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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter P, section Padanaram to Pella. (The other sections under P are Pension to Physicians, Picture to Printing and Priscilla to Pyramids.)

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Padanaram (Genesis 25:20, et cetera)

• Padanaram (Paddam, Paddanaram, Paddan Aram) was located in Mesopotamia. – Look under the heading "Mesopotamia".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paid, pay, paying, payment

• Did the saints have a "paid ministry"? Or, were the elders paid, in the saints' assemblies? And, does the Bible command believers to give money to preachers or churches? → em05e.htm – em02c.htm – em03c.htm – em04c.htm – em01d.htm – em06d.htm – em07b.htm – em08c.htm – em09c.htm – em10b.htm – ee05b.htm
• Should believers give tithes of their pay-check, to come church or preacher? → em01d.htm
• Did the apostle Paul receive payment (wages), for his proclaiming? → em02c.htm – em03c.htm – em09c.htm – em05e.htm
• Some preachers quote Haggai 2:8-9, the words "the silver is mine, and the gold is mine", and claim that they, as supposed "special representatives of God", supposedly have a right to receive tithes. But, those who bother to check the context, will see that Haggai 2:8-9 does not refer to money, or even to silver and gold in general, but only to the temple silver and temple gold which had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon (and then returned). The essay em01d.htm (which is about the "tithe question") has more on this.
• Look also under the headings "Silver and gold", "Wages" and "Tithe".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paidagôgos (a word in the Greek text of the New Testament)

• The apostle Paul described the Old Covenant as a paidagôgos (a guide of small children, a tutor). → ec06f.htm – ec02d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pain, painful

• Why does God allow evil, wars, pain, sickness and suffering? → ew01b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pagan, pagans

• On the origin and meaning of the words and concepts "gentile", "pagan" and "heathen". → eg01c.htm
• "There is neither Greek nor Jew" (Romans 10:12, Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11). → eg01c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Palestina, Palestine (Hebrew Pelesheth, "Philistia")

• The word "Palestina" was the Latin form of a name the Romans (the Roman empire) used of the territory between the Mediterranean and the line formed by the Dead Sea, the Jordan river and the lake of Gennesaret. It is thought that the name Palestina came from Philistia which was a Latin transcription of the Hebrew Pelesheth (Exodus 15:14, Psalms 60:8 and so on). The Greek Septuagint (LXX) translated Pelesheth in varying ways, such as phulistiim (Exodus 15:14) and allophuloi (the 7 other passages where the Hebrew text has Pelesheth).
  • The words "Palestine" and "Philistia" do not occur in the 1769 King James version New Testament.
  • In New Testament times, Palestine was under Roman control. It was divided into Philistia (about the same as the Gaza strip of our day, by the Mediterranean), Idumea in the south, then north of it Iudaea (Judea, roughly between the Dead Sea and Philistia/Gaza), then Samaria north of Judea, and then Galilaea (Galilee) north of Samaria. In year 6 CE, the Romans combined Idumea, Iudaea and Samaria into one province, using the name Iudaea of the whole area.
  • In those days, the Jews in Palestine lived mostly in Judea and Galilee. Samaria which lay between those two, was mostly inhabited by non-Jews; this fact comes to expression in several New Testament passages, for instance John 4:3-4.
• In the 1769 KJ version, the word "Palestine" occurs in Exodus 15:14, Isaiah 14:29 and 31, and Joel 3:4, as a translation of the Hebrew Pelesheth which has been interpreted in various ways, such as "rolling i.e. migratory", "land of sojourners", and so on. Whether the word Pelesheth in those four mentioned passages referred to "the land of the Pelishtiy" ("Philistines") or to something else, is not clear.
• Look also under the headings "Canaan", "Israel", "Judea", "Samaria", "Galilaea, Galilee", "Jerusalem", "Promise, Promised Land" and "Tribes of Israel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Palingenesia (παλιγγενεσια) (Titus 3:5) → eb06b.htm

