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Adam

• The first passage where the word adam appears in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, is Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man [Hebrew, adam] in our image, after our likeness". Some have suggested that the noun adam ("man") might have been related to the verb adam which had to do with the red colour (Exodus 25:5, et cetera) and thus perhaps with "red earth", but that is speculation. We do not know with certainty what the linguistic root of adam in Genesis 1:26 really was, but in Genesis 2:7 we read that adam (the first man) was made or formed of the dust of the earth or ground. There, "dust" is aphar and "ground" is adamah. See also Genesis 3:19.
  • A note: The Hebrew word adam is found in around 527 OT verses, but for instance the 1769 KJ version contains the word "Adam" in only 20 verses, including Joshua 3:16 where it refers to a name of a city. In the Greek text of the New Testament, the word adam occurs in 7 verses.
• First Adam and last Adam – "The first man Adam became a living creature, the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit" (1 Corinthians 15:45). → eb06b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Eve".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Add, added, addition

• The "added law" of Galatians 3:19 – what was it? → ec10c.htm – ec02d.htm
• Jesus said to his disciples, "And all these things shall be added to you" (Matthew 6:33 and Luke 12:31). What did he mean? → eo10d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Adikêma, adikeô, adikia, adikos and adikôs. → eg08b.htm – Look also under the headings "Dikaiôma", "Dikaiosunê" and "Righteous, righteousness".

Advent

• The actual meaning and symbolism of the Advent period before Christmas. → ew05c.htm
• Adventus, as a Latin translation of the Greek word parousia. → (eg05b.htm)
• Look also below, under the heading "Adventism".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Adventism, Adventist, Adventists

• Adventism is to a large part based on the teachings of the Freemason and Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849). – Look under the heading "Miller".
• Regarding the Adventist (Millerite) dogma about "seven church eras", see the essay ea03d.htm, and look also under the heading "Eras".
• Among the Adventist section of post-1844 Millerism, there has been a teaching regarding "the Third Angel's Message". One modified variant of that is the (Anglo-Israelist) "Ezekiel message" dogma – but, is it in agreement with Bible facts? → ey09c.htm
• The "Sacred Names" movement comes from a split of Seventh Day Adventism, which in its turn was a split of the Millerist movement. – Look under the heading "Sacred".
• Some Adventists keep the Old Covenant's high days. – Look under the heading "High days".
• Many Adventists keep the Sabbath, often from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. What day of the week should one worship on? → ea04c.htm – ex10d.htm – ex11b.htm – Look also under the headings "Sabbath" and "Sabbatismos". Regarding the Decalogue, see the essay ec06f.htm. The essay ex03c.htm considers the symbolism of the Old Covenant's weekly, ritual day of rest, the Sabbath.
• Nowadays, many Adventists keep even Christmas. For the actual meaning and symbolism of Christmas and the Advent period which precedes it, see the essay ew05c.htm.
• Look also above, under the heading "Advent".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Adversary

• The English word "adversary" (meaning "opponent", "rival") comes from the Latin adjective adversus, "turned against" (that is, opposing).
• The Adversary – Look under the heading "Devil".
• On the adversaries mentioned in Jeremiah 30 – that chapter shows that in coming days, Jacob (Israel) will be saved, while her adversaries will be destroyed. → ey08c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aeterna – Look under the heading "Eterna".

Agar (Hagar) – Look under the heading "Hagar".

Age, aged, ageing, ages

• The younger generation should take care of their ageing parents. → em07b.htm – Look also under the heading "Elderly".
• The kings, rulers and governments of this age – are they really "appointed by God", as some have claimed? → ew02c.htm
• On how Jesus conquered and spoiled certain "princes of this age", "powers and principalities", "thrones" and "dominions". → ed06c.htm
• Some preachers have claimed that there exists "a succession of the pure and original church throughout the ages". Is that true? → ea01d.htm – ea03d.htm – eg06b.htm – eg04b.htm
• The "mystery of the ages", the secret of God (Colossians 1:26). → ed06c.htm
• The phrase "the Ten Commandments" was coined in the Middle Ages and is a mistranslation. The Hebrew text talks about "the words of the covenant, the ten words". → ec06f.htm
• On the "New Age" movement. → (ew05c.htm) – (ew04d.htm)
• On what the term "golden age" actually refers to. → ew05c.htm – ew03b.htm – ew04d.htm
• In 1 Timothy 5:17, the word presbuteros refers, not to "elders" but to the elderly, aged people. → em07b.htm – ee04c.htm
• On how the saints took care of the aged people and the sick and the needy. → em07b.htm – Look also under the heading "Good works".
• The "judgment at the completion of the age" (Matthew 13). → et07e.htm
• At the end of this age, at the Harvest time, "wheat" will be gathered to God who had sown it, but the "darnel" which was sown by the enemy, will be bundled up and burned. → ew11c.htm
• Revelation 14:10 – Will men or angels be tormented with fire and brimstone, for ages and ages? → et08b.htm
• In the Middle Ages, the Jews invented a new name for Pentecost, "the memorial of the giving of the law". → ex02c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Elderly".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aggelos, angelos (αγγελος) – Look under the heading "Angel, angels".

