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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter A, section Amateur to Aquila. (The other sections under A are Aaron to ACV, Adam to Altars and Arabah to Azazel.)

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Amateur, amateurs

• "Amateur bible students" versus "professional theologians". → es07c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

America, American, Americans – Look under the heading "USA".

Ammi and Lo-ammi → ey02c.htm – ey01b.htm – ey10b.htm – ey12b.htm

Ammon → eo06f.htm (See the map in that essay.)

Ammuwd – The pillar (ammuwd) of 2 Chronicles 23:13. → ey14b.htm Amos

• The Jews sort the book of Amos under the section Neviim, "the Prophets", and further under the sub-sections "the Latter prophets" and "the Minor prophets".
• Passages in the book of Amos, mentioned at this site:
  • Amos 5
    • 7 → (ea12c.htm)
    • 17 → (ea12c.htm)
    • 26-27 → ew05c.htm
  • Amos 9
    • 11 → ey14b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Ampelos (John 15) → ea11c.htm

Anagennaô (anagennêsas) (1 Peter 1:3) → eb06b.htm

Anastasis (rising, rising up) → eb09c.htm

Anathema (excommunication) → ea10c.htm – Look also under the heading "Excommunicate".

Analogy, analogies – Look under the headings "Parables", "Parallels" and "Allegory".

Anatolia – Look under the heading "Asia".

Andrew the apostle → es04-2.htm (For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.)

Angel, angels, angelos, angeloi, αγγελος, αγγελοι

• On the actual meaning of the Greek word angelos (αγγελος) → ed07b.htm – see even the footnote in the essay ea03d.htm
• Regarding the words "angel" and "arch-angel". Also: Are there angels of different kinds or "ranks"? → ed07b.htm
• Do angels have wings? → ed07b.htm – ed01c.htm
• Were the cherubim angels, and also, was Satan a cherub? → ed01c.htm – ed05c.htm
• Was Satan an angel? → ed04c.htm
• Some talk about "hierarchy" among angels, but the Bible gives no support for that. A closer study shows that even the word and concept "archangel" is based on a misunderstanding. → ed07b.htm
• On the origin and meaning of the word "demon". → ed08c.htm
• Different things regarding Satan, mankind's arch-enemy. → ed04c.htm
• Was Satan ever an "angel of light" (or an angel at all, for that matter)? And, was he ever called Lucifer ("light-bringer")? → ed04c.htm – ed05c.htm
• Can angels die? → ed02c.htm
• On the "angels" of the assemblies mentioned in Revelation 2 and 3. → See the footnote in the essay ea03d.htm.
• On "dragons", "flying serpents", seraphs, satyrs, unicorns, the leviathan, and other odd creatures which appear in many bible-versions. Are there really unicorns, satyrs and dragons in the Bible? Also: Is Satan a "dragon"? → ed03b.htm
• Cherubs, cherubim, keruwbim (in NT Greek cheroubim). → ed01c.htm – ed05c.htm
• Seraphs, serafim, seraphim (saraphs, sarafim, saraphim). → ed03b.htm
• Does the Bible say that Satan was an angel – or an archangel? → → ed04c.htm – ed07b.htm
• God's plan which was kept secret from the rebel angels. → ed06c.htm
• The role of angels in the forming of the Old Covenant. → ed06c.htm
• Angelic rulers or powers had a say-so regarding mankind's fate (Galatians 3:19, Acts 7:53, Hebrews 2:2). → ed06c.htm
• The mystery of the ages, the secret of God (Colossians 1:26). Or, how Jesus conquered and spoiled certain "powers and principalities", "princes of this age", "thrones" and "dominions". → ed06c.htm
• Does Ezekiel 28 talk about the king of Tyre as the Bible says, or about Satan as some claim? (This essay considers Isaiah 14 also.) → ed05c.htm
• The angeloi (αγγελοι) of Revelation 1, 2 and 3 probably were human messengers (couriers), carrying letters from John. → ed07b.htm (see even the footnote in that essay)
• Revelation 8:2, "And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets". → et06d.htm
• "Third angel's message" (as a partial source for the "Ezekiel message" dogma). → ey09c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Spirit", "Demons" and "Devil".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anglo-Israelism, Anglo-Israelists, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons

• The lost ten tribes of Israel in prophecy. What happened to Israel's northern tribes? Where are they today? Does the Bible give any clues regarding their fate? → ey01b.htm
• The ten lost tribes of Israel – did they move into Europe? Who are the north-west European peoples of our day? → ey11b.htm
• Are Britain and the USA "the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh", as some Anglo-Israelists claim? This essay shows what the Bible really says about that. → ey04c.htm – ey11b.htm – ey01b.htm – ey16b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Tribes of Israel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anna

