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ASPERSION (a) OF BLOOD The sprinkling of blood was an essential part of the OT sacrifices (Lev. 4:6, 7). The blood of the victim represented life...
ASON Seaport of Mysia, west of Asia Minor, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Adramicio, about 32 kilometers from Troas (Acts 20:13, 14). A...
DONKEY In the East the donkey has always had the place that the horse has had in the nations of Europe. It is there a much...
ASNAPAR “Asnap the great.” High Assyrian dignitary, described as “the great and glorious one” (Ezra 4:10). He established different foreign tribes in Samaria. Certain commentators have...
ASHKENAZ According to Gen. 10:3, grandson of Japheth. Since the Middle Ages in Germany: Askanaitic Judaism = German and Polish Jews with their Jewish-German dialect.
ASSYRIA The great kingdom of Assyria was situated near the Tigris River, bounded by Armenia to the north, by Mount Zagros and Media to the east,...
ASIARCA «Chiefs of Asia» (gr.). They were positions elected annually by the cities in the Roman province of Asia. They were in charge of public games...
ASIA In the NT this term does not refer to the continent now called Asia, and does not even include all of so-called Asia Minor; It...
ASPHALT (Heb. “chemar”). It is found on the shore of the Dead Sea and in other places, in bags. When mixed with tar it forms a...
ASERA Canaanite female goddess of fertility, wife of Baal (in Ugarit of El, “the father of the gods”). Her image was venerated: in Jerusalem (1 Kings...
