Vine's Expository Dictionary

Cage from phulasso, "to guard," denotes (a) "a watching, keeping watch," Luk 2:8; (b) "persons keeping watch, a guard," Act 12:10; (c) "a period during which wa…

Calamity Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H343Original Word: ’êdUsage Notes: "calamity; disaster." A possible cognate of this word appears in Arabic. Its 24 bibl…

Calf primarily denotes "anything young," whether plants or the offspring of men or animals, the idea being that which is tender and delicate; hence "a calf, you…

Call (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H7121Original Word: qara’Usage Notes: "to call, call out, recite." This root occurs in Old Aramaic…

Call, Called, Calling derived from the root kal--, whence Eng. "call" and "clamor" (see B and C, below), is used (a) with a personal object, "to call anyone, in…

Calm primarily signifies "calmness, cheerfulness" (from a root gal--, from which gelao, "to smile," is also derived; hence the "calm" of the sea, the smiling oc…

Calvary kara, "a head" (Eng., "cranium"), a diminutive of kranon, denotes "a skull" (Latin calvaria), Mat 27:33, Mar 15:22, Luk 23:33, Joh 19:17. The correspond…

Came * For CAME see COME

Camel from a Hebrew word signifying "a bearer, carrier," is used in proverbs to indicate (a) "something almost or altogether impossible," Mat 19:24, and paralle…

Camp Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H4264Original Word: mahanehUsage Notes: "camp; encampment; host." This noun derived from the verb hanâ occurs 214 times in …

Can Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3201Original Word: yakolUsage Notes: "can, may, to be able, prevail, endure." This word is used about 200 times in the Old …

Can (Canst, Could, Cannot) see ABILITY, B, No. 1. is translated "I can do" in Phi 4:13; see ABLE, B. No. 4. "to have," is translated "could" in Mar 14:8, lit., …

Canaan Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3667Original Word: kena‘anUsage Notes: "Canaan"; kena‘anî 3669), "Canaanite; merchant." "Canaan" is used 9 times as the …

Canaanite Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3667Original Word: kena‘anUsage Notes: "Canaan"; kena‘anî 3669), "Canaanite; merchant." "Canaan" is used 9 times as t…

Candle and Candlestick * For CANDLE and CANDLESTICK see LAMP and LAMPSTAND

Canker * For CANKER see GANGRENE and RUST

Captain denoting "a commander of 1000 soldiers" (from chilios, "a thousand," and archo, "to rule"), was the Greek word for the Persian vizier, and for the Roman…

Captive, Captivity lit., "one taken by the spear" (from aichme, "a spear," and halotos, a verbal adjective, from halonai, "to be captured"), hence denotes "a ca…

Carcase primarily denotes "a member of a body," especially the external and prominent members, particularly the feet, and so, a dead body (see, e.g., the Sept.,…

Care (Noun and Verb), Careful, Carefully, Carefulness probably connected with merizo, "to draw in different directions, distract," hence signifies "that which c…

Carnal, Carnally from sarx, "flesh," signifies (a) "having the nature of flesh," i.e., sensual, controlled by animal appetites, governed by human nature, instea…

Carousings lit., "a drinking," signifies not simply a banquet but "a drinking bout, a carousal," 1Pe 4:3 (RV, "carousings," AV, "banquetings"). Synonymous is kr…

Carpenter denotes any craftsman, but especially a worker in wood, a carpenter, Mat 13:55, Mar 6:3.

Carriage * For CARRIAGE see BAGGAGE

Carry "to carry together, to help in carrying" (sun, "with," komizo, "to carry"), is used in Act 8:2, RV, "buried," for AV, "carried to his burial." The verb ha…

Carrying away "a change of abode, or a carrying away by force" (meta, implying "change," oikia, "a dwelling"), is used only of the carrying away to Babylon, Mat…

Case see under ACCUSATION, A, No. 1. "to have," is idiomatically used in the sense of being in a case or condition, as with the infirm man at the pool of Bethes…

Cast "to throw, hurl, in contrast to striking," is frequent in the four Gospels and Revelation; elsewhere it is used only in Acts. In Mat 5:30 some mss. have th…

Cast Down (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7993Original Word: shalakUsage Notes: "to throw, fling, cast, overthrow," This root seems to be used primarily i…

Castle * For CASTLE see ARMY (No. 3)

Catch "to snatch or catch away," is said of the act of the Spirit of the Lord in regard to Philip in Act 8:39; of Paul in being "caught" up to paradise, 2Co 12:…

Cattle Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H504Original Word: ’elepUsage Notes: "cattle; thousand; group." The first word, "cattle," signifies the domesticated anim…

Cause (Noun and Verb) "a cause:" see ACCUSATION, A, No. 1. "a fault" (synonymous with No. 1, but more limited in scope), is translated "cause (of death)" in Luk…

Cave perhaps from ops, "sight," denotes "a hole, an opening," such as a fissure in a rock, Heb 11:38. In Jam 3:11, the RV has "opening," of the orifice of a fou…

Cease "to stop, to make an end," is used chiefly in the Middle Voice in the NT, signifying "to come to an end, to take one's rest, a willing cessation" (in cont…

Cease (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H2308Original Word: hadalUsage Notes: "to cease, come to an end, desist, forbear, lack," This wor…

Celestial * For CELESTIAL see HEAVEN, HEAVENLY, B, No. 2

Cell lit., "a habitation" (akin to oikeo, "to dwell"), is euphemistically put for "a prison," in Act 12:7, RV, "cell." See PRISON.

Cellar (Eng., "crypt"), "a covered way or vault" (akin to kruptos, "hidden, secret"), is used in Luk 11:33, of lighting a lamp and putting it "in a cellar," RV.…

Censer "a vessel for burning incense" (2Ch 26:19, Eze 8:11), is found in Heb 9:4. denotes "frankincense," the gum of the libanos, "the frankincense tree;" in a …

Centurion "a centurion," denotes a military officer commanding from 50 to 100 men, according to the size of the legion of which it was a part (hekaton, "a hundr…

Certain, Certainty, Certainly, Certify primarily, "not liable to fall, steadfast, firm," hence denoting "safety," Act 5:23, and 1Th 5:3, has the further meaning…

Chaff "chaff, the stalk of the grain from which the kernels have been beaten out, or the straw broken up by a threshing machine," is found in Mat 3:12, Luk 3:17…

Chain denotes "a chain or bond for binding the body, or any part of it (the hands or feet)." Some derive the word from a, negative, and luo, "to loose," i.e., "…

Chalcedony the name of a gem, including several varities, one of which resembles a cornelian, is "supposed to denote a green silicate of copper found in the min…

Chamber (Store-chamber) denotes, firstly, "a store-chamber," then, "any private room, secret chamber," Mat 6:6; RV, "inner chamber" (AV, "closet"); Mat 24:26, "…

Chambering primarily a place in which to lie down, hence, "a bed, especially the marriage bed," denotes, in Rom 13:13, "illicit intercourse." See BED, CONCEIVE.

Chamberlain lit., "the (one) over the bedchamber" (epi, "over," koiton, "a bedchamber"), denotes "a chamberlain," an officer who had various duties in the house…

Chance lit., "a meeting together with, a coincidence of circumstances, a happening," is translated "chance" in Luk 10:31. but concurrence of events is what the …

Change (Noun and Verb) "a transposition, or a transference from one place to another" (from meta, implying "change," and tithemi, "to put"), has the meaning of …