• Some have claimed that Jesus' maternal grandmother supposedly was called Anna – but the Bible does not say that. Whom the Catholic "saint Anna" or "saint Anne" really symbolises and refers to, is hard to say.
• Luke 2:36 mentions a prophetess called Anna, but that is something different.
• Some old bible-translations spell the name of Hannah (Hebrew Channah) who is mentioned in 1 Samuel 1, as "Anna".
• The Apocrypha (Tobit 1) mentions a woman whose name is in some English translations spelled as Anna.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anoêtos

• On why the apostle Paul called the Galatians foolish (Greek anoêtos, Galatians 3:1 and 3). → ec10c.htm
• 1 Timothy 6:9, "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish (Greek anoêtos) and hurtful lusts". → em08c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anoint, anointed, anointing

• English anointed = Hebrew mashiyach = Greek christos. Details:
• First, the origin of the English verb "to anoint" (such as, with oil): It comes via from Old French enoint, "smeared on", from Latin inungo, "to smear", "to rub in".
  • Apparently, the original use of the word "anoint" (or of the Old French enoint) had to do with smearing on grease or oil for medicinal purposes, but in the 14th century that word began to be used in bible-translations of ceremonies where oil was for symbolical reasons poured on a person. The Wycliffe translation (1395) used, with various spellings, such words as anoynt, anoynte, annoynte, anoynted, annoynted, anointid, anointyng and annoyntynge.
  • The related words "ointment" and "unguent" come likewise via Old French (oignement) from Latin (unguentum, smearing with oil).
• Greek and Hebrew, including the phrases ho Christos and haMashiyah and the English words "Messiah and "Messias":
  • Among the "anointing-related" verbs in the Greek text of the NT are aleiphô (Matthew 6:17 et cetera), murizô (Mark 14:8), chriô (Luke 4:18 and so on), epichriô (John 9:6 and 11) and egchriô (Revelation 3:18). More:
    • Related with the verb chriô are the adjective christos, "anointed", and also the noun chrisma, "anointing".
    • Ho Christos (meaning "the Anointed [one]"), a Greek translation of the Hebrew haMashiyah ("Messiah") which likewise meant "the Anointed [one]".
      • A note: The adjective christos, "anointed", appears more than 500 times in the Greek text of the NT, but most bible-versions have failed to translate it and use instead the Greek word, however leaving out its two last letters.
      • The essay eg07b.htm as more on the meaning of the words christos and christianos.
      • The LXX (the Septuagint) used the word christos around 40 times, as a translation of the Hebrew mashiyach (and some few times of mashach or mishchah). Often, where the 1769 KJV Old Testament has "anointed", the Hebrew has mashiyach and the LXX Greek christos.
      • The essay eo02d.htm explains the actual meaning of the words antichristos (1 John 2:18, 2:22 and 4:3 and 2 John 7) and pseudochristos (Matthew 24:24 and Mark 13:22).
  • Also the kings of Israel were ceremonially anointed, with olive oil. The verb used in that connection was mashach (related to mashiyach, "anointed", anglicised "Messiah") – 1 Samuel 9:16 and 16:13, 1 Kings 1:34, and so on.
    • Those who look at the use of the word mashiyach in 1 and 2 Samuel, will find that the kings of Israel were sometimes called mashiyach ("anointed"), and even "the Lord's anointed". However, regarding our day and the title "God's anointed", see the next point:
  • On the title "the Anointed" (Hebrew ha-Mashiyach whence "Messiah"; Greek ho Christos whence "Christ"). → ea08b.htm – Look also under the heading "Messiah".
• The "anointing" (chrisma) which the saints received. → eb01c.htm
• Some talk about "anointed elders". Were the elders that the saints chose, "anointed" or "ordained"? → ee02b.htm
• Matthew 24:24, "For there shall arise false Anointed ones and false prophets". → eo09e.htm
• 1 John 2:22, "Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Anointed" → eo02d.htm
• Regarding false Anointed ones (false Christs, false Messiahs). → eo02d.htm – eo09e.htm
• Look also under the headings "Messiah", "Christ", "Chrisma", "Olive, olives, olive oil" and "Lamp, lamps, lampstand, lampstands".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anomia (1 John 3:4) → ec14b.htm

Answer, answered, answering, answers

• In order to find an answer to some particular question, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anthroposophy, Anthroposophians → (ew04d.htm)