Agios – Look under the heading "Hagios".

Agriculture, agricultural

• On the Old Covenant's tithe, which was a tenth part of agricultural produce. → em01d.htm
• The parable of the darnel ("tares"), the evil seed which the Enemy sowed. → ew11c.htm
• The parable of the vinedresser, vine, branches and fruit (John 15). → ea11c.htm
• The eventual symbolism of the agricultural land-sabbath of Leviticus 25. → (et07e.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Agrupneô, agrupnia, agrupnousin

• Agrupnia or "watchings" in 2 Corinthians 6:5 and 11:27 – Paul was talking about keeping awake at nights. He used the Greek noun agrupnia in its literal meaning, "remaining awake".
  • Often, the reason why Paul did not sleep, was that he worked at nights (as a tent-maker), in order to support himself. See 1 Thessalonians 2:9, "For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God" (EMTV). Regarding Paul's example in that connection, see the essay em03c.htm; see even the essay em02c.htm, and look under the heading "Silver and gold".
• The meaning of the verb agrupneô (agrupnousin) in Hebrews 13:17 is explained in the essay ee04c.htm.
• Look also under the heading "Watch, watching, watchings".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ahasuerus

• Hebrew Achashverowsh, sometimes in the shorter form Achashrosh, apparently of Persian origin, perhaps the same as Artaxerxes which was the name of several Persian kings. (Some translate Achashverowsh as "Xerxes".)
• King Ahasuerus is mentioned in the book of Esther (and shortly in Daniel 9:1) – "this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces", Esther 1:1.
  • A map of the area in question, and maps of some ancient kingdoms. → ew08b.htm
• Ahasuerus took Esther (Hadassah) to be his wife (or one of his wives – but she was made queen, see Esther 2:17).
• Look also under the headings "Esther", "Purim" and Daniel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aidês (haidês, hadês) – Look under the heading "Hell".

Aid, aiding (helping the poor) – Look under the headings "Social welfare", "Widow, widows", "Good works", "Charitable, charities, charity", "Love, loving", "Sick, sickness, sickly" and "Righteousness".

Aischrokerdês, aischrokerdôs → em08c.htm – (ee05b.htm)

AKJV (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Akrogôniaios (versus koruphôsis)

• Some preachers have talked about pyramids and pyramid structured hierarchies, and claimed that the word akrogôniaios in the Greek text of Ephesians 2:20 and 1 Peter 2:6 (and in Isaiah 28:16 in the LXX) supposedly refers to a top-stone, a "pyramid capstone". But, the Greek word for a cap-stone or top-stone was koruphôsis. The word akrogôniaios referred to a corner-stone in the meaning "foundation stone". → ea05c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Akrothinion (Hebrews 7:4). → em01d.htm

Al Arish (Wadi al Arish) → eo06f.htm

Albigenses, albigensian → (ea03d.htm)

ALF (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Alien, aliens – Look under the heading "Foreign, foreigners".

