1) a band, either for bed-girth, or for tying up a corpse after
    it has been swathed in linen

 1) to sheer: a sheep
 2) to get or let be shorn
 3) of shearing or cutting short the hair of the head

 1) an order, command, spec. a stimulating cry, either that by which
    animals are roused and urged on by man, as horses by charioteers,
    hounds by hunters, etc., or that by which a signal is given to
    men, e.g. to rowers by the master of a ship, to soldiers by a
    commander (with a loud summons, a trumpet call)

 1) to command, to order

 For Synonyms see entry G5844

 1) vain glory, groundless, self esteem, empty pride
 2) a vain opinion, error

 1) glorying without reason, conceited, vain glorious,
    eager for empty glory

 1) empty, vain, devoid of truth
    1a) of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing
    1b) of men
        1b1) empty handed
        1b2) without a gift
    1c) metaph. destitute of spiritual wealth, of one who boasts of his
        faith as a transcendent possession, yet is without the fruits
        of faith
    1d) metaph. of endeavours, labours, acts, which result in nothing,
        vain, fruitless, without effect
        1d1) vain of no purpose

 1) empty discussion, discussion of vain and useless matters

 1) to empty, make empty
    1a) of Christ, he laid aside equality with or the form of God
 2) to make void
    2a) deprive of force, render vain, useless, of no effect
 3) to make void
    3b) cause a thing to be seen to be empty, hollow, false

 1) a sting, as that of bees, scorpions, locusts. Since animals
    wound by their sting and even cause death, Paul attributes
    death, personified as a sting, i.e. a deadly weapon
 2) an iron goad, for urging on oxen, horses and other beasts of burden
    2a) hence the proverb, "to kick against the goad", i.e. to offer
        vain and perilous or ruinous resistance

 1) centurion, an officer in the Roman army

 1) vainly, in vain

 1) a little horn
 2) extremity, apex, point
    2a) used by grammarians of the accents and diacritical points.
        Jesus used it of the little lines or projections, by which the
        Hebrew letters in other respects similar differ from one
        another; the meaning is, "not even the minutest part of the
        law shall perish".

 1) a potter

 1) of or belonging to a potter
 2) made of clay, earthen

 1) an earthen vessel, a pot, jar
 2) a jug or pitcher
 3) a water pitcher

 1) clay, potter's earth
 2) anything made of clay, earthen ware
 3) a roofing tile
    3a) the roof itself
    3b) the phrase "through the roof", means through the door in the
        roof to which a ladder or stairway led up from the street
        (according to the Rabbis distinguish two ways of entering a
        house, "the way through the door" and "the way through the
        roof"

 For Synonyms see entry G5858

 1) to mix, mingle
 2) to mix wine, water
 3) to pour out for drinking.

 1) a horn
    1a) of animals
    1b) since animals (esp. bulls) defend themselves with their horns,
        the horn with the Hebrews (and other nations) is a symbol of
        strength and courage, and used as such in a variety of phrases
        1b1) a mighty and valiant helper, the author of deliverance,
             of the Messiah
    1c) a projecting extremity in a shape like a horn, a point, apex:
        as of an altar

 1) a little horn
 2) the name of the fruit, Ceratonia silqua or carobtree (called also
    John's Bread [from the notion that its pods, which resemble those
    of the "locust", constituted the food of the Baptist]. This fruit
    was shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was and is used
    not only for fattening swine, but as an article of food by the
    lower classes.

 1) to gain, acquire, to get gain
 2) metaph.
    2a) of gain arising from shunning or escaping from evil (where we
        say "to spare one's self", "be spared")
    2b) to gain any one i.e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, to
        gain one to faith in Christ
    2c) to gain Christ's favour and fellowship

 1) gain, advantage

 1) small pieces of money, small coin, change, money

 1) a money changer, money broker

 In the court of the Gentiles in the temple of Jerusalem were the
 seats of those who sold such animals for sacrifice as had been
 selected, examined, and approved, together with incense, oil, and
 other things needed in making offerings and in worship; and the
 magnitude of this traffic had introduced the banker's or broker's
 business.

