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BIND AND UNLING In the use of the rabbis, to doctrinally declare a thing licit or illicit (also: impose or lift the anathema or excommunication). By...
ATAR (a) Tying: Figurative meaning: bond of spouses (Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:27, 39). Supernatural sense: being bound by Satan (Lk. 13:16) and binding Satan (Rev....
ATHALIAH (a) Port of Pamphylia at the mouth of the Cataraktes (today called Absu), founded by King Attalus II of Pergamon; today Aralia; This city was...
AHASUERUS (a) Ruler of the Persian Empire mentioned in the book of Ezra (Ezra 4:6). In secular history he is called Xerxes or Artaxerxes, following Greek...
ASTROLOGERS (1) In the book of Daniel (Dan. 1:20; 2:2, 10, 27; 4:7; 5:7, 11, 15) the Hebrew word is “ashshaph,” which means “magician, enchanter.” ,...
ASTROLOGY Astrology developed in Sumer, Chaldea and Babylon. From ancient times it was believed that the stars influenced the lives of men. This is evidently idolatry,...
ASHTORETH “a wife”. Goddess of the Phoenicians and Sidonians, worshiped by Israel after the death of Joshua and also by Solomon. Josiah destroyed the emblems of...
ASHTEROTH KARNAIM Scene of the defeat of the Rephaim before the forces of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:5). Although there are those who have identified it with the...
ASHTAROTH City of Bashan in the kingdom of Og, east of the Jordan. It was given to the half tribe of Manasseh and was later made...
ASP The Hebrew word designates a very poisonous snake other than the viper. Sometimes it is the “naja” or Egyptian cobra, extremely poisonous, small, yellowish green,...
