers 6). Twelve (3 X:4) is the Number of the chosen people of God, represented by the twelve loaves of proposition. Saint Augustine, commenting on the twelve Apostles, claims great mystery in the signification of the Number twelve. Pope Saint Gregory the Great, in his Lenten Hymn of the Divine Office, attaches a mystical significance to the Numbers ten and four: ...
Ex more docti mystico...
Servemus hoc iejunium...
Deno dierum circulo...
Ducto quater notissimo
Fish - Numbers 11:5 (c) This is a symbol of the good things offered by this world to attract and entice GOD's people away from GOD's path of separation. Others think that the giving of the Number of the fish indicates the care with which GOD looks after each deed that we do for Him. Still others think that these fish, and the Number of them, represent GOD's abundant care for His own
Army - Each tribe formed a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Numbers 2:2 ; 10:14 ). In war the army was divided into thousands and hundreds under their several captains (Numbers 31:14 ), and also into families (Numbers 2:34 ; 2 Chronicles 25:5 ; 26:12 ). At the Exodus the Number of males above twenty years capable of bearing arms was 600,000 (Exodus 12:37 ). In David's time it mounted to the Number of 1,300,000 (2 Samuel 24:9 )
Week - Whether the week gave its sacredness to the Number seven, or whether the ascendancy of that Number helped to determine the dimensions of the week, it is impossible to say
Bourignonists - She set up for a reformer, and published a great Number of books filled with very singular notions; the most remarkable of which are entitled. She held many extravagant notions, among which, it is said, she asserted that Adam, before the fall, possessed the principles of both sexes; that in an ecstacy, God represented Adam to her mind in his original state; as also the beauty of the first world, and how he had drawn from it the chaos; and that every thing was bright, transparent, and darted forth life and ineffable glory with a Number of other wild ideas
Numbers, Mystical - The Fathers of the Church have regarded Numbers in Scripture as full of mystical meaning. He is thrice holy; three times His name is pronounced in the priest's blessing to the people (Numbers 6). Twelve (3 X:4) is the Number of the chosen people of God, represented by the twelve loaves of proposition. Saint Augustine, commenting on the twelve Apostles, claims great mystery in the signification of the Number twelve. Pope Saint Gregory the Great, in his Lenten Hymn of the Divine Office, attaches a mystical significance to the Numbers ten and four: ...
Ex more docti mystico...
Servemus hoc iejunium...
Deno dierum circulo...
Ducto quater notissimo
Band - ) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a Number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. ) A Number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc
File - The whole Number of papers strung on a line or wire as a file of writs. A row of soldiers ranged one behind another, from front to rear the Number of men constituting the depth of the battalion or squadron
Five - A Number that describes the weakness of every human being. ...
Every chapter Number five in the Bible contains some story of man's weakness and inability. ...
All the other chapters in the Bible Numbered five contain some mark and proof of human weakness and inability
Glycerius, a Deacon in Cappadocia - He at once began to neglect the duties of his office, and gathered about him a Number of young women, partly by persuasion, partly by force, of whom he took the direction, styling himself their patriarch, and adopting a dress in keeping with his pretensions. Glycerius turned a deaf ear, and having swelled his fanatical band by a Number of young men, he one night hastily left the city with his whole troop against the will of many of the girls
Tables of the Law - Many questions have been started about these tables; about their matter, their form, their Number, him who wrote them, and what they contained. Some oriental authors make them amount to ten in Number, others to seven; but the Hebrews reckon but two
e'Lam - (1 Chronicles 8:24 ) ...
"Children of Elam," to the Number of 1254, returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. (Nehemiah 10:14 ) ...
In the same lists is a second Elam, whose sons, to the same Number as in the former case, returned with Zerubbabel, (Ezra 2:31 ; Nehemiah 7:34 ) and which for the sake of distinction is called "the other Elam
Fish - (Tristram speaks of fourteen species found there, and thinks the Number inhabiting it at least three times as great. The latter was probably most used on the Sea of Galilee, as the Number of boats kept on it was very considerable
Pack - ) A Number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. ) A Number or quantity of connected or similar things...
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(n. ) A Number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. ) A Number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves
Episcopacy - The Number of Christians in most of the primitive churches was at first small: they could easily, when not prevented by persecution, assemble together; and they thus formed one church or congregation; for, in Scripture, the term church is never used in the more modern acceptation of the word, but is employed to denote either the whole church of Christ, or a Number of disciples meeting for the celebration of divine worship. The pastors would thus remain members of the presbytery, as they had formerly been, and would look up to that one of their Number who had been accustomed to preside among them. The ministers who were sent to the recently erected churches had probably different powers, according to the Numbers to whom they were to officiate, the situation of the churches in respect of the original church, and the tranquillity or persecution which was their lot. In the immediate neighbourhood of the bishop, and where one person was sufficient, he would merely perform the duties that had been assigned to him previous to his mission; but the same reasons that led the Apostles to plant several presbyters in the churches which they founded might render it expedient that more than one, sometimes that a considerable Number, should be attached to the newly-formed congregations; more particularly when the Number attending was large, and when there was the prospect of their still farther increasing. After the bishops were established as superior to presbyters, when any meeting was held respecting religion, or the administration of the church, it was chiefly composed of this higher order, and the president of the synod or council was elected from their Number
la Salette - The Missionaries of La Salette were founded to administer the church erected there after pilgrims thither began to increase in Number attracted by the story of the apparition and the numerous remarkable answers to prayer
Moore, Arthur, Count - Through his efforts a sufficient Number of Catholic chaplains were obtained for the navy; for this service he was thanked by the Irish Bishops through a special resolution passed at Maynooth, 1903
Centurion - A centurion was a Roman military officer, corresponding in the Number of infantry commanded by him (100) to the modern ‘captain,’ but in his status like our non-commissioned officers
Stool - In the difficult passage Exodus 1:16 the word rendered ‘stools’ in the sense of birth-stools ( sella parturientis ) must be pointed to read ‘stones’ ( ’abnáyim for ’obnáyim , both dual Number), the reference being to the two stones or bricks on which a woman sat during her accouchement
Jacopo Benedetti - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Jacopo Benedicti - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Jacopone da Todi - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Bye - ) In various sports in which the contestants are drawn in pairs, the position or turn of one left with no opponent in consequence of an odd Number being engaged; as, to draw a bye in a round of a tennis tournament
Benedetti, Jacopo - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Benedicti, Jacopo - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Ring - ]'>[1] ‘golden-ringed’; his hands might be adorned with a Number of rings)
Caesar's Household - The Number of these servants was very large, and amongst them were accountants, governors of provinces, secretaries, stewards, etc
Pi - ) The letter /, /, as used to denote the Number or quotient approximately expressing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter; also, the quotient or the ratio itself
Another - One more, in addition to a former Number, indefinitely as, grant one request, they will ask another favor, another and another
Depth - ) The Number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
Arthur Moore - Through his efforts a sufficient Number of Catholic chaplains were obtained for the navy; for this service he was thanked by the Irish Bishops through a special resolution passed at Maynooth, 1903
City - In a general sense, a large town a large Number of houses and inhabitants, established in one place
Testudo - ) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large Number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States
Volley - ) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a Number of small arms
Variable - ) A quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite Number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = R2, x and y are variables
Edinburgh, Scotland - In the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), there were only 160 Catholics in the city, but now they are estimated to Number about 20,000, mostly of Irish origin
Magazine - ) A chamber in a gun for holding a Number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece
Legion - Among the Romans a "legion" was primarily a chosen (lego, "to choose") body of soldiers divided into ten cohorts, and Numbering from 4,200 to 6,000 men (Gk. Accordingly in its NT use the word has its other and more general significance "of a large Number
Muster - ) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole Number of effective men in an army. ) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of Numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service
Edwin's Burgh - In the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), there were only 160 Catholics in the city, but now they are estimated to Number about 20,000, mostly of Irish origin
Porters - The porters of the temple were Levites, at one period four thousand in Number, divided into courses, 1 Chronicles 16:42 23:5
Todi, Jacopone da - He is the author of a large Number of sacred songs known as laudi, among them the Stabat Mater, and with Saint Francis he stands at the head of Umbrian poets
Organs - Theworship of the Temple was noted for the great Number and varietyof musical instruments employed in it
Gath - One of the ‘five cities of the Philistines’, Gath was famous as the home of a Number of giants, the most famous of whom was Goliath (Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:17-18; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Samuel 21:18-22; see also ANAK)
Pope - These are seventy in Number, when the sacred college, as it is called, is complete. Here are formed, by partitions of wood, a Number of cells, or chambers, equal to the Number of cardinals, with a small distance between every two, and a broad gallery before them. A Number is put on every cell, and small papers, with corresponding Numbers, are put into a box; every cardinal, or some one for him, draws out one of these papers, which determines in what cell he is to lodge. When all are convened, two cardinals Number the votes; and if there be more or less than the Number of cardinals present, the voting must be repeated. The names of all the cardinals that are voted for are taken down in writing, with the Number of votes for each; and when it appears that any one has two-thirds of the Number present in his favour, the election is over; but when this does not happen, the voting papers are all immediately burnt, without opening up the inner part. By it, when a cardinal perceives that when one or very few votes are wanting to any one for whom he has not voted at that time, he must say that he accedes to the one who has near the Number of votes requisite; and if his one vote suffices to make up the two-thirds, or if he is followed by a sufficient Number of aceeders, or new voters, for the said cardinal, the election is accomplished. ...
Lastly, a pope is sometimes elected by acclamation; and that is, when a cardinal being pretty sure that he will be joined by a Number sufficient, reads out in the open chapel, that such a one shall be pope
Judah, Tribe of - At the time of the Exodus, when we meet with the family of Judah again, they have increased to the Number of 74,000 males (Numbers 1:26,27 ). Its Number increased in the wilderness (26:22). This tribe marched at the van on the east of the tabernacle (Numbers 2:3-9 ; 10:14 ), its standard, as is supposed, being a lion's whelp. " The Number of towns in this district was thirty-eight (Joshua 15:48-60 )
Part - ) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain Number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; - the opposite of multiple. ) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a Number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger Number, quantity, mass, etc. ) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, Numbers, etc
Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice - In 1684 three Sulpicians attempted to found a mission in Texas, but they failed, and one of their Number, Father Chefdeville was martyred by the Indians. During the 18th century the Number of priests increased and new foundations were made throughout Canada. The following year their Number was augmented, but it was still too early for a seminary and the priests ministered in the churches of Baltimore and the missions of the country
Sulpicians - In 1684 three Sulpicians attempted to found a mission in Texas, but they failed, and one of their Number, Father Chefdeville was martyred by the Indians. During the 18th century the Number of priests increased and new foundations were made throughout Canada. The following year their Number was augmented, but it was still too early for a seminary and the priests ministered in the churches of Baltimore and the missions of the country
Four - This Number denotes GOD's government of men and affairs upon the earth. ...
1 Kings 18:33 (c) This Number of barrels probably was intended to remind Israel that GOD was sovereign Lord, and able to reveal His power in sending down the fire. ...
Daniel 3:25 (c) The Number here represents GOD's power to overrule the king, and to quench the violence of fire, and to deliver His own children. ...
Zechariah 1:18 (c) The Number in this case reveals that GOD had supreme power to send other nations to punish His own people. ...
Zechariah 6:1 (b) The Number in this case represents GOD's supreme power to punish Israel in four different ways, as described or illustrated by the four horses. ...
Matthew 24:31 (c) The Number in this case reveals that GOD is the Lord and Master of every part of the world
Oecumenical Councils - When the pope has spoken ex cathedra to make his own the decisions of any council, regardless of the Number of its members, nothing further can be wanted to make them binding on the whole Church
Asiarch - The title of Asiarch could be held in conjunction with any civil office, and with the high priesthood of a particular city, but the high priest of Asia and the Asiarch were probably not identical; for there was only one high priest of Asia at a time, but there were a Number of Asiarchs, as Acts 19:31 shows, even in one city
Litany - Originally a supplicatory prayer, especially when liturgical or ceremonial; later, a liturgical prayer in which the clergy lead and the laity respond, the same form of response being repeated in a Number of succeeding clauses, and usually being of a penitential character
Infinite - God is regarded as infinite in many other qualities: God's steadfast love endures forever (Psalm 100:5 ); God's knowledge extends to the fall of a single sparrow and the Number of hairs on our heads (Matthew 10:29-30 ; compare Psalm 139:1-6 ); God is “the Almighty” (Genesis 17:1 ; Exodus 6:3 )
Fever - Fever accompanying “consumption” or “wasting disease” (Deuteronomy 28:22 REB) could refer to any Number of diseases: malaria, typhoid, typhus, dysentery, chronic diahhrea, or cholera
Basilian Monks - The historians of this order say that it has produced 14 popes, 1805 bishops, 3010 abbots, and 11, 085 martyrs, besides an infinite Number of confessors and virgins
Simeon, the Tribe of - They gradually dwindled in Number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the wilderness by about two-thirds (Compare Numbers 1:23 ; 26:14 )
Nation - A great Number, by way of emphasis
Bell - A Number of small bronze bells, both of the ordinary shape with clapper and of the ‘ball and slit’ form, have been found at Gezer ( PEFSt Elim - One of the stations in the wanderings of the children of Israel ( Exodus 15:27 , Numbers 33:9 ); apparently the fourth station after the passage of the Red Sea, and the first place where the Israelites met with fresh water. Sinai be correct, the likeliest place for Elim is the Wady Gharandel , where there is a good deal of vegetation, especially stunted palms, and a Number of water-holes in the sand; but some travellers have pushed the site of Elim farther on, and placed it almost a day’s journey nearer to Sinai, in the Wady Tayibeh , where there are again palm trees and a scanty supply of brackish water
Presbytery Reformed - Their Number, it is said, amounts to about four thousand persons
Gregory x, Pope - Because of his great virtue, he is revered as a saint in Rome and in a Number of Italian dioceses
Flight - ) A Number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows
Drove - ) A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a Number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body
Hyacinth - In botany, a genus of plants, of several species, and a great Number of varieties
Accident - ) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, Number, case
Fringe - ) One of a Number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; - called also interference fringe
Ecumenical Councils - When the pope has spoken ex cathedra to make his own the decisions of any council, regardless of the Number of its members, nothing further can be wanted to make them binding on the whole Church
Aecumenical Councils - When the pope has spoken ex cathedra to make his own the decisions of any council, regardless of the Number of its members, nothing further can be wanted to make them binding on the whole Church
Major - ) Greater in Number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory
Mission - ) Persons sent; any Number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy
Anathema - This Greek word represents a Hebrew phrase which generally denoted among the Jews the absolute, irrevocable and entire separation of a person from the communion of the faithful, or from the privileges of society, or from the Number of the living; or the devoting of any man, animal, city or thing, to be extirpated, destroyed, consumed, and, as it were, annihilated
Samuel - Numbers 16:1-50; Numbers 26:11. For a Number of years he judged Israel—this is the sum of what is told—though whether his authority was recognized by all the tribes may admit of question
Teobaldo Visconti - Because of his great virtue, he is revered as a saint in Rome and in a Number of Italian dioceses
Visconti, Teobaldo - Because of his great virtue, he is revered as a saint in Rome and in a Number of Italian dioceses
Rite, Byzantine Orthodox - Instead of a Missal and Breviary, it has many service books, 20 in Number
Rite of Constantinople - Instead of a Missal and Breviary, it has many service books, 20 in Number
Several - Divers consisting of a Number more than two, but not very many
Riches - This is in the singular Number in fact, but treated as the plural
Saint John's Seminary, England - In a few years the Number of students rose to 100, and it was found necessary to establish the school at Hyde House, Clapham Park
Kindness - It may be well understood through the study of a Number of words closely associated with it
Decapolis - ” A group of Greek cities referred to in Matthew 4:25 ; Mark 5:20 ; Mark 7:31 , originally ten in Number but including more cities at a later time. Thus the Number varied from time to time
Fifth Monarchy Men - 6th, 1660 to the Number of about fifty men, well armed, and with a resolution to subvert the present government, or to die in the attempt. In Wood-street they repelled the trained bands, and some of the horse guards; but Venner himself was knocked down, and some of his company slain; from hence the remainder retreated to Cripplegate, and took possession of a house, which they threatened to defend with a desperate resolution; but nobody appearing to countenance their frenzy, they surrendered after they had lost about half their Number
Body - ) A Number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. ) A Number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity
Cedar - But the travellers who have visited the place within these two or three centuries, and who describe trees of vast size, inform us that their Number is diminished greatly; so that, as Isaiah says, "a child may Number them," Isaiah 10:19
Tribes, the Twelve - Twelve was God's chosen Number for Israel, under this Number they were ever before Him, as manifested in the twelve stones on the breastplate and the twelve names on the two onyx stones in the shoulder pieces of the high priest, and in the twelve loaves on the table of showbread. After Levi was separated for the priesthood, the Number twelve was maintained by Ephraim and Manasseh being mentioned instead of Joseph. In Revelation 7 , where the tribes are sealed for blessing, Dan is omitted, as being a type of Antichrist: Ephraim is also omitted, the Number being made up by inserting Levi and by Joseph being mentioned as well as Manasseh. In the following table the names are Numbered throughout according to birth. In Numbers 1 there are two lists of the tribes: one, the heads of the tribes, as given in the following table; the other, when the tribes were Numbered, the only difference in the order of the names being that in the latter Gad comes before Judah. Numbers 1
Choice - ) A sufficient Number to choose among
Esther - On the repudiation of Vashti, Ahasuerus, king of Persia, ordered a large Number of young virgins to be collected throughout his realm, and brought into his harem
Lauds - In the revision of the Breviary by Pius X, the traditional structure of Lauds was retained but a new arrangement of psalms was made and the Number of Old Testament canticles, from which one is chosen, was extended
Fountains Abbey - Following a Number of changes, it is held by the Marquess of Ripon, and the ruins, including part of the church, chapter house, cloister, refectory, and calefactory, are preserved
Index, Congregation of the - The Congregation of the Index consisted of a Number of cardinals, one of whom was its prefect
Captivity, Babylonian - Cyrus gave permission for the exiles to return to Palestine to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, and a large Number (42,360 Jews and 7,357 servants) availed themselves of it (1 Esdras 2)
Espoused - arthron, "a joint," arithmos, "a Number," etc
Brilliant - It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a Number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets
Watches of Night - After the establishment of the Roman supremacy, the Number of watches was increased to four, which were described either according to their numerical order, as in the case of the "fourth watch," (Matthew 14:25 ) or by the terms "even," "midnight," "cock-crowing" and "morning
Colony - ) A Number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range
Distribution - The act of dividing among a Number a dealing in parts or portions as the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. Dispensation administration to Numbers a rendering to individuals as the distribution of justice
Lily - ]'>[1] , it is sûsan , which includes a great Number of allied flowers lilies, irises, gladioli, etc
Pencil - ) A Number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point
Abbey, Fountains - Following a Number of changes, it is held by the Marquess of Ripon, and the ruins, including part of the church, chapter house, cloister, refectory, and calefactory, are preserved
Shewbread - They were twelve loaves in Number, meaning one for every tribe, to be presented before the Lord
Sadducees - The Pharisees made proselytes, but the Sadducees were much more exclusive, and therefore remained fewer in Number
Herschel, Sir William - Foremost astronomical discoverer and explorer of the 18th century and "founder of sidereal science," initiated an era of astronomical optics and stellar photometry, discovered the planet Uranus and two of its satellites, Oberon and Titania, discovered the sixth and seventh satellites of Saturn, first determined Saturn's rotation period, did noteworthy researches on variable stars, discovered that in the binary systems the stars circulated around each other, thus demonstrating that the same law of mechanics functioned in the stellar system as did in our solar systems, first indicated the approximate position of the apex of the sun's way, first determined the direction of the sun's motion, added about 2400 nebulae to the known Number of 103, compiled famous star catalogs, constructed a reflecting telescope with an aperture of four feet and a focal length of forty, and discovered the infra-red solar rays
Contain - This Number does not contain the article specified
Exceed - 50Kings 10 ...
EXCEE'D, To go too far to pass the proper bounds to go over any given limit, Number or measure
Ephesus - Its inhabitants are supposed to have been of Greek origin, with also a large Number of Jews engaged in commerce
Tribe - ) A Number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals
Silas - Luke, Acts 15:22 , one of the "chief men among the brethren," which makes it probable, that he was of the Number of the seventy disciples
Matthias - It is very probable he was of the Number of the seventy, as Clemens Alexandrinus and other ancients inform us
Bithynia - It is famous as being one of the provinces to which the apostle Peter addressed his first epistle; also as having been under the government of Pliny, who, in a letter to the emperor Trajan, makes honorable mention of the Number, character, and customs of the persecuted Christians there, about A
Tutiorism - A large Number of persons remained away from the Sacraments, especially in France, during the 17th and 18th centuries, or received them but seldom, under pretext of being too unworthy
Rigorism - A large Number of persons remained away from the Sacraments, especially in France, during the 17th and 18th centuries, or received them but seldom, under pretext of being too unworthy
Less - Smaller not so large or great as a less quantity or Number a horse of less size or value
Babylonian Captivity - Cyrus gave permission for the exiles to return to Palestine to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, and a large Number (42,360 Jews and 7,357 servants) availed themselves of it (1 Esdras 2)
Congregation - (Numbers 15:15 ) The congregation was governed by the father or head of each family and tribe. The Number of these representatives being inconveniently large for ordinary business, a further selection was made by Moses of 70, who formed a species of standing committee. (Numbers 11:16 ) Occasionally indeed the whole body of people was assembled at the door of the tabernacle, hence usually called the tabernacle of the congregation. (Numbers 10:3 ) The people were strictly bound by the acts of their representatives, even in cases where they disapproved of them
Parish - Itis competent for any Number of persons, usually not less than ten,to associate themselves together to form a Parish
Measure - ) A Number which is contained in a given Number a Number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc. , of two or more Numbers
Ranges - Probably a cooking furnace for two or more pots, as the Hebrew word here is in the dual Number; or perhaps a fire-place fitted to receive a pair of ovens
Class - ) A Number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies
Mission Indians of California - The historic missions were 21 in Number and at least 11 linguistic stocks were represented in the Indians
Liturgical Books - A great Number of the historical and illustrative references are taken from the numerous Sacramentaries, Lectionaries, Graduals, Psalters, Passionals, Homiliaries, Hymnals, and the special "Ordines" and "Consuetudines" of the various monasteries and dioceses
Dupanloup, Felix Antoine Philibert - He was the author of a Number of important works on catechetical and historical subjects
Innsbruck - A Number of priests in the United States have been educated there
Domenis, Marco Antonio de - He wrote a Number of violent anti-Roman works, but eventually alienated his English friends and returned to Rome
Marco Antonio de Dominis - He wrote a Number of violent anti-Roman works, but eventually alienated his English friends and returned to Rome
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - It includes a Number of documents and is illustrated throughout by woodcuts, most of them luridly depicting the sufferings of the martyrs
Orlandus de Lassus - The total Number of his works, published and in manuscript, is estimated at 2400, a prodoctivity unequaled in musical history
Lassus, Orlandus de - The total Number of his works, published and in manuscript, is estimated at 2400, a prodoctivity unequaled in musical history
Lattre, Roland de - The total Number of his works, published and in manuscript, is estimated at 2400, a prodoctivity unequaled in musical history
Sisera - In another account ( Judges 5:1-31 , the older account) Sisera appears as an independent ruler, and Jabin is not even mentioned; the two accounts differ in a Number of subsidiary details, but in two salient points they agree, namely, as to the defeat of Sisera and as to the manner of his death
Anathema - It is understood principally to denote the absolute, irrevocable, and entire separation of a person from the communion of the faithful, or from the Number of the living, or from the privileges of society; or the devoting of any man, animal, city or thing, to be extirpated, destroyed, consumed, and, as it were, annihilated, Leviticus 27:1-34
Levites - At the exodus from Egypt the male descendants of Levi from a month old and upward Numbered 22,000. In the journey through the wilderness the Number of the Levites from 30 years up to 50 years, the year of superannuation, was 8580 (Numbers 4)
Birth - A Hebrew mother remained forty days in seclusion after the birth of a son, and after the birth of a daughter double that Number of days
Timnath-Serah - A great Number of lamp-niches cover the walls of the porch, upwards of two hundred, arranged in vertical rows
Jehoiada - At the time, Joash was a child of seven, and Jehoiada evidently acted as regent for a Number of years
Preserve - 1: τηρέω (Strong's #5083 — Verb — tereo — tay-reh'-o ) is translated "to preserve" in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 , where the verb is in the singular Number, as the threefold subject, "spirit and soul and body," is regarded as the unit, constituting the person
Hymn - We have had a considerable Number of hymns composed in our own country
Council - Theyare generally regarded as being six in Number, as follows:...