Palm, palms

• The 144,000 and the great multitude before God's throne, with palm branches in their hands (Revelation 7:9). → et03c.htm – (et04c.htm) – (et06d.htm) – (ex04c.htm)
• The use of parts of the citrus tree and the palm tree in the temple ceremony. → (ex06c.htm) – (ex07c.htm) – (eo13b.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Panêgurei, panêguris (πανηγυρει, πανηγυρις)

• In the Greek text of Hebrews 12:23, panêgurei kai ekklêsia prôtotokôn en ouranois apogegrammenôn, "the festal gathering and assembly of the first-born ones registered in Heaven" – what time and place did those words refer to? → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm – et07e.htm – et08b.htm – ex02c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pantokrator (Revelation 19:6, et cetera) – Look under the heading "Omnipotent".

Parable, parables.

• The parable of the sower (Matthew 13:3-23) – a warning against the deceitfulness of riches. → em08c.htm
• The parable of the wicked seed sown by the enemy, the "tares" (darnel, zizania) in Matthew 13. → ew11c.htm
• Matthew 13:33, "He told them another parable. 'The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.'" → ex01c.htm
• The Reign of God pictured as "leaven" (Matthew 13:33). → ex01c.htm
• Matthew 16:18 ("the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"). → ea01d.htm
• The parable of the marriage feast, Matthew 22. → eb02c.htm
• The parable of the fig tree (when mentioned in Matthew 24:32, Luke 21:29, Mark 13:28). → eg04b.htm – et04c.htm – et06d.htm
• The virgins, the lamps and the oil (Matthew 25). → eb07d.htm
• The parable of the sheep and the goats at judgment time (Matthew 25). → eb12b.htm – em07b.htm
• The parable or explanation regarding defilement (Mark 7:18-19). → ef01b.htm
• The parable of the evil vinedressers who killed the son of the owner of the vineyard (Mark 12:1-9). → ed06c.htm
• The parable of the rich man who planned to build larger barns (Luke 12:16-20). → eb13e.htm – eo10d.htm
• The parable with two men praying, one of them, a Pharisee, despising the other (Luke 18). → eo12c.htm
• The vinedresser, the vine, and the branches (John 15). How the apostles were to bear spiritual fruit to God. → ea11c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Jesus".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paradiatribê (paradiatribai, 1 Timothy 6:5) → em08c.htm

Paradise (Eden)

• Etymology of the English word "paradise": It is a non-translation of the Greek word paradeisos (Luke 23:43, 2 Corinthians 12:4, Revelation 2:7). It is said that the old Greek noun paradeisos was of oriental (Persian) origin and referred to "a park" or "a pleasure garden". A paradeisarios was a gardener.
• The Greek Septuagint (LXX) translated the Hebrew word eden (which had to do with "pleasure" and "luxury") as paradeisos. Often, the Septuagint translated even the word gan as paradeisos. (There are exceptions. For instance, in Genesis 2:8, the Septuagint left eden untranslated, as edem (sic), and translated the word gan in that same verse as paradeisos.)
• In the New Testament, the word paradeisos always refers to a place in Heaven – see Luke 23:43, 2 Corinthians 12:1 and Revelation 2:7. (The earthly pleasure garden where Adam and Even first lived, was a real place here on Earth, but at the same time a symbol and shadow of the heavenly Paradise or Garden.)
• For more on Paradise (Eden), look under the heading "Eden".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paraklêtos ("Comforter", "helper", John 14:16 and 26, 15:26, 16:7 and "advocate", "helper", 1 John 2:1) – Look under the heading "Spirit".

Parallel, parallels

• Parallels or similarities between Moses and Jesus. → eo08c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Parechô

• On the word parechô (parechonti) in 1 Timothy 6:17. → eo10d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pareimi – Look below, under the heading "Parousia".