Antichrist, antichrists, Greek antichristos, antichristoi

• The word antichristos which occurs in the Greek text of the apostle John's letters, is in fact a synonym for the word pseudochristos which is found in the Greek text of Matthew 24:24 and Mark 13:22. (The Greek prefix anti had different uses and meanings.) Both words mean "false Anointed one", "false Messiah". → eo02d.htm – eo09e.htm
• The antichristoi whom the apostle John mentioned, were many, and they existed in his own day. They had already come forth, when John wrote his letters. → eo02d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Antioch, Antiocheia

• Antioch (in the NT Greek Antiocheia) – two towns, both named after Antiochus, a Syrian king:
  1. Antioch, a town close to the coast of the north-eastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea. It was relatively close to Tarsus, the town where the apostle came from.
  2. Antioch, an inland town in the middle part of what today is Asiatic Turkey.
• Acts 14:26 and 15:1-2 – some Jewish men had come from Jerusalem to Antioch, with strange teachings. Because of that, the saints in Antioch sent Paul, Barnabas and some others to Jerusalem, to settle a certain matter. → eo04d.htm
• Acts 11:26, "And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch". The word Christianos was a by-word that outsiders used of the believers. → eg07b.htm
• Ignatius, "bishop of Antioch", is one of the very first "apostolic fathers" (that is, figures who appear in Catholic writings). The religion that he (supposedly) had and taught, was very different from that of the saints. → eg04b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Antitype and type, antitypes and types

• The Greek noun antitupos meant, among other things, "corresponding", "representing", "resembling" and "echoing" – on the other hand, it could also signify such things as "resembling" in the meaning "feigned", "counterfeit" and even "opposed to".
  • The verb antitupoô meant something like "to express as by a figure". The noun antitupia had several meanings, among them "reflection" (of light).
• In "theological talk", the meaning of "antitype" is (quoting the WordWeb dictionary), "A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament".
• Examples of type and antitype (the "shadow" and the Real Thing):
  • Moses was a type who foreshadowed Jesus. → eo08c.htm
  • The earthly Promised Land was and is a type of a heavenly Promised Land. → eb05b.htm
  • The Old Covenant was only a shadow of the New Covenant which was to come. → ec02d.htm – ec11c.htm – ex02c.htm
  • The Old Covenant's high days were "shadows of things to come". → eo07d.htm – ex02c.htm – ex05b.htm – ex10d.htm
  • The Old Covenant's weekly, ritual day of rest was a type, a shadow of things to come. → ex03c.htm – eb05b.htm
  • The earthly Jerusalem and the earthly Promised Land served as types and shadows of heavenly things. → eb05b.htm
• On the ensamples, examples or types of 1 Corinthians 10:11. → (ec02d.htm)
• Look also under the heading "Symbol, symbolic".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Anvil, anvils (and stones)

• Some use anvils and stones (and swords) as religious symbols – what is the meaning? → (ew04d.htm) – (ea14c.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aorist

• One of the peculiarities of old Greek is the aorist tense. When a verb is in the aorist tense, the reader is not told whether the action in question has already taken place, is taking place, or will take place later. There is no direct or clear English equivalent for that tense.
• Regarding the Greek text of the New Testament: Many bible-versions almost always translate verbs that are in the aorist tense, with the English simple past tense. In many cases, that can be both confusing and misleading.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aparchê

• In Revelation 14:4, the Greek word which many translate as "first fruits" or "firstfruits" was aparchê which really had the meaning "the beginning of a sacrifice", "the firstlings for sacrifice", "the first-fruits". → et03c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Apekduomai (apekdusamenos, Colossians 2:15) → ed06c.htm – eo07d.htm

Aphilarguron, aphilarguros (Hebrews 13:5 and 1 Timothy 3:3) – Look under the headings "Philarguria, philarguros" and "Silver and gold".

Apistia

• The unbelief or apistia of Mark 6:6. → eb10b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Apocalypse, apocalypsis (apokalupsis) – Look under the heading "Revelation".