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Benedictines - the order has produced a vast Number of eminent men
Soldier - The Roman centurions, who feature in a Number of New Testament stories, appear to have been men of quality
Zerubbabel - In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, he led the first band of Jews, Numbering 42,360 (Ezra 2:64 ), exclusive of a large Number of servants, who returned from captivity at the close of the seventy years
Pergamum - At least one of their Number was martyred (Revelation 2:12-13)
Chorus - ) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a Number of voices
Gates of Jerusalem And the Temple - Jerusalem's many gates have varied in Number and location with the changing size and orientation of its walls throughout its long history
Aeroplane - These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the Number of main supporting planes used in their constraction
Roup - ) A Number of eighth, sixteenth, etc
Resonator - ) Any of various apparatus for exhibiting or utilizing the effects of resonance in connection with open circuits, as a device having an oscillating circuit which includes a helix of bare copper wire, a variable Number of coils of which can be connected in circuit with a condenser and spark gap excited with an induction coil
Rating - Gratings have been made with over 40,000 such lines to the inch, but those with a somewhat smaller Number give the best definition
Insurrection - A rising against or political authority the open and active opposition of a Number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state
Duty - ) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the Number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs
Excess - In arithmetic and geometry, the difference between any two unequal Numbers or quantities that which remains when the lesser Number or quantity is taken from the greater
Pinion - ) A cogwheel with a small Number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp
Par - ) The Number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting
Universal - ) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole Number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice
Wrench - Any Number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench
Abate - ) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, Number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope
Acts And Monuments - It includes a Number of documents and is illustrated throughout by woodcuts, most of them luridly depicting the sufferings of the martyrs
Look - 15:5, where it is used in the sense of “take a good look,” as God commands Abraham: “Look now toward heaven, and [1] the stars
Aeroplane - These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the Number of main supporting planes used in their constraction
Roup - ) A Number of eighth, sixteenth, etc
Rating - Gratings have been made with over 40,000 such lines to the inch, but those with a somewhat smaller Number give the best definition
is'Sachar - (Genesis 46:13 ; Numbers 26:23,25 ; 1 Chronicles 7:1 ) The Number of the fighting men of Issachar, when taken in the census at Sinai, was 54,400
Appellatio - A Number of persons, we are told, were delegated by Augustus, all of consular rank, to receive the appeals of the people in the provinces
ze'Bah - ) While Oreb and Zeeb, two of the inferior leaders of the incursion, had been slain, with a vast Number of their people, by the Ephraimites, at the central fords of the Jordan the two kings had succeeded in making their escape by a passage farther to the north (probably the ford near Bethshean), and thence by the Wady Yabis , through Gilead, to Kurkor, high up on the Hauran
Tally - ) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of Number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc
Large - ) Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or Number of constituent units; big; great; capacious; extensive; - opposed to small; as, a large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city
Retreat - Within the past 30 years a great Number of places of retreat for men and women have been provided in every English-speaking country, some of them in religious houses, but for men mostly in houses set apart distinctly for this purpose
Iconium - The inhabitants, 40,000 in Number, are Turks, Armenians, Greeks, and Jews
Roland de Lattre - The total Number of his works, published and in manuscript, is estimated at 2400, a prodoctivity unequaled in musical history
Egypt, Plagues of - They are: ...
the water of the river and all the canals and pools of Egypt was turned into blood and became so corrupted that the Egyptians could not drink it, and the fish in the waters perished
an immense Number of frogs, which caused great discomfort
swarms of gnats which tormented men and beasts
pest of flies
murrain or cattle-pest which killed only the cattle of the Egyptians
epidemic of boils on man and beast
hailstorm which wrought terrific havoc
plague of locusts
the horrible darkness which covered the earth for three days
the destruction of all the first- born of Egypt on one night
Movable Feasts And Fasts - 30) whether before or after; the three remainingSundays in Advent; Septuagesima, Sexagesima and QuinquagesimaSundays; the Six Sundays in Lent; Rogation Sunday; Ascension Day,Whitsun Day and Trinity Sunday; Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week;Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun Week; also the Number of Sundaysduring the Epiphany and Trinity Seasons is variable, these Seasonsbeing longer or shorter according to the time Easter is kept
Jurisdiction, Hierarchy of - ...
Finally from ecclesiastical institution, we find a Number of administrative and judicial offices in the Church; thus we Number as members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, cardinals, patriarchs,
Gad - On leaving Egypt the Number of those able to bear arms was 45,650, but on the crossing of the Jordan their Number was about five thousand less
Christian Year, the - The Church's Year of Festivals and Fasts iscalled the Christian Year because as Bishop Cosin says, "theChurch does not Number her days, or measure her seasons, somuch by the motion of the sun, as by the course of our Saviour;beginning and counting her year with Him who, being the true Sunof Righteousness, began now to rise upon the world. By means of it we connect thepassage of time with the great facts of Redemption and thus areenabled to so Number our days that we may apply our hearts untowisdom
One - ...
Numbers 15:16 (a) Although Israel had many laws, GOD considers all of it as just one law. It is not necessary to give the many other references in which the Number one represents a group, or a bunch, or a collection, or more than one. From the numerical standpoint the Number one represents indivisibility
Lily - ...
Because there are so few of them compared with the Number of weeds and worthless plants even as the Christians are few in Number compared to the sinners
Hierarchy of Jurisdiction - ...
Finally from ecclesiastical institution, we find a Number of administrative and judicial offices in the Church; thus we Number as members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, cardinals, patriarchs,
Alexan'Dria, - Philo estimated the Number of the Alexandrine Jews in his time at a little less than 1,000,000 and adds that two of the five districts of Alexandria were called "Jewish districts," and that many Jews lived scattered in the remaining three. " At the beginning of the second century the Number of Christians at Alexandria must have been very large, and the great leaders of Gnosticism who arose there (Basilides, Valentinus) exhibit an exaggeration of the tendency of the Church
Mean - ) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their Number, which is called an arithmetical mean. ) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or Number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure
Seven - Among the Hebrews this was a kind of complete or sacred Number. Seven days were appointed as the length of the feasts of Passover and Tabernacles; seven days for the ceremonies of the consecration of priests, and so on; seven victims to be offered on any special occasion, as in Baalam's sacrifice, Numbers 23:1, and especially at the ratification of a treaty, the notion of seven being embodied in the very term signifying to swear, literally meaning to do seven times. Seven is used for any round Number, or for completeness, as we say a dozen, or as a speaker says he will say two or three words
Neth'Inim - ( Numbers 3:9 ; 8:19 ) At first they were the only attendants, and their work must have been laborious enough. The first conquests, however, brought them their share of the captive slaves of the Midianites and 320 were given to them as having charge of the tabernacle, (Numbers 31:47 ) while 32 only were assigned specially to the priests. No addition to the Number thus employed pears to have been mad ring the period of the judges, and they continued to be known by their own name as the Gibeonites. Either the massacre at Nob had involved the Gibeonites as well as the priests, (1 Samuel 22:19 ) or else they had fallen victims to some other outburst of Saul's fury; and though there were survivors, (2 Samuel 21:2 ) the Number was likely to be quite inadequate for the greater stateliness of the new worship at Jerusalem
Draught of Fishes - On drawing the net, the Number of ‘great fishes’ is found to be 153, yet the net is not broken. ‘The one miracle was the symbol of the Church at present, the other of the Church perfected; in the one we have good and bad, in the other good only; there Christ also is on the water, here He is on the land; there the draught is left in the boats, here it is landed on the beach; there the nets are let down as it might be, here in a special part; there the nets are rending, here they are not broken; there the boats are on the point of sinking with their load, here they are not laden; there the fish are not Numbered, here the Number is exactly given’ (Westcott, St. For interpretations of the Number of fish (John 21:11), see Westcott and other commentators
Number - These variations appear to have proceeded from the alphabetic method of writing Numbers. There can be little doubt, however, that some at least of the Numbers mentioned in Scripture are intended to be representative rather than determinative. Certain Numbers, as 7,10,40,100, were regarded as giving the idea of completeness. Augustine's theory of this usage, we may remark that the notion of representative Numbers in certain cases is one extremely common among eastern nations, who have a prejudice against counting their possessions accurately; that it enters largely into many ancient systems of chronology, and that it is found in the philosophical and metaphysical speculations not only of the Pythagorean and other ancient schools of philosophy, both Greek and Roman, but also in those of the later Jewish writers, of the Gnostics, and also of such Christian writers se St. We proceed to give some instances of Numbers used, (a) representatively, and thus probably by design indefinitely, or, (b) definitely, but, as we may say, preferentially, i. many) ways, (28:25) ...
Ten as a preferential Number is exemplified in the Ten Commandments and the law of tithe. ( Genesis 4:24 ; Matthew 18:22 ) Its definite use appears in the offerings of 70 shekels, (Numbers 7:13,19 ) ff,; the 70 elders, ch. (Numbers 11:16 ) 70 Years of captivity. (Jeremiah 25:11 ) ...
Five appears in the table of punishments, of legal requirements, ( Exodus 22:1 ; Leviticus 5:16 ; 22:14 ; 27:15 ; Numbers 5:7 ; 18:16 ) and in the five empires of Daniel. (Ezekiel 40:47 ) ...
Three was regarded, by both the Jews and other nations as a specially complete and mystic Number. ( Revelation 21:19-21 ) ...
Lastly, the mystic Number 666
Of - "Part of these were slain " that is, a Number separate, for part denotes a division the sense then is, a Number from or out of the whole were slain. ...
"Of all our heroes thou canst boast alone " that is, thou alone from the Number of heroes. ...
"The best of men, the most renowned of all " that is, the best from the Number of men, the most renowned from the whole denoting primarily separation, like part
Israel in Egypt - Further, the mother of Moses (Jochebed) was Levi's daughter, (Numbers 26:59 ), Amram having married his own aunt. " This was said to Abraham, and may include the whole period from the birth of Isaac to the Exodus, which according to the above was four hundred and five years — thus agreeing with the round Number of four hundred years. Numbers 1:46 gives the Number more exactly as 603,550 from twenty years old and upwards that were able to go to war. Is this a greater Number than could be the descendants of those who entered Egypt? This may be reckoned in two ways: if we deduct thirteen from the seventy (for the family of Levi and for those who could not be called heads of families at that time) Deuteronomy 10:22 , the result gives fifty-seven heads of families; and if each had 14 children,...
In one generation there would be 798...
In the second 11,172...
In the third 156,408...
In the fourth 2,189,712...
To reckon fourteen children to each may seem a large Number, but it must be remembered that there was the plurality of wives, and scripture speaks of their multiplying exceedingly. Suppose the population doubled itself in fifteen years (as it has been known to do in some places), the Number in two hundred and ten years would be over three millions
Divorce - Statistics prove that the Number of divorces is increasing
Christadelphians - Dr John Thomas, an Englishman, came to the United States in 1844 and organized a Number of societies (also in Canada and Great Britain), using for his central idea "taking out of the gentiles a people for His name
Taanach - Many remains of Canaanite and Jewish civilization have been found, and also a considerable Number of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions similar to those discovered at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt
Month - The Number of months in the year was usually twelve (1 Kings 4:7 ; 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 ); but every third year an additional month (ve-Adar) was inserted, so as to make the months coincide with the seasons
Bethany - It derived its name from the Number of palm-trees which grew there
Few - A — 1: ὀλίγος (Strong's #3641 — Adjective — oligos — ol-ee'-gos ) used of Number quantity, and size, denotes "few, little, small, slight," e
Beguines - They were established, first at Leige, and afterwards at Neville, in 1207; and from this last settlement sprang the great Number of Beguinages which are spread over all Flanders, and which have passed from Flanders into Germany
Simeon - Note the Number of nationalities represented in the church at Antioch
Siloam, Tower of - The memory of this migration is still preserved; and I am assured by the people themselves that many of their Number are installed in other villages round Jerusalem" (quoted by Henderson, Palestine)
Watches - The watches of the night were originally three in Number, (1) "the beginning of the watches" (Lamentations 2:19 ); (2) "the middle watch" (Judges 7:19 ); and (3) "the morning watch" (Exodus 14:24 ; 1 Samuel 11:11 ), which extended from two o'clock to sunrise
Column - ) A Number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; - in distinction from "line", where they are side by side
Click - The sounds are four in Number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin - ...
Scholars have proposed a Number of translations, the best of which probably is “mina, shekel, and halves. ” Daniel interpreted the inscription with a wordplay using Hebrew words which sound similar to each word of the inscription, taking it to mean, “numbered, weighed, and—divided
Gallery - The English “gallery” is an ambiguous term referring to a Number of features: a corridor (REB); a roofed walkway or colonade; an outdoor balcony or terrace
Non-Jurors - They constituted the vast Number of the clerical body of France
Jair - His brilliant exploit was, he took Argob or Trachonitis, the Lejah, and called from his own name certain villages or groups of tents ("kraals "), 23 originally, Havoth Jair (Numbers 32:41), afterward increased to 30 (Judges 10:4). His 30 sons rode 30 asses, and had 30 cities, the Number to which the original Havoth Jair had grown
Cipher - ) A character (0) which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole Number, increases its value tenfold
Magi - To their Number, doubtless, belonged the "astrologers" and "star-gazers," Isaiah 47:13; also the "soothsayers" and the "dream interpreters
Crocodile - Herr Schumacher reports that he saw one there, and quite recently a Number of crocodile’s eggs were brought from this river and sold in Jerusalem
Legion - What chiefly impressed Semites was apparently the size of the legion, and ‘legion’ appears to have become a proverb among them for a large Number of persons in orderly combination
Page - ) To mark or Number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios
Apostle - Twelve persons were selected by Christ for this purpose and Judas, one of the Number, proving an apostate, his place was supplied by Matthias
Book - The name is given also to any Number of written sheets when bound or sewed together, and to a volume of blank paper, intended for any species of writing, as for memorandums, for accounts, or receipts
Targum - Sometimes the word is found in the plural Number, Targumim, meaning that more than one subject is explained
Salma - This symmetrical division, as well as the limitation of the whole genealogy to ten, is evidently intentional, ten being the Number sealing the genealogy as a perfect completed whole
Pelican - It goes into the sea and catches a Number of fishes which it stows away in its lower beak, the under side of which is capable of being distended like a large pouch
Forty - The Number represents testing in human life
Echo - ) A signal showing the Number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner
Differential - ) A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their Number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business
Crystal - In chemistry and mineralogy, an inorganic body, which, by the operation of affinity, has assumed the form of a regular solid, terminated by a certain Number of plane and smooth surfaces
Flute - fluta, a lamprey, with the same Number of holes
Tell - ) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to Number; to count; as, to tell money
Eugenics - In the last analysis, the great task of eugenics is the reduction of the Number of the feeble-minded
English in English Bibles, the - This is a good answer to Protestant critics of Rhemes, who comment on the large Number of unusual words of Latin derivation therein
Ten Commandments - Ten was a significant Number, the symbol of completeness; and in these ten words was comprised that moral law to which obedience forever was to be paid
Lamech - He stands branded as the father of polygamy, the first who dared to violate the sacred command, Genesis 2:24 ; giving way to his unbridled passion, and thus overleaping the divine mound raised by the wisdom of our great Creator; which restraint is enforced by the laws of nature herself, who peoples the earth with an equal Number of males and females, and thereby teaches foolish man that polygamy is incompatible with her wise regulations
Ahithophel - Before the last counsel was followed, Hushai's advice was desired; and he recommended their assembling together the whole force of Israel, putting Absalom at their head, and overwhelming David by their Number
Quail, - The statement about the birds being "two cubits high upon [1] the face of the earth" (Numbers 11:31 ) doubtless refers to the height they flew when tired; and this corresponds with the way in which they are still caught, namely, by a Number of persons enclosing them in a ring and gradually drawing closer to the centre, when the birds would be crowded together in their endeavour to escape. Exodus 16:13 ; Numbers 11:31,32 ; Psalm 105:40
Length - ) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a Number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence
Armenia - The present Number of Armenians is estimated to be from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000, of whom about 1,000,000 live in Armenia
Scourge - The Number of stripes was limited by Moses to forty; which the Jews, in later times, were so careful not to exceed, that they inflicted only thirty-nine
Rochester, New York, Diocese of - Catholics have exerted an appreciable influence on the city's charitable work, as proven by the Number of flourishing Catholic charitable organizations and institutions
Tinneh - In all they Number over 47,000
Mephibosheth - David subsequently took care to exempt him from the Number of the descendants of Saul given up to the vengeance of the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21:1-14 , though another Mephibosheth, a son of Saul was slain, 2 Samuel 21:8
Dothan - The situation is, too, a choice one on account of its abundant fountain, now used to work a mill and irrigate fruit gardens; two ancient wells and a Number of empty cisterns ( Genesis 37:24 ) are also found near the foot of the tell
Roman Colleges - The Roman Colleges are thus grouped in several clusters, each including a center for purposes of instruction and a Number of affiliated institutions, having a rector, vice-rector, and spiritual director
Horses - Horses were common in Egypt, Genesis 47:17 50:9 Song of Song of Solomon 1:9 ; but the Jews were at first forbidden to go there for them, Deuteronomy 17:16 , or the keep any large Number, Joshua 11:6 2 Samuel 8:4
Whole - All total containing the total amount or Number, or the entire thing as the whole earth the whole world the whole solar system the whole army the whole nation
Cucumbers - This word occurs in ( Numbers 11:5 ) as one of the good things of Egypt produces excellent cucumbers, melons, etc. sativus ), of which the Arabs distinguish a Number of varieties, is common in Egypt
Fox - Though both foxes and jackals abound in Palestine, the shu'alim (foxes) of ( Judges 15:4 ) are evidently jackals and not foxes, for the former animal is gregarious, whereas the latter is solitary in its habits; and Samson could not, for that reason, have easily caught three hundred foxes, but it was easy to catch that Number of jackals, which are concealed by hundreds in caves and ruins of Syria
Pastor - It is well to notethat a minister is not a Pastor simply because he is ordained;besides the Divine call and Divine appointment in ordination, thereis also the call from the people to define that Number of soulsover which the charge is to be exercised
Trinity, the Holy - A name applied to the Godhead and signifyingThree in One and One in Three—the Father, the Son, and the HolyGhost—a doctrine which is held by all branches of the CatholicChurch, and by the greater Number of the various Christiandenominations
Corinth - He also wrote the church a Number of letters, two of which have been preserved in the New Testament
Septuagesima - , the fiftieth; and the two Sundays immediately precedingare called from the next round Numbers, Sexagesima, i. " The reasonfor thus Numbering these Sundays has been beautifully set forthin "Thoughts on the Services" as follows: "The Church now(Septuagesima Sunday) enters the penumbra of her Lenten Eclipse,and all her services are shadowed with the sombre hue of herapproaching Season of humiliation. We have turned our backupon dear old Christmas and the group of holy days that hand inhand seemed fairly to dance around it; and setting our faces towardsthe more sober, but still more glorious, light of Easter we beginto Number the days of preparation, which if duly observed will fitus to keep the Paschal as the Apostle commands, 'not with the oldleaven
Episcopacy - If we take the wholeChristian world of to-day, we find that the Number of Christiansis in round Numbers five hundred millions. Of this Number onlyone hundred million are non-Episcopal, so that we may concludefrom the universal acceptance of Episcopacy before the Reformationand from the large preponderance of adherents to this form of Churchgovernment at this present time,—from these facts we may safelyconclude that Episcopacy is in accordance with the mind of theMaster
Counsel - Those who give counsel in law any counselor or advocate, or any Number of counselors, barristers or sergeants as the plaintiffs counsel, or the defendants counsel. In this sense, the word has no plural but in the singular Number, is applicable to one or more persons
Deacon - The Number of disciples having greatly increased in Jerusalem, the Greeks, or Hellenistic Jews, began to murmur against the Hebrews, complaining that their widows were neglected in the daily distribution of the church's bounty. Of this Number was Phoebe, a member of the church of Cenchrea, mentioned by St
Tell - Numbers 14 ...
5. To count to Number. We say, to tell this, that or what, to tell a story, to tell a word, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a Number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson
Assembly - It has two applications to companies of Christians, (a) to the whole company of the redeemed throughout the present era, the company of which Christ said, "I will build My Church," Matthew 16:18 , and which is further described as "the Church which is His Body," Ephesians 1:22 ; 5:23 , (b) in the singular Number (e. ...
3: πλῆθος (Strong's #4128 — Noun Neuter — plethos — play'-thos ) "a multitude, the whole Number," is translated "assembly" in Acts 23:7 , RV
Part - A portion of Number, separated or considered by itself as a part of the nation or congregation. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain Number of times, will exactly make that quantity. ...
Aliquot part, is a quantity which being repeated any Number of times, becomes equal to an integer. ...
Aliquant part, is a quantity which being repeated any Number of times, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17
All - Every one, or the whole Number of particulars. This word, not only in popular language, but in the scriptures, often signifies, indefinitely, a large portion or Number, or a great part. Thus, all the cattle in Egypt died all Judea and all the region round about Jordan all men held John as a prophet are not to be understood in a literal sense, but as including a large part or very great Numbers. The whole Number as, all have not the same disposition that is, all men
Abijah - These Numbers, together with the Number slain, have been much called in question by critics, who say they ought to be 80,000 and 40,000, and 50,000 slain; which Numbers are to be found in some of the early Latin copies and also in some early copies of Josephus. But the Numbers in the Hebrew scriptures must have the preference: and what is there improbable in the Numbers when we compare them with the Number of men 'that drew sword' when David last Numbered the people? 1 Chronicles 21:5 . This was about fifty years before the battle, ample time (notwithstanding the loss at the pestilence that followed the Numbering) for a large increase. In 2 Samuel 24:9 , the Number of fighting men in Israel is given as only 800,000
Elders - The Number of elders is proportioned to the extent and population of the parish, and is seldom less than two or three, but sometimes exceeds fifty. On all occasions afterward, we find this Number of seventy elders. But it is credible, that as there were twelve tribes, there were seventy-two elders, six from each tribe, and that seventy is set down, instead of seventy-two; or rather, that Moses and Aaron should be added to the Number seventy, and that, exclusive of them, there were but four elders from the tribe of Levi. But this constitution did not continue long; for on the murmuring of the people at the encampment called the Graves of Lust, Numbers 11:24-35 , Moses appointed seventy elders of Israel, to whom God communicated part of that legislator's spirit; they began to prophesy, and ceased not afterward
Cat - (c) A game of ball, called, according to the Number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc
Shewbread - , "bread of ordering"); Numbers 4:7 : called "hallowed bread" (RSV, "holy bread") in 1 Samuel 21:1-6 . ...
The Number of the loaves represented the twelve tribes of Israel, and also the entire spiritual Israel, "the true Israel;" and the placing of them on the table symbolized the entire consecration of Israel to the Lord, and their acceptance of God as their God
Innuit - They have a Number of flourishing stations, and are assisted by the Sisters of Saint Anne, and the Brothers of Christian Instruction
Franz Schubert - The songs, with which his fame is perhaps most closely associated, Number over 500
Holy Innocents - The Greek Liturgy Numbered the martyrs at 14,000; the Syrians named 64,000; medieval records, 144,000; and modern authors have reduced the Number considerably, some even so low as 15
Innocents, Holy - The Greek Liturgy Numbered the martyrs at 14,000; the Syrians named 64,000; medieval records, 144,000; and modern authors have reduced the Number considerably, some even so low as 15
Jair - He took 23 cities in Galaad, and named them, Havoth Jair, or "villages of Jair" (Number 32)
Restrain - , "the Deliverer"); or to a Number of persons presenting the same characteristics, just as "the believer" stands for all believers, e
Sheba - )...
Sheba was also the name of a Number of individuals mentioned in the Old Testament
Adoption - An act of God's grace by which he brings men into the Number of his redeemed family, and makes them partakers of all the blessings he has provided for them
Mareshah - Peters and Tiersch, adorned with a Number of interesting pictured animals, etc
Megiddo - Being situated at the western end of the Plain of Esdraelon, at the point where the main north-south and east-west highways crossed, it was involved in a Number of important battles (Judges 5:19; 2 Kings 9:27; 2 Kings 23:29)
Colony - A Number of places are mentioned in the NT which were really coloniœ , but only one, Philippi, is so named , and the reason for this naming is no doubt that the author of Acts was proud of this city, with which he had some connexion
Latin - census, custodia, prœtorium, colonia, libertinus, centurio, legio ), or names of Roman coins ( denarius, quadrans ), but the total Number of such Latin words occurring is only about 25
Mail - The mail was of two sorts, chain and plate mail the former consisting of iron rings, each having four others inserted into it the latter consisting of a Number of small lamins of metal, laid over one another like the scales of a fish, and sewed down to a strong linen or leathern jacket
Narrow (And Forms) - They will increase in Number until they fill the land, and will need more space for expansion
Doublet - ) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same Number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets
Siren - ) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the Number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch
Agree - ) To correspond in gender, Number, case, or person
Gregory of Neocaesarea, Saint - Because of the great Number of miracles he performed, Gregory is called the "Wonder Worker
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Saint - Because of the great Number of miracles he performed, Gregory is called the "Wonder Worker
Coney - It exactly answers to the other notices respecting the shaphan, such as living among the rocks, which it constantly does, and it is exceedingly quick in leaping from rock to rock, Psalm 104:18 ; it is also extremely difficult to catch; one of their Number being on the watch while the others feed: at the approach of an enemy a signal is given, and all disappear
Except - To take or leave out of any Number specified to exclude as, of the thirty persons present and concerned in a riot, we must except two
Greatness - Largeness of bulk, dimensions, Number or quantity as the greatness of a mountain, of an edifice, of a multitude, or of a sum of money
Recall - ) The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required Number or percentage of qualified voters
About - ; as, about as cold; about as high; - also of quantity, Number, time
Eskimo - They have a Number of flourishing stations, and are assisted by the Sisters of Saint Anne, and the Brothers of Christian Instruction
Esquimaux - They have a Number of flourishing stations, and are assisted by the Sisters of Saint Anne, and the Brothers of Christian Instruction
Eulogius, Bishop of Edessa - The whole body, led by Eulogius, offered so firm a resistance that Modestus sentenced them, 80 in Number, to transportation to Thrace
Mess - ) A Number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess
Bishop - Each congregation of Christians as gathered by the apostles, was organized into a church, having a Number of elders, or bishops, ordained over it, Acts 15:23; Acts 20:17; Acts 20:28; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:5; Titus 1:7, indicating that the office was the same
Demons - They are evil spirits plainly distinguished from the persons whom they possess, sometimes a Number of them entering into a person
Devils - They are evil spirits plainly distinguished from the persons whom they possess, sometimes a Number of them entering into a person
Nineveh - We have a very interesting account in the book of Jonah concerning the Ninevites, and the Number of souls it then contained, when the prophet was sent to exercise his ministry there: to which I therefore refer
Bartholomew - This opinion is founded on the circumstance, that as the evangelist John never mentions Bartholomew in the Number of the Apostles, so the other evangelists never mention Nathanael
Beetle - The word still remains in the Arabic, and is derived from an original, alluding to the vast Number of their swarms
Lamentations of Jeremiah - 1, 2, and 4 contain 22 verses each, according to the Number of Hebrew letters
Silas - Acts 23:3 , and 2 Corinthians 1:19 , the former name being a contraction of the latter; one of the chief men among the first disciples at Jerusalem, Acts 15:22 , and supposed by some to have been of the Number of the seventy
Thaumaturgus, Gregory, Saint - Because of the great Number of miracles he performed, Gregory is called the "Wonder Worker
Schubert, Franz Peter - The songs, with which his fame is perhaps most closely associated, Number over 500
Thine - In familiar and common language, your and yours are always used in the singular Number as well as the plural
Sentence - In grammar, a period a Number of words containing a complete sense or sentiment, and followed by a full pause
Revolt - To renounce allegiance and subjection to one's prince or state to reject the authority of a sovereign as a province or a Number of people
Troop - A collection of people a company a Number a multitude. TROOP, To collect in Numbers
I - By far the greater Number of instances are found in the Gospel of John, and there in the utterances of the Lord concerning Himself, e
Spirit, Fruits of the - Paul sets forth the Fruits of the Spirit asnine in Number, viz: (1) Love, (2) Joy, (3) Peace, (4) Longsuffering,(5) Gentleness, (6) Goodness, (7) Faith, (8) Meekness, (9)Temperance
Matthias, Feast of Saint - We have here the New Testament witness to thefact that the Number of the Apostles was to be increased and theApostleship perpetuated to the end of time by its being committedto others, as in the case of St
Vale, Valley - A considerable Number of such are named in the OT, e. A considerable Number of vales are mentioned in the OT, e
Catholic Church Extension Society of England And w - The president is His Holiness Pope Pius XI, who on a Number of occasions has shown a cordial personal interest in the work. In recent years the Guild has obtained permission from the different local authorities for the celebration of Mass on the site of the high altar in a Number of the ruined abbeys of England
Simon - 323-285), where by this time they had greatly increased in Number. They had a synagogue in Jerusalem for such of their Number as went thither to the annual feasts
Priest - ...