Pareleusonthai (parerchomai) (2 Peter 3:10). → et07e.htm

Parent, parents

• What "honouring one's parents" really means. → em07b.htm
• How the saints took care of the elderly, the sick and the needy. → em07b.htm
• What parents should know about the scout movement. → ew10b.htm
• What parents should know about "Rainbow girls" and "Job's daughters". → ew04d.htm
• Look also under the headings "Widows", "Elderly", "Children", "Father", "Mother", "Daughters", "Son, sons" and "Seed, seeds".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Parepidêmos (Hebrews 11:13 and 1 Peter 2:11, and even 1 Peter 1:1)

• On the meaning of the word parepidêmoi (parepidêmos) in Hebrews 11:13. → eb05b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Pilgrim".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Parerchomai (pareleusonthai) → et07e.htm

Parousia

• The Greek word parousia appears 22 times in the New Testament. It is formed from the present participle of the verb pareimi (para + eimi, "besides" or "near" + "to be"). Parousia had a double meaning and could refer either to "coming" or to "presence". It is always the context that shows how it is meant and used. In the KJV-1769 NT, it was translated 22 times as "coming" and 2 times as "presence"; the same in the NASB. The first occurrence of parousia in the Greek NT text is found in Matthew 24:3, in translation, "what shall be the sign of your coming [parousia]".
• So, the word parousia occurs several times in the New Testament and is in that way is a biblical word and concept. However, that does not in any way mean that the dogmas that churches and preachers have created around that word, would be biblical.
• The essay eg05b.htm has more on parousia, and also on the word "rapture" which is in a complicated way derived from the Latin text of 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Parse, parsed, parser, parsers, parsing

• In the biblical context, the word "parsing" refers to analysing Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words syntactically.
• Bible software with capabilities for Greek and Hebrew parsing. → es02c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pass, pass away, passed, passing

• Matthew 24 and the generation which did not pass away before certain things had happened. → eg04b.htm – et04c.htm – et06d.htm
• Look also below, under the heading "Passover".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Passover (Hebrew pesach, transliterated as pascha in the LXX and NT Greek. Apparently from the Hebrew verb pasach, "to pass over", "to skip over".)

• The Old Covenant's Passover, and the New Covenant's bread and wine. → ec04g.htm
• The Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. → ex01c.htm – ex09c.htm
• For the Jews, there were eight days of unleavened bread in the Passover-period. Also the preparation day was counted as unleavened. → ex01c.htm – ex09c.htm
• The Passover-lambs were eaten with bitter herbs. Why? → ea12c.htm
• Were the Passover-lambs to be eaten on the 14th or on the 15th day of the first month? → ex09c.htm
• Pentecost was called "the Feast of Weeks" because that day was always kept seven weeks after a certain day in the Passover season. → ex02c.htm – ex09c.htm
• It was only 45 days after they had eaten the Passover lambs, that the Israelites entered the wilderness of Sinai. Consequently – where was Sinai located? → eo06f.htm
• The Old Covenant's high days "overlapped" in their symbolism. For instance Jesus' sacrifice was portrayed by both the Passover in the spring and by the rituals of the Day of Atonement in the fall. → (et06d.htm) – (ex05b.htm)
• Did the Jews keep their Passover "one day late", the year when Jesus was killed? → ex09c.htm
• The wave sacrifice of barley in the Passover season, and the counting of the date for Pentecost. → ex09c.htm
• The Jews say that the "night of solemn observance" was the same as the Passover evening. Some "Christian" preachers have claimed that it was not. Which is correct? What does the Bible really say about that matter? → ex09c.htm
• The Passover lambs were to be killed "between the evenings", Hebrew ben ha arbayim (Exodus 12:6, et cetera). Did that phrase refer to "twilight" or "dusk" (as some have claimed), or to the middle of the afternoon? → ex09c.htm
• For those who are interested: A printable word-search puzzle with words related to the Passover in Egypt. → puzzle48-p.pdf (More bible-based puzzles. → ep01.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Pastor, pastors

