Vine's Expository Dictionary

Bind (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H631Original Word: ’asarUsage Notes: "to bind, imprison, tie, gird, to harness." This word is a common Semitic term, f…

Bind, Binding (see also Bound) "to bind," is used (a) literally, of any sort of "binding," e.g., Act 22:5, Act 24:27, (b) figuratively, of the Word of God, as n…

Bird (fowl) is probably connected with a word signifying "to perceive, to hear;" Rev 18:2, Rev 19:17, Rev 19:21. See FOWL. Cp. ornis, a hen. signifies "that whi…

Birth "a birth, begetting, producing" (related to gennao, "to beget"), is used in Mat 1:18, Luk 1:14. Some mss. have genesis, "lineage, birth" (from ginomai, "t…

Birthday a neuter plural (akin to genesis, "lineage," from ginomai), primarily denoted "the festivities of a birthday, a birthday feast," though among the Greek…

Birthright "a birthright" (from protos, "first," tikto, "to beget"), is found in Heb 12:16, with reference to Esau (cp. prototokos, firstborn). The "birthright"…

Bishop (overseer) lit., "an overseer" (epi, "over," skopeo, "to look or watch"), whence Eng. "bishop," which has precisely the same meaning, is found in Act 20:…

Bit * For BIT see BRIDLE

Bite "to bite," in Gal 5:15, "if ye bite and devour one another," is used metaphorically of wounding the soul, or rendering with reproaches.

Bitter, Bitterly, Bitterness from a root pik, meaning "to cut, to prick," hence, lit., "pointed, sharp, keen, pungent to the sense of taste, smell, etc.," is fo…

Black, Blackness "black," Mat 5:36, Rev 6:5, Rev 6:12, is derived from a root mal--, meaning "to be dirty;" hence Latin, malus, "bad." See INK. Heb 12:18, "blac…

Blade * For BLADE see GRASS

Blame, Blameless "to find fault with, to blame, or calumniate," is used in 2Co 6:3, of the ministry of the Gospel; in 2Co 8:20, of the ministration of financial…

Blaspheme, Blasphemy, Blasphemer, Blasphemous either from blax, "sluggish, stupid," or, probably, from blapto, "to injure," and pheme, "speech," (Eng. "blasphem…

Blaze abroad "to spread abroad" (dia, "throughout," phemizo, "to speak"), is so translated in the RV in Mat 9:31, Mat 28:15 (AV, "commonly reported"); Mar 1:45 …

Blemish akin to momaomai (see BLAME, A), signifies (a) "a blemish" (Sept. only); (b) "a shame, a moral disgrace," metaphorical of the licentious, 2Pe 2:13. "wit…

Bless (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H1288Original Word: barakUsage Notes: "to kneel, bless, be blessed, curse." The root of this word…

Bless, Blessed, Blessedness, Blessing lit., "to speak well of" (eu, "well," logos, "a word"), signifies, (a) "to praise, to celebrate with praises," of that whi…

Blessed Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H835Original Word: ’esherUsage Notes: "blessed; happy." All but 4 of the 44 biblical occurrences of this noun are in poe…

Blew * For BLEW see BLOW

Blind, Blindness "to blind" (from a root tuph--, "to burn, smoke;" cp. tuphos, "smoke"), is used metaphorically, of the dulling of the intellect, Joh 12:40, 2Co…

Blindfold signifies "to blindfold" (peri, "around," kalupto, "to hide"), Luk 22:64. See COVER, OVERLAY.

Blood Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1818Original Word: damUsage Notes: "blood." This is a common Semitic word with cognates in all the Semitic languages. Bib…

Blot out from ek, "out," used intensively, and aleipho, "to wipe," signifies "to wash, or to smear completely." Hence, metaphorically, in the sense of removal, …

Blow (Noun) (a) "a blow with a rod or staff," (b) "a blow with the hand, a slap or cuff," is found in three places; of the maltreatment of Christ by the officia…

Blow (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H8628Original Word: taqa‘Usage Notes: "to strike, give a blast, clap, blow, drive." Found in both ancient and modern H…

Blow (Verb) signifies (a) "to blow," e.g., Mat 7:25, Joh 3:8; in Act 27:40 the present participle is used as a noun, lit., "to the blowing" (i.e., to the wind);…

Board denotes "a plank, or board," Act 27:44.

Boast, Boaster, Boastful and its related words katakauchaomai, "to glory or boast" and the nouns kauchesis and kauchema, translated "boast," and "boasting," in …

Boat "a skiff or small boat," is a diminutive of ploion (No. 2), Mar 3:9, Mar 4:36, Joh 6:22 (but No. 2 in the 2nd part of the verse), Joh 6:23 (here some texts…

Body, Bodily is "the body as a whole, the instrument of life," whether of man living, e.g., Mat 6:22, or dead, Mat 27:52; or in resurrection, 1Co 15:44; or beas…

Boisterous * Note: The AV "boisterous" in Mat 14:30 is a rendering of the word ischuros, "strong" (see margin); it is not in the most authentic mss.

Bold, Boldness, Boldly a later form of tharseo (see CHEER, COMFORT), is connected with thero, "to be warm" (warmth of temperament being associated with confiden…

Bond from deo, "to bind" (see BAND), is usually found in the plural, either masculine or neuter; (a) it stands thus for the actual "bonds" which bind a prisoner…

Bondage akin to deo, "to bind," primarily "the condition of being a slave," came to denote any kind of bondage, as, e.g., of the condition of creation, Rom 8:21…

Bondman, Bondmaid from deo, "to bind," "a slave," originally the lowest term in the scale of servitude, came also to mean "one who gives himself up to the will …

Bondservant * For BONDSERVANT see SERVANT

Bone Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6106Original Word: ‘esemUsage Notes: "bone; body; substance; full; selfsame." Cognates of this word appear in Akkadian, Pu…

Book Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H5612Original Word: seperUsage Notes: "book; document; writing." Seper seems to be a loanword from the Akkadian sipru ("wri…

Boon translated "boon" in Jam 1:17, RV, is thus distinguished, as the thing given, from the preceding word in the verse, dosis, "the act of giving" (AV, "gift" …

Booty Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7998Original Word: shalalUsage Notes: "booty; prey; spoil; plunder; gain." This word occurs 75 times and in all periods o…

Border was primarily "the extremity or prominent part of a thing, an edge;" hence "the fringe of a garment, or a little fringe," hanging down from the edge of t…

Born * For BORN see BEGET

Borne * For BORNE see BEAR

Borrow in the Active Voice, signifies "to lend money," as in Luk 1:6-35; in the Middle Voice, "to have money lent to oneself, to borrow," Mat 5:42. Cp. dan(e)io…

Bosom Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H2436Original Word: hêqUsage Notes: "bosom; lap; base." Cognates of this word appear in Akkadian, late Aramaic, and Arabic…

Both * For BOTH see Note +, p. 9.

Bottle * For BOTTLE see SKIN

Bottom, Bottomless for this see BENEATH. "bottomless" (from a, intensive, and bussos, "a depth"), is used as a noun denoting the abyss (AV, "bottomless pit"). I…

Bought * For BOUGHT see BUY