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An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words was written by William Edwy Vine and published as a four volume set in 1940. In common usage, the title is often shortened to Vine's Expository Dictionary, or simply Vine's. It is a cross-reference from key English words in the Authorized King James Version to the original words in the Greek texts ...
Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the English Bible the text reads: thy whole body shall be full of light. The World English Bible translates the passage as: “The lamp of the body is the eye. whole body will be full of light.
Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam. Drawing by Ottmar Elliger the Younger (1666–1735). The moral lesson is to avoid hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and censoriousness. The analogy used is of a small object in another's eye as compared with a large beam of wood in one's own. The original Greek word translated as "mote" ( κάρφος karphos ...
Turning the other cheek. Jesus taught turning the other cheek during the Sermon on the Mount. Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to insult without retort. This passage is variously interpreted as accepting one's predicament, commanding nonresistance or advocating ...
t. e. Chokmah ( Hebrew: חָכְמָה, romanized : ḥoḵmā, also transliterated as chokma, chokhmah or hokhma) is the Biblical Hebrew word rendered as "wisdom" in English Bible versions ( LXX σοφία sophia, Vulgate sapientia ). [ 1] It is the second of the ten sefirot in Kabbalah, and represents the first power of conscious intellect ...
Thorn in the flesh is a phrase of New Testament origin used to describe an annoyance, or trouble in one's life, drawn from Paul the Apostle 's use of the phrase in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians 12:7–9: [ 1] And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh ...
In the law of the Hebrews, the "eye for eye" was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss. Thus, it might be better read 'only one eye for one eye'. [ 2] The idiomatic biblical phrase "an eye for an eye" in Exodus and Leviticus ( Hebrew: עין תחת עין, romanized : ayin tachat ayin) literally means 'an eye under/ (in place of) an ...