Manners & Customs

Milk Scripture - Isaiah 60:16

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob....

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Death in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

(maweth; thanatos): PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FIGURATIVE VIEW The word "Death" is used in the sense of (1) the process of dying (Gen 21:16); (2) the period of decease (Gen 27:7); (3) as a possible synonym for poison (2 Ki 4:40); (4) as descriptive of person in danger of perishing (Jdg 15:18; "in deaths oft" 2 Cor 11:23). In this sense the shadow of de...

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Death Scripture - Ecclesiastes 8:8

[There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it....

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Divorce in Smiths Bible Dictionary

"a legal dissolution of the marriage relation." The law regulating this subject is found De 24:1-4 and the cases in which the right of a husband to divorce his wife was lost are stated ibid., De 22:19,29 The ground of divorce is appoint on which the Jewish doctors of the period of the New Testament differed widely; the school of Shammai seemin...

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Divorce Scripture - Deuteronomy 24:3

And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;...

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Dog Scripture - Job 30:1

But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock....

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Butter Scripture - Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good....

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Milk Scripture - Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk....

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Milk in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Children's food everywhere (1 Peter 2:2; 1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12). In the East a leading element in men's diet also. "A land flowing with milk" symbolizes abundance (Exodus 3:8; Deuteronomy 6:3). Chalab, "milk," means "fairness, fresh milk"; chemah is "milk coagulated", and is translated in KJV "butter"; rather leben, an Eastern prepa...

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Death in Naves Topical Bible

Miscellaneous Subjects Called GIVING UP THE GHOST Ge 25:8; 35:29; La 1:19; Ac 5:10 KING OF TERRORS Job 18:14 A CHANGE Job 14:14 GOING TO THY FATHERS Ge 15:15; 25:8; 35:29 PUTTING OFF THIS TABERNACLE 2Pe 1:14 REQUIRING THE SOUL Lu 12:20 GOING THE WAY WHENCE THERE IS NO RETURN Job 16:22 BEING GATHERED TO OUR PEOPLE Ge 49:33 GOING DOW...

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