• The word pastor is Latin and means "shepherd". Compare with "pasture", from Latin pastura which meant "feeding", "grazing".
• In the 1769 KJ version New Testament, the word "pastor" occurs in 1 passage, Ephesians 4:11. The makers of the King James translation (1611) copied that word from the Catholic Vulgate version which had pastores et doctores. The Greek phrase in question is poimenas kai didaskalous, "shepherds and teachers". See the essays ea08b.htm and ee01c.htm for more on the title "pastor" that is used in many churches. The essay ee02b.htm shows the truth about the Catholic dogma regarding "ordination" and "ranks".
• The 1769 KJ version has "pastor" even in the OT, in Jeremiah 2:8, 3:15, 10:21, 12:10, 17:16, 22:22 and 23:1-12 – the makers of the KJ version (1611) copied that word from the Catholic Vulgate version which had in those verses pastores/pastorem/pastoribus. The Hebrew word in question is the verb raah (ra'ah) which had to do with grazing and so on. Many other bible-versions render raah in those passages as "shepherd".
  • (The word raah occurs 173 times in the OT; the KJV-1769 translates 165 of those occurrences with other words, such as "herdmen", "shepherd" and "feed".)
• On the title "Pastor". → ea08b.htm – ee01c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Diakonos", "Episkopos", "Presbuteros", "Elders", "Clergy", "Lay, lay people, layman, laymen", "Assembly", "Ordain", "Church" and "Preach, preacher".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Patience, patient, patiently

• Jesus to his disciples: "Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. (Luke 8:14-15). → em08c.htm
• The apostle Paul to the saints in Rome: "He will give to each according to his works: Everlasting life truly to those who with patience in good work are seeking glory and honour and incorruptibility" (Romans 2:6-7). → em08c.htm
• Paul to the Jewish saints: "[...] so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12). → em08c.htm
• James to certain saints: "Be patient, therefore, beloved, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near." (James 5:7-8.) → eg04b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Patriarch, patriarchs

• In the 1769 KJ version, the word "patriarch" occurs in 4 verses, Acts 2:29 and 7:8-9, and Hebrews 7:4. In the Greek text, the word in question is patriarchês, combined of pater, "father", and archês, "chief", the meaning being, "the father or chief of a tribe or a race". Thus, such men as Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob and his twelve sons, were patriarchs.
  • In the LXX (the Septuagint, an ancient Greek translation of the OT), the word patriarchês occurs 1 Chronicles 24:31 and 27:22 and 2 Chronicles 19:8, 23:20 and 26:12.
• Regarding the word "patriarch" as a religious title – see the essay ea08b.htm.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paul – the apostle Paul and his letters (saint Paul and his epistles)

