1) to please
 2) to strive to please
    2a) to accommodate one's self to the opinions desires and interests
        of others

 1) pleasing, agreeable

 Aretes = "graver"
 1) An Arabian king

 He made war in 36 A.D. on his son-in-law Herod Antipas for having
 divorced his daughter; and with such success as completely to
 destroy his army. In consequence of this, Vitellius, governor of
 Syria, being order by Tiberius to march an army against Aretes,
 prepared for war. But Tiberius meantime having died, (Mar. 16, 37),
 he recalled his troops from march, dismissed them to winter
 quarters, and departed for Rome. After his departure Aretas held
 sway over the region of Damascus (how acquired we do not know), and
 placed an ethnarch over the city, who tried to capture Paul.

 1) a virtuous course of thought, feeling and action
    1a) virtue, moral goodness
 2) any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity

 1) a sheep, a lamb

 1) to number

 1) a fixed and definite number
 2) an indefinite number, a multitude

 Arimathaea = "heights"
 1) the name of several cities in Palestine The one mentioned in Mat.
    27:57, Mk 15:43, Lk. 23:51, Jn 19:38 appears to have been the same
    as the birthplace of Samuel in Mount Ephraim.

 Aristarchus = "the best ruler"
 1) a certain Christian of Thessalonica, and accompanied Paul on his
    third missionary journey

 1) to breakfast
 2) by later usage, to dine

 1) left

 Aristobulus = "the best councillor"
 1) a certain Christian

 1) the first food taken early in the morning before work, breakfast
 2) later usage: dinner

 1) sufficient, enough

 1) to be possessed of unfailing strength
    1a) to be strong, to suffice, to be enough
        1a1) to defend, ward off
    1b) to be satisfied, to be contented

 1) a bear

 1) a chariot
 2) of war chariots (i.e. armed with scythes)
 3) chariots (drawn with many horses)

 Armageddon = "the hill or city of Megiddo"
 1) In Rev. 16:16 the scene of the struggle of good and evil is
    suggested by that battle plain of Esdraelon, which was famous for
    two great victories, of Barak over the Canaanites, and of Gideon
    over the Midianites; and for two great disasters, the deaths of
    Saul and Josiah. Hence in Revelation a place of great slaughter,
    the scene of a terrible retribution upon the wicked. The RSV
    translates the name as Har-Magedon, i.e. the hill (as Ar is the
    city) of Megiddo.

 1) to join, to fit together
    1a) of carpenter's, fastening together beams and planks to build
        houses, ships, etc.
 2) to betroth a daughter to any one
    2a) to join to one's self, i.e. to marry the daughter of any one
    2b) to betroth, to give one in marriage to any one

 1) a joining, a joint

 1) to deny
 2) to deny someone
   2a) to deny one's self
       2a1) to disregard his own interests or to prove false to himself
       2a2) act entirely unlike himself
 3) to deny, abnegate, abjure
 4) not to accept, to reject, to refuse something offered

 1) a little lamb, a lamb

 1) to plough

 1) a plough

 1) the act of plundering, robbery
 2) plunder spoil

 1) the act of seizing, robbery
 2) a thing seized or to be seized
    2a) booty to deem anything a prize
    2b) a thing to be seized upon or to be held fast, retained

 1) to seize, carry off by force
 2) to seize on, claim for one's self eagerly
 3) to snatch out or away

 1) rapacious, ravenous
 2) a extortioner, a robber

 1) an earnest
    1a) money which in purchases is given as a pledge or downpayment
        that the full amount will subsequently be paid

 1) not sewed together, without a seam

 1) a male

 1) unsaid, unspoken
 2) unspeakable (on account of its sacredness)

 1) without strength, weak, sick

 1) one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite, homosexual

 Artemas = "gift of Artemis"
 1) a friend of Paul the apostle

 Diana = "complete light: flow restrained"
 1) Artemis, that is to say the so called Tauric or Persian or
    Ephesian Artemis, the goddess of many Asiatic people, to be
    distinguished from the Artemis of the Greeks, the sister of
    Apollo. A very splendid temple was built to her at Ephesus, which
    was set on fire by Herostratus and reduced to ashes; but
    afterwards in the times of Alexander the Great, it was rebuilt in
    a style of greater magnificence.

