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Baana
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ba'-a-na (Old Testament and Apocrypha; Baana; ba`ana' "son of oppression"): (1, 2) Two commissariat-officers in the service of Solomon (1 Kings 4:12; 4:16; the King James Version "Baanah"). (3) Father of Zadok, the builder (Nehemiah 3:4). (4) A leader who returned...
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Work, works
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wurk, wurks: "To work" in the Old Testament is usually the translation of `asah, or of pa`al (of the works both of God and of man), and "work" (noun) is most frequently the translation of ma`aseh, or mela'khah; in the New Testament of energeo, ergazomai (and compound),...
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Sealskin
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sel'-skin: The rendering of the Revised Version (British and American) (Exodus 25:5; Ezekiel 16:10) for `or tachash, the Revised Version margin "porpoise-skin," the King James Version "badgers' skin." A seal, Monachus albiventer, is found in the Mediterranean, though...
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Predestination
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pre-des-ti-na'-shun (prothesis, prognosis proorismos): 1. Predestination as a Biblical Question 2. Its Fundamental Importance 3. The Nature of Predestination 4. The Doctrine in Scripture 5. Historic Rise and Development of the Doctrine 6. The Doctrine in the Middle...