Search Results for "Isa.54.11"

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Color; Colors

kul'-er, kul'-erz: The word translated "color" in the King James Version is `ayin, which literally means "eye" or "appearance," and has been so translated in the Revised Version (British and American). In the New Testament the Greek prophasis, has the meaning of pretense or show (Ac 27:30; compare R...

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Fair

far: The word translated in the King James Version from 9 Hebrew and 4 Greek expressions has nowhere in the Bible the modern sense of "blond," "fair-skinned." The translation of Isa 54:11, "fair colors," refers to the cosmetic use of pukh, stibium, antimony powder, with which black margins were pain...

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Glistering

glis'-ter-ing (pukh, "dye" (spec. "stibium"), "fair colors"; stilbonta): "`Glistering stones' (1Ch 29:2) is better ⇒See the definition of glistering in the KJV Dictionary than the `inlaid' of the Revised Version (British and American); for some kind of colored, brilliant stone seems meant" (HDB,...

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Lay; Laying

la, la'-ing: (1) sim, "to put," and the Greek equivalent, tithemi, are very frequently translated by "to lay." the Revised Version (British and American) very often changes the King James Version rendering of sim, but never that of tithemi: 1Sa 15:2, "how he set himself against him in the way" (the ...

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Stones, Precious

1. Ancient and Modern Names 2. Change of Signification of Names 3. Three Important Lists of Stones 4. Interpretation of Greek Names Used by John 5. Interpretation of Hebrew Names 6. Greek and Latin Equivalents of Hebrew Names 7. Inconsistencies of Text or Translation 8. Vulgate and Septuagint 9....