Vine's Expository Dictionary

Tabernacle Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H4908Original Word: mishkanUsage Notes: "dwelling place; tabernacle; shrine." This word appears 1…

Table is used of (a) "a dining table," Mat 15:27, Mar 7:28, Luk 16:21, Luk 22:21, Luk 22:30; (b) "the table of shewbread," Heb 9:2; (c) by metonymy, of "what is…

Table (at the) "to recline at a meal table," is rendered "sat at the table" in Joh 12:2, AV, RV, "sat at meat" (some texts have sunanakeimai); "sat," of course …

Tablet * For TABLET see WRITING TABLET

Tackling denotes "gear, equipment, tackling" (of a ship), Act 27:19.

Tail "the tail of an animal," occurs in Rev 9:10 (twice), Rev 9:19, Rev 12:4.

Take "to take, lay hold of," besides its literal sense, e.g., Mat 5:40, Mat 1:26-27, is used metaphorically, of fear, in "taking" hold of people, Luk 7:16, RV (…

Take (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H8610Original Word: tapasUsage Notes: "to catch, seize, lay hold of, grasp, play." This verb is found in both biblical…

Take Away (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H3947Original Word: laqah?Usage Notes: "to take, receive, take away." This word occurs in all…

Talent originally "a balance," then, "a talent in weight," was hence "a sum of money" in gold or silver equivalent to a "talent." The Jewish "talent" contained …

Tales * For TALES see TALK

Talitha an Aramaic feminine meaning "maiden," Mar 5:41, has been variously transliterated in the NT Greek mss. Koumi or Koum (Heb. and Aram., qum, "arise"), whi…

Talk (Noun and Verb) "a word," is translated "talk" in Mat 22:15, Mar 12:13. See ACCOUNT, B. denotes "foolish talk, nonsense," Luk 24:11, RV, "idle talk" (AV, "…

Talkers (vain) an adjective denoting "talking idly" (mataios, "vain, idle," lego, "to speak"), is used as a noun (plural) in Tit 1:10.

Talking (vain, foolish) a noun corresponding to the above, is used in 1Ti 1:6, RV, "vain talking" (AV, "vain jangling"). from moros, "foolish, dull, stupid," an…

Tame "to subdue, tame," is used (a) naturally in Mar 5:4, Jam 3:7 (twice); (b) metaphorically, of the tongue, in Jam 3:8. In the Sept., Dan 2:40.

Tanner "a tanner" (from bursa, "a hide"), occurs in Act 9:43, Act 10:6, Act 10:32.

Tare (Verb) * For TARE (Verb) see TEAR

Tares is a kind of darnel, the commonest of the four species, being the bearded, growing in the grain fields, as tall as wheat and barley, and resembling wheat …

Tarry "to abide," is translated by the verb "to abide," in the RV, for AV, "to tarry," in Mat 26:38, Mar 14:34, Luk 24:29, Joh 4:40, Act 9:43, Act 18:20; the RV…

Taste "to make to taste," is used in the Middle Voice, signifying "to taste" (a) naturally, Mat 27:34, Luk 14:24, Joh 2:9, Col 2:21; (b) metaphorically, of Chri…

Tattler "babbling, garrulous" (from phluo, "to babble:" cp. phluareo, "to prate against"), is translated "tattlers" in 1Ti 5:13.

Taught (Adjective) primarily "what can be taught," then, "taught," is used (a) of persons, Joh 6:45; (b) of things, 1Co 2:13 (twice), "(not in words which man's…

Taxed, Taxing * For TAXED, TAXING see ENROLL, ENROLMENT

Teach is used (a) absolutely, "to give instruction," e.g., Mat 4:23, Mat 9:35, Rom 12:7, 1Co 4:17, 1Ti 2:12, 1Ti 4:11; (b) transitively, with an object, whether…

Teach (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H3925Original Word: lamadUsage Notes: "to teach, learn, cause to learn." This common Semitic term…

Teacher, false Teachers is rendered "teacher" or "teachers" in Mat 23:8, by Christ, of Himself; in Joh 3:2 of Christ; of Nicodemus in Israel, Joh 3:10, RV; of "…

Teaching (Noun) * For TEACHING (Noun) see DOCTRINE, Nos. 1 and 2

Tear Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7167Original Word: qara‘Usage Notes: "to rend, tear, tear away." This word is common to both ancient and modern Hebrew. Us…

Tear, Torn denotes "to tear, rend, convulse," Mar 1:26, Mar 9:20 (in some mss.), Mar 9:26, RV, "having ... torn" (AV, "rent"); Luk 9:39. In the Sept., 2Sa 22:8,…

Tears akin to dakruo, "to weep,"is used in plural, Mar 9:24, Luk 7:38, Luk 7:44 (with the sense of washing therewith the Lord's feet); Act 20:19, Act 20:31, 2Co…

Tedious (to be) "to hinder," is rendered "to be tedious" in Act 24:4, of detaining a person unnecessarily. See HINDER, No. 1.

Teeth * For TEETH see TOOTH

Tell and the 2nd aorist form eipon, used to supply this tense in lego, are frequently translated "to tell," e.g., Mat 2:13, RV, "I tell," AV, "I bring (thee) wo…

Tell (To) Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: VerbStrong's Number: H5046Original Word: nagadUsage Notes: "to tell, explain, inform." An exact equivalent to this verb…

Temper together "to mix or blend together," is used in 1Co 12:24, of the combining of the members of the human body into an organic structure, as illustrative o…

Temperance, Temperate from kratos, "strength," occurs in Act 24:25, Gal 5:23, 2Pe 1:6 (twice), in all of which it is rendered "temperance;" the RV marg., "self-…

Tempest "a hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind" (akin to thuo, "to slay," and thumos, "wrath"), is used in Heb 12:18. In the Sept., Exo 10:22, Deu 4:11, Deu 5:22. "a …

Tempestuous from tuphon, "a hurricane, typhoon," is translated "tempestuous" in Act 27:14.

Temple Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1964Original Word: hêkalUsage Notes: "palace; temple." This word is indirectly derived from the Sumerian egal, "large ho…

Temple Keeper Act 19:35, RV, and AV marg., "temple keeper" (AV, "worshiper"), is used in profane Greek of "one who has charge of a temple." Coin inscriptions sh…

Temporal "for a season" (pros, "for," kairos, "a season"), is rendered "temporal" in 2Co 4:18. See SEASON, WHILE.

Tempt signifies (1) "to try, attempt, assay" (see TRY); (2) "to test, try, prove," in a good sense, said of Christ and of believers, Heb 2:18, where the context…

Temptation akin to A, above, is used of (1) "trials" with a beneficial purpose and effect, (a) of "trials" or "temptations," Divinely permitted or sent, Luk 22:…

Tempter * Note: The present participle of peirazo, "to tempt," preceded by the article, lit., "the (one) tempting," is used as a noun, describing the Devil in t…

Ten whence the Eng. prefix "deca," is regarded by some as the measure of human responsibility, e.g., Luk 19:13, Luk 19:17, Rev 2:10; it is used in a figurative …

Tend * For TEND, Joh 21:16, 1Pe 5:2, RV, see FEED, No. 2

Tender "soft, tender," is used of the branch of a tree, Mat 24:32, Mar 13:28. Note: For Luk 1:78, "tender mercy;" Phi 1:8, Phi 2:1 "tender mercies," see BOWELS.

Tender-hearted * For TENDER-HEARTED see PITIFUL, No. 2

Tent Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H168Original Word: ’ohelUsage Notes: "tent; home; dwelling; habitation." Cognates of this word appear in Ugaritic, Phoenici…