Vine's Expository Dictionary

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

Bound (Noun) "the fixing of a boundary," rather than the boundary itself (from horos, "a boundary," and tithemi, "to place"), is used in Act 17:26, "bounds."

Bound (to be) * (a) of obligation: "to owe, whether of a debt or any obligation," is translated "we are bound," in 2Th 1:3, 2Th 2:13 (the Apostle expressing his…

Boundary Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1366Original Word: gebûlUsage Notes: "boundary; limit; territory; closed area." This word has cognates in Phoenician a…

Bounty, Bountifully "a blessing," has the meaning of "bounty" in 2Co 9:5, of the offering sent by the church at Corinth to their needy brethren in Judea. Note: …

Bow (Noun) "a bow," is used in Rev 6:2. Cp. Hab 1:3-9. The instrument is frequently mentioned in the Sept., especially in the Psalms.

Bow (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3766Original Word: kara‘Usage Notes: "to bow, bow down, bend the knee." This term is found in both ancient and modern …

Bow, Bowed (Verb) "to bend," is used especially of bending the knees in religious veneration, Rom 11:4, Rom 14:11, Eph 3:14, Phi 2:10. signifies "to bend comple…

Bowels always in the plural, properly denotes "the physical organs of the intestines," and is once used in this respect, Act 1:18 (for the use by Greeks and Heb…

Bowl (Eng., "phial") denotes "a bowl;" so the RV, for AV, "vial," in Rev 5:8, Rev 15:7, Rev 1:16-4, Rev 16:8, Rev 16:10, Rev 16:12, Rev 16:17, Rev 17:1, Rev 21:…

Box "an alabaster vessel," is translated in the AV of Mat 26:7, Mar 14:3, Luk 7:37, "box," RV, "cruse." The breaking refers to the seal, not to the box or cruse…

Boy denotes "a boy" (in contrast to paidion, a diminutive of pais, and to teknon, "a child"). With reference to Christ, instead of the AV "child," the RV suitab…

Braided (AV, Broided) signifies "what is woven" (from pleko, "to weave, plait"), whether a net or basket (Josephus uses it of the ark of bulrushes in which the …

Brake * For BRAKE see BREAK

Bramble bush * For BRAMBLE BUSH see BUSH

Branch from klao, "to break" (cp. klasma, "a broken piece"), properly a young tender shoot, "broken off" for grafting, is used for any kind of branch, Mat 13:32…

Branded "to burn in with a brading iron" (cp. Eng., "caustic"), is found, in the best mss., in 1Ti 4:2, RV "branded." Others have kauteriazo (from kauterion, "a…

Brass, Brazen primarily, "copper," became used for metals in general, later was applied to bronze, a mixture of copper and tin, then, by metonymy, to any articl…

Brawler an adjective, lit., "tarrying at wine" (para, "at," oinos, "wine"), "given to wine," 1Ti 3:3, Tit 1:7, AV, probably has the secondary sense, of the effe…

Bread Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H3899Original Word: lehemUsage Notes: "bread; meal; food; fruit." This word has cognates in Ugaritic, Syriac, Aramaic, Pho…

Bread (loaf) "bread" (perhaps derived from aro, "to fit together," or from a root ar--, "the earth"), signifies (a) "a small loaf or cake," composed of flour an…

Breadth Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7341Original Word: rohabUsage Notes: "breadth; width; expanse." The noun rohab appears 101 times and in all periods of …

Break (To) Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H7665Original Word: shabarUsage Notes: "to break, shatter, smash, crush." This word is frequently used in ancient Akk…

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake "to break, to break off pieces," is used of "breaking bread," (a) of the Lord's act in providing for people, Mat 14:19, Mat 15:3…

Breast connected with histemi, "to stand," i.e., that which stands out, is used of mourners in smiting the "breast," Luk 18:13, Luk 23:48; of John in reclining …

Breastplate primarily, "the breast," denotes "a breastplate or corselet," consisting of two parts and protecting the body on both sides, from the neck to the mi…

Breath Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H1892Original Word: hebelUsage Notes: "breath; vanity; idol." Cognates of this noun occur in Syriac, late Aramaic, and Ar…

Breath, Breathe akin to pneo, "to blow," lit., "a blowing," signifies (a) "breath, the breath of life," Act 17:25; (b) "wind," Act 2:2. See WIND. "spirit," also…

Bride, Bridechamber, Bridegroom (Eng. "nymph") "a bride, or young wife," Joh 3:29, Rev 18:23, Rev 21:2, Rev 21:9, Rev 22:17, is probably connected with the Lati…

Bridle "a bridle," is used in Jam 3:3 (AV, "bits"), and Rev 14:20. "The primitive bridle was simply a loop on the halter-cord passed round the lower jaw of the …