Their duties were manifold (Exodus 27:20,21 ; 29:38-44 ; Leviticus 6:12 ; 10:11 ; 24:8 ; Numbers 10:1-10 ; Deuteronomy 17:8-13 ; 33:10 ; Malachi 2:7 ). This Number was retained after the Captivity (Ezra 2:36-39 ; Nehemiah 7:39-42 ). ...
"The priests were not distributed over the country, but lived together in certain cities Jubilee, Year of - A person who sold land to another was really selling a certain Number of crops, so the Number of years before the Jubilee, determined the sale price. Daughters who inherited land had to marry within their own tribes in order to keep the land (Numbers 36:4 )
Guild of Our Lady of Ransom - The president is His Holiness Pope Pius XI, who on a Number of occasions has shown a cordial personal interest in the work. In recent years the Guild has obtained permission from the different local authorities for the celebration of Mass on the site of the high altar in a Number of the ruined abbeys of England
Punishments - ) Death was the punishment of striking or even reviling a parent (Exodus 21:15; Exodus 21:17); blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14; Leviticus 24:16; Leviticus 24:23); Sabbath-breaking (Numbers 15:32-36); witchcraft (Exodus 22:18); adultery (Leviticus 20:10); rape (Deuteronomy 22:25); incestuous and unnatural connection (Leviticus 20:11; Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 20:16); man stealing (Exodus 21:16); idolatry (Leviticus 20:2). The hand of God executed the sentence in some cases (Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 23:30; Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 20:6; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 4:18; Numbers 4:20). ...
The command (Numbers 25:4-5) was that the Baal-peor sinners should be slain first, then impaled or nailed to crosses; the Hebrew there (hoqa ) means dislocated, and is different from that in Deuteronomy 21:22 (thalitha toli ), Deuteronomy 21:23. Punishments not ordained by law: sawing asunder, and cutting with iron harrows(Isaiah, Hebrews 11:37; Ammon, in retaliation for their cruelties, 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Samuel 11:2); pounding in a mortar (Proverbs 27:22); precipitation (Luke 4:29; 2 Chronicles 25:12); stripes, 40 only allowed (Deuteronomy 25:3), the Jews therefore gave only 39; the convict received the stripes from a three-thonged whip, stripped to the waist, in a bent position, tied to a pillar; if the executioner exceeded the Number he was punished, a minute accuracy observed in 2 Corinthians 11:24. ...
The Abyssinians use the same Number (Wolff, Travels, 2:276)
England, Church of - The Low Church party is now insignificant in Numbers and influence. The Broad Church or Modernist party has drifted much further from orthodoxy and has greatly increased in Numbers and influence. The Number of parish clergy (incumbents) Isaiah 12,906; the Number of communicants, 2,510,037
Common, Commonly - ...
Notes: (1) Polus, used of Number, signifies "many, numerous;" used of space, it signifies "wide, far reaching;" hence, with the article it is said of a multitude as being numerous; it is translated "common" (people) in Mark 12:37 (see the RV , marg. See COMPANY , CROWD , MULTITUDE , Number , PEOPLE , PRESS
Genealogy of Jesus Christ - So a double genealogy of Jair is given, one of the inheritance, the other of birth (1 Chronicles 2:4-5; 1 Chronicles 2:21-22; Numbers 32:41). The less Number in Matthew is intelligible, if he be only tracing the heir's to the throne; for "the heir of my heir is my heir. The full Number is given in Luke, as naming the natural line. Mary must have been of the same tribe and family as Joseph, according to the law (Numbers 36:8). Joseph, as male heir of his uncle Jacob, who had only one child, Mary, would marry her according to the law (Numbers 36:8). The Number 14 has some mystic signification (compare Numbers 29:13; 1 Kings 8:65). It is the double of seven the Number for completeness; the periods of 14 in Matthew are the sacred three
Exodus - ...
The Number Involved in the Exodus In our English Bibles Exodus 12:37 says, “And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men, besides children. ” For a very long time and for various reasons some Bible scholars have asked: Should the Number 600,000 be understood literally? It seems to be an excessively large Number. Exodus 23:29-30 and Deuteronomy 7:22 suggest the Number was so small that the people would be endangered by wild beasts. Assuming this, conservative scholars have estimated the Number at between 6,000,72,000. We may not know the exact date, route, or Number of people in the Exodus
For - The sense however is derived from meeting, opposing, as in Number 12. See Number 11. This is a different application of the sense of Numbers 1,2,3,4 . See Number 1. Number 1. " In such sentences, for has the sense of because, by reason that, as in Number 14 with this difference that in Number 14, the word precedes a single noun, and here it precedes a sentence or clause but the phrase seems to be elliptical, for this cause or reason, which follows, he maketh his sun to rise, &c
Sanhedrim - Many of the learned agree, that it was instituted by Moses, Numbers 11; and consisted at first of seventy elders, who judged finally of all causes and affairs; and that they subsisted, without intermission, from Moses to Ezra, Deuteronomy 27:1 ; Deuteronomy 31:9 ; Joshua 24:1 ; Joshua 24:31 ; Judges 2:7 ; 2 Chronicles 19:8 ; Ezekiel 8:11 . The rabbins pretend, that the sanhedrim has always subsisted in their nation from the time of Moses to the destruction of the temple by the Romans; and they maintain that it consisted of seventy counsellors, six out of each tribe, and Moses as president; and thus the Number was seventy-one: but six senators out of each tribe make the Number seventy-two, which, with the president, constitute a council of seventy-three persons, and therefore it has been the opinion of some authors that this was the Number of the members of the sanhedrim. As to the personal qualifications of the judges of this court, it was required that they should be of untainted birth; and they were often of the race of the priests or Levites, or of the Number of inferior judges, or of the lesser sanhedrim, which consisted of twenty-three judges. But the latter afterward deserted that honourable post, and joined himself with a great Number of his disciples, to the party of Herod Antipas, who promoted the levying of taxes for the use of the Roman emperors with all his might. Where the inhabitants came short of the Number of one hundred and twenty, they only established three judges
Gath - Because the Hebrew term gath/gat meant “winepress” and since vineyards and winepresses were widespread in the land, a Number of towns in Palestine were named Gath. Since a Number of sites have been eliminated in recent years based on archaeological excavations, one of the most likely candidates for Philistine Gath is tell es-Safi, twelve miles east of Ashdod. ...
A Number of the highlights of Gath's history are reflected in the Old Testament
Relay - ) A Number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work
Missionaries, Montfort - From 1718 to 1781 the Montfortists, although few in Number, gave over 430 missions
Missionaries of the Company of Mary - From 1718 to 1781 the Montfortists, although few in Number, gave over 430 missions
Montfort Missionaries - From 1718 to 1781 the Montfortists, although few in Number, gave over 430 missions
Marks of the Church - Although theologians have at times multiplied the Number of marks which distinguish the Church, they are reducible to these four
Bible, Books of the - (Greek: biblion, book) ...
These Number 73, according to the Catholic Canon of books which really contain the revelation of God to man. According to the Council of Trent, there are three groups in the Old Testament, embracing 46 books: ...
21 historical books:
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Josue
Judges
Ruth
1,2Kings (1,2Samuel)
3,4Kings (1,2Kings)
1,2Paralipomenon (1,2Chronicles)
Esdras
Nehemiah
Tobias
Judith
Esther
1,2Machabees
7 didactical books:
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Canticle of Canticles (Song of Solomon)
Wisdom and
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
18 prophetical books:
Isaias
Jeremias (with Lamentations)
the major prophets
Baruch
Ezechiel
Daniel
the minor prophets
Osee
Joel
Amos
Abdias or Obadiah
Jonas
Micah
Nahum
Habacuc
Sophonias or Zephaniah
Aggeus or Haggai
Zacharias
Malachias
The difference between the Jewish and Catholic counting is due to the fact that the Catholics accept also the so-called deuterocanonical books
Bethesda - Under these "porches" or colonnades were usually a large Number of infirm people waiting for the "troubling of the water
Carmelite Nuns - Tbey have 497 convents established in almost every country of the world, and the religious Number about 10,000
Courses - This arrangement was re-established by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:2 ); and afterwards the four sacerdotal courses which are said to have returned from the Captivity were re-divided into the original Number of twenty-four by (Ezra 6:18 )
Each, Each Man, Each One - 1: ἕκαστος (Strong's #1538 — Adjective — hekastos — hek'-as-tos ) "each" or "every," is used of any Number separately, either (a) as an adjective qualifying a noun, e
Havoth-Jair - ” Villages in Gilead east of the Jordan which Jair, son of Manasseh, captured (Numbers 32:41 ). Apparently a group of villages east of the Jordan, perhaps varying in Number at different times, were called Havoth-Jair
Immaculate Conception, Scapular of the - Pope Clement XI granted certain indulgences for the wearing of the scapular, succeeding popes increased the Number, and the summary was approved by the Congregation of Indulgences first in 1845 and finally on August 26, 1882
Heman - As Chronicles in a Number of cases confuses the genealogy of Judah with that of Levi (cf
Frame - Term used by modern translations to render a Number of Hebrew terms. Frame refers to the “carrying frame” (NRSV) for the lamps and Tabernacle utensils (Numbers 4:10 ,Numbers 4:10,4:12 ; KJV, NAS “bars”; REB “poles”); to the rim that served as a brace for the legs of the table of the presence (Exodus 25:25 ,Exodus 25:25,25:27 ; KJV “border”); to the frames for the side panels of the stands used to transport the Temple lavers (1 Kings 7:28-36 ; 2 Kings 16:17 ; KJV “ledge”); to the skeletal structure over which the tabernacle curtains were spread (Exodus 26:15-29 ; Exodus 35:11 ; KJV, NAS “boards”); and to the casing of windows and doors (1 Kings 7:4-5 )
Shittah Tree, Shittim - noun shittim , the singular Number occurring once only in the Bible
Dial - The shadow of a column or obelisk fell on a greater or less Number of steps according as the sun was high or low
Fish - FISH would appear to have always been a favourite article of diet among the Hebrews ( Numbers 11:5 and references in the Gospels), as it is to-day. Fish are found in enormous Numbers in all the inland waters of Palestine, and especially in the Lake of Galilee, Lake Huleh, and the ‘meadow lakes’ of Damascus. The extraordinary feature of these fish is the Number of species peculiar to the Jordan valley
Market-Place - Paul should preach in the Agora at Athens was only natural, since here he would find the greatest Number of people gathered together
Post-Impressionism - ; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a Number of consecutive movements and impressions
Pound - ) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established Number of ounces
Prove - ) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two Numbers, added to the lesser Number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved
Toe - The Number six indicates man's strength and human power. The antichrist has the Number666 which indicates that he has power in every department of human life
Single - ) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a Number; to choose out from others; to separate
Town - ) Any Number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop
Reat - ) Large in Number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc
Trick - ) The whole Number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players
Gideon - By a second test at "the spring of trembling" he further reduced the Number of his followers to 300
Amariah - Brief biblical comments make it difficult to distinguish the Number of separate individuals
Elphinstone, William - He was a member of Parliament and conducted a Number of political missions to the English and French kings and to the Emperor Maximilian; in 1482 he was consecrated Bishop of Ross, and of Aberdeen c1488 In the same year he was appointed Lord High Chancellor and later Keeper of the Privy Seal
Reckon - ” This word appears in the infinitive form as a noun to indicate a register or table of genealogy: “And the Number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war, and to battle was twenty and six thousand men” ( Ephesians - While other epistles of Paul were evidently called forth by the circumstances of the church to which they were addressed, this epistle is of a general character, and was intended for a Number of congregations in Asia Minor
Geneva, Robert of - His claims were supported by a Number of the Latin countries, some of the minor German States, Scotland, Denmark, and Norway
Dial - Grotius describes it as follows: "It was a concave hemisphere, and in the midst was a globe, the shadow of which fell on the different lines engraven in the concavity of the hemisphere; these lines were twenty-eight in Number
Become - A — 1: πρέπω (Strong's #4241 — Verb — prepo — prep'-o ) "to be conspicuous among a Number, to be eminent, distinguished by a thing," hence, "to be becoming seemly, fit
School - The Number of school-hours was limited, and during the heat of the summer was only four hours
Scapular of the Immaculate Conception - Pope Clement XI granted certain indulgences for the wearing of the scapular, succeeding popes increased the Number, and the summary was approved by the Congregation of Indulgences first in 1845 and finally on August 26, 1882
William Elphinstone - He was a member of Parliament and conducted a Number of political missions to the English and French kings and to the Emperor Maximilian; in 1482 he was consecrated Bishop of Ross, and of Aberdeen c1488 In the same year he was appointed Lord High Chancellor and later Keeper of the Privy Seal
Burden - The contents of a ship the quantity or Number of tons, a vessel will carry as a ship of a hundred tons burden
Robert of Geneva - His claims were supported by a Number of the Latin countries, some of the minor German States, Scotland, Denmark, and Norway
Lap - ...
And the Number of them that lapped were three hundred men
the - The is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular Number, to denote a species by way of distinction a single thing representing the whole
Seed - In this sense, the word is applied to one person, or to any Number collectively, and admits of the plural form but rarely used in the plural
ca'Leb - (Numbers 13:6 ) (B. ) He and Oshea or Joshua the son of Nun were the only two of the whole Number who encouraged the people to enter in boldly to the land and take possession of it
e'Noch - ) In the Epistle of Jude ( Jude 1:14 ) he described as "the seventh from Adam;" and the Number is probably noticed as conveying the idea of divine completion and rest, while Enoch was himself a type of perfected humanity
Dreams - The greater Number of such dreams were granted, for prediction or for warning, to those who were aliens to the Jewish covenant
Baptism, Holy - " The vows of Holy Baptism are three in Number, (1) ToRenounce, (2) to Believe and (3) to Obey
Proseuche - 565, 596, 600); Josephus, Vita, 54, where it is described as ‘a large edifice capable of receiving a great Number of people
Hallelujah - text) are three in Number, viz. ]'>[1] a larger Number of psalms is so distinguished, and the consequent grouping is more coherent, viz
Armenian Church - ...
"They have among them a Number of monasteries and convents, in which is maintained a severe discipline; marriage is discountenanced, though not absolutely prohibited; a married priest cannot obtain promotion, and the higher clergy are not allowed to marry. Once in their lives they generally perform a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and in 1819, the Number of Armenian pilgrims was thirteen hundred, nearly as many as the Greeks
Knot - The Number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the Number of miles the vessel sails in an hour
Judah, Kingdom of - --We have a gage as to the Number of the people at different periods in the Number of soldiers
Set - ) A Number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc. ) A Number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique. ) In dancing, the Number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed. , the Number of reeds in one inch and the Number of threads in each reed
Lollards - Stern means were taken both in Church and State against them, and a Number of Lollards were burnt for heresy, though many, having participated in rebellious outbreaks, were put to death for treason
Malta Country - Ecclesiastical leadership has always been strong in Malta, and the place occupied by religion in the lives of the people is demonstrated not only by the Number of clergy and religious men and women, but also by the frequency of religious feasts and processions
Syracuse - In NT times a large Number of the inhabitants were Roman citizens
Freedom of Worship - It is difficult for us now to see the justification of such measures, but it is probably true that at one time in Europe to have had any large Number of Protestants in a Catholic country, or vice versa, would have endangered the civilpeace
Indians, Maya - They Number about 2,000,000 and have preserved the Maya language
Maya Indians - They Number about 2,000,000 and have preserved the Maya language
Theudas - Luke depends on Josephus, where did he get his Number ‘400 men’ from? There may have been more than one Theudas, and Lightfoot suggests that the name might be used as the Greek equivalent of several different Hebrew ones
Tiglath-Pileser Iii. - 734) a vast Number of its inhabitants into captivity (2 Kings 15:29 ; 16:5-9 ; 1 Chronicles 5:6,26 ), the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh whom he settled in Gozan
Shushan - These groups were arranged into a central phalanx of thirty-six columns (six rows of six each), flanked on the west, north, and east by an equal Number, disposed in double rows of six each, and distant from them 64 feet 2 inches
Fraternity - Italy, Spain, and Portugal, are the countries where are seen the greatest Number of these fraternities, some of which assume the name of arch- fraternity
Breed - ) A Number produced at once; a brood
West - The same truth is suggested in the vision of the New Jerusalem as the city with an equal Number of open gates on its four sides (Revelation 21:13)
Common - , the use of which belongs to the public; or to a Number of persons
Divide - To make partition of, among a Number. Numbers 33
First - Preceding all others in Numbers or a progressive series the ordinal of one as, 1 is the first Number
Foil - , according to the Number of arcs of which it is composed
Band - A fillet a cord a tie a chain any narrow ligament with which a thing is bound, tied or fastened, or by which a Number of things are confined together
Harvest - ...
Matthew 9:37 (a) This is a type of the great Number of people who are interested in their souls' welfare, are hungry for deliverance, and are waiting for someone to lead them to CHRIST JESUS, the Saviour
Sennacherib - He says he captured forty-six fenced cities, and the fortresses and villages round about them belonging to Hezekiah the Jew, and carried away 200,150 souls, and horses, mules, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep without Number, etc
Equivalent - (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the Number expressing this proportion, in any particular compound; as, the equivalents of hydrogen and oxygen in water are respectively 1 and 8, and in hydric dioxide 1 and 16
Inn - "lodging-place," at which Joseph's brethren stopped, and where Moses was met by the Lord, Genesis 42:27; Exodus 4:24—or else a khan or caravanserai, which was, and is, a large square building enclosing an open court, in whose centre is a fountain; the building contains a Number of rooms
Armenia - Numerous efforts at reconciliation with Rome have been attempted but the Church has remained split into two factions, the greater Number of Armenians belonging to the Gregorian or non-Uniat Church while the members of the Uniat Church, mainly scattered outside Armenia, acknowledge the pope as their head, retaining their own rite
Lectures, Religious - It may be objected, however, against week- day preaching, that it has a tendency to take people from their business, and that the Number of places open on a sabbath day supersedes the necessity of it
Tune - ) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any Number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune
Asher - The noun, which is taken from the root, is never used but in the plural Number, blessedness instead of blessed, as in the first word of Psalms 1:1-6
Male - ” Sometimes zâkâr is used as an adjective: “Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward …” ( Eusebius (48), Bishop of Laodicea - Eusebius without, and his friend Anatolius within, the besieged quarter secured escape for all useless hands, including a large Number of Christians, whom Eusebius received kindly, supplying them with food and medicine, and carefully tending the sick
Rise Up Early - ”...
A Number of times in the Book of Jeremiah, “rising up early” is used with “speaking” (7:13; 25:3; 35:14), “sending” (7:25; 25:4; 29:19; 35:15; 44:4), “protesting” (11:7), or “teaching” (32:33)
Business - Business is a particular occupation, as agriculture, trade, mechanic art, or profession, and when used of a particular employment, the word admits of the plural Number, businesses
a'Ram - " In the later history we meet with a Number of small nations or kingdoms forming parts of the general land of Aram; but as Damascus increased in importance it gradually absorbed the smaller powers, (1 Kings 20:1 ) and the name of Aram was at last applied to it alone
a'sa - (2 Chronicles 15:8 ) Besides this he fortified cities on his frontiers, and raised an army, amounting, according to (2 Chronicles 14:8 ) to 580,000 men, a Number probably exaggerated by an error of the copyist
Therapeutae - They met together every Sabbath day, and every seven weeks they held a still more solemn assembly, because the Number seven was peculiarly holy in their estimation
Caraites - The sect of Caraites still exists, but their Number is inconsiderable
Angel - ...
"They are called 'holy' in Mark 8:38 , and 'elect,' 1 Timothy 5:21 , in contrast with some of their original Number, Matthew 25:41 , who 'sinned,' 2 Peter 2:4 , 'left their proper habitation,' Jude 1:6 , oiketerion, a word which occurs again, in the NT, only in 2 Corinthians 5:2
Year - The months were lunar, of 30 days each, and twelve in Number, although a thirteenth was necessarily intercalated six times in every 19 years
Thessalonica - There was a large Number of Jews resident in their city, where they had a synagogue, in which Paul, A
Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia - Numerous efforts at reconciliation with Rome have been attempted but the Church has remained split into two factions, the greater Number of Armenians belonging to the Gregorian or non-Uniat Church while the members of the Uniat Church, mainly scattered outside Armenia, acknowledge the pope as their head, retaining their own rite
Score - A notch or incision hence, the Number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, Numbered and kept accounts of Numbers by cutting notches on a stick or tally, and making one notch the representative of twenty
Worship, Freedom of - It is difficult for us now to see the justification of such measures, but it is probably true that at one time in Europe to have had any large Number of Protestants in a Catholic country, or vice versa, would have endangered the civilpeace
Antioch in Pisidia - When the Romans took control of Asia Minor, they replaced the many local districts with a smaller Number of Roman provinces
House - The quorum of a legislative body the Number of representatives assembled who are constitutionally empowered to enact laws. Hence we say, there is a sufficient Number of representatives present to form a house
Sheba (2) - Or Sheba is a transcriber's error, repeating the end of Βeer-sheba ; for the Number of names in Joshua 19:2-6 including Sheba is 14, whereas 13 is the Number stated, and in 1 Chronicles 4:28 Sheba is omitted in the list of Simeon
Lamentations of Jeremiah - The Lamentations are written in metre, and consist of a Number of plaintive effusions, composed after the manner of funeral dirges. ...
Every chapter, with the exception of the third, contains twenty-two verses, corresponding in Number with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; and each verse commences with a different letter, the first with aleph, the second with beth, the third with gimel, &c
Levites - Numbers 35:2; Joshua 21:3; Joshua 21:41; Exodus 6:25; Leviticus 25:32, etc. The Levites Numbered 22,000 in the wilderness, and took the place of the first-born, part of whom were redeemed at five shekels each, Numbers 3:45-51, the fixed ransom for a victim vowed in sacrifice. Numbers 18:16; Leviticus 27:6. Numbers 18:20-32. In the time of David their Number had increased to 38,000, of which 24,000 were set apart for the ordinary services, 6000 for the teaching of the Law and the administration of justice, 4000 as porters, and 4000 as musicians. After the captivity, however, only a small Number of them returned, Ezra 2:36-42; Ezra 8:10; Ezra 6:18; but in the new organization they assumed their old positions
Levites - God chose the Levites instead of the first-born of all Israel, for the service of his tabernacle and temple, Numbers 3:6 , &c. ...
God provided for the subsistence of the Levites, by giving them the tithe of corn, fruit, and cattle; but they paid to the priests the tenth of their tithes; and as the Levites possessed no estates in the land, the tithes which the priests received from them were looked upon as the first-fruits which they were to offer to the Lord, Numbers 18:21-24 . God assigned them for their habitations forty-eight cities, with fields, pastures, and gardens, Numbers 35. The manner of their consecration may be seen in Numbers 8:5-7 , &c. The Levites were divided into different classes: Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronites or priests, Numbers 3, &c. The Gershonites, whose Number was seven thousand five hundred, were employed in the marches through the wilderness in carrying the veils and curtains of the tabernacle; the Kohathites, whose Number was eight thousand six hundred, in carrying the ark and sacred vessels of the tabernacle; the Merarites, whose Number was six thousand two hundred, in carrying the several pieces of the tabernacle which could not be placed upon the chariots; and the Aaronites were the priests who served the sanctuary. Moses ordained that the Levites should not begin in the service of the tabernacle till they were five-and-twenty years of age, Numbers 8:24-26 ; or, as he says elsewhere, from thirty to fifty years old, Numbers 4:3
Genealogy - Israel's census was taken early in the wilderness 40 years sojourn, the second month of the second year, "by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers" (Numbers 1:2; Ruth 4:18-2275 etc. , Numbers 2-3). Again, 38 years later, in the plains of Moab, the names of the families being added (Numbers 26). So Manasseh and Ephraim were Numbered among Jacob's "sons," though only grandsons (Genesis 48:5). Bela (whose two sons Naaman and Ard are called "sons of Benjamin," Numbers 26:40-41) and Benjamin respecting Genesis 46; Numbers 26; Exodus 6:24 enumerates Assir's son and grandson as heads, with their father, of the Korhites. By comprising Jacob himself with all the founders of tribes and families, the significant Number 70 results; seven (expressing God's covenant relation to Israel, made up of three the divine Number and four the worldwide extension Number) multiplied by ten the seal of completeness; implying that these 70 comprised the whole nation of God (Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22). But the Kohathites (Numbers 3:27) in Moses' time were divided into four families, Amramites, Jehezarites, Hebronites, and Ussielites, 8,600 men and boys independent of women; the fourth would be Amramites. ...
