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GOSPEL (gr. “good or pleasant news”) Everything worthy of this title has to come from God. He didn’t always have the same character. The pleasant news...
EVE Name given by Adam to his wife after the fall, and after God had spoken of her seed and told her that in pain she...
EUTYCHUS “happy”. A young man from Troas who fell asleep during a speech by Paul, falling from the third floor. He was raised dead, but the...
EUNUCH (gr.: “guardian of the beds”). The proper meaning is that of chamberlain. In the East, the men who performed this function had been castrated, and...
EUNICE “good victory.” Mother of Timothy and daughter of Lois. She was Jewish and married to a Greek husband (Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5); She knew...
EUPHRATES “copious”. One of the great rivers of Western Asia and the world. It is formed by the union of two tributaries: the Murad, which originates...
SCAPEGOAT Extra-biblical expression to designate the “goat” about which, according to Lev. 16:20 ff., the high priest (on the Day of Atonement) laid his hands on...
CYPRUS (Greek, “kupros”, “copper”). Mountainous island located in the northeastern Mediterranean Sea and formerly famous for its copper mines, once leased to Herod the Great (Josephus,...
CHESTER BEATTY Famous collection of papyri of great importance for the study of the Bible. They have received their name from a previous owner, who acquired...
JACKAL (Heb. “tannim” and “tannoth”). According to Lm. 4:3 it is a mammal. Isaiah 35:7 and 43:20 show the jackal dwelling in the desert. According to...
