Policy (3 Occurrences)

... 10. (n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. POLICY. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/policy.htm - 9k

Ahab (85 Occurrences)

... 2. His Foreign Policy: In the days of David and Solomon a beneficial commercial intercourse existed between the Hebrews and the Phoenicians. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ahab.htm - 52k

Claudius (3 Occurrences)

... He reigned for over 13 years (41-54 AD), having succeeded Caius (Caligula) who had seriously altered the conciliatory policy of his predecessors regarding the ... biblethesaurus.org/c/claudius.htm - 15k

Omri (16 Occurrences)

... 3. His Foreign Policy: Concerning Omri's foreign policy the Old Testament is silent beyond a single hint contained in 1 Kings 20:34. ... biblethesaurus.org/o/omri.htm - 20k

Jeroboam (96 Occurrences)

... Thus he became distinguished as the man "who made Israel to sin." This policy was followed by all the succeeding kings of Israel. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jeroboam.htm - 62k

Menahem (8 Occurrences)

... Menahem resolved on a policy of diplomacy, and, rather than risk a war with the conqueror of the East, agreed to the payment of a heavy tribute of 1,000 ... biblethesaurus.org/m/menahem.htm - 13k

Adonijah (28 Occurrences)

... David's fortieth year (1 Chronicles 26:31). David's policy was not altogether popular with the nation. His assembly (1 Chronicles 28:1 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/adonijah.htm - 22k

Alexandria (4 Occurrences)

... citizenship. Indeed in several cities, under the Ptolemies, who accepted this policy, foreigners were even given superiority to natives. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alexandria.htm - 31k

Joram (26 Occurrences)

... reigns. I. Ninth King of Israel 1. His Religious Policy: It is difficult to estimate the religious character of Jehoram. Apparently ... biblethesaurus.org/j/joram.htm - 27k

Jehoshaphat (79 Occurrences)

... historical perspective. 1. His Religious Policy: The reign of Jehoshaphat appears to have been one of unusual religious activity. It ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jehoshaphat.htm - 51k

Pharisees (86 Occurrences)

... probably the successors of the Assideans (ie, the "pious"), a party that originated in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes in revolt against his heathenizing policy... biblethesaurus.org/p/pharisees.htm - 66k

Great (10383 Occurrences)

... This may have been the outflow of his own romantic nature, but there was also wise policy in it; the Greeks were more readily reconciled to the loss of their ... biblethesaurus.org/g/great.htm - 35k

Country

... Following the usual Assyrian policy, great numbers of the inhabitants were deported from the conquered country, and their places taken by men brought from ... biblethesaurus.org/c/country.htm - 23k

Jehoram (27 Occurrences)

... reigns. I. Ninth King of Israel 1. His Religious Policy: It is difficult to estimate the religious character of Jehoram. Apparently ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jehoram.htm - 30k

Tarsus (5 Occurrences)

... Though Greeks, they inherited certain features of the old Persian policy and methods of rule; Cilicia was probably governed by a satrap, and there was no ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tarsus.htm - 30k

Habakkuk (3 Occurrences)

... This difficulty vanishes when it is borne in mind that the king is not addressed as an individual, but as representing the policy of the nation, as a ... biblethesaurus.org/h/habakkuk.htm - 26k

Nero

... NERO AND CHRISTIANITY 1. Nero and the New Testament 2. Neronian Policy and Christianity LITERATURE The fifth Roman emperor, born at Antium December 15, 37 AD ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nero.htm - 41k

Empire (8 Occurrences)

... His policy was on the whole adhered to by the Julio-Claudian line, the last of which was Nero (died 68 AD). (3) Flavian Dynasty. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/empire.htm - 80k

Samaria (123 Occurrences)

... Following the usual Assyrian policy, great numbers of the inhabitants were deported from the conquered country, and their places taken by men brought from ... biblethesaurus.org/s/samaria.htm - 63k

Jehu (63 Occurrences)

... Ahab, and 70 of Ahab's "son"-to be taken here in the large sense of male descendants-resided in it (2 Kings 10:1, 6). Jehu here adopted a bold and astute ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jehu.htm - 47k

Galatians (2 Occurrences)

... They advocated circumcision from policy more than from conviction, hoping to conciliate Judaism and atone for accepting the Nazarene-to hide the shame of the ... biblethesaurus.org/g/galatians.htm - 43k