Now Moses had only two sons; therefore if Amram his father were the Amram Kohath's father, Moses must have had 2,147 brothers and brothers' sons, which is impossible; therefore between the two Amrams a Number of generations must have dropped out. Thus, the genealogy of 1618384533_7 makes but four intervening links between Nahshon at the Exodus (Numbers 1:7) and David, namely, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse; whereas the genealogy of Levi has double that Number in the same period, seven between Phinehas and Zadok, and more in Gershon's line (1 Chronicles 6). Genealogies are clear measures of time only when complete; and the marks of completeness are, when the mother as well as the father is named, or when historical facts define the relationship, or when a genealogy is confirmed by one or more besides, giving the same Number of generations within the same bounds
Orphanages - Instead of one large building in which all the orphans live a common life, a Number of small houses are provided, and the children are distributed among them in groups containing different ages and different types, supervised by an adult who should strive to fill the role of a parent to them
Fraticelli - After Angelo's death (1337) the Fraticelli split into a Number of groups, each with its own doctrines, causing great confusion, mainly in Italy and Sicily
Edrei - Here Og was defeated by the Israelites, and the strength of the Amorites broken (Numbers 21:33-35 ). A Number of the ancient houses still remain; the walls, roofs, and doors being all of stone
Saint, Saints - , the whole Number of the redeemed
Tax Collector - The Roman taxation system operated on a plan where each state was divided into a Number of regions, in each of which an appointed person was to provide Rome with an agreed amount of tax for that region
Tongue - That terrible fire was kindled by a farthing rushlight! Some years ago, I saw the black ashes of what the night before was a cheerful farm-yard, with its hay-ricks, corn-stacks, stables, and cow-sheds; and lying about upon them were the carcasses of a Number of miserable horses and bullocks, which had perished in the flames
Assize - ) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, Number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc
Seventy Years - Seventy years represented an even Number of the normal human life span (Psalm 90:10 )
Chariots - The military strength of Israel under Ahab was noteworthy because of the Number of chariots available for use
Wickliffites - Wickliffe, therefore, continued to spread his new principles as usual, adding to them doctrines still more alarming; by which he drew after him a great Number of disciples
Blot - In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the Number of those who are to be saved
Eneral - ) Common to many, or the greatest Number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom
Thresh - The Lord is teaching in this verse that there are a Number of methods to use in releasing a soul from the bonds and bands of sin and Satan until they are born again, redeemed and saved
Temperament - ) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their Number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave
Essenes - Philo and Josephus estimate the Number of the Essenes at 4,000
Endor - That many such oracles existed in Canaan, is evident from the Number which Saul himself is said to have suppressed; and such a one, with its Pythia, was this at Endor
Pergamus - The Number of inhabitants, however, is still said to amount to thirty thousand, of whom three thousand are Greek Christians
Ahimelech - On this information, Saul convened the priests, and having charged them with the crime of treason, ordered his guards to slay them, which they refusing to do, Doeg, who had been their accuser, at the king's command became their executioner, and with his sacrilegious hand massacred no less than eighty-five of them; the Septuagint and Syriac versions make the Number of priests slain by Doeg three hundred and five
Leader - , to lead the eye across a space to the right word or Number
Scourge - Moses limits the Number of stripes to forty, which might never be exceeded, Deuteronomy 25:1-3
Saint Barnabas Society, the - More recently the society has enlarged its scope so as to extend aid to convert Anglican nuns, of whom there is an increasing Number
Bethesda - Two flights of steps, sixteen and thirteen in Number, with a platform of twelve feet between them, lead down to the pool; this is fifteen feet long, and five or six feet wide
People - ]'>[1] for a large Number of Hebrew and Greek terms. In Genesis 23:7 ; Genesis 23:12-13 , Numbers 14:9 the term is applied to non-Israelites
Town - In England, any Number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop
Lent, Sundays in - As stated in the preceding article the Lentenfast does not include all the days between Ash Wednesday and Easter,for the Sundays are so many days above the Number forty
Jubilee - ...
Since all land returned to the original owners in the fiftieth year, the sale price of land had to be reduced from its original value so that it was proportionate to the Number of years that remained to the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:13-17)
Numbers as Symbols - The signification of some Numbers is too obvious to be mistaken; that of others is less apparent. In some cases the symbolical Number may be discovered where the numeral itself is not mentioned: as, for instance, under three we may class the law, the psalms, and the prophets; spirit, soul, and body, etc. A few references only are given here for each Number. Numbers 14:6-9 . Numbers 10:14-25 . Numbers 7:17-83 . Incompleteness, imperfection (one short of the perfect Number seven). The Number of the imperial beast will be six hundred sixty and six, Revelation 13:18 , being imperfect in every particular. It is the compound of three and four, and the highest single indivisible Number. Numbers 8:2 ; cf. Numbers 18:21,26 . (The first most divisible of the earlier Numbers. Numbers 13:25
Kishon - The greater Number of these channels, in places 10 or 15 feet deep with precipitous sides, are perfectly dry two-thirds of the year, but during the winter’s rains are filled with raging torrents. A Number of copious springs arise along the edge of the hills to the S
Behemoth - " The greater Number of critics, however, have understood the word behemoth, in the singular Number, as the peculiar name of the quadruped described, Job 40, of whatever kind or nature it may be; although they have materially differed upon this last point, some regarding it as the hippopotamus, or river horse, and others as the elephant
Jer'Icho - (2 Kings 25:5 ; Jeremiah 39:5 ) In the return under Zerubbabel the "children of Jericho," 345 in Number, are comprised. He fortified it and built a Number of new palaces, which he named after his friends
Sacraments - Nature and Number . ) and other Schoolmen that the Number of the sacraments should be fixed at 7, namely, Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders, and Matrimony a suggestion that was evidently influenced by the belief that 7 was a sacred Number. The Number 7 is perfectly arbitrary; while the definition of a sacrament is still so vague that anything but an arbitrary selection of particulars is impossible
Mendicants - This sort of society began in the thirteenth century, and the members of it, by the tenor of their institution, were to remain entirely destitute of all fixed revenues and possessions; though in process of time their Number became a heavy tax upon the people. But when it became generally known that they had such a peculiar place in the esteem and protection of the rulers of the church, their Number grew to such an enormous and unwieldy multitude, and swarmed so prodigiously in all the European provinces, that they became a burden, not only to the people, but to the church itself. were suppressed; and the extravagant multitude of Mendicants, as Gregory called them, were reduced to a smaller Number, and confined to the four following societies or denominations, viz. They retained their credit and influence to such a degree towards the close of the fourteenth century, that great Numbers of both sexes, some in health, others in a state of infirmity, others at the point of death, earnestly desired to be admitted into the Mendicant order, which they looked upon as a sure and infallible method of rendering heaven propitious. Among the Number of Mendicants are also ranked the Capuchins, Recollects, Minims, and others, who are branches or derivations from the former
Fruit - Among the Number of Hebrew words for fruit, fruit-producing, is peri, to bear fruit, be fruitful. Scripture refers to a Number of the Near East plants, trees/bushes, and spices to teach or enhance a spiritual lesson (e. Ephesians 4:24 ; Colossians 3:10 ), he said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in Number; fill the earth and subdue it" (Genesis 1:28 )
Faculties, Canonical - ,those that are given either in perpetuity or for a definite time or for a certain Number of cases, are reckoned as privileges above the law, therefore they are to be interpreted according to the rules governing the interpretation of such privileges
Ladies of Charity - In 1617 there were only two branches with 52 members; now the Number of branches spread over the world totals 1720 with a membership of many thousands
Mohammedanism - God however predetermines everything absolutely and yet punishes evil and rewards good deeds by fantastic penalties and rewards, Paradise being a place of sensuous delights, so great in Number and variety that to enjoy them one's powers of enjoyment must be multiplied one-hundredfold
Canonical Faculties - ,those that are given either in perpetuity or for a definite time or for a certain Number of cases, are reckoned as privileges above the law, therefore they are to be interpreted according to the rules governing the interpretation of such privileges
Stoics - Stoicism therefore had a Number of distinctive features: rigid self-discipline, free of both pleasure and pain; moral earnestness, free of all feelings and desires; devotion to duty, free of all emotion; and reliance upon reason, free of all superstition and irrationality
Claudius - The government of the provinces was excellent, and a marked feature was the large Number of public works executed under the emperor’s supervision
Ursulines - Sir Charles Borromeo brought some of them from Brescia to Milan, where they multiplied to the Number of four hundred
Division - ) The process of finding how many times one Number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed
Concubines - In the Canticles we read of 60 queens and 80 concubines and virgins without Number; but there was one, a choice one, the only one of her mother, that excelled them all — the bride of the song
Fleet - ) A Number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc
Lectures Bampton - A Number of excellent sermons preached at this lecture are now before the public
Heal - ...
A large Number of the uses of râphâ' express the “healing” of the nation—such “healing” not only involves God’s grace and forgiveness, but also the nation’s repentance
Vote - ) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a Number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence
Chalde'a, - --Babylonia has long been celebrated for the Number and antiquity of its cities
Elder - (Numbers 22:7 ) The earliest notice of the elders acting in concert as a political body is at the time of the Exodus. Their Number and influence may be inferred from (1 Samuel 30:26 )ff. The seventy elders mentioned in Exodus and Numbers were a sort of governing body, a parliament, and the origin of the tribunal of seventy elders called the Sanhedrin or Council
Beersheba - ...
A Number of important roads passed through Beersheba
Council - Moses' tribunal of seventy seems to have been temporary (Numbers 11:16-17), for there are no traces of it in Deuteronomy 17:8-10, nor under Joshua, judges, and the kings. The Number was probably derived from Moses' council. Seventy-one is the Number, according to Jewish tradition, to correspond to the 70 and Moses (Numbers 11:16). Others say 72, since to the 70, Eldad and Medad are to be added (Numbers 11:26)
Millennium - Dispensational premillennialism takes the thousand years to be literal both as to fact and Number. Many who hold this view, however, allow for symbolism in the use of the Number 1,000
Lion - Although most Hebrew and Greek words for lion are used in a figurative sense, nevertheless we can draw a Number of inferences regarding the perceived characteristics and behavior of literal lions. ...
God is described with a Number of leonine features
Liturgy - All who have written on liturgies agree, that, in primitive days, divine service was exceedingly simple, clogged with a very few ceremonies, and consisted of but a small Number of prayers; but, by degrees, they increased the Number of ceremonies, and added new prayers, to make the office look more awful and venerable to the people
Mischna - Prideaux, rejecting the Jewish fiction, observes, that after the death of Simon the Just, about 299 years before Christ, the Mischnical doctors arose, who by their comments and conclusions added to the Number of those traditions which had been received and allowed by Ezra and the men of the great synagogue; so that towards the middle of the second century after Christ, under the empire of Antoninus Pius, it was found necessary to commit these traditions to writing; more especially as their country had considerably suffered under Adria, and many of their schools had been dissolved, and their learned men cut off; and therefore the usual method of preserving their traditions had failed. Rabbi Judah on this occasion being rector of the school of Tiberias, and president of the sanhedrim in that place, undertook the work, and compiled it in six books, each consisting of several tracts, which altogether make up the Number of sixty-three
Multiply, Increase - ” It can also signify a great Number of times with the sense of “repeatedly. Marbit, which is found 5 times, refers to a “greater Number” ( Jansenists - From these he made a Number of excerpta, [1] which he collected in his book called "Augustinus. ...
The Jansenists of Port Royal may be denominated the evangelical party of the Catholic church: among their Number were the famous Father Quesnel, Pierre Nicole, Pascal, De Sacy, Duguet, and Arnauld; the last of whom is styled by Boileau, "the most learned mortal that ever lived
Liturgy - All who have written on liturgies agree that, in primitive days, divine service was exceedingly simple, clogged with very few ceremonies, and consisted of but a very small Number of prayers; but, by degrees, they increased the Number of ceremonies, and added new prayers, to render the office more awful and venerable to the people
Nonconformists - dissenters from the church of England; but the term applies more particularly to those ministers who were ejected from their livings by the Act of Uniformity in 1662; the Number of whom, according to Dr. Locke says, "Bartholomew-day (the day fixed by the Act of Uniformity) was fatal to our church and religion, by throwing out a very great Number of worthy, learned, pious, and orthodox divines, who could not come up to this and other things in that act. The same persecutions were carried on in Scotland; and there, as well as in England, Numbers, to avoid the persecution, left their country
Mishna - 299, arose the Tannaim or Mishnical doctors, who by their comments and conclusions, added to the Number of those traditions which had been received and allowed by Ezra and the men of the great synagogue. He compiled it in six books, each consisting of several tracts, which altogether form the Number of sixty-three
Month - (Numbers 10:10 ; 28:11-14 ) The commencement of the month was generally decided by observation of the new moon. The usual Number of months in a year was twelve, as implied in (1 Kings 4:7 ; 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 ) but since twelve lunar months would make but 354 1/2 days, the years would be short twelve days of the short twelve days of the true year, and therefore it follows as a matter of course that an additional month must have been inserted about every third year, which would bring the Number up to thirteen
Tribes - (φυλή)...
From the earliest times the nation of Israel was divided into various tribes, the Number invariably being given as twelve. In the lists of the tribes, as we find them in the OT, considerable variations are to be found, and frequently the tribes descended from Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) have to be regarded as one in order to make the Number twelve. Are the ‘servants of God’ of Revelation 7:3 identical with the ‘multitude’ of Revelation 7:9 ‘whom no man can Number’? Can this be the case when the sealed are Numbered so definitely? If not, who then are the sealed? Are they faithful Jews of the OT dispensation, or are they Jewish Christians, and are the Gentile Christians not to be sealed? The first suggestion is impossible, as the sealed are evidently still on the earth. Probably, in spite of all difficulties, the same persons are indicated in both passages, and neither the Numbering of the sealed nor the reference to the various tribes of Israel is to be taken literally. The OT imagery of the sealing is used to express the thought that God’s faithful people are Numbered and protected on earth to the last individual, while the subsequent vision (Revelation 7:9-17) points to their glory in heaven
do, Done - * In English the verb "to do" serves the purpose of a large Number of verbs, and has a large variety of meanings. It therefore translates a considerable Number of Greek verbs. It stands for a Number of such acts, chiefly "to make, produce, create, cause," e
Generation - Elsewhere toledoth appears in genealogical lists such as Exodus 6:1 , Numbers 1 , 1 Chronicles 1-9 . A generation did not necessarily have a specific Number of years. Numbers 32:11-13 may reckon a generation as 60 years, it including people twenty and above and giving them forty more years to die. This is reducing a generation to a quite small Number. Basically, generation is not a specific Number of years but a more or less specific period of time. Similarly, “to your (his, their) generations” means forever (Numbers 10:8 )
Order of Friars Preachers - The school of philosophy and theology of two of their Number, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, holds a unique place in the life of the Church. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in Numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New World counterbalanced these losses
Order of Preachers - The school of philosophy and theology of two of their Number, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, holds a unique place in the life of the Church. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in Numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New World counterbalanced these losses
Dominicans - The school of philosophy and theology of two of their Number, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, holds a unique place in the life of the Church. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in Numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New World counterbalanced these losses
Kings, Books of - In the Douay Bible these Number four, corresponding to Samuel and Kings in the original Hebrew Bible, according to the nomenclature given in the Talmud: "Our rabbins teach the order of Nebim
Salem - But the only real links between ‘Salem’ and Jerusalem’ are two in Number: (1) the mention of the ‘ King’s Vale ,’ where, apparently, Melchizedek met Abram, which seems to be the place where Absalom reared his memorial ( 2 Samuel 18:18 ): it would presumably be somewhere near Jerusalem, but, pace Josephus, this is not certain
Commandments, the Ten - " They are obviously "ten" in Number, but their division is not fixed, hence different methods of Numbering them have been adopted
Samaritans - (...
See 2 Kings 17:1-41 : Ezra 4:5-6 :) The Samaritans at present are few in Number, but pretend to great strictness in their observation of the law of Moses
Emblems - It has generally five points, but sometimes seven, the Number ofperfection
Mennonite Bodies - A Number of minor divisions have" taken place since settlement in this country
Pool - These underground caverns are about thirty-five in Number, and are capable of storing about ten million gallons of water
Montanists - Priscilla and Maximilla, two enthusiastic women of Phrygia, presently became his disciples, and in a short time he had a great Number of followers
Mosque - In each mosque there is a great Number of lamps: and between these hang many crystal rings, ostrich's eggs, and other curiosities, which, when the lamps are lighted make a fine show
Cycle - The Number of cycles (per second) is a measure of the frequency of an alternating current
Ame - ) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the Number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game
Cappadocia - While in New Testament times its mines were still producing some minerals, a large Number of tablets written in cuneiform script discovered in 1907 at Tanish, now known as Kultepe, revealed that Assyrians were mining and exporting silver ore from Cappadocia about 1900 B
Cord, Rope - Hebrew possesses a considerable Number of words rendered, without any attempt at uniformity, by ‘cord,’ ‘rope,’ and a variety of other terms
Divide - ) To make partition of among a Number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share
Architecture, Byzantine - The use of pendentives could be extended indefinitely to any Number of domes, which also became characteristic of Byzantine churches
Compare - To examine the relations of thins to each other, with a view to discover their relative proportions, quantities or qualities as, to compare two kingdoms, or two mountains with each other to compare the Number ten with fifteen to compare ice with crystal to compare a clown with a dancing master or a dandy
Depth - The depth of a squadron or battalion, is the Number of men in a file, which forms the extent from the front to the rear as a depth of three men or six men
Elect - To select or take for an office or employment to choose from among a Number to select or manifest preference by vote or designation as, to elect a representative by ballot or viva voce to elect a president or governor
Apostolic - And hence a great Number of apostolicals; apostolical see, apostolical nuncio, apostolical notary, apostolical brief, apostolical chamber, apostolical vicar, &c
Weight - ) To assign a weight to; to express by a Number the probable accuracy of, as an observation
Examination of Conscience - Especially adapted to this purpose is the so-called particular examen which segregates a certain failing and concentrates effort on it for the purpose of reducing the Number of daily failures until it is eliminated entirely
Examination of Self - Especially adapted to this purpose is the so-called particular examen which segregates a certain failing and concentrates effort on it for the purpose of reducing the Number of daily failures until it is eliminated entirely
Abim'Elech - ) After his father's death he murdered all his brethren, 70 in Number, with the exception of Jotham, the youngest, who concealed himself; and he then persuaded the Shechemites to elect him king
Adoni'Jah - [1] His name and influence secured a large Number of followers among the captains of the royal army belonging to the tribe of Judah, comp
zo'ba, - We first hear of Zobah in the time of Saul, when we find it mentioned as a separate country, governed apparently by a Number of kings who owned no common head or chief
Leaven - In this respect it was emblematic of moral influence generally, whether good or bad; and hence our Saviour adopts it as illustrating the growth of the kingdom of heaven in the individual heart and in the world at large: because (1) its source is from without; (2) it is secret in its operation; (3) it spreads by contact of particle with particle; (4) it is widely diffusive, one particle of leaven being able to change any Number of particles of flour; and because (5) it does not act like water, moistening a certain amount of flour, but is like a plant, changing the particles it comes in contact with into its own nature, with like propagating power
Zion - In the New Testament it occurs seven times as "Sion," making the total Number of times the name occurs 161
Contain - , "to give space, make room" (chora, "a place"); hence, transitively, "to have space or room for a thing, to contain," said of the waterpots as "containing" a certain quantity, John 2:6 ; of a space large enough to hold a Number of people, Mark 2:2 ; of the world as not possible of "containing" certain books, John 21:25 ; (b) "to go," Matthew 15:17 ; "to have place," John 8:37 ; "to come," 2 Peter 3:9 ; (c) metaphorically, "of receiving with the mind," Matthew 19:11,12 ; or "into the heart," 2 Corinthians 7:2
Refuge, Cities of - ...
(3) In post-exilic times the cities of refuge established under the Deuteronomic Code remained, and the judicial procedure followed was very much the same, only the community presumably at Jerusalem and not the elders of the city of refuge (Numbers 35:12 ; Numbers 35:24-25 ) was to determine the guilt or the innocence of the fugitive. The law was mitigated so far that the unwitting manslayer was no longer doomed to spend all his days there but was free to return to his home on the death of the high priest of the time ( Numbers 35:25 ; Numbers 35:23 , Joshua 20:6 ). Number of cities of refuge . The statements bearing on the Number of the cities of refuge are conflicting ( Numbers 35:11 ; Numbers 35:13-15 , Deuteronomy 4:41-43 ; Deuteronomy 19:7-10 , Joshua 20:2 ; 1 Kings 1:50 ; cf. But when in post-exilic times the Jews covered a wider area, there would naturally be need for more cities; and so we find the Number in Numbers and Joshua stated at six, and additions made to the text in Deuteronomy 4:41-43 ; Deuteronomy 19:3 to suggest that the Number six had been contemplated from the beginning
Citizenship - A πόλις in fact consists of a Number of κῶμαι, each of which consists of a Number of families (οἷκος, domus). In it the principle is affirmed that ‘no one could be a citizen of Rome and of other cities at the same time, while foreigners who were not Roman citizens could be on the burgess-rolls of any Number of cities’ (ed. Commissioners for carrying out colonization or divisions of ager publicus could confer it on a very limited Number of persons, and C
Manuscripts, Illuminated - A large Number of manuscripts are covered with painted ornaments in the form of initial letters or of borders, of marginal and full page paintings; and some rolls of parchment consist entirely of paintings
Apostle - They were twelve in Number, answering to the twelve tribes
Letter, Papal - The early popes insisted that rescripts issued for individual cases should be observed in analogous ones, an example followed by the popes of the Middle Ages, a period during which the Number of papal letters increased enormously
Maelmhaedhoc o'Morgair - The authenticity and the applicability of these mottoes have been questioned, and many consider them a forgery of 1590; but from the end of the 18th century to the present day there has been a Number of remarkably apposite mottoes
Malachy, Saint - The authenticity and the applicability of these mottoes have been questioned, and many consider them a forgery of 1590; but from the end of the 18th century to the present day there has been a Number of remarkably apposite mottoes
Netherlands - In the 16th century, because of the prevalence of Calvinism, the Catholic dioceses of the country were reorganized and increased in Number, but they were suppressed by persecution, and frequently even vicars Apostolic were kept from their vicariates by the States-General
Samaritans - They still persist, to the Number of about 150, in Nâblus
Desiderius Erasmus - He was a potent factor in the educational movement of the time, published many editions of the classics and Fathers of the Church, and wrote a Number of theological and pedagogical treatises
Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of la tr - Despoiled by the French Revolution, a Number of the monks with their superior, Dom Augustin de Lestrange, took refuge in Switzerland and elsewhere until restored by the fall of Napoleon, 1815
Tent - Among the leading characteristics of the nomad races, those two have always been Numbered whose origin has been ascribed to Jabal the son of Lameth, (Genesis 4:20 ) viz. The tent-poles or columns are usually nine in Number, placed in three groups; but many tents have only one pole, others two or three
Equal, Equality - A — 1: ἴσος (Strong's #2470 — Adjective — isos — ee'-sos ) "the same in size, Number, quality," etc
Canonization - A great Number of lights blaze all round the church, which is crowded with pious souls, who wait with devout impatience till the new saint has made his public entry, as it were, into paradise, that they may offer up their petitions to him without danger of being rejected
Test Act - On the contrary side, by a great Number of anonymous writers
Templars - then king of Jerusalem, with the concurrence of the pope: and the principal articles of their rule were, that they should hear the holy office throughout every day; or that, when their military duties should prevent this, they should supply it by a certain Number of paternosters; that they should abstain from flesh four days in the week, and on Fridays from eggs and milk meats; that each knight might have three horses and one squire, and that they should neither hunt nor fowl
Treaty - ...
Nevertheless, in the centuries that followed, a Number of Israelite kings made treaties with neighbouring nations
Rehoboam - This was partly because of the good influence of a large Number of priests and Levites who had fled from the north to Jerusalem rather than cooperate with Jeroboam’s idolatry (2 Chronicles 11:13-17)
Service - ) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or Number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass
Taanach - Excavations have shown a Number of cultic objects and installations at Taanach, suggesting that it was a religious center as well
Illuminated Manuscripts - A large Number of manuscripts are covered with painted ornaments in the form of initial letters or of borders, of marginal and full page paintings; and some rolls of parchment consist entirely of paintings
Manger - ’ It probably came to mean a certain Number of animals, as ‘a pair’ or ‘team’ ( 1 Kings 4:26 , 2 Chronicles 9:25 ) [6]
Widow - (1 Timothy 5:3-16 ) Out of the body of such widows a certain Number were to be enrolled, the qualifications for such enrollment being that they were not under sixty years of age; that they had been "the wife of one man," probably meaning but once married ; and that they had led useful and charitable lives
Jabesh (1) - For not having come to Mizpeh at Israel's command, under an imprecatory oath against all defaulters, when the tribes began war with Benjamin (Judges 20:1-3; Judges 21:5), its males were all killed, and its virgins, 400 in Number, were given in marriage to the 600 Benjamites who survived the war with Israel (Judges 21:1; Judges 21:8-14)
Penitence - Tisseran, a Franciscan, who converted a vast Number of courtesans, about the year 1492
Nicodemus - ...
True to his name, Nicodemus defended Christ before his peers (John 7:51 ) who were unaware that one of their Number might have believed in Him (John 7:48 )
Brimstone - This passage suggests the imagery of a Number of others in which ‘fire and brimstone’ are agencies of destruction ( Psalms 11:6 , Ezekiel 38:22 , Revelation 9:17-18 ; Revelation 14:10 ; Revelation 19:20 ; Revelation 20:10 ; Revelation 21:8 )
Poll - ) A Number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals
Pair - ) A Number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs
Size - ) An instrument consisting of a Number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, - used for ascertaining the size of pearls
Above - More in Number or quantity
Bank - By analogy, a collection or stock of money, deposited, by a Number of persons, for a particular use that is, an aggregate of particulars, or a fund as, to establish a bank, that is a joint fund
Candlestick - The Number of the lamps (seven) is also indicative of divine perfection
Bind - 30, but it is used there a Number of times (vv
Heraclides Cyprius, Bishop of Ephesus - 401, there being a deadlock in the election through the Number of rival candidates and the violence of the opposing factions, Chrysostom brought Heraclides forward, and he was elected by the votes of seventy bishops to the vacant see
Brake - ) An extended handle by means of which a Number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine
Ather - ) To bring together; to collect, as a Number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate
Church - A particular Number of christens, united under one form of ecclesiastical government, in one creed, and using the same ritual and ceremonies as the English church the Gallican church the Presbyterian church the Romish church the Greek church
Commission - By a metonymy, a Number of persons joined in an office or trust
Escape - A small Number, that escape the sword, shall return
Feast - A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a Number of guests partake particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment
Latitudinarian - The chief leaders of these Latitudinarians were Hales and Chillingworth; but More, Cudworth, Gale, Witchcot, and Tillotson, were also among the Number
Authorities - This collocation of words denoting power in some manifestation or other is due to the later Jewish theology, which postulated the existence of a Number of spiritual powers (cf
Accent - ) A mark at the right hand of a Number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc
Aramean - ...
The Old Testament records interactions between Israel and the Arameans on a Number of occasions
Acadia - The descendants of the Acadians in Canada and the United States Number about 400,000
England, John - By indomitable energy and constant visitations to all its settlements he had rallied Catholics to the Number of 12,000 by 1812
Elizabeth of England, Queen - The total Number executed during her reign was 189 persons, 128 being priests, 58 laymen, and 3 women, and in addition 32 Franciscans who were starved to death
England, Elizabeth of - The total Number executed during her reign was 189 persons, 128 being priests, 58 laymen, and 3 women, and in addition 32 Franciscans who were starved to death
Erasmus, Desiderius - He was a potent factor in the educational movement of the time, published many editions of the classics and Fathers of the Church, and wrote a Number of theological and pedagogical treatises
Horeb - The name of Rephidim, which is in the plural Number, and signifies places of rest, from Raphab, rest, is esentation of our nature resting in itself, without any thing in our own power to give satisfaction to the dry soul
Keri And Chethib - The total Number of these alterations has been calculated to amount to 1353
Left, Remain - As “remainder, excess,” it is used especially in the sense of a lesser Number or quality as compared to something of primary importance
Shut - 13-14, in which the priest functions as a medical inspector of contagious diseases, sâgar is used a Number of times in the sense of “to isolate, to shut up” a sick person away from other people (see Pair - ) A Number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs
zo'an - " There have been discovered a great Number of monuments here which throw light upon the Bible history
Catholic - They are seven in Number; namely, one of James, two of Peter, three of John, and one of Jude
Hyperbole - So a great quantity or Number is commonly expressed by the "sand of the sea," the "dust of the earth," and the "stars of heaven," Genesis 13:16 ; Genesis 41:49 ; Judges 7:12 ; 1 Samuel 13:5 ; 1 Kings 4:29 ; 2 Chronicles 1:9 ; Jeremiah 15:8 ; Hebrews 11:12 . In like manner we meet with "smaller than grasshoppers," Numbers 13:33 , to denote extreme diminutiveness; "swifter than eagles," 2 Samuel 1:23 , to intimate extreme celerity; the "earth trembled," the "mountains melted," Judges 5:4-5 ; the "earth rent," 1 Kings 1:40
Ephraim - ...