All, all things (everything)

• On Titus 1:15 and the translation "to the pure all things are pure", and what the apostle Paul really meant and referred to. → ee05b.htm
• "All things are lawful", 1 Corinthians 6:12 – explanation. → eo11c.htm
• Paul to the elders of Ephesus: "I have shown you in everything, by working like this, that we must support the infirm." → em02c.htm
• Are all things fit for food? → ef01b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 1:10, "all speak the same thing" – what did the apostle Paul mean? → ea06c.htm – Look also under the heading "Assembly".
• Jesus to his disciples: "But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you" (Luke 12:31). What did Jesus mean? → eo10d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Allegory (allêgoroumena, allêgoreô, Galatians 4:24)

• The word "allegory" comes from the old Greek noun allêgoria which meant "description of one thing under the image of another". The adjective allêgorikos meant "figurative", and the related verb, allêgoreô (Galatians 4:24), meant "to speak figuratively".
• Galatians 4 and the allegory regarding the two covenants, with Hagar, Mount Sinai and the earthly Jerusalem, versus Sarah, the heavenly Mount Zion and the heavenly Jerusalem. → ea02d.htm – ec10c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Allow, allowed, allowing

• Many people wonder, why does God allow evil, sickness, pain, war and suffering? → ew01b.htm
• The darnel ("tares") is allowed to grown along with the wheat, until the harvest time. → ew11c.htm
• When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 70, they were not allowed to take with them a bag for money. → em05e.htm
• Edom did not allow Israel to pass through. → eo06f.htm
• Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land, nor were most of the other Israelites who had left Egypt. → eo06f.htm
• The apostle Paul told the saints in Colosse that they were not to allow anyone to condemn them or to call their actions into question, regarding meat or drink or feasts or other days. → eo07d.htm
• Some have claimed that a thousand years after Jesus' return, Satan will be allowed to deceive this world once again. Is that true? → et07e.htm – et10b.htm
• Many bible-translations make it seem that the apostle Paul taught that "all things" were allowed or "lawful" for the saints. But, that is not what Paul meant. → eo11c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Alms

• "Alms" is an old word that refers to helping the needy (such as the poor and the sick and so on). It comes from the Greek noun eleêmosunê which meant "pity", "mercy" (related to the adjective eleêmôn, "pitiful", "merciful", and the verb eleeô, "to have pity on", "to show mercy upon").
• For more on that subject, look under the headings "Good works", "Social welfare", "Widow, widows", "Charitable, charities, charity", "Love, loving", "Sick, sickness, sickly" and "Righteousness".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Almighty

• In the 48 passages where the KJV-1769 Old Testament has the word "almighty", the Hebrew word is shadday. (Turning that the other way around: The 1769 King James version always translated shadday as "almighty".) – Look also under the heading "Omnipotent".
• In the passages where the 1769 KJ version New Testament has the word "almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:18 and Revelation 1:8, 4:8, 11:17, 15:3, 16:7, 16:14, 19:15 and 21:22), the word in the Greek text is pantokrator. For more on this, look under the heading "Omnipotent".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Alpha – Revelation 1:8 and 11 and 21:6 and 22:13 mention alpha, the first letter in the Greek alphabet. It is from the Greek letters alpha (Α, α) and beta (Β, β) that we get the word "alphabet" (see below.)

Alphabet

• On how the Greek alphabet is at this site transcribed into English letters, look under the heading "Greek".
• Look also under the heading "Alpha", above.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Alphaeus (Alphaios)

• James the son of Alphaeus (the apostle) → es04-2.htm
• Levi the son of Alphaeus (Mark 2:14) → es04-2.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

ALT (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Altar, altars

• A note: The New Covenant has no altar or altars, but the word "altar" (Greek thusiastêrion) nevertheless appears a number of times in the New Testament.
• James 2:21, "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?" → eb10b.htm
• The New Covenant has no physical temple or altar. → ea04c.htm
• Hebrews 13:10 – those who served the New Covenant's "tent" ("temple"), had no right to "eat from the altar". → em08c.htm – ea15c.htm – ee05b.htm – em01d.htm – em07b.htm – eo03d.htm
• Revelation 9:13-14, "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." → et06d.htm
• Luke 11:50-51, "The blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple". What did Jesus mean? → ew11c.htm
• During the Feast of Booths, there was a ritual encircling of the altar, with trumpet sounding. Boughs of willow branches were attached to the altar. Water was poured out by the altar. On the seventh and last day the people beat the palm leaves which they held in their hands, into pieces by the side of the altar. → ex06c.htm – ex07c.htm – (ex08c.htm)
• Freemasonry has altars. It is not "merely an old, harmless society for men". It is actually a religion with altars, temples and priests. And, it does not serve the true God who is in Heaven. → ew04d.htm – ea05c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Sacrifice" and "Offer".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

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