View (86 Occurrences)

... 6. (n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued. ... biblethesaurus.org/v/view.htm - 81k

Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)

... That he continued to adhere to the policy of resistance against Babylonian authority is indicated by the fact that he was among the leaders of Israel taken by ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zephaniah.htm - 32k

Nebuzaradan (16 Occurrences)

... Under the title of "captain of the guard," he commanded the army, and, after the fall of the city, carried out his master's policy with regard to the safety of ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nebuzaradan.htm - 13k

Oppressed (81 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/o/oppressed.htm - 31k

Jezebel (20 Occurrences)

... Israel. Ahab (circa 874-853 BC) carried out a policy, which his father had perhaps started, of making alliances with other states. ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jezebel.htm - 26k

Jason (5 Occurrences)

... The change of name from Jesus (Josephus, Ant, XII, v) was part of the Hellenizing policy favored by Antiochus Epiphanes from whom he purchased the high ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jason.htm - 12k

Line (131 Occurrences)

... 14. (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. 15. ... biblethesaurus.org/l/line.htm - 43k

Influence (13 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/i/influence.htm - 11k

Inclusion (1 Occurrence)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy. ... biblethesaurus.org/i/inclusion.htm - 6k

Immanuel (3 Occurrences)

... Fearing to commit himself to the policy of Divine dependence, but with a pretense at religious scruples, "Neither will I tempt Yahweh," the king refuses ... biblethesaurus.org/i/immanuel.htm - 16k

Infants (71 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/i/infants.htm - 28k

Father (11359 Occurrences)

... (vt) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc ... biblethesaurus.org/f/father.htm - 21k

Forefathers (135 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/f/forefathers.htm - 36k

Trial (45 Occurrences)

... these two systems in Judea, and their joint action in bringing about the tremendous results in question, were made possible by the generous policy pursued by ... biblethesaurus.org/t/trial.htm - 52k

Tiberius (1 Occurrence)

... 4. Administration: On the whole, Tiberius followed the conservative policy of Augustus and maintained the "diarchy." But he approached nearer to monarchy by ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tiberius.htm - 15k

English

... Even in later times the Latin church seems to have followed no consistent policy in permitting or forbidding the translation of the Scriptures. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/english.htm - 38k

Eriaku

... Kudurmabuk would seem, from motives of policy, to have given his sons Sumerian and Semitic Babylonian names; and it is noteworthy that he did not retain the ... biblethesaurus.org/e/eriaku.htm - 11k

Eri-aku

... Kudurmabuk would seem, from motives of policy, to have given his sons Sumerian and Semitic Babylonian names; and it is noteworthy that he did not retain the ... biblethesaurus.org/e/eri-aku.htm - 11k

Defence (48 Occurrences)

... action. 6. (n.) Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc. 7 ... biblethesaurus.org/d/defence.htm - 20k

Desolation (131 Occurrences)

... class, there were those who, influenced by the Hellenistic culture, introduced by the conquests of Alexander the Great, were inclined to a more "liberal" policy... biblethesaurus.org/d/desolation.htm - 46k

Do-nothing (1 Occurrence)

... << Donning, Do-nothing. Don't >>. Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy. Multi-Version Concordance ... biblethesaurus.org/d/do-nothing.htm - 6k

Darius (26 Occurrences)

... the Jews resumed their work, thinking that the edict of Smerdis would be now null and void, as Darius was in known harmony with the religious policy of Cyrus. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/darius.htm - 24k

Measure (269 Occurrences)

... 15. (n.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political ... biblethesaurus.org/m/measure.htm - 45k

Maccabaeus

... Educated in the fashionable Hellenism of the day, he made it his aim during his reign (175-164 BC) to enforce it upon his empire a policy which brought him ... biblethesaurus.org/m/maccabaeus.htm - 17k

Platform (9 Occurrences)

... 4. (n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a ... biblethesaurus.org/p/platform.htm - 10k

Policemen (2 Occurrences)

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Pekah (11 Occurrences)

... Isaiah himself was the mainstay of the opposition to their projects. The policy he advocated, by divine direction, was that of complete neutrality. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pekah.htm - 19k

Protection (19 Occurrences)

... 4. (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating ... biblethesaurus.org/p/protection.htm - 12k

Pekahiah (4 Occurrences)

... This league, Pekahiah, preferring his father's policy of tributary vassalage, may have refused to join. If so, the decision cost him his life. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pekahiah.htm - 10k