His posterity multiplied in Egypt to the Number of forty thousand five hundred men capable of bearing arms
Abner - While Ishbosheth's and David's troops lay near each other, hard by Gibeon, Abner challenged Joab to select twelve of David's warriors to fight with an equal Number of his
Above - ...
3: ἐπάνω (Strong's #1883 — Adverb — epano — ep-an'-o ) epi, "over," ano, "above," is used frequently as a preposition with a noun; adverbially, of Number, e
Mandrake - Speaking of Nazareth, in Galilee, he says, "What I found most remarkable at this village was the great Number of mandrakes which grew in a vale below it
Myrtle - It has a hard woody root that sends forth a great Number of small flexible branches, furnished with leaves like those of box, but much less, and more pointed: they are soft to the touch, shining, smooth, of a beautiful green, and have a sweet smell
World - ) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity; a large Number
Reformatories - Real success in reforming character seems to depend not so much upon the reformatory system as upon the personality of the staff; and the larger the Number of the inmates, the more impossible is it to exercise this personal influence
Joram or Jehoram - He slew his own brothers, five in Number, and seized their possessions
O - ...
Among the ancients, O was a mark of tripe time, from the notion that the ternary or Number 3, is the most perfect of Numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure
Unicorn - The Hebrew word means erect, and has no reference to the Number of horns. The bulk of his body, and his prodigious muscular limbs, denote his force at the first view, Numbers 23:22 . The hunters never venture in any Numbers to oppose these ferocious animals face to face; but conceal themselves in the thickets or in the branches of the trees, whence they attack the buffaloes as they pass along
Lot - Numbers 26 . ...
To draw lots, to determine an event by drawing one thing from a Number whose marks are concealed from the drawer, and thus determining an event
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul - Its members Number over 150,000 who are classed as "active" or "honorary" according as they attend the weekly meetings or "conferences" and participate actively in the organization's charitable work, or as they lend their support by spiritual and monetary offerings
Goat - They were regarded as clean for sacrifice, Exodus 12:5 Leviticus 3:12 Numbers 15:27 ; and their milk and the young kids were much used for food, Deuteronomy 14:4 Judges 6:19 Proverbs 27:27 Luke 15:29 . They feed in flocks of a score or two, wit one of their Number acting as a sentinel
Sisters of Saint Joseph - " A Number of young women, eager for social service in religion, offered themselves and were received by the bishop as the first members of the congregation. In the census of 1925 the Sisters of Saint Joseph Numbered 10,000 (2500 under a superior-general residing at Carondelet in Saint Louis, 7500 under diocesan administration)
Tarsus - Tarsus was distinguished for the culture of Greek literature and philosophy, so that at one time, in its schools and in the Number of its learned men, it was the rival of Athens and Alexandria
Star - The psalmist, to exalt the power and omniscience of God, says, "He telleth the Number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names," Psalm 147:4 ; God being described as a king taking a review of his army, and knowing the name of every one of his soldiers. Compare Numbers 24:17
Raven - The Hebrew oreb is applied to the several species of the crow family, a Number of which are found in Palestine
ma'ry Magdalene - " Of Mary it is said specially that "seven devils went out of her," and the Number indicates a possession of more than ordinary malignity
Money - , "a thing that one uses" (akin to chraomai, "to use"), hence, (a) "wealth, riches," Mark 10:23,24 ; Luke 18:24 ; (b) "money," Acts 4:37 , singular Number, "a sum of money;" plural in 8:18,20; 24:26
Caesarea - He passed through Caesarea on a Number of occasions and was for a time imprisoned there (Acts 9:30; Acts 18:22; Acts 21:8; Acts 21:16; Acts 23:23-35; Acts 24:24-27; Acts 25:1-13)
Judea - The Number twelve was retained in the sin offerings, as though all the tribes were represented (Ezra 6:17; Ezra 8:35)
Lucius (1) i - A large Number of Roman exiles for the faith appear from this letter to have returned to Rome with Lucius
Pelagia, Surnamed Margarita - Pelagia was then the favourite actress and dancer of Antioch, whose inhabitants had poured riches upon her and surnamed her Margarita from the Number of pearls she wore
Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus - Although his letter bore no signature but his own, he claims that it had received the assent of a great Number of bishops (Eus
Sunday-Schools - Suchschools gradually spread and increased, until to-day it issaid that the Sunday-schools of the world Number three millionsof teachers and over thirty millions of scholars
Tabernacles, Feast of - and Numbers 29:12-39 we find elaborate ordinances. A very large Number of offerings is ordained; on each of the first 7 days 2 rams and 14 Iambs, and a goat as a sin-offering; and successively on these days a diminishing Number of bullocks: 13 on the 1st day, 12 on the 2nd, and so on till the 7th, when 7 were to be offered
Lives of Christ - The Number of Lives of Christ is s0 great that it is necessary to restrict the following list to those by Catholic authors and by other writers who are deserving of special mention on account of their past or present services. One of the most useful of a Number of French Lives which appeared in the following generation was that of Louis Veuillot, the famous publicist
Song of Songs - The book contains a Number of references to the splendour of Solomon and his court, and is sometimes called the Song of Solomon (Song of Song of Solomon 1:1; Song of Solomon 1:5; Song of Solomon 3:7-11; Song of Solomon 8:11-12). ...
Since the reader has to work out for himself who is speaking in the various poems, a Number of interpretations have been suggested
Thirteen - (c) This Number is generally taken to denote that which is unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, tragic and sad. It is interesting to note that the chapters in the Bible Numbered thirteen are characterized by something that is unhappy and sad. " The Hebrew letters constituting his name total666 which is the Number of the antichrist
Gaza - Gaza is situated on an eminence, and is rendered picturesque by the Number of fine minarets which rise majestically above the buildings, and by the beautiful date trees which are interspersed. The suburbs and environs of Gaza are rendered infinitely agreeable by a Number of large gardens, cultivated with the nicest care, which lie in a direction north and south of the town; while others of the same description run to a considerable distance westward
Common - Common divisor, in mathematics, is a Number or quantity that divides two or more Numbers or quantities without a remainder. A tract of ground, the use of which is not appropriated to an individual, but belongs to the public or to a Number. In law, an open ground, or that soil the use of which belongs equally to the inhabitants of a town or of a lordship, or to a certain Number of proprietors or the profit which a man has in the land of another or a right which a person has to pasture has cattle on land of another, or to dig turf, or catch fish, or cut wood, or the like called common of pasture, of turbary, of piscary, and of estovers
Army - In Israel's, at the Exodus, every man above 20 was a soldier (Numbers 1:3); each tribe a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Numbers 2:2; Numbers 10:5-6; Numbers 10:14). Five was a Number regarded as inauspicious by the Egyptians, but honored by Israel; witness the five books of the pentateuch, the Jubilee of fifty years. The exactness of their martial order is implied in Balaam's metaphors (Numbers 24:6). The army was divided into thousands and hundreds with captains over each; the family too was respected in the army organization, as being the unit in the Jewish polity (Numbers 2:34; Numbers 31:14). Solomon afterward largely increased the Number from Egypt (1 Kings 10:26-29; 1 Kings 9:19); in all 1400 chariots, 12000 horsemen. At the Exodus the Number of soldiers was 600,000 (Exodus 12:37), at the borders of Canaan 601,730; under David, 1,300,000 men capable of service, namely, 800,000 for Israel, 500,000 for Judah (2 Samuel 24:9), but in 1 Chronicles 21:5-6 it is 1,570,000; namely, 1,100,000 for Israel, and 470,000 for Judah. The exact census was not entered in the annals of the kingdom (1 Chronicles 27:24); hence the amount is given in round and not exact Numbers
Psalms - ]'>[1] , 150 poems; the Greek version contains 151, but the last of these is described as ‘outside the Number. ’ This Number does not exactly correspond with the Number of different poems. But the Greek version is scarcely true to the original in making two distinct Psalms out of each of the Psalms Numbered 116 and 147 respectively in the Hebrew text and EV
The remaining 46 Psalms (90 119, 135 150) are either without title, or the titles are not the same in any considerable Number of consecutive Psalms (but note 108 110 and 138 145 entitled ‘of David’)
Synagogue - Their Number appears to have been very considerable; and when the erection of a synagogue was considered a mark of piety, Luke 7:5 , or a passport to heaven, we need not be surprised to hear that they were multiplied beyond all necessity, so that in Jerusalem alone there were not fewer than 460 or 480. The prayers were nineteen in Number, and were closed by reading the execration. Among the synagogues of Jerusalem, now eight or ten in Number, are some for Jews of Spanish origin, and others for German Jews, etc
Judges - These would Number 78,600. ), appointed Numbers 11:16, etc. , were only seventy (the same Number as had gone up with Moses unto the Lord in the mountain, Exodus 24), endued by God with the Spirit as Moses' council. 70, the Number of Jacob's family with which Succoth was connected (Genesis 33:17; Genesis 46:27), with the sacred seven added (Exodus 24:9). So in the case of the manslayer (Joshua 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 19:12; Numbers 35:24-25)
Monastery - The Number of houses and places suppressed from first to last, so far as any calculations appear to have been made, seems to be as follows:...
Of lesser monasteries, of which we have the valuation...
-374 Of greater monasteries...
186 Belonging to the hospitallers...
48 Colleges...
-90 Hospitals...
-110 Chantries and free chapels...
-2374 ...
Total 3182...
Besides the friars' houses, and those suppressed by Wolsey, and many small houses of which we have no particular account. It does not appear that any computation hath been of the Number of persons contained in the religous houses. were reckoned at about 10, 000 If we suppose the colleges and hospitals to have contained a proportionable Number, these will make about 5, 347 If we reckon the Number in the greater monasteries according to the proportion of their revenues, they will be about 35, 000; but as probably they had larger allowances in proportion to their Number than those of the lesser monasteries, if we abate upon that account 5, 000, they will then be 30, 000 One for each chantry and free chapel 2, 374...
Total 47, 721...
But as there were probably more than one person to officiate in several of the free chapels, and there were other houses which are not included within this calculation, perhaps they may be computed in one general estimate at about 50, 000
Fish, Fisher, Fishing - The Number of fishing vessels on the Lake at the beginning of the Christian era must have been very considerable. Forty years ago Furrer found only a single boat; Lortet saw three in 1875 and six in 1880; Frei counted nine in 1886, and the present writer saw the same Number in 1894, while in 1899 he noted fourteen; and no doubt the Number has increased since then. They belong to a Number of different genera. ...
A considerable Number of the above species belong properly to Palestine, but the fauna of Palestinian fish shows, nevertheless, a close connexion with that of Africa and not with that of the Mediterranean basin
Province - The Senate appointed commissioners (legati), usually (if not always) ten in Number, who left Rome together for the country in question, and studied its circumstances on the spot. The normal Greek-speaking country of that time consisted of a Number of πόλεις (ciuitates, ‘city-States’) with their territory surrounding them. , were eleven in Number-Asia, Africa, Hispania Baetica, Gallia Narbonensis, Sardinia et Corsica, Sicilia, Macedonia, Achaea, Creta et Cyrenae, Cyprus, Bithynia et Pontus. The important Imperial provinces, which required the presence of an army, were twenty-one in Number: Suria (Syria), Hispania Tarraconensis, Germania Superior, Germania Inferior, Britannia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Mcesia Superior, Mcesia Inferior, Dalmatia, Lusitania, Gallia Aquitanica, Gallia Lugudunensis, Gallia Belgica, Galatia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Cilicia et Syria et PhCEnice, Numidia, Cappadocia,_ each governed by a legatus Augusti pro praetore, and Egypt, governed by an equestrian praefectus aegypti, acting for his master the Emperor, who reigned as king of Egypt. It remained from the beginning down to the time of Vespasian a client-State, whether ruled by one king or by a Number of princes, or by a Roman procurator in company with an ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ ἐθνάρχης. Augustus first grappled with the task of Numbering the subjects of the Empire, and apportioning the fiscal burdens among the provinces and individuals in them
Christian Church, General Convention - The greater part of the original body remained, although a large Number of "Christians" in Kentucky and Ohio followed Stone
Samaria - It fell three years later; and Sargon, who had meanwhile succeeded Shalmaneser on the Assyrian throne, deported its inhabitants, substituting a Number of people drawn from other places ( 2 Kings 17:1-41 )
Apocrypha - ...
These apocryphal writings are ten in Number: namely, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Solomon, Tobit, Judith, two books of the Maccabees, Song of the Three Children, Susannah, and Bell and the Dragon
Feudalism And the Church - Instead of being a universal Church, she was threatened with separating into a Number of national churches under territorial princes
Ass - 'athon), so named from its slowness (Genesis 12:16 ; 45:23 ; Numbers 22:23 ; 1 Samuel 9:3 ). They are frequently spoken of as having been ridden upon, as by Abraham (Genesis 22:3 ), Balaam (Numbers 22:21 ), the disobedient prophet (1 Kings 13:23 ), the family of Abdon the judge, seventy in Number (Judges 12:14 ), Zipporah (Exodus 4:20 ), the Shunammite (1 Samuel 25:30 ), etc
Septuagint - According to stories handed down by the Jews, the Number of translators was about seventy
Coming to Christ: as a Sinner (2) - In one of the coal-pits of the north, while a considerable Number of the miners were dawn below, the top of the pit fell in, and the shaft was completely blocked up
Average - ) To divide among a Number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss
Change - ) Any order in which a Number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale
Hazael - it is clear not only that Hazael was victorious then, but that he continued to be so for a Number of years (see, further, 2 Kings 12:17 ff
Schools - The Number of school-hours was limited, and during the heat of the summer was only four hours
Flock - ...
The designation "flock" is used a Number of times simply as an epithet of the people, one that inherently communicates their helplessness, naiveté, simplicity, and dependence (Psalm 74:1 ; 77:20 ; 78:52 ; 79:13 ; 80:1 ; 100:3 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; Zechariah 9:16 ; 10:3 ; 11:7,17 ; John 10:16 ). Failing that leadership, or perhaps in rebellion to it, Israel is seen as a people without a shepherd (Numbers 27:17 ; 1 Kings 22:17 ), helpless ones (2 Samuel 24:17 ) who wander and go astray (Isaiah 53:6 ; Zechariah 10:2 )
Week - ) Seven was a predominant Number in Persia; seven days of feasting, seven chamberlains, seven princes (Esther 1:5; Esther 1:10; Esther 1:14)
Mizpah - The name Mizpah came from a common Hebrew word meaning ‘watchtower’ or ‘watchpost’, and was given to a Number of places referred to in the Bible
Board - Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a Number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc
Mesopotamia - It was called by the Hebrews Aram-naharaim, or "Aram (or Syria) of the two rivers;" Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:4; Judges 3:8; Judges 3:10; 1 Chronicles 19:6; and Padan-aram or "Plain of Syria," Genesis 25:20; Genesis 28:2-7; Genesis 46:15; also Aram or "Syria," Numbers 23:7; Genesis 31:20; Genesis 31:24. 1200-1100, by a vast Number of petty tribes, each under its own prince, and all quite independent of each other, Judges 3:8-10; 2 Kings 19:12-13; Isaiah 37:12, until subjugated by the kings of Assyria
Shock - ) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in Number from twelve to sixteen; a stook
File - ) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; - in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a Number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks
Value - ) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to Number, power, importance, etc
About - Numbers 16...
3. Near to in Number or quantity
Chaldean Language - It is known that there was an earlier mode of writing by hieroglyphics which could easily be painted upon papyrus, but which could not without great labour be cut in hard stone, and it is probable that this led to the adoption of the wedge-shaped characters, in which there are no curves: by the variation in position, and Number of short and long wedges every sound could be represented, and every proper name spelled
Finger - " Six in the Bible represents the Number of man's sufficiency and supremacy
Three - I pause over this Number to make a short observation concerning what we read of the sacred Three in one described by the Apostle John, and which bears a beautiful and glorious correspondence to all the testimonies of the holy writers in the Bible. " (1 John 5:7) It is somewhat remarkable that the word Trinity is never used by any of the sacred writers: that is to say, by the translators of the Bible into our mother tongue, while they are so express in Numberless instances, giving the sum and substance of it. It must be confessed, (for it maybe be very safely allowed without the smallest injury to the true faith,) that there are Numbers among the Jews of modern times, who from the ignorance of their mind and blinded understanding, are looking for the Messiah in the simple humanity of the man, and know nothing of JEHOVAH in his threefold personality of character
Sight - ) A great Number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money
Cave - Here he also found a shelter for himself and his followers to the Number of 600 (23:29; 24:1). ...
Caves were frequently used as dwelling-places (Numbers 24:21 ; Song of Solomon 2:14 ; Jeremiah 49:16 ; Obadiah 1:3 )
Of - ) Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a Number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company
Lebanon - Olives, figs, and mulberries also abound, and a Number of aromatic shrubs, which perfume the air, as alluded to in Song of Solomon 4:11
Concubine - After the establishment of the Israelitish monarchy, the kings increased the Number of concubines; and the right over those of one monarch, accrued to his successor; so that to seize on any of them was regarded as an overt act of rebellion
Gamaliel - Barnabas and Stephen are also supposed to have been among the Number of his pupils
Engedi - The spot where this transaction took place, was a cavern in the rock, sufficiently large to contain in its recesses the whole of David's men, six hundred in Number, unperceived by Saul when he entered
Trumpet - The Lord commanded Moses to make two trumpets of beaten silver, to be employed in calling the people together when they were to decamp, Numbers 10:2-3 , &c. At first there were but two in the camp, but afterward a greater Number were made
Chariots of War - Solomon had a considerable Number of chariots, but we know of no military expedition in which they were employed, 1 Kings 10:26
Repetitions in Prayer - The form and words of his prayer were the same with those of the others; but this good man had made a vow to repeat certain words of the prayer a given Number of times, both night and morning
Tower - King Uzziah caused several towers to be built for the shepherds in the desert, and made many cisterns there, because he had a great Number of flocks, 2 Chronicles 26:10
One Another or One ... Another, One ... the Other - * Notes: (1) This translates a Number of words and phrases, (a) allelon, a reciprocal pronoun in the genitive plural, signifying "of, or from, one another" (akin to allos, "another"), e
Under - ) Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in Number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short
Samuel First And Second Books of - Even the Massoretic note at the end of the second book, giving the Number of verses, treats them as one book
Jubilee - And this memento met them constantly and pointedly; for every transfer of land was valuable in proportion to the Number of years remaining before the jubilee
Quarrel - To fight to scuffle to contend to squabble used of two persons or of a small Number
Sacramental Confession - Since the priest's juridical office demands that he have a complete knowledge of the penitent's conscience, the latter should confess both the nature and the Number of his mortal sins
Chariot, - (Exodus 14:7 ) In this point of view chariots among some nations of antiquity, as elephants among others, may be regarded as filling the place of heavy artillery in modern times, so that the military power of a nation might be estimated by the Number of its chariots
Hymns - In theThird and Fourth Centuries the Christian Religion began to growlargely in the Number of its followers, in wealth and position;magnificent churches were built under Constantine the Emperor, andthen it came to pass that choirs were instituted definitely by theCouncil of Laodicea, A
Chariot - The horses, two in Number, were yoked to the pole. ...
In Egypt and Assyria the normal Number of the occupants of a war chariot was two the driver, who was often armed with a whip, and the combatant, an archer whose bow-case and quiver were usually attached to the right-hand side of the car
Jordan River - The valley is divided by various rivers and wadis (small streams) into a Number of geographically distinguishable sections. ...
The Jordan River and Jordan Valley played an important role in a Number of memorable events from both the Old Testament and the New Testament
Locust - The chagab is another of the Gryllidae (Numbers 13:33; Ecclesiastes 12:5); Isaiah 40:22, "grasshopper," thus gowb = chagab . , 1867) notices the Hebrew letters of gazam = 50, exactly the Number of years that the Chaldees ruled the Jews from the temple's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar, 588 B. chaciyl = 108, the exact Number of years between 38 B
Oaths - ’ Seven was the most sacred Number among the Hebrews (cf. Originally, therefore, there must have been a direct connexion between this sacred Number and the oath. Numbers 5:21 (cf. The usual gesture in taking an oath was to raise the arm towards heaven ( Deuteronomy 32:40 , Daniel 12:7 ), the motive being to point to the dwelling-place of God; to ‘raise the hand’ became an expression for ‘to swear’ ( Exodus 6:8 , Numbers 14:30 )
Thebes - Though he saw the city when it had sunk to quite secondary importance, he confirms the tradition of its early grandeur --its circuit of 140 stadia, the size of its public edifices, the magnificence of its temples, the Number of its monuments, the dimensions of its private houses, some of them four or five stories high --all giving it an air of grandeur and beauty surpassing not only all other cities of Egypt, but of the world. Some of these, in the Number and variety of their chambers, the finish of their sculptures, and the beauty and freshness of their frescoes, are among the most remarkable monuments of Egyptian grandeur and skill
Paulicians - The Paulicians, however, by their Number, and the countenance of the emperor Nicephorus, became formidable to all the East. Their first migration was into Italy; whence, in process of time, they sent colonies into almost all the other provinces of Europe, and formed gradually a considerable Number of religious assemblies, who adhered to their doctrine, and who were afterwards persecuted with the utmost vehemence by the Roman pontiffs
Exodus, the - There being 600,000 men, it is calculated that including the women and children the Number of the Israelites would not have been less than two millions. It must have been a wonderful sight to have seen such a Number moving away fromthe scene of their slavery, and it is often referred to as the workof the mighty God
God - And in modern times it is generally observed by the seed of Abraham, when marking the Number fifteen (which in the ordinary way of doing it by letters would take the Yod (10,) and the He (5. ) forming the incommunicable name of Jah,) they always take the Teth and the Vau, that is the 9 and the 6, instead of it, to make the Number fifteen by
Philippi - 42, when Octavian and Antony, having vanquished Brutus and Cassius, settled a Number of their veterans there. Paul found a Number of women assembled, Jewesses or proselytes, one of whom named Lydia (wh
Severianus, Bishop of Gabala - Du Pin attributes to Severian, from internal evidence, a large Number of homilies which pass under Chrysostom's name. Severian is said to have composed a large Number of commentaries on Holy Scripture, the whole being lost except for fragments in the Catenae
Calling - The calling of guests to the evangelical feast, we then more fully learn, was not the mere calling of men to partake of spiritual benefits; but calling them also to form a spiritual society composed of Jews and Gentiles, the believing men of all nations; to have a common fellowship in these blessings, and to be formed into this fellowship for the purpose of increasing their Number, and diffusing the benefits of salvation among the people or nation to which they respectively belonged. In none of these passages is the doctrine of the exclusive calling of a set Number of men contained; and the synod of Dort, as though they felt this, only attempt to infer the doctrine from a text already quoted; but which we will now more fully notice: "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified," Romans 8:30 . This is the text on which the Calvinists chiefly rest their doctrine of effectual calling; and tracing it, as they say, through its steps and links, they conclude, that a set and determinate Number of persons having been predestinated unto salvation, this set Number only are called effectually, then justified, and finally glorified. But this passage was evidently nothing to the purpose, unless it had spoken of a set and determinate Number of men as predestinated and called, independent of any consideration of their faith and obedience; which Number as being determinate, would, by consequence, exclude the rest
Give - To produce to show to exhibit as a product or result as, the Number of men divided by the Number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. And Joab gave up the sum of the Number of the people to the king
Hussites - He adopted the philosophical opinions of the Realists, and vehemently opposed and even persecuted the Nominalists, whose Number and influence were considerable in the university of Prague. ...
He also multiplied the Number of his enemies in the year 1408, by procuring, through his own credit, a sentence in favour of the Bohemians, who disputed with the Germans concerning the Number of suffrages which their respective nations were entitled to in all matters that were carried by election in this university
Syria - The former led a Number of rebellions against Egyptian authority. ), establishing a Number of independent states. Ben-hadad responded by conquering a Number of cities and territory in the north of Israel (1 Kings 15:20 )
Deists - A Number of advocates have appeared in the same cause; and however they may have differed among themselves, they have been agreed in their attempts of invalidating the evidence and authority of divine revelation. We might mention Hobbes, Blount, Toland, Collins, Woolston, Tindall, Morgan, Chubb, lord Bolingbroke, Hume, Gibbon, Paine, and some add lord Shaftesbury to the Number. Objections have been stated and urged in their full force, and as fully answered; arguments and raillery have been repelled: and the controversy between Christians and deists has called forth a great Number of excellent writers, who have illustrated both the doctrines and evidences of Christianity in a manner that will ever reflect honour on their names, and be of lasting service to the cause of genuine religion, and the best interests of mankind
Lama, Grand - ...