• Paul's name: In the Greek NT text, he is for the most part called Paulos, but in the book of Acts he is sometimes called Saulos (see Acts 13:9, and more). Saulos could have been a Greek form of the Hebrew Saoul, "desired" – anglicised as "Saul". The name Paulos probably came from the Latin adjective paulus, paullus which meant "little", "small". Whether that name referred to Paul's physical height, we do not know. Paulus, Paullus was also a Roman surname.
• Paul's birth and home area: He was a Jew, of the tribe of Benjamin, born in Tarsus which was a coastal city in Cilicia in the north-eastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea. (That he was born in Tarsus, is stated in Acts 22:3. Thence, the epithet "Paul of Tarsus" or "Saul of Tarsus" that some use.) But, it seems that Paul had lived many years in Jerusalem, see Acts 22:3 et cetera. He was a Roman citizen – see Acts 21:39 and especially Acts 22:28.
• Paul's education and religious background: His skilful use of the Greek language in his letters shows that he was a learned man. We can expect that in addition to Hebrew, Aramaic ("Syriac") and Greek, Paul knew also Latin and perhaps a few other languages as well. In his past, he had belonged to the Pharisean sect (see Acts 22:3, 23:6 and 26:5, Philippians 3:5 and more) – but after his conversion he rejected his past, see all of Philippians 3:5-8. (A note: Acts 23:6 does not mean that Paul supported the Pharisees. When he shouted "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee", he did that only for the purpose of dividing the council where accusations against him were being examined by both Sadducees and Pharisees. Again, see all of Philippians 3:5-8.)
• Paul's occupation: By trade (work, source of income), Paul was a tent-maker, see Acts 18:1-3, and even Acts 20:34 and 2 Thessalonians 3:8. (The essay em02c.htm has more on Acts 20; 2 Thessalonians 3:8 is discussed in several papers at this site, among them the essay em03c.htm.)
• All of the Paul's correspondence is not preserved for us to read. See for instance 1 Corinthians 5:9 and 7:1 which show that Paul had written to Corinth already before "1 Corinthians", and Colossians 4:16 which indicates that the apostle Paul had written a letter to Laodicea.
• On the apostle Paul and his teachings. → eo11b.htm – See also the essay list that begins below, on the next text line.
• The apostle Paul made himself an example of something, and told others to copy or imitate his example. It is important to know what that example really was. → em03c.htm – em02c.htm
• What Paul really wrote about "following men". → em03c.htm
• Paul's trade (occupation) was that of a tentmaker. → em03c.htm – es07c.htm
• Paul on avoiding certain kinds of people and withdrawing from them. → ea10c.htm
• Paul on elders and similar matters. – Look under the headings "Elders" and "Assembly".
• Paul on money. → em02c.htm – em03c.htm – em04c.htm – ee05b.htm – em05e.htm – em01d.htm – em06d.htm – em07b.htm – em08c.htm – em09c.htm – em10b.htm
• Paul on "predestination". → eb03d.htm
• Paul on the governments of this world. → ew02c.htm
• Did Paul really uphold slavery, as the 1769 KJ version makes it seem? → eo16b.htm
• Did James and Paul disagree with each other, regarding "works"? → eo11b.htm
• Acts 15 and the matter of the covenants. → eo04d.htm
• Why Paul said to certain elders that it was for them "more blessed to give than to receive". → em02c.htm
• The apostle Paul proclaimed the Good Message for free, and supported himself through his own, manual work. → em02c.htm – em05e.htm – em03c.htm – em04c.htm
• Romans 6:14, "not under law but under grace". → ec12c.htm
• 2 Corinthians 3:6 and Romans 7:6 and "the letter" versus "the Spirit". → ec13c.htm
• What did Paul mean – "with the pure, all things are pure" (Titus 1:15)? → ee05b.htm
• For those who are interested – free, printable word-search puzzles:
  • With words related to the apostle Paul. → puzzle22-p.pdf
  • With words related to Paul's journeys. → puzzle61-p.pdf
  • With words related to Italy and Rome, and Paul's journey there. → puzzle25-p.pdf
  • With words related to Acts 20:17-38, Paul addressing elders from Ephesus. → puzzle20-p.pdf
  • Large print versions, and many more bible-based word mazes. → ep01.htm
• Look also under the headings "Acts", "Romans", "Corinthians", "Galatians", "Ephesians", "Philippians", "Colossians", "Thessalonians", "Timothy", "Titus", "Philemon", "Hebrews", "Apostles", "Elders", "Assembly" and "Saint, saints, sainthood".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Paulos – Look above, under the heading "Paul".

Pay, paying, payment – Look above, under the heading "Paid, pay, payment".

Peace, peaceful, peacemakers

• The peace of Isaiah 2:4, 9:7 and 11:9. → (et07e.htm) – (et10b.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Peddle, peddler, peddling

• Paul to the saints in Corinth: "For we are not, as so many, peddling the Word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the sight of God" (2 Corinthians 2:17). → em03c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Peh (a Hebrew word, Genesis 45:21 et cetera) → ec03d.htm

Peithô (peithesthe, Hebrews 13:17) → ee04c.htm

Pella – Did the saints flee to Pella, as some say? → eg04b.htm

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