 1) the chief or main point, the principal thing
 2) the pecuniary sum total of a reckoning, amount
    2a) the principal, capital, as distinguished from the interest
    2b) a sum of money, sum

 1) to bring under headings, to sum up, to summarise
 2) to smite or wound in the head, to smite on the cheek

 1) the head, both of men and often of animals. Since the loss of the
    head destroys life, this word is used in the phrases relating to
    capital and extreme punishment.
 2) metaph. anything supreme, chief, prominent
    2a) of persons, master lord: of a husband in relation to his wife
    2b) of Christ: the Lord of the husband and of the Church
    2c) of things: the corner stone

 1) a little head
 2) the highest part, extremity of anything
    2a) as the capital of a column
    2b) the tips or knobs of the wooden rod around which parchments were
        rolled were called by this word, because they resembled little
        heads
 3) the Alexandrian writers transferred the name to the roll or volume
    itself
    3a) in the roll of the book

 1) census (among the Romans, denoting a register and valuation of
    property in accordance with which taxes were paid), in the NT the
    tax or tribute levied on individuals and to be paid yearly. (our
    capitation or poll tax)
 2) the coin with which the tax is paid, tribute money

 1) a garden

 1) a keeper of a garden, a gardener

 1) honeycomb

 1) that which is proclaimed by a herald or public crier, a
    proclamation by herald
 2) in the NT the message or proclamation of the heralds of God or
    Christ

 1) a herald or messenger vested with public authority, who conveyed
    the official messages of kings, magistrates, princes, military
    commanders, or who gave a public summons or demand, and performed
    various other duties. In the NT God's ambassador, and the herald
    or proclaimer of the divine word.

 1) to be a herald, to officiate as a herald
    1a) to proclaim after the manner of a herald
    1b) always with the suggestion of formality, gravity and an
        authority which must be listened to and obeyed
 2) to publish, proclaim openly: something which has been done
 3) used of the public proclamation of the gospel and matters
    pertaining to it, made by John the Baptist, by Jesus, by the
    apostles and other Christian teachers

 1) a sea monster, whale, huge fish

 Cephas = "stone"
 1) another name for the apostle Peter

 1) a wooden chest or box
 2) in the NT the ark of the covenant, in the temple at Jerusalem
 3) of Noah's vessel built in the form of an ark

 1) a harp to which praises of God are sung in heaven

 1) to play upon the harp

 1) a harper, one who plays the harp and accompanies it with his voice

 Cilicia = "the land of Celix"
 1) a maritime province in the southeast of Asia Minor, boarding on
    Pamphylia in the west, Lycaonia and Cappadocia in the north and
    Syria in the east. Its capital, Tarsus, was the birth place of Paul

 1) cinnamon was a well known aromatic substance, the rind of
    "Laurus cinnamonum" called "Korunda-gauhah" in Ceylon

 1) to be in jeopardy, to be in danger, to put in peril

 1) a danger, a peril

 1) to cause to go, i.e. to move, set in motion
    1a) to be moved, move: of that motion which is evident in life
    1b) to move from a place, to remove
 2) metaph.
    2a) to move excite
    2b) a riot, disturbance
    2c) to throw into commotion

 1) a moving, agitation

 Kish = "a snare"
 1) the father of Saul, the first king of Israel

 1) a young tender shoot, broken off for grafting
 2) a branch
    2a) as the Jewish patriarchs are likened to a root, so their
        posterity are likened to branches

 1) to mourn, weep, lament
    1a) weeping as the sign of pain and grief for the thing signified
        (i.e. for the pain and grief)
    1b) of those who mourn for the dead
 2) to weep for, mourn for, bewail, one

 For Synonyms see entry G5804