The grand lama, it has been said, is never to be seen but in a secret place of his palace, amidst a great Number of lamps, sitting cross-legged on a cushion, and decked all over with gold and precious stones, where at a distance the people prostrate themselves before him, it not being lawful for any, so much as to kiss his feet. The whole country, like Italy, abounds with priests; and they entirely subsist on the great Number of rich presents which are sent them from the utmost extent of Tartary, from the empire of the Great Mogul, and from almost all parts of the Indies. They have a vast Number of convents filled with monks and friars, amounting to thirty thousand; who, besides the three vows of poverty, obedience, and charity, make several others
Eclipse - In any year, the Number of eclipses of both luminaries cannot be less than two, and these will both be of the sun, nor more than seven: the usual Number is four; and it is very rare to have more than six. Hales, are justly reckoned among the surest and most unerring characters of chronology; for they can be calculated with great exactness backward as well as forward; and there is such a variety of distinct circumstances of the time when, and the place where, they were seen; of the duration, or beginning, middle, or end of every eclipse, and of the quantity, or Number of digits eclipsed; that there is no danger of confounding any two eclipses together, when the circumstances attending each are noticed with any tolerable degree of precision
Monks, White - The order Numbered 350 abbeys in 1152, of which 54 were in England where the first foundation had been made at Waverly, 1129. Commended many times by papal Bulls, the order conferred great benefits on society during its golden age (1134-1342) by charitable works and intellectual labors, producing also a great Number of saints
Order of Citeaux - The order Numbered 350 abbeys in 1152, of which 54 were in England where the first foundation had been made at Waverly, 1129. Commended many times by papal Bulls, the order conferred great benefits on society during its golden age (1134-1342) by charitable works and intellectual labors, producing also a great Number of saints
Deluge, the -
The collecting, housing in the ark, and feeding of such an enormous Number of animals seems impossible
Flood, the -
The collecting, housing in the ark, and feeding of such an enormous Number of animals seems impossible
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools - In the United States the society has flourished since 1846, the Number of pupils amounting to about 30,000 in houses of four provinces (1922), and in Canada there are 66 houses with 24,000 pupils
Selah - text; the Number of occurrences is also rather larger in the LXX
New Mexico - By 1608 the Franciscans could report 8000 baptisms among the Indians, and by 1626 the Number had grown to 34,000, among 27 missions
Numbers, Book of - The Numbering of the people at Sinai, and preparations for their resuming their march ((1-10:10). They were fewer in Number at the end of their wanderings than when they left the land of Egypt
Kabbala -
Gematriah, Number combinations translated to words
Jainism - The total Number of Jainists is not over 500,000
Media - They consisted for three or four centuries of a Number of tribes, each ruled by its own chief, who at length were brought under the Assyrian yoke (2 Kings 17:6 )
Euraquilo - ]'>[1] ; ‘Euroclydon,’ Authorized Version ) is one of a great Number of textual variants
Chaplain - the persons vested with a power of retaining chaplains, together with the Number each is allowed to qualify, are as follow: an archbishop eight; a duke or bishop six; marquis or earl five; viscount four; baron, knight of the garter, or lord chancellor, three: a duchess, marchioness, countess, baroness, the treasurer or comptroller of the king's house, clerk of the closet, the king's secretary, dean of the chapel, almoner, and master of the rolls, each of them two; chief justice of the king's bench, and ward of the cinque ports, each one
Grave-Clothes - This frequently led, however, to such unnecessary expense in the way of luxurious wrappings, that by way of protest Rabbi Gamaliel left directions that he was to be buried in simple linen garments, while his grandson limited the Number of grave-clothes to one dress (see Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life, p
Zedekiah - Only a small Number of vinedressers and husbandmen were permitted to remain in the land (Jeremiah 52:16 )
Cabbalists - They study principally the combination of particular words, letters, and Numbers; and by this, they say, they see clearly into the sense of Scripture. In their opinion, there is not a word, letter, Number, or accent, in the law, without some mystery in it; and they even pretend to discover what is future by this vain study
Matthew - He had a good income (Matthew 9:9) and owned a house large enough to accommodate a good Number of people (Luke 5:29)
Add - ...
Basically, yâsaph signifies increasing the Number of something
Gideon - ...
To reduce their Number, two tests were given to the 32,000 men in Gideon's army
Lord, Brethren of the - They are recognized as four in Number
City - So, our Lord represents the different servants having the Number of cities assigned them in proportion to their faithfulness (Luke 19:17; Luke 19:19)
Balance - ) To equal in Number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize
Bee - The vast Numbers of flowers and especially of aromatic plants enable the skilled bee-keeper to produce the most delicately flavoured honey, e. A Number of hives are piled one above the other
Lycia - Pliny says that in his time the cities of Lycia, formerly 70 in Number, had been reduced to 36 (Historia Naturalis (Pliny) v
Preadamite - Isaac de la Pereyra, in 1655, published a book to evince the reality of Preasamites, by which he gained an considerable Number of proselytes to the opinion: but the answer of Demarets, professor of theology at Groningen, published the year following, put a stop to its progress, though Pereyra made a reply
Guard (2) - A certain Number were attached to each legion, besides others belonging to the Praetorian guard, who were closely attached to the Emperor’s person and ready for any special service
Whippers - A great Number of persons, of all ages and sexes, made processions, walking two by two, with their shoulders bare, which they whipped till the blood ran down, in order to obtain mercy from God, and appease his indignation against the wickedness of the age
Race - They were commonly mentioned as three in Number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse
Golden Rose - The ornament is formed of a central flower and a Number of smaller roses, skilfully wrought by papal artisans
Account - Account signifies a single entry or charge, or a statement of a Number of particular debts and credits, in a book or on a separate paper and in the plural, is used for the books containing such entries
Breed - A Number produced at once, a hatch a brood but for this, brood is generally used
Cubit - Doubtless only a round Number is intended
Gog And Magog - There is doubtless an allusion to the names in Ezekiel; 'Gog and Magog,' being symbolical names, are employed to describe all the proud and powerful hordes of post-millennium times, whose Number is 'as the sand of the sea,' and whom Satan will collect together from all quarters to attack the kingdom of the Lord Jesus as established on earth, only to be devoured by fire from heaven: for Satan, when loosed, will not be able to raise up an empire against the Lord
Record - ) A writing by which some act or event, or a Number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record
Carry - ) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a Number in adding figures
Commit - To refer or entrust to a committee, or select Number of persons, for their consideration and report a term of legislation as, the petition or the bill is committed
Gather - To bring together to collect a Number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body
Gross - The Number of twelve dozen twelve times twelve as a gross of bottles
Methodist - Of this Number were the Jesuit Veron, who required the Protestants to prove the tenets of their church by plain passages of Scripture, without being allowed the liberty of illustrating those passages, reasoning upon them, or drawing any conclusions from them; Nihusius, an apostate from the Protestant religion; the two Wallenburgs, and others, who confined themselves to the business of answering objections; and cardinal Richlieu, who confined the whole controversy to the single article of the divine institution and authority of the church
Doctor (2) - The Authorized Version has ‘teacher’ only once in the Gospels (John 3:2) out of a very large Number of instances of διδάσκαλος
Alms - ...
It is observable, however, what a Number of excuses are made by those who are not found in the exercise of the duty: ...
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Step - Biblical occurrences of this word Number about 117 and appear in every period of the language
Race - They were commonly mentioned as three in Number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse
Master - (h) The director of a Number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast
Aera - a series of years, commencing from a certain point of time called an epocha: thus we say, the Christian aera; that is, the Number of years elapsed since the birth of Christ
Esdraelon - And here the Midianites and the Amalekites, who were "like grasshoppers for multitude, and their camels without Number as the sand of the sea," encamped, when they were defeated by Gideon, Judges 6
Seal - It was a rare thing to affix such a Number of seals, but this insinuated the great importance and secrecy of the matter
Melchizedek - An infinite Number of absurd opinions have been at different times held respecting this mystic personage, as that he was Shem, or Ham; or, among those who think he was more than human, that he was the Holy Ghost, or the Son of God himself; absurdities which are too obsolete to need refutation
Quail - שלו , Exodus 16:13 ; Numbers 11:31-32 ; Psalms 105:10 ; a bird of the gallinaceous kind. The second time as at the encampment at the place called in Hebrew, Kibroth-hataavah, the graves of lust, Numbers 11:32 ; Psalms 105:40 . God caused a wind to arise that drove them within and about the camp of the Israelites; and it is in this that the miracle consists, that they were brought so seasonably to this place, and in so great Number as to furnish food for above a million of persons for more than a month
Army - Every able-bodied man over 20 years of age was a soldier, Numbers 1:3; each tribe formed a division, with its own banner and its own leader, Numbers 2:2; Numbers 10:14; their positions in the camp and on the march were fixed. Numbers 2:1-34; the whole army started and stopped at a given signal, Numbers 10:5-6; so they came up out of Egypt. Numbers 2:34; Numbers 31:14; 2 Chronicles 25:5; 2 Chronicles 26:12. The Number in a legion varied from 3000 to 6000, each under "chief captains," Acts 21:31, who commanded by turns
Locust - Locusts occur in great Numbers, and sometimes obscure the sun. The sea destroys the greater Number
White Monks - The order Numbered 350 abbeys in 1152, of which 54 were in England where the first foundation had been made at Waverly, 1129. Commended many times by papal Bulls, the order conferred great benefits on society during its golden age (1134-1342) by charitable works and intellectual labors, producing also a great Number of saints
Rose, Golden - The ornament is formed of a central flower and a Number of smaller roses, skilfully wrought by papal artisans
re'Chab - They claimed to Number 60,000, to adhere to the old rules, and to be a fulfillment of the promise made to Jehonadab
Lamentations of Jeremiah - 5 contains the same Number of verses as chs
Much - , Matthew 13:5 , "much (earth);" Acts 26:24 , "much (learning);" in Acts 26:29 , in the answer to Agrippa's "with but little persuasion," some texts have pollo (some megalo, "with great"), RV, "(whether with little or) with much;" of Number, e
Haggai - The outcome was that a good Number of Jews moved out of Babylon and settled in Jerusalem
Day - They may have used it for the normal 24-hour day (Numbers 10:11; Acts 20:7), for the hours of daylight in contrast to the hours of night (Luke 18:7; John 9:4), for a particular time or occasion (Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 16:19; Luke 6:23), or for a more lengthy period such as an age or era (John 8:56; 2 Corinthians 6:2). Times were only approximate, for the Number of hours of daylight varied throughout the year
Petrus, First Bishop of Parembolae - The new disciple devoted himself to a religious life; and the Number of Arabian converts having become so large as to require a bishop of their own, he was recommended by Euthymius to Juvenal, bp
Lent, the Season of - For manyreasons "Forty" is a Scriptural Number
Theodosius, a Monophysite Monk - His protestations were credited by a large Number of the monks and people, and having gained the ear of the empress dowager Eudocia, the former patroness of Eutyches, who had settled at Jerusalem, he so thoroughly poisoned the minds of the people of Jerusalem against JUVENAL as a traitor to the truth that they refused to receive him as their bishop on his return from Chalcedon, unless he would anathematize the doctrines he had so recently joined in declaring
Shewbread - ‘Presence-bread’ is also the name for this special offering generally used in the Priests’ Code but ‘continual bread’ in Numbers 4:7 , contracted from the fuller expression 2 Chronicles 2:4 . ]'>[9] , Numbers 4:7 ). ), and of the Number of cakes offered twelve or a multiple of twelve. This Number had probably an astrological origin, having reference originally to the twelve months of the year, or the twelve signs of the Zodiac
Acrostic - poems in which initial letters recurring at regular intervals follow some definite arrangement, occur to the Number of 14 in the OT; another instance is Sir 51:13-30 . The interval between the several letters consists of a regular Number of lines
Heraldry, Ecclesiastical - A large Number of ecclesiastical coats of arms are based upon the figures and effigies of patron saints and the oval cartouche was often substituted by supposedly peace-loving ecclesiastics for the shield which is the ordinary vehicle of a coat of arms but is essentially a military institution. Originally the Number of tassels was indeterminate but in early representations six tassels on either side are usually found
Ecclesiastical Heraldry - A large Number of ecclesiastical coats of arms are based upon the figures and effigies of patron saints and the oval cartouche was often substituted by supposedly peace-loving ecclesiastics for the shield which is the ordinary vehicle of a coat of arms but is essentially a military institution. Originally the Number of tassels was indeterminate but in early representations six tassels on either side are usually found
Flock - " (Song of Song of Solomon 4:8)...
There is another great feature of Jesus's flock, and this is, in the present life, compared to the world, they are but small and inconsiderable in Number. John, the beloved apostle, in his days, when admitted in that glorious vision of the Lord to see heaven opened, related to the church, that he saw "a multitude, whom no man could Number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues
Passover - They killed a lamb or a kid in each family; and if the Number of the family was not sufficient to eat the lamb, they might associate two families together. If any thing remained to the day following it was thrown into the fire, Exodus 12:46 ; Numbers 9:12 ; John 19:36 . The obligation of keeping the passover was so strict, that whoever should neglect it was condemned to death, Numbers 9:13 . The paschal lamb was an illustrious type of Christ, who became a sacrifice for the redemption of a lost world from sin and misery; but resemblances between the type and antitype have been strained by many writers into a great Number of fanciful particulars
Line - ) A verse, or the words which form a certain Number of feet, according to the measure. ) A Number of shares taken by a jobber
Ark - The ark was made of "gopher-wood," probably cypress; and it was to be divided into "rooms" or "nests," that is, furnished with a vast Number of separate compartments, placed one above another in three tiers. Many questions have been raised, and discussed at great length by skeptics and others, respecting the form and dimensions of the ark; the Number of animals saved in it—whether including all species then existing in the world, except such as live in water or lie dormant, or only the species living in the parts of the world then peopled by man; and as to the possibility of their being all lodged in the ark, and their food during the year. Numbers 7:9; Numbers 10:21. Numbers 4:5; Numbers 4:20
Province - With the extension of the Roman Empire, and the consequently much increased Number of spheres of duty outside Rome and Italy, the word came gradually to have a territorial application also. During the Republic the governors of these provinces were appointed by the Roman senate from among their own Number, generally after a period of service as prætor or consul, as the case might be
Valerianus, Emperor - His sentence was simple banishment, but a great Number of African bishops, priests, deacons, and some of the laity, were sent to the mines and endured great hardships (Cypr. Both in Rome and Africa a great Number of Christians suffered
Hebrew - ...
The Hebrew verb forms indicate person, Number, and gender. Books written toward the close of the Old Testament period, such as Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles, and Ecclesiastes, show the Hebrew language undergoing a Number of significant changes due primarily to Aramaic influence. ...
The growing Number of Hebrew inscriptions dating from the pre-exilic age provides an important supplement to the study of classical Hebrew
Supralapsarians - the former seems best, that, of the vast Number of individuals which came up in the divine mind whom his power could create, those whom he meant to bring into being he designed to glorify himself by them in some way or other. ...
Again; we demand how, according to this hypothesis, it can be conceived that God is not the author of sin? In the general scheme of our churches, God only permits men to sin, and it is the abuse of liberty that plunges man into misery: even this principle, all lenified as it seems, is yet subject to a great Number of difficulties; but in this scheme, God wills sin to produce the end he proposed in creating the world, and it was necessary that men should sin: God created them for that. Lastly, we desire to know, how is it possible to conceive a God, who, being in the actual enjoyment of perfect happiness, incomprehensible, and supreme, could determine to add this decree, though useless, to his felicity, to create men without Number for the purpose of confining them for ever in the chains of darkness, and burning them for ever in unquenchable flames
Growth Increase - The phrase in Acts 6:7; Acts 12:24; Acts 19:20, ‘The word of God increased’ or ‘grew,’ which seems to be a formula used to close the various sections in the history, refers to the growth of the Number of believers. The statement in Acts 16:5, ‘The churches increased in Number daily,’ which also closes the preceding section dealing with the second visit of St. As a result of apostolic labours the Number of believers increased. But not only is the idea of growth applied to the Church as an outward organization, the visible Church which grows in Numbers, and to the Christian character of individual believers; it is also applied to the Church as a spiritual unity which the Apostle Paul describes as the ‘body of Christ
Messiah - And on the day appointed, this false Moses, having led them to the top of a rock, men, women, and children threw themselves headlong down into the sea, without the least hesitation or reluctance, till so great a Number of them were drowned as opened the eyes of the rest, and made them sensible of the cheat. The emperor sent an army against them, killed great Numbers of them, took their pretended messiah prisoner, and immediately put him to death. He drew great Numbers after him, to their no small loss and disappointment; but all his pretensions came to nothing. 1137, there appeared one in France, who was put to death, and Numbers of those who followed him. Vast Numbers of the Jews were butchered for taking part with this impostor. 1666, appeared the false messiah Sabatai Tzevi, who made a great noise, and gained a great Number of proselytes. The last false christ that made any considerable Number of converts was one rabbi Mordecai, a Jew of Germany: he appeared, A
Chapters - The Jews had divided the law into fifty-three parashim, according to the Number of the Sabbaths, taking into account the leap year. Paul's and the Catholic Epistles, according to the Alexandrine ritual, which Euthalius follows in his stichometrical edition, namely, into fifty-six pericopes; three more than the Number of κυριακαι ημεραι , Sundays, probably for three festivals, which might be observed at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide. Though the first interpretation would probably obtain the greatest Number of suffrages from really learned and impartial men; yet it is quite sufficient for mankind to know, in either way, that this division into verses was completed in the course of that journey
Passover (i.) - Its origin, significance, and method of celebration are given in Exodus 12:1-49; Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25, Leviticus 23:5-8, Numbers 9:1-14; Numbers 28:16-25, Deuteronomy 16:1-8. There was the observance at the time of the Exodus, in the second year after coming out of Egypt (Numbers 9:5), at the entry into Canaan (Joshua 5:10-11). ...
The Number of those who took part in this festival was enormous. Every male Jew residing within fifteen miles of Jerusalem, and not ceremonially unclean, was required to do so, and in addition, numerous visitors from other parts of the Holy Land, and from other countries near and far, travelling with their gifts, and with song, swelled the Number of residents. 3) he relates that, at the request of Cestius, the priests counted the Number of lambs slain as 256,500. Remarking that the minimum Number permitted for a lamb was ten persons, Josephus calculates the Number at 2,700,000. An ancient Jewish tradition gives the Number of Passover lambs on one occasion as 1,200,000. There remained another cup to be drunk, for the Number four was insisted upon, and became the subject of various interpretations; the second part of the Hallel (Psalms 115-118) was sung—probably the ‘hymn’ after which ‘they went out unto the mount of Olives’ (Mark 14:26)—and the feast ended with a benediction, ‘the blessing of the song. ’...
On the next day, the 15th Nisan, sacrifices additional to those offered ordinarily were brought (Numbers 28:19), and peace-offerings, the hagigah—which on this day was compulsory, but on the 14th needed not to be offered except where the lamb would not suffice for the feast—were presented. ...
In the case of persons Levitically unclean or living at a distance, it was permitted to celebrate the Passover on the corresponding day of the following month (Iyyar), according to the legislation of Numbers 9:9-12, 2 Chronicles 30:2; but in this case there was no search for and removal of leaven, no Hallel was sung at the supper, and no hagigah offered and eaten
Elder - It also denoted a political office (Numbers 22:7 ). Seventy also were selected from the whole Number to bear with Moses the burden of the people (Numbers 11:16,17 )
Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society - A considerable Number are given work on ships, the society having agents at the principal ports
John Hus - From these two treatises a Number of propositions of a heretical character was submitted to the new archbishop, and when the Council of Constance assembled in November 1414, Hus appeared before that body, gave an account of hie doctrine, was tried, condemned, and finally burnt at the stake, July 6, l415
Catholic Truth Society of Ireland - The society has published a great Number of pamphlets and books containing prayers, daily meditations, histories of religions, arguments against rationalists, lives of Catholic men of science, stories for young people, etc
Catholic Truth Societies - The society has published a great Number of pamphlets and books containing prayers, daily meditations, histories of religions, arguments against rationalists, lives of Catholic men of science, stories for young people, etc
Gad - (Joshua 11:17) And the prophet Isaiah speaks of some "who prepared a table for that troop" [1] "and that furnished a drink offering for that Number. We find no less than forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty, came out of Egypt, (Numbers 2:15) "men both of might, and men of war, fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains
Gideon - First, with ten of his servants, he overthrew the altars of Baal and cut down the asherah which was upon it, and then blew the trumpet of alarm, and the people flocked to his standard on the crest of Mount Gilboa to the Number of twenty-two thousand men
Poetry - Other acrostics were divided into twenty-two sections of a Number of verses each, with all the verses in each section beginning with the same letter
Naphtali, Tribe of - At the time of the Exodus this tribe Numbered 53,400 adult males (Numbers 1:43 ), but at the close of the wanderings they Numbered only 45,400 (26:48-50). A large Number of foreigners settled here among the mountains, and hence it was called "Galilee of the Gentiles" (q
Hus, John - From these two treatises a Number of propositions of a heretical character was submitted to the new archbishop, and when the Council of Constance assembled in November 1414, Hus appeared before that body, gave an account of hie doctrine, was tried, condemned, and finally burnt at the stake, July 6, l415
Scoffer: Silenced - Quite a Number, prompted by curiosity, gathered around him to listen to his vulgar stories and anecdotes, all of which were pointed against the Bible and its ministers
Cophti - They have a great Number of deacons, and even confer the dignity frequently on their children
Robbery - ...
Emphatic statements respecting the prevalence of robbers during the stormy period preceding the fall of Jerusalem, and an account of the measures adopted by Felix in consequence, may be found in Josephus-‘as to the Number of the robbers he caused to be crucified, and of those who were caught among them, and whom he brought to punishment, they were a multitude not to be enumerated’ (Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) II
Bow - ) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a Number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument
Disease - The shafts of disease shoot across our path in such a variety of courses, that the atmosphere of human life is darkened by their Number, and the escape of an individual becomes almost miraculous
Esther - The combined wisdom of Mordecai and courage of Esther became the means of doing a great service to the very large Number of Jews living under Persian rule; for, owing to the craft and hatred of Haman , the chief court favourite, the Jews were in danger of being massacred en bloc ; but Esther, instigated by Mordecai, revealed her Jewish nationality to the king, who realized thereby that she was in danger of losing her life, owing to the royal decree, obtained by Haman, to the effect that all those of Jewish nationality in the king’s dominions were to be put to death
Mesha - Under Omri, the builder of Samaria, the border of Israel had been extended southwards to near its ancient limits ( Numbers 21:24 ff. 855, Mesha’s ‘forty years’ being, as also often in Hebrew narrative, a round Number; (3) the refusal of Mesha to again submit, which is all that the Hebrew of 2 Kings 1:1 ; 2 Kings 3:5 (EV Army - In face of God, humans can only confess, “Is there any Number of his armies?” (Job 25:3 )
African Church - There seem to have been a Number of Latin versions in Africa
Chaldeans, Chaldees - At first they were a Number of tribes in South Babylonia, but were afterwards united and increased
Habitation - They are permitted and encouraged to grow in Number and in power
Septuagint, the - The principal uncial manuscripts are the Codices Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, Sinaiticus, and Ephraemi; with a Number of cursive copies
Band, Army - Bildad asks the rhetorical question concerning God, “Is there any Number [2] of his armies?” (Job 25:3)
Ai - After the Exile, Ai and Bethel between them supplied a contingent of 223 to the Number that returned ( Ezra 2:28 ), and the city was once more settled by Benjamites ( Nehemiah 11:31 )
Australian Catholic Truth Society - The society has published a great Number of pamphlets and books containing prayers, daily meditations, histories of religions, arguments against rationalists, lives of Catholic men of science, stories for young people, etc
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The son of Jephunneh (Numbers 13:6 ; 32:12 ; Joshua 14:6,14 ). He and Joshua the son of Nun were the only two of the whole Number who encouraged the people to go up and possess the land, and they alone were spared when a plague broke out in which the other ten spies perished (Numbers 13 ; 14 ). All the people that had been Numbered, from twenty years old and upward, perished in the wilderness except these two. This may simply mean "son of Kenez" (Numbers 32:12 )
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The thought in the Number three also indicates the fact that CHRIST who was typified as meal in the Old Testament would be the living CHRIST, raised from the dead, to feed His people constantly
Memory - It is large and copious to treasure up these ideas in great Number and variety
Libertines (2) - This cabal was composed of a certain Number of licentious citizens, who could not bear the severe discipline of Calvin
Intermediate State - But when we leave philosophical probability, and come to the doctrine of Scripture, the only ground of certainty on all such subjects, a great Number of passages are so explicit, that no ingenuity of interpretation has been sufficient to weaken their evidence on this point
Midian - It was at this time that the Midianites, alarmed at the Numbers and the progress of the Israelites, united with the Moabites in sending into Syria for Balaam, the soothsayer; thinking to do that by incantation which they despaired of effecting by force. The result of this measure, the constraint imposed on Balaam to bless instead of to curse, and the subsequent defeat and slaughter of the Midianites, forms one of the most interesting narratives in the early history of the Jews, Numbers 22-25, 31. About two hundred years after this, the Midianites, having recovered their Numbers and their strength, were permitted by God to distress the Israelites for the space of seven years, as a punishment for their relapse into idolatry. But at length their armies, "like grasshoppers for multitude, with camels out of Number as sand by the sea side for multitude," which had encamped in the valley of Jezreel, were miraculously defeated by Gideon, Judges 6-8
Travelling - Their flocks of sheep and goats were about five thousand, besides a great Number of camels, horses, and asses
Roman Rite - During the Middle Ages the Roman Rite branched out into a great Number of other rites, differing only in unimportant details
Rite, Roman - During the Middle Ages the Roman Rite branched out into a great Number of other rites, differing only in unimportant details
Quantity - But we do not say, a quantity of men, or of horses, or of houses for as these are considered as separate individuals or beings, we call an assemblage of them, a Number of multitude
Society, Catholic Prisoners' Aid - A considerable Number are given work on ships, the society having agents at the principal ports
Salt - Their entire Number exceeds 2000
Unity - The Number 1 is unity, when it is not applied to any particular object but a unit, when it is so applied
Value - To reckon or estimate with respect to Number or power
Gid'Eon - By a second test at "the spring of trembling the further reduced the Number of his followers to 300
Laying on of Hands - One of the symbolic actions we meet a Number of times in the Bible is the laying on of hands. When Israel’s tribal leaders, acting on behalf of the whole nation, laid their hands on the heads of the Levites, they symbolized that the Levites were their representatives in the service of God (Numbers 8:10-11). Moses appointed Joshua as his successor by the laying on of hands (Numbers 27:22-23)
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The largest Number of figurative uses of “hand” relate to God. Examples of this concept include: Sarah's authority over Hagar (Genesis 16:6 ,Genesis 16:6,16:9 ), Joseph's administration of Potiphar's house (Genesis 39:3-8 ), and the role of Moses and Aaron as leaders of Israel (Numbers 33:1 ). ...
The Hebrew phrase “high hand” indicated willful rebellion against God (Numbers 15:30 ; see Deuteronomy 32:27 ) but also military power (Exodus 14:8 ; Micah 5:9 ). ...
The word “hand” was used in a Number of specialized ways
Candlestick - Josephus counts 70, a mystical Number, as was the seven, the Number of branches, implying divine perfection
Theophany - ...
Following are a Number of what may be considered classic theophanies. " Examples may be found in Genesis 11:5 , Exodus 34:5 , Number 11:25, and Numbers 12:5 . Although the most common verb for the manifestation of the glory of the Lord is "appeared" (Leviticus 9:23 ; Numbers 14:10 ; 16:19,42 ; 20:6 ), God's glory also "settled" on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:16 )
A - Merchants also Number their books by the letters - A,B,C, instead of figures. Public officers Number their exhibits in the same manner as the document A, or B. ...