Apodekatoô (and dekatê, dekatos, dekatoô) → em01d.htm – (eo12c.htm)

Apographô

• The apographô (registering) of Luke 2:1, 3 and 5 and Hebrews 12:23. → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Apostasia, apostasion, "apostasy", "apostasies"

• In the NT, the word apostasion (including its feminine form apostasia) occurs in Matthew 5:31 and 19:7, Mark 10:4, Acts 21:21 and 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Many preachers have caused people to think that the apostasia that the Bible talks about, supposedly refers to "leaving a church" (or the dogmas of a church, or something similar). But, that is not so.
  • In the passages in Matthew and Mark, the word apostasion refers to divorce.
  • In the case of Acts 21:21, it was used in connection with an event when some Jews rejected the Lord Jesus. (For them, accepting Jesus as the Lord would have been apostasia, because they held on to the Old Covenant.)
  • In the case of 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the apostle Paul used the word apostasion (apostasia) when he warned the saints in Thessalonica not to allow themselves to be deceived to follow false Messiahs and in that way turn their backs on Jesus (whom they had been betrothed to).
• Here are some examples of how apostasion/apostasia was used in the LXX (the Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament):
  • In Deuteronomy 24:1 and 3, it was used as a reference to divorce – biblion apostasiou, "a letter of divorce".
  • Joshua 22:22 (apostasia) and 2 Chronicles 28:19 (apostasei) and 33:19 (apostaseis), refer to Israel falling away from the Lord.
    • Here it is important to realise that when the Israelites made a covenant with the Lord (at Sinai), that was really a marriage covenant. See for instance Jeremiah 31:32, "my covenant which they broke although I was a husband unto them, says the Lord".
  • Isaiah 50:1 mentions to biblion tou apostasiou tês mêtros humôn, "your mother's letter of divorce".
  • In Jeremiah 2:19, apostasia refers to Israel turning their back on the Lord.
  • In Jeremiah 3:8, biblion apostasiou, "letter of divorce", refers to how the Lord divorced the northern tribes of Israel (who were unfaithful to him).
• Apparently, apo-stasis, apo-stasion came from apo-histamai (aphistamai, aphistêmi) which referred to "standing away from", "putting away", and so on. Related verb, apostateô, meaning "to stand aloof from", "to defect", "to abandon".
• The by churches and preachers commonly used concept of "apostasy" in the meaning "leaving a church", has nothing to do with the Bible.
  • Again: The apostasia of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 was not about some "church". It was regarding the saints' covenant-relationship with Jesus. Their betrothal to Jesus was a binding covenant (regarding marriage). Paul urged them not to abandon Jesus – whom they were betrothed to – by following some false Messiahs (false "Anointed ones").
  • As to churches – even though most modern-day English bible-versions use the word "church", for instance Tyndale used it only twice, in both cases as a reference to buildings connected to idol-worship. The essay eg06b.htm explains the actual origin and meaning of the word "church". Look also under the heading "Church".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Apostle, apostles, apostolic, apostolos

• The old Greek word apostolos, apo-stolos, simply meant "someone sent forth", "an envoy". Really, a messenger, sent by someone. The related verb apostellô (apo-stellô) meant "to dispatch", "to send (off)".
  • More on the word "apostle" and on "apostleship". → ee01c.htm – ea08b.htm
• The names of the apostles – a list of the twelve apostles and their different name-forms. → es04-2.htm (See point 2 on that page.)
• The 12 were Jesus' apostles; only Jesus is God's Apostle. → ea08b.htm
• The parable of the vinedresser, the vine, the branches and fruit. How the apostles were to bear spiritual fruit to God (John 15). → ea11c.htm
• Does Jesus have apostles here on Earth, today? → ea08b.htm – ee01c.htm
• How the apostles were to bear spiritual fruit to God (John 15). → ea11c.htm
• Where did the apostles really go? → ey10b.htm – em05e.htm
• Look also under the headings "Disciples", "Saints", "Assembly", "Elders", "Paul" and "Peter".
• For those who are interested – free, printable word-search puzzles:
  • With words related to the apostles. → puzzle21-p.pdf
  • With words related to the apostle Peter. → puzzle38-p.pdf
  • With words related to the apostle John. → puzzle41-p.pdf
  • With words related to the apostle Paul. → puzzle22-p.pdf
  • With words related to Paul's journeys. → puzzle61-p.pdf
  • The apostle Paul addressing the elders in Ephesus. → puzzle20-p.pdf
  • Large print versions, and many more bible-based puzzles. → ep01.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Appointed, appointing

• How the saints chose their elders. → ee02b.htm
• Are this world's kings, rulers and governments "appointed by God"? → ew02c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aqaba, Aqabah (the Gulf of Aqaba, a part of the Red Sea)

• The Exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea: Did Israel cross over the Gulf of Suez, or the Gulf of Aqaba? Or, was it some "reed sea" that they crossed, as some have claimed? → eo06f.htm – eo06-2.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Aquila and Priscilla (Greek, Akulas and Priskilla)

• Aquila and his wife Priscilla were tentmakers, just as the apostle Paul was (Acts 18:1-3). → em03c.htm – es07c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

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