Permitted (31 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/p/permitted.htm - 15k

Party (47 Occurrences)

... distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/party.htm - 20k

Polish (1 Occurrence)

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Bithynia (2 Occurrences)

... the Roman Government). Under this Roman policy Christianity was confirmed in strength and in public position. Subsequently the first ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bithynia.htm - 11k

Crafty (15 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/c/crafty.htm - 11k

Crete (7 Occurrences)

... In strengthening the position of the Jews, the Romans were copying the Seleucid policy in Asia Minor; both the Seleucids and the Romans found the Jews among ... biblethesaurus.org/c/crete.htm - 19k

Amon (20 Occurrences)

... It is natural that, seeing the insignificance of Amon's administration, some ambitious clique, imitating the policy that had frequently succeeded in the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/amon.htm - 18k

Adopt (4 Occurrences)

... 2. (vt) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions ... biblethesaurus.org/a/adopt.htm - 7k

Abandon (31 Occurrences)

... 4. (vt) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abandon.htm - 15k

Antiochians

... Antiocheis, peculiar to the Apocrypha, 2 Maccabees 4:9, 19): Antiochus Epiphanes was on the throne of Syria from 175 to 164 BC His determined policy was to ... biblethesaurus.org/a/antiochians.htm - 10k

Aggressive (2 Occurrences)

... (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aggressive.htm - 7k

Abdon (8 Occurrences)

... Samuel 4:18 are the same; that at the death of Abdon the Philistines asserted themselves as overlords of Israel; that it was a part of their policy to suppress ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abdon.htm - 13k

Augustus (4 Occurrences)

... There is no reason to believe that Augustus entertained any specially favorable appreciation of Judaism, but from policy he showed himself favorable to the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/augustus.htm - 12k

Agency (4 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/a/agency.htm - 8k

Adopted (10 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:19 He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to ... biblethesaurus.org/a/adopted.htm - 9k

Arrest (22 Occurrences)

... these two systems in Judea, and their joint action in bringing about the tremendous results in question, were made possible by the generous policy pursued by ... biblethesaurus.org/a/arrest.htm - 45k

Stroke (26 Occurrences)

... done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy... biblethesaurus.org/s/stroke.htm - 16k

Shallum (27 Occurrences)

... to catch the prey; it devoured men" (Ezek. 19:3). His policy was anti-Egyptian therefore. Necho, at that time at Riblah, sent an ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shallum.htm - 22k

Shrewdness (3 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shrewdness.htm - 7k

So (23977 Occurrences)

... He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the ... biblethesaurus.org/s/so.htm - 9k

Seleucus

... Syria to a Roman province. He followed generally the policy of Alexander in spreading Greek civilization. He founded Antioch and ... biblethesaurus.org/s/seleucus.htm - 8k

Herodians (3 Occurrences)

... A Jewish political party who sympathized with (Mark 3:6; 12:13; Matt, 22:16; Luke 20:20) the Herodian rulers in their general policy of government, and in the ... biblethesaurus.org/h/herodians.htm - 9k

Roman (26 Occurrences)

... that they should not extend their sovereignty beyond the limits which he had set (Tacitus Annals i0.11; Agricola 13); and although this policy was departed ... biblethesaurus.org/r/roman.htm - 101k

Nabathaeans

... In 106 AD their nationality was broken up by the unwise policy of Trajan, and Arabia, of which Petra was the capital, was made a Roman province by Cornelius ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nabathaeans.htm - 11k

Nabataeans

... In 106 AD their nationality was broken up by the unwise policy of Trajan, and Arabia, of which Petra was the capital, was made a Roman province by Cornelius ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nabataeans.htm - 11k

Joseph (248 Occurrences)

... royalty rides out. The policy adopted by the prime minister was far-reaching, wise, even adroit (Genesis 41:25-36). It is impossible ... biblethesaurus.org/j/joseph.htm - 91k

Craft (14 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/c/craft.htm - 12k

Magnify (25 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/m/magnify.htm - 15k

Haggai (14 Occurrences)

... roused the people from their lethargy, and induced them to take advantage of the favourable opportunity that had arisen in a change in the policy of the ... biblethesaurus.org/h/haggai.htm - 28k

Superior (18 Occurrences)

... Daniel 8:25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy ... biblethesaurus.org/s/superior.htm - 13k