In mathematics, letters are used as representatives of Numbers, lines, angles and quantities
Day And Night - Ezekiel 4:6) has been applied, so that the 1260 days have stood for the same Number of years. Similarly the ‘ten days’ of tribulation (Ezekiel 2:10), instead of being regarded as a round-number expression for a short and limited period (cf
Book - There also occur certain formulae at the beginning and end of books; as among the Jews, the word חזק , esto fortis, which we find at the end of the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Ezekiel, &c, to exhort the reader to be courageous, and proceed on to the following book. ]'>[1] At the end of each book the Jews also added the Number of verses contained in it, and at the end of the Pentateuch the Number of sections; that it might be transmitted to posterity entire. The Masorites and Mohammedan doctors have gone farther; so as to Number the several words and letters in each book, chapter, verse, &c, of the Old Testament and the Alcoran. " As this want of materials for writing will serve to account for the loss of many of the works of the ancients, and for the small Number of MSS. But when, in the eleventh century, the art of making paper was invented, and more especially after the manufacture became general, the Number of MSS. If the ancient books were large, they were formed of a Number of skins, of a Number of pieces of linen and cotton cloth, or of papyrus, or parchment, connected together. The extreme length and breadth of it shows the excessive Number and enormity of their sins, and the extent of their punishment. Some have thought it very probable that these descriptive phrases, which are frequent in Scripture, are taken from the custom, observed generally in the courts of princes, of keeping a list of persons who are in their service, of the provinces which they govern, of the officers of their armies, of the Number of their troops, and sometimes even of the names of their soldiers. Thus, when it is said that any one is written in the book of life, it means that he particularly belongs to God, and is enrolled among the Number of his friends and servants: and to be "blotted out of the book of life," is to be erased from the list of God's friends and servants, as those who are guilty of treachery are struck off the roll of officers belonging to a prince
Jesuits - He next went to Paris, where he collected a small Number of associates; and, prompted by his fanatical spirit, or the love of distinction, began to conceive the establishment of a new religious order. The reigning pontiff, though naturally cautious, and though scarcely capable, without the spirit of prophecy, of foreseeing all the advantages to be derived from the services of this nascent order, yet clearly perceiving the benefit of multiplying the Number of his devoted servants, instantly confirmed by his bull the institution of the Jesuits, granted the most ample privileges to the members of the society, and appointed Loyola to be the first general of the order. They were not required to spend their time in the long ceremonial offices and Numberless mummeries of the Romish worship. One of them in India produced a pedigree to prove his own descent from Brama; and another in America assured a native chief that Christ had been a valiant and victorious warrior, who, in the space of three years, had scalped an incredible Number of men, women, and children. The governors of the society pursuing one uniform system with unwearied perseverance, became entirely successful; and, in the space of half a century, had in a wonderful degree extended the reputation, the Number, and influence of the order. When Loyola, in 1540, petitioned the pope to authorize the institution of the Jesuits, he had only ten disciples; but in 1608 the Number amounted to 10,581. Even Henry, either dreading their power, or pleased with the exculpation of his licentious habits, which he found in their flexible system of morality, became their patron, and selected one of their Number as his confessor. Pope Clement III, prohibited their landing in his dominions; and, after enduring extreme miseries in crowded transports, the survivors, to the Number of two thousand three hundred, were put ashore on Corsica. They have produced a greater Number of ingenious authors than all the other religious fraternities taken together; and though there never was known among their order one person who could be said to possess an enlarged philosophical mind, they can boast of many eminent masters in the separate branches of science, many distinguished mathematicians, antiquarians, critics, and even some orators of high reputation
New Code of Canon Law - When the Vatican Council met in 1869 a Number of bishops of different countries petitioned for a new compilation of church law that would be clear and easily studied
Ark of Noah - Many questions have been raised, and discussed at great length by skeptics and others, respecting the form and dimensions of the ark; the Number of animals saved in it-whether including all species then existing in the world, except such as live in water or lie dormant, or only the species living in the parts of world then peopled by man; and as to the possibility of their being all lodged in the ark, and their food during the year, etc
Plague - Sent as a divine chastisement (Numbers 11:33 ; 14:37 ; 16:46-49 ; 2 Samuel 24:21 ). Plagues of Egypt were ten in Number. 9:1-7), or epidemic pestilence which carried off vast Numbers of cattle in the field
Canon Law, New Code of - When the Vatican Council met in 1869 a Number of bishops of different countries petitioned for a new compilation of church law that would be clear and easily studied
Palace - Manning, "by the praetorian troops on duty in the palace, a Number of rude caricatures are found roughly scratched upon the walls, just such as may be seen upon barrack walls in every part of the world
Lebanon - Lebanon proper, Jebel es-Sharki, commences at its southern extremity in the gorge of the Leontes, the ancient Litany, and extends north-east, parallel to the Mediterranean coast, as far as the river Eleutherus, at the plain of Emesa, "the entering of Hamath" (Numbers 34:8 ; 1 Kings 8:65 ), in all about 90 geographical miles in extent. ), from which a Number of lesser ranges radiate
Casual Security - A Number of men are upstairs in a house, amusing themselves with a game of cards
Elder - In Scotland there is an indefinite Number of elders in each parish, generally about twelve
Ebionites - they even made that saint tell a Number of falsehoods, the better to authorize their own practices
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A few years later Pilate was involved in another religious conflict when he slaughtered a Number of Samaritans on their sacred mountain
Satan - "By collecting the passages, " says Cruden, "where Satan, or the devil, is mentioned, it may be observed, that he fell from heaven with all his company; that God cast him down from thence for the punishment of his pride; that, by his envy and malice, sin, death, and all other evils, came into the world; that, by the permission of God, he exercises a sort of government in the world over his subordinates, over apostate angels like himself; that God makes use of him to prove good men and chastise bad ones; that he is a lying spirit in the mouth of false prophets, seducers, and heretics; that it is he, or some of his, that torment or possess men; that inspire them with evil designs, as he did David, when he suggested to him to Number his people; to Judas, to betray his Lord and Master; and to Ananias and Sapphira, to conceal the price of their field
Sanhedrin - (The Number was probably based on the ancient arrangement by which Moses and seventy elders administered Israel; see Numbers 11:24
Bethany - ...
Besides a Number of smaller references to Bethany, one final event took place there
Neither - But by usage it is applicable to any Number, referring to individuals separately considered
Prophecy - ...
There is in like manner a large Number of prophecies relating to those nations with which the Jews came into contact, as Tyre (Ezekiel 26:3-5,14-21 ), Egypt (Ezekiel 29:10,15 ; 30:6,12,13 ), Ethiopia (Nahum 3:8-10 ), Nineveh (Nahum 1:10 ; 2:8-13 ; 3:17-19 ), Babylon (Isaiah 13:4 ; Jeremiah 51:7 ; Isaiah 44:27 ; Jeremiah 50:38 ; 51:36,39,57 ), the land of the Philistines (Jeremiah 47:4-7 ; Ezekiel 25:15-17 ; Amos 1:6-8 ; Zephaniah 2:4-7 ; Zechariah 9:5-8 ), and of the four great monarchies (Daniel 2:39,40 ; 7:17-24 ; 8:9 )
Cherub - This expression was afterwards used to denote the Divine abode and presence (Numbers 7:89 ; 1 Samuel 4:4 ; Isaiah 37:16 ; Psalm 80:1 ; 99:1 ). (Ezekiel 1:4-14 ) speaks of four; and this Number of "living creatures" is mentioned in Revelation 4:6
Penitents - Of these, it is said, there are more than a hundred, the most considerable of which are as follow: the White Penitents, of which there are several different sorts at Rome, the most ancient of which was instituted in 1264: the brethren of this fraternity every year give portions to a certain Number of young girls, in order to their being married: their habit is a kind of white sackcloth, and on the shoulder is a circle, in the middle of which is a red and white cross
Heat - ) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain Number of heats
Sumer - ...
Originally, Sumer consisted of a Number of city-states, each with its own protective god
Enoch - A trace of an original connexion with the sun-god has been suspected in the 365 years of Enoch’s life (the Number of days in the solar year)
Judges - In the next place, the same chapter shows the word in process of receiving a wider application; owing to the increasing Number of those who come to seek counsel, only specially difficult cases are dealt with by Moses, while the ordinary ones are deputed to the heads of the families, etc
Innocents - The whole Number of victims, probably not more than twenty or thirty, would not make a very great sensation at that time
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She further declared her dislike of the Number of these exercises, and therefore commanded him peremptorily to put them down
Albany - Under the Dutch regime there were few Catholic inhabitants but after its transfer to Great Britain their Number was greatly augmented. The establishment of several new churches and schools followed rapidly and in 1929 Numbered 20,16 respectively
Increase - Hence, to become more in Number to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth wealth increases by industry heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian a multitude increases by accession of Numbers knowledge increases with age and study passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice
Sealing - The Number typifies the completeness of the remnant which is preserved through the great tribulation for blessing, and they are conspicuous as bearing the witness and mark of the living God
Abijah - The authority for this statement is not of the best kind; but the statement itself is substantially confirmed by Nehemiah 12:1-7, where twenty-two groups are referred to (in Nehemiah 12:12-21 the Number has fallen to twenty-one, and two of the courses are grouped under a single representative), and by Ezra 8:2, where two other priestly families are mentioned
Aramaic - A Number of Aramaic words came into common Hebrew usage, and several passages in the Hebrew Bible show Aramaic influence
Evangelization of Peoples, Congregation For the - The Congregation has its own cardinal prefect, a Number of cardinals with the usual officials, and a body of consultors
Sufficiency - When preceded by the preposition ke, “as,” the word usually means “according to”: “… The judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain Number” ( Confess - ...
Yâdâh overlaps in meaning with a Number of other Hebrew words implying “praise,” such as halal (whence halleluyah)
Accursed - With regard to persons, it denotes the cutting off or separating any one from the communion of the church, the Number of the living, or the privileges of society; and also the devoting an animal, city, or other thing to destruction
Caves - There are of these subterraneous caverns two hundred in Number
Camp - They are thus enumerated in Numbers 33 :—...
1 . Mountains of Abarim In the second year after their exodus from Egypt they were Numbered; and upon an exact poll, the Number of their males amounted to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty, from twenty years old and upward, Numbers 1:2 . That it failed not to produce effect upon the richly endowed and poetic mind of Balaam, appears from Numbers 24:2 ; "And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his parable and said, How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside waters
Rock - The Kenites dwelt in the hollow places of the rocks, Numbers 24:21 . Josephus in several places speaks of hollow rocks, where thieves and robbers had their haunts; and travellers still find a great Number of them in Palestine, and in the adjoining provinces
Red Sea - The Number of the Israelites wasprobably about two millions
Scorpion - There was only one of the Number that escaped the general destruction by taking refuge on the back of its parent; and this soon after revenged the cause of its brethren, by killing the old one in its turn
Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide - The Congregation has its own cardinal prefect, a Number of cardinals with the usual officials, and a body of consultors
Sacred Congregation For the Propagation of the Fai - The Congregation has its own cardinal prefect, a Number of cardinals with the usual officials, and a body of consultors
Nehemiah - This voluntary exile of a Number of discontented priests may have given occasion to the building of the temple on Mount Gerizim, and the establishment of the Samaritan worship
Army - --Every man above 20 years of age was a soldier, (Numbers 1:3 ) each tribe formed a regiment, with its own banner and its own leader (Numbers 2:2 ; 10:14 ) their positions in the camp or on the march were accurately fixed, Numb. 2; the whole army started and stopped at a given signal, (Numbers 10:5,6 ) thus they came up out of Egypt ready for the fight. (20:9) The army had then divided into thousands and hundreds under their respective captains, (Numbers 31:14 ) and still further into families. (Numbers 2:34 ; 2 Chronicles 25:5 ; 26:12 ) With the king arose the custom of maintaining a body-guard, which formed the nucleus of a standing army, and David's band of 600, (1 Samuel 23:13 ; 25:13 ) he retained after he became king, and added the CHERETHITES and PELETHITES . --The Roman army was divided into legions, the Number of which varied considerably (from 3000 to 6000), each under six tribuni ("chief captains,") (Acts 21:31 ) who commanded by turns
Leprosy - The word used of leprosy in the Old Testament had a broad meaning and denoted a Number of infectious skin diseases, some of which could be cured. ...
This exclusion of lepers from normal society resulted in many of them becoming beggars (Leviticus 13:45-46; Numbers 5:2; 2 Kings 7:3; 2 Kings 7:8; Luke 4:27; Luke 17:12)
Symbol - The writers, being of Jewish origin and addressing communities which usually contained a Number of Jewish Christians, naturally turned to the biographies, national history, and sacred institutions of the OT. Such were the rainbow at the Flood, the stone Ebenezer, the symbolical names often given to children, as Moses, Ichabod , and the names in Jacob’s family, the Urim and Thummim, the white stone, and the Number of the beast, etc
Joy - A Number of Greek and Hebrew words are used in the Bible to convey the ideas of joy and rejoicing. If such words as “joyous” and “joyful” are included, the Number comes to over 200
Passion - As to the Number of the passions, Le Brun makes them about twenty, ...
1. Some make their Number greater, adding aversion, love, emulation, &c
Puritans - The Number of them who did so, however, was very small. At the same time, however, it must be acknowledged that a goodly Number of each of the three denominations have adhered to the doctrine and spirit of their forefathers; and have proved the efficacy of their principles by their concern to be holy in all manner of conversation
Geology of Palestine - The evidence for this remains in a Number of raised beaches, especially in the valley of Sheriah, east of Gaza. In the glacial epoch there were extensive glaciers in Lebanon, which have left traces in a Number of moraines
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Another special instance of intervention was the occasion when “… Satan [1] stood up against Israel, and provoked David to Number Israel” ( Number Israel and Judah ( Damascus - It was the residence of the Syrian kings, during the space of three centuries; and experienced a Number of vicissitudes in every period of its history. He undertook to encourage and promote, to the utmost of his power, the sale and distribution of the Scriptures throughout the patriarchate; and, as a proof of his earnestness in the cause, he ordered, the next day, a Number of letters to be prepared, and sent to his archbishops and bishops, urging them to promote the objects of the Bible Society in their respective stations
Righteousness - Note, for this conception of righteousness, Ezekiel 18:5-9 , where ‘doing what is lawful and right ( tsĕdâqâh )’ is illustrated by a Number of concrete examples followed up by the general statement, ‘hath walked in my statutes and kept my judgments to deal truly,’ The man who thus acts, adds the prophet, is ‘just,’ rather ‘righteous’ ( tsaddîq ). ( e ) So in a Number of passages, especially in Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 ; Isaiah 49:1-26 ; Isaiah 50:1-11 ; Isaiah 51:1-23 ; Isaiah 52:1-15 ; Isaiah 53:1-12 ; Isaiah 54:1-17 ; Isaiah 55:1-13 ; Isaiah 56:1-12 ; Isaiah 57:1-21 ; Isaiah 58:1-14 ; Psalms 1:6 ; Isaiah 60:1-22 ; Isaiah 61:1-11 ; Isaiah 62:1-12 ; 1618384533_43 ; Isaiah 64:1-12 ; Isaiah 65:1-25 ; Isaiah 66:1-24 , ‘righteousness’ is almost synonymous with justification, salvation ( Isaiah 45:8 ; Isaiah 46:13 ; Isaiah 51:6 f. ’ In the Pauline Epistles, where dikaiosynç and dikaioô are most frequently used (85 times out of 131), the former in a considerable Number of cases describes not the righteousness required by God, but the righteousness bestowed by God and accepted by faith in Christ ( Romans 1:17 etc
Polygamy - The circumstances of the patriarchs living in polygamy, and their not being reproved for it, has given occasion for some modern writers to suppose that it is not unlawful: but it is answered that the equality in the Number of males and females born into the world intimates the intention of God that one woman should be assigned to one man; "for (says Dr. The Number of male infants exceeds that of females in the proportion of 19 to 18, or thereabouts; but this excess provides for the greater consumption of males by war, seafaring, and other dangerous or unhealthy occupations. In the article of population, which it has been thought to promote, the community gain nothing (nothing, I mean, compared with a state in which marriage is nearly universal;) for the question is not, whether one man will have more children by five or more wives than by one; but whether these five wives would not bear the same or a greater Number of children to five separate husbands
Ark - Hales proves the ark to have been of the burden of forty-two thousand four hundred and thirteen tons; and asks, "Can we doubt of its being sufficient to contain eight persons, and about two hundred or two hundred and fifty pair of four-footed animals, (a Number to which, according to M. But of such marches no intimation is given in the history; and this seems to render it probable that the animals which Noah was "to bring with him" into the ark, were the animals clean and unclean of the country in which he dwelt, and which, from the capacity of the ark, must have been in great variety and Number. The Number of such extinct species probably has been greatly overrated by Cuvier; but of the fact, to a considerable extent, there can be no doubt
Papyri And Ostraca - Rubbish mounds such as that which we just now assumed hypothetically to be discoverable in our own country, but which in reality, owing to the dampness of our climate, probably do not exist anywhere in the West, occur in large Numbers in Egypt. In the year 1778 a European noticed a Number of papyrus documents in the hands of some of these peasants; he bought one, and watched them burn some fifty others in order that they might enjoy the aromatic smoke. Though a good Number of other papyri reached the European museums in the course of the 19th cent. ...
Literary texts have come to light in large Numbers, though generally only in fragments. They comprise not only very ancient MSS of well-known authors, but also a large Number of lost authors; and lost writings by known authors have been partially recovered. Quite a Number of the papyri throw fresh light on early Christianity as a whole. Fragments of the Fathers, Apocryphal and Gnostic writings, liturgical texts, homiletic fragments, remains of early Christian poetry, have been recovered in large Numbers, both in Greek and Coptic. But to these must be added the large Number of non-literary documents, both Jewish and Early Christian, which are to be reckoned among the oldest relics of our religion. The existence of Semiticisms in the Greek Bible is of course not denied by recent Biblical investigators in the books translated from Semitic originals they are really numerous but the Number of Semiticisms has been considerably reduced, and in proportion as the Semitic character of the NT recedes, its popular character is made to advance. A Number of littérateurs suffered themselves to be bound by the rules of the Atticists, as if they had been living in the 5th cent. ...
In conclusion, reference may be made once more to the fact that recently, in addition to the papyri, a great Number of similar ancient texts, written on fragments of pottery, have been discovered in Egypt, viz. The ostraca, which are also Numbered by thousands, are on the whole even more ‘vulgar’ than the papyri, but for that very reason valuable to us in all the respects already specified with regard to the papyri
Beatitude - Their Number in Matthew. Adeney directs attention to the presence in the Acts of Paul and Thekla of a Number of fresh Beatitudes. Their Number in Matthew. In regard to the Number of Beatitudes in Matthew there have been diverse opinions; the decision depends upon the view taken of Luke 6:10-12—...
Luke 6:10. ...
If Matthew 5:10-12 is not counted as a Beatitude, the Number of perfection—seven—is obtained. ) prefers the mystical significance of eight to similar interpretations of seven; for if seven is the Number of rest after labour, ‘eight is the Number of blessedness and glory after rest’; he also dwells on the annexing of the promise of the Kingdom of heaven to the eighth Beatitude as well as to the first: ‘This is the consummation of blessedness; the recurring note of the beatific octave; also in the eighth Beatitude the word “blessed” is repeated for the sake of greater certainty and emphasis. To obtain the Number ten he not only counts Matthew 5:10-11 as the eighth and ninth Beatitudes respectively, but also treats Matthew 5:12 as the tenth Beatitude. The theory that Luke gives the more primitive form involves the assumption that Matthew omitted the Woes and inserted an equal Number of Blessings
Name - ]'>[19] The great majority of Mesopotamian names contain the name of a god, the greater Number containing two, some three, such elements, as Sin-kalama-idi, meaning ‘Sin knows everything. ]'>[29] A great Number of personal names in the OT are compounded of Jahweh, El, or Baal. ]'>[38] and the custom is clearly alluded to in the Apocalypse in the marking of the adherents of the Beast with his name or the Number of his name, Numbers, the Book of - The book takes its name from the Numberings (Numbers 1 and Numbers 26). The parts are four:...
(1) Preparations for breaking up the camp at Sinai to march to Canaan (Numbers 1 - 10:10). ...
(2) March from Sinai to Canaan's border; repulse by the Amorites (Numbers 10:11-14:45). ...
(3) Selected incidents and enactments during the 38 years' penal wandering (Numbers 15:1-19:22). ...
(4) Last year in the desert, the 40th year after the Exodus (Numbers 20:1-36;Numbers 20:13). ...
Israel's first encampment near Kadesh was at Rithmah (from retem , the "broom") in midsummer, in the second year after the Exodus; there for 40 days they awaited the spies' report (Numbers 13:20; Numbers 13:25-26; Numbers 33:18-19, from verses 20 to 36 are the stages of penal wandering). The tabernacle and Moses remained at Kadesh on the first occasion, while Israel attempted to occupy Canaan too late (Numbers 10:35-3661). The 17 stations belong to that dreary period (Numbers 33:19-36). At the second encampment at Kadesh they stayed three or four months (Numbers 20:1 with Numbers 1:22-28; Numbers 9:6-143). ...
The people mustering all together exhausted the natural water supply; the smiting of the rock, and the sentence on Moses and Aaron followed (Numbers 20:2 ff; Numbers 20:12; Numbers 20:13); from Kadesh Israel sent the message to Edom (Numbers 20:14, etc. On the messengers' return Israel left Kadesh for Mount Hor, where Aaron dies; then proceeded by the marches in Numbers 33:41-49 round Edom to Moab. The camp and tabernacle, with the priests and chiefs, during the wanderings, were the nucleus and rallying point; and the encampments named in Numbers 33:18-36 are those at which the tabernacle was pitched. Kehelathah ("assembling": Numbers 33:22) and Makheloth ("assemblies") were probably stages at which special gatherings took place. Fish at Ezion Geber (Numbers 33:35) was obtainable. The excessive hardships detailed Deuteronomy 1:19; Deuteronomy 8:15, belong to the closing marches of the 40th year through the Arabah, not to the whole period (Numbers 21:4). Numbers begins with the first day of the second month of the second year after they left Egypt (Numbers 1:1). Aaron's death occurred in the first day of the fifth month of the 40th year (Numbers 33:38), the first encampment in the final march to Canaan (Numbers 20:22). Between these two points intervene 38 years and three months of wandering (Deuteronomy 2:14; Numbers 14:27-35). Thus six months intervene between Aaron's death and Deuteronomy; in them the events of the fourth part of the Book of Numbers (Numbers 20:1 to the end) occurred, excepting Arad's defeat. The first month mourning for Aaron occupies, Numbers 20:29; part of the host in this month avenged Arad's attack during Israel's journey from Kadesh to Mount Hor. to Mount Hor (Numbers 20:23; Numbers 20:25). He feared their invasion would be "by way of the spies," namely, from the same quarter as before (Numbers 14:40-45; Numbers 21:1), so he took the offensive. The war with Arad precedes in time Numbers 20, Aaron's burial at Mount Hor, and is the first of the series of victories under Moses narrated from this point. ) Next, from Mount Hor Israel compassed Edom by way of the Red Sea (Numbers 21:4), a 220-mile journey, about four weeks, to the brook Zered (Numbers 21:12), the first westward flowing brook they met, marking therefore an epoch in their march. ...
Their defeat caused Balak to summon Balaam to curse Israel from "Pethor, which was on the river (Euphrates) in his native land" (so, Numbers 22:5), at least 350 miles distant. Two months suffice for his ambassadors to go and return twice, and for Balaam's prophesying (Numbers 22-24). Six weeks thus remain for Midian's seduction of Israel, the plague (Numbers 25), the second Numbering on the plains of Moab (Numbers 26), and the attack on Midian (Numbers 31), God retributively scourging the tempters by their own victims: "beside those (kings) that fell in the battle they put to death the kings of Midian (five, namely) Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba" (Numbers 31:8), "Balaam also they slew" judicially, not in battle. So Moses' death is foreannounced as to follow the vengeance upon Midian (Numbers 31:2). The catalog of stages from Egypt to Moab (Numbers 33:2) is expressly attributed to Moses. Leviticus completed the Sinai legislation, but the stay in tents in the wilderness required supplementary directions not originally provided, as Numbers 19:14, also Numbers 5; 1618384533_50; Numbers 19 (Numbers 19:11 the plague after Korah's rebellion necessitating ordinances concerning defilement by contact with the dead), Numbers 30; Numbers 36, the law of heiresses marrying in their tribe, being at the suit of the Machirite chiefs, as the law of their inheriting was issued on the suit of Zelophehad's daughters (Numbers 27), and that was due to Jehovah's command to divide the land according to the Number of names, by lot (Numbers 26:52-56). So the ordinances Numbers 15:4, etc. , Numbers 15:22; Numbers 15:24; Numbers 15:32. ...
The author's intimate knowledge of Egypt appears in the trial of jealousy (Numbers 5:11), the purifications of the priests (Numbers 8:7, etc. ), the ashes of the red heifer (Numbers 19); all having an affinity to, though certainly not borrowed from, Egyptian rites. So the people refer to their former Egyptian foods (Numbers 11:5-6). frontier town of Egypt (Numbers 13:22). References to the Exodus from Egypt (Numbers 3:13; Numbers 14:19; Numbers 15:41). The regulations for encamping and marching (Numbers 2; Numbers 9:16; etc. , Numbers 10:1-28), and Moses' invocation (1618384533_4). ...
The directions for removing the tabernacle (Numbers 3 and Numbers 4). The very inconsistency seeming between Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:30, fixing the Levites' limit of age to 30, and Numbers 8:24 appointing the age 25 (the reason being, the 30 was temporary, the Number of able-bodied Levites between 30 and 50 sufficing for the conveyance of the tabernacle in the wilderness; but, when Israel was in Canaan, the larger Number afforded by the earlier limit 25 to 50 was required: David enlarged the Number, as the needs of the sanctuary service required, by reducing the age for entrance to 20 (1 Chronicles 23:24-28), younger men being able then for the work, carrying the tabernacle being no longer needed). The tabernacle is presupposed near, which is true only while Israel was in the wilderness; "Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites" (Numbers 20:10-12), could only be written in Moses' time; the Amorites were not yet supplanted by the two and a half tribes: Numbers 32. ...
Gad held Dibon when Numbers 32:34 was written, but subsequently Joshua (Joshua 13:9-15; Joshua 13:17) assigned it to Reuben. In Numbers 34 more territory is assigned to Israel than they permanently occupied, and less than they for a time held (namely, Damascus, in the reigns of David, Solomon, and Jeroboam II). Hardly anyone but Moses could have written the pleadings and God's communications in Numbers 14:11-16, presuming they are historical, and they are inseparably connected with the history and legislation. ...