 1) a top-sail or foresail of a ship

 1) just now, this moment
 2) now at this time, at this very time, this moment

 For Synonyms see entry G5815

 1) just born, newborn

 1) fitted
 2) complete, perfect
    2a) having reference apparently to "special aptitude for given uses"

 1) food composed of flour mixed with water and baked
    1a) the Israelites made it in the form of an oblong or round
        cake, as thick as one's thumb, and as large as a plate or
        platter hence it was not to be cut but broken
    1b) loaves were consecrated to the Lord
    1c) of the bread used at the love-feasts and at the Lord's Table
 2) food of any kind

 1) to prepare, arrange, with respect to food
 2) to season, make savory

 Arphaxad = "stronghold of Chaldees"
 1) the son of Shem and ancestor of Eber

 1) archangel, or chief of the angels

 The Jews, after the exile, distinguished several orders of angels;
 some reckoned four angels (according to the four sides of God's
 throne) of the highest rank; but the majority reckoned seven (after
 the pattern of the seven Amshaspands, the highest spirits of the
 religion of Zoroaster)

 1) that has been from the beginning, original, primal, old ancient
    1a) of men, things, times, conditions

 For Synonyms see entry G5816

 Archelaus = "prince of the people"
 1) A son of Herod the Great by Malthace, the Samaritan woman.
    He and his brother Antipas were brought up with a certain private
    man in Rome. After the death of his father, he ruled as ethnarch
    over Judaea, Samaria and Idumaea, (with the exception of the cities
    of Gaza, Gadara and Hipo). The Jews and the Samaritans having
    accused him at Rome of tyranny, he was banished by the emperor
    Augustus to Vienna of the Allobroges and died there.

 1) beginning, origin
 2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing
    in a series, the leader
 3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
 4) the extremity of a thing
    4a) of the corners of a sail
 5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy
    5a) of angels and demons

 1) the chief leader, prince
    1a) of Christ
 2) one that takes the lead in any thing and thus affords an
    example, a predecessor in a matter, pioneer
 3) the author

 1) high priestly, pontifical

 1) chief priest, high priest

 He above all others was honoured with the title of priest, the chief
 of priests. It was lawful for him to perform the common duties of
 the priesthood; but his chief duty was, once a year on the day of
 atonement, to enter into the Holy of Holies (from which the other
 priests were excluded) and offer sacrifices for his own sins and the
 sins of the people, and to preside over the Sanhedrin, or Supreme
 Council, when convened for judicial deliberations. According to
 Mosaic law, no one could aspire to the high priesthood unless he
 were of the tribe of Aaron and descended from a high priestly
 family; and he on whom the office was conferred held it till death.
 But from the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, when the kings of
 Seleucideae and afterwards the Herodian princes and the Romans
 arrogated to themselves the power of appointing the high priests,
 the office neither remained vested in the pontifical family nor was
 conferred on any for life; but it became venal, and could be
 transferred from one to another according to the will of civic or
 military rulers. Hence it came to pass, that during the one hundred
 and seven years intervening between Herod the Great and the
 destruction of the holy city, twenty eight persons held the
 pontifical dignity.  2) the high priests, these comprise in addition
 to one holding the high priestly office, both those who had
 previously discharged it and although disposed, continued to have
 great power in the State, as well as the members of the families
 from which high priest were created, provided that they had much
 influence in public affairs.  3) Used of Christ because by
 undergoing a bloody death he offered himself as an expiatory
 sacrifice to God, and has entered into the heavenly sanctuary where
 he continually intercedes on our behalf.