BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H704
ar.ba — Arba
A man of the Anakim, living before Israel's Monarchy., first mentioned at Jos.14.15 § Arba = "fourth" 1) the father of Anak and the greatest of the giants (Anakim) 2) see qir.yat ar.ba (קִרְיַת אַרְבַּע "Kiriath-arba" H7153) if translated "city of Arba"
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G3625
oikoumenē — world
οἰκουμένη, -ης, ἡ (fern. Pres. pass. ptcp. of οἰκέω; sc. γῆ) [in LXX chiefly for תֵּבֵל, אֶרֶץ ;] the inhabited earth; (a) in cl., the countries occupied by Greeks, as disting. from barbarian lands (Hdt., Dem., al.); (b) in later writers, the Roman world: Luk.2:1, Act.11:28 24:5; by meton., of its inhabitants : Act.17:6 19:27; (with) in LXX (Psa.23:1 71:8, al.) and NT, also of the whole inhabited world: Mat.24:14, Luk.4:5 21:26, Rom.10:18, Heb.1:6, Rev.3:10 16:14; by meton. (ut supr.), Act.17:31, Rev.12:9; (d) of the Messianic age, ἡ οἰ. ἡ μέλλουσα = ὁ αἰὼ ὁ μέλλων: Heb.2:5.† (AS)
15 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7153
qir.yat ar.ba — Kiriath-arba
Kirjath-arba = "city of Arba" early name of the city which after the conquest was called 'Hebron' Another name of chev.ron (חֶבְרוֹן "Hebron" H2275A)
9 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G915
barbaros — barbarian
βάρβαρος, -ον (prob. onomatop., descriptive of unintelligible sounds), [in LXX: Ps 113 (114):1 (לעז), Eze.21:31 (36) (בּער), 2Ma.2:21 4:25 10:4, 3Ma.3:24 * ;] barbarous, barbarian, strange to Greek language and culture (and also, after the Persian war, with the added sense of brutal, rude): Act.28:2, 4 Rom.1:14, 1Co.14:11, Col.3:11 (see Lft., in l., and Notes, 249).† (AS)
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6164
ar.va.ti — Arbathite
Group of bet ha.a.ra.vah (בֵּית הָֽעֲרָבָה "Beth-arabah" H1026) § Arbathite, of Betharabah "desert house" an inhabitant of Beth-arabah
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6503
par.bar — colonnade
§ Parbar = "open apartment" a structure or building attached to the west side of Solomon's temple
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4027
perikatharma — garbage
περι-κάθαρμα, -τος, τό (περικαθαίρω, to purify on all sides or completely, Deu.18:10, Jos.5:4, 4Ma.1:29*), [in LXX: Pro.21:18 (כֹּפֶר)* ;] 1. a victim, expiation (Pr, l.with). 2. refuse, rubbish: pl., 1Co.4:13 (see ICC, in l).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4657
skubalon — garbage
σκύβαλον, -ου, τό [in LXX: Sir.27:4 * ;] refuse, esp. dung (see MM, ii, iii, xxiii): Php.3:8.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4658
Skuthēs — Scythian
Σκύθης, -ου, ὁ Scythian, an inhabitant of Scythia, i.e. Russia and Siberia, a synonym with the Greeks for the wildest of barbarians: Col.3:11.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G702
Aretas — Aretas
Ἀρέτας (WH, Ἀρ.; Intr., 313), -α, ὁ, Aretas, an Arabian king: 2Co.11:32 (Deiss., BS, 183 f., thinks the proper spelling Ἀρέθας was changed, as Schürer suggests, "by desire to Hellenise a barbaric name by assimilation to ἀρετή").† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3267
ya.az — be fierce
1) to be strong, be fierce (meaning uncertain) 1a) (Niphal) barbarous (participle)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9714
chelidōn — a swallow
1. the swallow , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—; the twittering of the swallow was proverbially used of barbarous tongues by the Greeks, (Aeschulus Tragicus); χελιδόνων μουσεῖα (see. μουσεῖον); proverbs also, μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ (Aristotle Philosopher) 2. the frog in a horse's foot , so called from its being forked like the swallow's tail , (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Four, a giant, father of Anak. From him the city of Hebron derived its name of Kirjath-arba, i.e., the city of Araba (Josh. 14:15; 15:13; 21:11; Gen. 13:18; 23:2). (See HEBRON.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