He used also existing materials, as in Numbers 21:14; Numbers 21:17; Numbers 21:27-30, "the book of the wars of the Lord" (the writers piously and truly call them "Jehovah's wars," not Israel's; compare Exodus 17:14; Exodus 17:16), a collection of sacred odes commemorating Israel's triumphs, from Egyptian days downward, including the passage of Arnon, the Song of the Well, the Conquest of Sihon, and the story and prophecies of Balaam, perhaps found in writing among the spoils of Midian when Balaam was slain (Numbers 31:8). In Numbers 21:14 read as margin "Vaheeb in Suphah," i. In Numbers 12:3 "Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth," he writes not by his own but the Spirit's prompting (Numbers 11:17). ...
He records his own faults as candidly, simply, and self ignoringly (Numbers 21:13; Exodus 4:24; Deuteronomy 1:37; compare the Antitype, Matthew 11:29). Traces of independent accounts interwoven together (Numbers 13:30, etc. , Numbers 14:11-25; Numbers 14:38-39), repetitions, and lack of consecutiveness, are observed. were in the wilderness" (Numbers 15:32) do not prove they were no longer there, but that the sabbath ordinance (Exodus 31:14) now violated was in force already, whereas other ordinances were to come in force only "when Israel should come into the land" (Numbers 15:2, etc. , Numbers 15:18, etc. ...
"Prophet" applied to Moses (Numbers 11:29; Numbers 12:6) was a usual term then (Genesis 20:7; Exodus 7:1), but fell into disuse in the time of the judges when there were strictly no "prophets," directly inspired (1 Samuel 3:1); hence, "seer" was the term for those consulted in difficult eases (1 Samuel 9:9). The organic connection of Numbers with the Pentateuch, of which it forms part, involves the Mosaic authorship of the former if Moses was author of the rest of the Pentateuch. The followers of Israel were Numbered with the holy seed, those born in the house or bought of a stranger (Genesis 17:12-13). A mixed multitude went with them at the Exodus (Exodus 12:38; Numbers 11:4). The main decrease was in Simeon, owing to their prominence in the idolatry and owing to the plague consequently falling heaviest on them (Numbers 25:6; Numbers 25:14). An objection is started because of the disproportion between 22,273, the firstborn, and 603,550 men of war (Numbers 3:43; Numbers 1:46). ...
But the firstborn meant are those born at and after the Passover on the eve of the Exodus (Numbers 13:2; Numbers 13:11-12), which was the ground of God's claim on them; the 603,550 include none of them, the 273 above the Levites' 22,000 had to be redeemed at five shekels each. In Numbers 9:1 the regular Passover in the first month, fourteenth day, is mentioned (Numbers 1:1); but Numbers 9:11 the supplementary Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The lambs were slain, as at the first institution, in groups of families in private, not at the sanctuary door as subsequently in Canaan (Numbers 9:3; Numbers 9:12; Deuteronomy 16). Considering how many would not be clean, the Number of communicants was probably 700,000; 50,000 lambs would suffice, allowing 14 persons for each lamb (Exodus 12:4)
Passion Week - The question is, then, whether the Passover day, the 14th Nisan, on which the Passover was eaten, is or is not included in the Number ‘six. to Number the days in proper order, as may be seen in its striking succession of morning and evening, thus:...
Mark 11:11 Evening of 1st day (the Triumphal Entry): καὶ πιριβλεψάμενος πάντα, ὀψὲ ἤδη οὔσης τῆς ὤρας, ἐξῆλθενν εἰς Βηθανίαν. : the writer’s own words in Luke 20:1 ἐν μιᾷ τῶν ἡμερῶν clearly imply that he had no distinct idea of the Number of days between the Triumphal Entry and the Passover (cf. , that the later writers did not trouble about such matters of detail, is most unsatisfactory, as all investigation of the growth and progress of the Evangelical record goes to show a constantly increasing interest in such minutiae as time and hour, place and Number, name and personality; witness, e. , that the writer of Mark 11:11 was anxious to intercalate one day more than the facts naturally allowed; that is to say, he figured to himself a delinite Number of days, and must distribute them somehow in the material before him
Libraries - More important was the library of Caesarea in Palestine collected by the martyr Pamiphilus (died 308), which contained a Number of manuscripts used by Origen in Rome
Lamentations, Book of - The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the Number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet
Ephraim, the Tribe of - Thus there were in reality thirteen tribes; but the Number twelve was preserved by excluding that of Levi when Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned separately (Numbers 1:32-34 ; Joshua 17:14,17 ; 1 Chronicles 7:20 ). At the time of the first census in the wilderness this tribe Numbered 40,500 (Numbers 1:32,33 ); forty years later, when about to take possession of the Promised Land, it Numbered only 32,500. During the march (see Numbers 2:18-24 )
Nethinim - So the Levites were "given" (nethunim ) unto Jehovah instead of the firstborn, and by Jehovah "given" to Aaron (see Numbers 3:9; Numbers 8:16-19). To the Levites 320 of the Midianite captives were given, and 32 to the priests ( Numbers 31:40; Numbers 31:42; Numbers 31:47). "...
The Nethinim were their successors; a larger Number of servants of the sanctuary being needed when David was reorganizing the worship, he and the princes "appointed" (Hebrew, "gave") Nethinim for the service of the Levites (Ezra 8:20), probably from the prisoners taken in war, upon their embracing the worship of Jehovah
Samaritan Pentateuch - Archbishop Usher was the first, or at least among the first, who procured it out of the East, to the Number of five or six copies
Block - ) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a Number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops
Chiliasm - ...
In modern times Chiliasm has been championed by a Number of prominent theologians, but particularly by sects like the Mormons, the Second Adventists, and, as pre-millenarians, by many professional evangelists
Lycaonia - The former part included Lystra and Derbe and a Number of smaller places, and it is correctly described in Acts 14:6 . and later) has been discovered in Lycaonia, which for Numbers cannot be matched in any other Eastern province
Much - Many in Number. Numbers 20 ...
This application of much is no longer used. Numbers 21 ...
A much afflicted, much enduring man
Nature - 74) finds in the Law ‘the general rule that nothing is to be permitted contrary to the delicate sense of the inviolable proprieties of nature,’ and gives a Number of instances ( Exodus 23:19 ; Exodus 34:26 , Leviticus 22:28 ; Leviticus 19:19 , Deuteronomy 22:9-11 , Leviticus 10:9 ; Leviticus 19:28 ; Leviticus 21:5 ; Leviticus 22:24 , Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Deuteronomy 23:2 )
Millennium - At the present time, in addition to the Second Adventists, millennial views are held strongly by a Number of earnest Christians commonly called pre-millenarians because of their belief that Christ will return before the period of a thousand years begins and establish an earthly reign
Figure - ) A character or symbol representing a Number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc. ) Value, as expressed in Numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure
Forty Martyrs, the - The Number of forty was not, however, broken
Earth - The primitive earths are reckoned ten in Number, viz, silex, alumin, lime, magnesia, baryte, strontian, zircon, glucin, yttria and thorina
the Brazen Altar - ...
*The Number 5 suggests responsibility thus 5 senses; 5 fingers, and 5 toes- man in exercise and responsibility
Uncircumcised - This word is applied in a Number of ways, but always with the thought of being antagonistic to GOD, rebelling against His rule, and refusing His authority
Virgin - 6:8: “There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins [1] without Number
Silver - 25:50 the word is used in the general sense of “money, value, price”: “And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the Number of years
Ephraim (6), Bishop of Antioch And Patriarch - 537, 538) He was the author of a large Number of theological treatises directed against Nestorius, Eutyches, Severus, and the Acephali, and in defence of the decrees of Chalcedon
Command - Biblical occurrences Number around 485
Devil - He tempted Eve, Genesis 3:1; he tried Job, Job 1:7; provoked David to Number Israel, 1 Chronicles 21:1; he tempted our Lord in the wilderness
Elisha - And at the word of the prophet, speaking in God's name, she-bears destroyed a Number of these mockers
Of - * Note: (1) In addition to the rendering of a Number of prepositions, "of" translates the genitive case of nouns, with various shades of meaning
Sanhedrin - Whilst some Jewish Doctors would trace back the Sanhedrin to the council of 70 elders instituted by Moses (Numbers 11), the earliest undisputed mention which we possess touching the council of elders of Jerusalem dates from the time of Antiochus the Great (223-187 B. Prior to the reduction of Judea to the status of a Roman province, criminal law was administered by the Sanhedrin and by a Number of lesser courts in various towns, the Sanhedrin acting as a court of appeals and having also the function of a trial court in certain cases
Report - The committee reported the whole Number of votes
e'Gypt - " It is in the dual Number, which indicates the two natural divisions of the country into an upper and a lower region
Narcissus - ‘The master was not a Christian, and therefore it was not his whole household, but in each case an indefinite Number of his servants who had been converted
Travail - 2, is used negatively in Galatians 4:27 , "(thou) that travailest (not)," quoted from Isaiah 54:1 ; the Apostle applies the circumstances of Sarah and Hagar (which doubtless Isaiah was recalling) to show that, whereas the promise by grace had temporarily been replaced by the works of the Law (see Galatians 3:17 ), this was now reversed, and, in the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, the Number of those saved by the Gospel would far exceed those who owned allegiance to the Law
Adoption - A Number of different words are used in the Bible to picture God’s gracious act of saving repentant sinners and giving them a new and living relationship with him
Demons - Within this unseen world are spirit beings beyond Number
Deacon - At first the apostles administered this daily welfare, but as the church Numbers increased, new arrangements became necessary. ...
As the early churches grew in Number and size, they saw an increasing need to organize their affairs properly
Tiglath-Pileser - An attack upon Samsi, queen of the Arabians, followed, the result being that a Number of tribes Sabæans, Mas’æans, etc. Meanwhile a Number of Israelitish nobles, with Hoshea as leader, revolted, and Pekah fled, but seems to have been murdered
Corinth - A Number of Roman names in the NT are found in connexion with Corinth; Crispus, Titius Justus ( Acts 18:7-8 ), Lucius, Tertius, Gaius, Quartus ( Romans 16:21-23 ), Fortunatus ( 1 Corinthians 16:17 ). , the local aristocracy; (2) resident Romans, government officials and business men; (3) a large Greek population; (4) other resident strangers, of whom Jews would form a large Number (their synagogue Acts 18:4 )
Glory - The glory of human beings is spoken of in reference to a Number of external manifestations and conditions, aspects of internal character, and the inherent condition of human nature. ...
Joseph's glory (Genesis 45:13 ) is his position in Egypt, David's (Psalm 21:5 ) and Jehoiakim's (Jeremiah 22:18 ) their royal position in Judah, and Joshua's (Numbers 27:20 ) his position of authority over the people of God. God's glory is something that appears (Exodus 16:10 ), is revealed (Isaiah 40:5 ), or can be seen (Numbers 14:22 ). Thus, God's glory is seen in the plagues and other miracles (Numbers 14:22 ), in the cloudy pillar (Exodus 16:10 ), in the theophany at Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:17 ; Deuteronomy 5:24 ), in the tabernacle (Exodus 29:43 ; 40:34-35 ; Numbers 14:10 ; 16:19,42 ; 20:6 ), in the fire initiating the sacrificial system (Leviticus 9:23 ), and in the ark of the covenant (1618384533_82 ) and the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 8:11 ; 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 ). In a Number of passages it is difficult to know whether God's glory refers to his actual glory or to human recognition of it
Sisters - It is, perhaps, significant of the estimation in which women were held, that although the names of Jesus’ ‘brothers’ are given in detail, we are nowhere in the canonical Gospels told either the names or the Number of His ‘sisters. The daughters of Joseph are almost universally said to be two in Number (‘Genuit quoque sibi … duas filias,’ Hist
Punishments - (Exodus 31:14 ; 35:2 ; Numbers 15:32-36 ) ...
Witchcraft, and false pretension to prophecy. But there is a large Number of offences, some of them included in this list, which are named in the law as involving the,penalty of "cutting off from the people. ( Numbers 25:4 ; 2 Samuel 21:6,9 ) ...
Burning , in pre-Mosaic times, was the punishment for unchastity. ( Genesis 38:24 ) Under the law it was ordered in the case of a priest's daughter (Leviticus 21:9 ) ...
Death by the sword or spear is named in the law, ( Exodus 19:13 ; 32:27 ; Numbers 25:7 ) and it occurs frequently in regal and post-Babylonian times. ( Exodus 21:18-36 ; Leviticus 24:18-21 ; 19:21) Slander against a wife's honor was to be compensated to her parents by a fine of one hundred shekels, and the traducer himself to be punished with stripes (22:18,19) ...
Stripes , whose Number was not to exceed forty, (25:3) whence the Jews took care not to exceed thirty-nine
Poetry - Of these some have reckoned only the rises (accented syllables), and others count the falls also, permitting only a certain Number of them to intervene between rises. This Number is made to depend on the metrical value of the syllables, which, according to some scholars, is determined by the Number of morœ , or time units, which they contain. The view that seems best to suit the facts as they exist, that makes the smallest demands in the way of departure from ordinary prose style, and that yields at the same time results reasonably satisfying to the poetic feeling, is this: the line was composed of a definite Number of accents, or, as ordinarily each word had one accent, of a definite Number of words. It is not to be counted as an exception when, in order to secure the regular Number of accents, two short words must be pronounced as one, as is so often done for other reasons with the insertion of a maqqeph ( ־ ), or when a word exceptionally long and heavy must be pronounced with two accents for the same purpose. ...
How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed?...
And how shall I defy whom Jahweh hath not defied? (Numbers 23:8 ). Numbers 21:17 f
Sheba - These discrepancies are sufficiently accounted for by the extensive commerce of the Sabæans, the Number of their settlements in distant regions, and the connexions which they were thus led to form. ...
Experts have differed with respect to the Number of periods into which the history of the Sabæan kingdom falls. ]'>[3] retains that Number by omitting Sharuhen from the list
Jehoiachin - " In Jeremiah 52:28 the Number is 3,023, but that was the Number carried away "in the seventh year," "in the eighth year" of Nebuchadnezzar the 10,000 were carried away. Evidently, the 4,600 in all mentioned (Jeremiah 52:30) as carried away do not include the general multitude and the women and children (Jeremiah 52:15; Jeremiah 39:9; 2 Kings 25:11), for otherwise the Number would be too small, since the Numbers who returned were 42,360 (Ezra 2; Nehemiah 7). Probably Assir left a daughter, who, according to the law of heiresses (Numbers 37:8; Numbers 36:8-9), married a man of a family of her paternal tribe, namely, Neri descended from Nathan
Number - After the captivity the Hebrew used the alphabet letters for Numbers, 'Αleph ( א ) equalling 1; Βet[1] ( ב ) equalling 2, etc. Our manuscripts all write Numbers at full length. But the variations make it likely that letters (which copyists could so easily mistake) originally were written for Numbers: compare 2 Kings 24:8 with 2 Chronicles 36:9; Isaiah 7:8, where 65 is in one reading, 16 and 5 in another. Numbers also have often a symbolical rather than a mere arithmetical value. ...
Zechariah and Daniel dwell upon seven; Daniel and Revelation use several Numbers to "characterize periods", rather than indicate arithmetical duration. Science reveals in crystallization and chemical combinations what an important part Number plays in the proportion of combining molecules of organic and inorganic life. ...
Three, like seven, is "a divine Number". The Trinity (Revelation 1:4; Revelation 4:8); three great feasts (Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:16); the threefold blessing (Numbers 6:14; Numbers 6:24); the thrice holy (Isaiah 6:3); the three hours of prayer (Daniel 6:10; Psalms 55:17); the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2). ...
The Number 3 1/2, one-half of 7, is "a period of evil cut short", shortened for the elect's sake (Matthew 24:22; James 5:17, three years' and a half drought in Israel; Luke 4:25; Revelation 11:2-3; Revelation 11:9; Revelation 12:6). Evidently these Numbers symbolize the long "Gentile times" from the overthrow of Judah's kingdom by Babylon, and of Jerusalem by Titus, down to the restoration of the theocracy in Him "whose right it is" (Ezekiel 21:27). The 42 months answer to Israel's 42 sojournings in the desert (Numbers 33:1-50), contrasted with the sabbatic rest of Canaan. The Numbers especially symbolical are 3, 4, 7, 10, 12, 40; 6 is so because coming short of the "sacred" 7, 8 as coming after 7 and introducing "a new series or era". ...
So in offerings and divine rites: Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 12:5; Leviticus 13:21-26; Leviticus 13:6; Leviticus 13:4; Leviticus 13:31; Leviticus 13:33; Leviticus 13:50; Leviticus 13:54; Leviticus 14:7-8; Leviticus 14:9; Leviticus 14:16; Leviticus 14:27; Leviticus 14:38; Leviticus 14:51; Leviticus 15:13; Leviticus 15:19; Leviticus 15:28; Leviticus 16:14; Leviticus 16:19; Numbers 12:14; 2 Kings 5:10; 2 Kings 5:14
Red Heifer - He will find the account of it set forth at large, Numbers 19:1-10. Seven times performing the sprinkling of the blood of the heifer may probably mean, as Scripture Numbers sometimes do, an indefinite Number for a definite, by way of shewing the importance of it. The Number seven is certainly used in Scripture with peculiar honour. The seven days of creation, the seventh day for the Sabbath, the seven times seven for the Sabbatical or Jubilee year, and the seventh day becoming an emblem of the everlasting Sabbath of heaven; all these are very high evidences of the peculiar honour conferred on the Number
Millennium - Perhaps Pagans, Turks, Deists, and Jews, will be as few in Number as Christians are now. And who knows but the present convulsions among different nations; the overthrow which popery has had in places where it has been so dominant for hundreds of years; the fulfilment of prophecy respecting infidels, and the falling away of many in the last times; and yet in the midst of all, the Number of missionaries sent into different parts of the world, together with the increase of Gospel ministers; the thousands of ignorant children that have been taught to read the Bible, and the vast Number of different societies that have been lately instituted for the benevolent purpose of informing the minds and impressing the hearts of the ignorant; who knows, I say, but what these things are the forerunners of events of the most delightful nature, and which may usher in the happy morn of that bright and glorious day when the whole world shall be filled with his glory, and all the ends of the earth see the salvation of our God? ...
See Hopkins on the Millen
Feeding the Multitudes - In the first instance (reported in Mark 14:15-21, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:12-17, John 6:5-13) the Number is given as 5000, exclusive (so Mt. In the second instance (reported in Matthew 15:32-39, Mark 8:1-9) the Number is given as 4000, Mt. The question of Jesus concerning the Number of loaves, the remarkable circumstance that a second time the disciples had so little food with them, the seating of the people on the ground, the distribution to the Twelve for redistribution among the multitude, the eating until they were filled, the gathering of the broken pieces into baskets, are suspiciously like the feeding of the 5000
Antichrist - "...
"The Number of the beast" is 666, i. 6, the world's Number, in units, tens, and hundreds. Six is next to the sacred seven, which it mimics but falls short of; it is the Number of the world given over to judgment. As twelve is the Number of the church, so six, its half, symbolizes the world kingdoms broken
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, City of - It was not until 1657 that the Sulpicians, four in Number, came to the colony, under the direction of M
Mark, Gospel According to - ), Number (5:13; 6:7, etc
Conscience - ...
Although the word “conscience” does appear in the Old Testament, the Hebrew word usually translated “heart” does refer to conscience in a Number of passages, for example, “Afterward David's heart smote him” (1 Samuel 24:5 )
Bibles, Chained - Hence we find that the leading Protestant libraries contained chained books in great Numbers. Indeed, it can be safely stated that the Number of chained books, in Protestant as well as Catholic libraries, during the two centuries following the Reformation, was far greater than that during the three preceding centuries
Chained Bibles - Hence we find that the leading Protestant libraries contained chained books in great Numbers. Indeed, it can be safely stated that the Number of chained books, in Protestant as well as Catholic libraries, during the two centuries following the Reformation, was far greater than that during the three preceding centuries
Elder, Eldest - of Genesis 50:7 ; Numbers 22:7 ; (2) in the Jewish nation, firstly, those who were the heads or leaders of the tribes and families, as of the seventy who assisted Moses, Numbers 11:16 ; Deuteronomy 27:1 , and those assembled by Solomon; secondly, members of the Sanhedrin, consisting of the chief priests, "elders" and scribes, learned in Jewish law, e. The Number twenty-four is representative of earthly conditions
Exceed, Exceeding, Exceedingly - ...
A — 2: περισσεύω (Strong's #4052 — Verb — perisseuo — per-is-syoo'-o ) "to be over and above, over a certain Number or measure, to abound, exceed," is translated "exceed" in Matthew 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians 3:9
Basilidians - New heavens were also created, until the Number of angelic orders, and of their respective heavens, amounted to three hundred and sixty-five, and thus equalled the days of the year
Apostle - Saul of Tarsus was afterwards added to their Number (Acts 9:3-20 ; 20:4 ; 26:15-18 ; 1 Timothy 1:12 ; 2:7 ; 2 Timothy 1:11 )
Deacon - " The result was, "the word of God increased, and the Number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith; and Stephen (one of the seven), full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people
Cyprus - Its copper mines in the mountains were once farmed to Herod the Great; hence, the Number of Jews on the island was natural
Enemy - David asked for help against his enemies on a Number of occasions (Psalm 25:2 ,Psalms 25:2,25:19 )
Louvain, University of - It has a large Number of affiliated institutions, among them the higher philosophic institute established by Pope Leo XIII and organized by Cardinal Mercier
Hiram - ’ In the parallel account ( 2 Chronicles 8:1-2 ) it is Hiram who gives cities (the Number is not specified) to Solomon
Remnant - Paul’s word correspond exactly with that of the passage in Isaiah 10:22, which he is here quoting from the Septuagint : ‘And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the Number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved’ (Septuagint , τὸ κατάλειμμα αὐτῶν σωθήσεται)
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin - The term for ‘mina’ is connected with a root meaning ‘to Number’; hence it signifies ‘God hath Numbered thy kingdom and brought it to an end’: ‘shekel’ is connected with a root meaning ‘to weigh,’ and hence ‘thou hast been weighed in the balance and found wanting’: ‘half-mina’ ( perâs ) suggests a double play; ‘thy kingdom is divided (peris ) and given to the Persians (Aram
Market, Market-Place - —The landscape of Palestine was characterized by the Number of its villages and the absence of isolated dwelling-houses on the cultivated lands
Gibeonites - The three years' famine, the Lord's answer when consulted as to the cause, that it was "for Saul and his bloody house because he slew the Gibeonites," and after the execution of Saul's seven (seven, the sacred Number, denotes the performance of a work of God) sons "the Lord being entreated for the hind," prove that David did not contrive or eagerly fall in with this device for ridding himself of the remainder of Saul's royal line. ...
The whole matter was divinely ordered to teach solemn moral lessons of God's government to the king and the nation (Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7; Leviticus 26:34-40; Numbers 14:18-34, especially Numbers 35:33, "blood it defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it"; Isaiah 14:20-21; Isaiah 65:6-7; Jeremiah 2:9; Jeremiah 32:18)
Pitch - ) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the Number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low
House - In quite a Number of places throughout the Scriptures the word "house" is used as a reference to a family in various generations, or to a nation
Chronicles, Books of the - This has been objected to on the ground of the genealogy in 1 Chronicles 3:1-24 : it is contended that the Number of generations after Zerubbabel in 1 Chronicles 3:19 is so large that the writer must have lived in the days of Alexander the Great, and therefore could not have been contemporary with Ezra
Feasts - The first mentioned is the Sabbath, and if this is counted as one, by considering the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread as one there are seven in all — the perfect Number. ' Numbers 29:39 ; 1 Chronicles 23:31 ; 2 Chronicles 31:3 ; Nehemiah 10:33
Great - Large in Number as a great many a great multitude
Ham - Hâm came to be considered the eponymous ancestor of a Number of other peoples, supposed to have been connected with Egypt ( Genesis 10:6-20 )
Albion - The Number of the army is unknown, but was considerable, as it was a migration of the whole tribe, and it largely changed the character and arrangements of population in Italy
Flock, Fold - Within this Jewish fold (αὑλή), our Lord tells us that, at the time when He spoke, He had a Number of sheep who were His own; and also that, outside of it, among the Gentiles, dark and miserable as their condition was, He had other sheep, who were His already, and were known to Him, even if they knew it not themselves
To - ) Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the Number of three hundred
Abbreviations - ...
A small superior Number designates the particular edition of the work referred to: as KAT Cornelius, Bishop of Rome - Fabius of Antioch, in which he gives an account of his rival, with statistics as to the Number of Roman clergy in his day
Midst - ...
Tâvek indicates the part of a space, place, Number of people, things, or line which is not on the end or outside edge
Over - ) A certain Number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places
To - ) Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the Number of three hundred
Wisdom (1) - It is put for true piety, or the fear of God, which is spiritual wisdom: "So teach us to Number our days, that we may apply or hearts unto wisdom," Psalms 90:12 ; "The fear of the Lord that is wisdom," Job 28:28
Fo - Many temples are reared to this deity, some of which are magnificent; and a Number of bonzes, or priests, are consecrated to his service
Redemption - ' God having smitten the firstborn of the Egyptians, claimed all the firstborn of Israel, and received the Levites instead of them; but there not being an equivalent Number of the Levites, the residue of the firstborn were redeemed by money: they were thus set free. Numbers 3:44-51
Lunatics - That a real dispossession took place, seems to follow from the Number of these impure inmates
Chain - This consists of a long chain, equipped with a sufficient Number of valves, moving on two wheels, one above the other below, passing downward through a wooden tube and returning through another
Tadmor or Tamar - So great a Number of Corinthian pillars, mixed with so little wall or solid building, afforded a most romantic variety of prospect
Regard - Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a Number of things then in use
University of Louvain - It has a large Number of affiliated institutions, among them the higher philosophic institute established by Pope Leo XIII and organized by Cardinal Mercier
Chief - Nasi' is a sheikh or tribal chief ( Numbers 25:18 ; Joshua 22:14 ). Ro'sh is the head ( Numbers 25:4 ; 2 Samuel 23:8 ; 2 Samuel 25:18 ; Job 29:25 and often in Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah). Ri'shon is Number one, the first ( Daniel 10:13 )
Trade - A traded with B for a horse or a Number of sheep
Locust, - Locusts occur in great Numbers, and sometimes obscure the sun. (Nahum 3:17 ) The sea destroys the greater Number
Barnabas - ...
Barnabas’ gift of encouragement showed itself on a Number of memorable occasions
Noetus, a Native of Smyrna Noetus - He denied at first that he had taught that "Christ was the Father, and that the Father was born and suffered and died," but his adherents increasing in Number, he acknowledged before the same council, when summoned a second time, that he had taught the views attributed to him