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Cornerstone in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

kor'-ner ston (pinnah, zawith; akrogoniaios): Part of the public or imposing buildings, to which importance has been attached in all ages and in many nations, both on account of its actual service and its figurative meaning. Ordinarily its use in the Bible is figurative, or symbolical. No doubt the original meaning was some important stone, wh...

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Cornerstone Scripture - Matthew 21:42

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?...

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Money Scripture - 1 Kings 21:2

And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money....

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Eggs in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

(betsah; oon; Latin ovum): An oval or spheroid body produced by birds, fishes and reptiles, from which their young emerge when incubated or naturally developed. The fertile egg of a bird consists of the yolk, a small disk from which the embryo develops, the albuminous white, and a calcareous shell. The most ancient records prove that eggs have...

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Cornerstone in Naves Topical Bible

General scriptures concerning Job 38:6 -See STONE -FIGURATIVE Ps 144:12 Of Christ Ps 118:22; Isa 28:16; Mt 21:42; Mr 12:10; Lu 20:17; Ac 4:11; 1Co 3:11; Eph 2:20; 1Pe 2:6...

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Cornerstone Scripture - Mark 12:10

And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:...

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Money Scripture - 2 Kings 12:13

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD:...

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Milk in Naves Topical Bible

Used for food Ge 18:8; Jud 4:19; So 5:1; Eze 25:4; 1Co 9:7 -Of goats Pr 27:27 -Of sheep De 32:14; Isa 7:21,22 -Of camels Ge 32:15 -Of cows De 32:14; 1Sa 6:7,10 -Churned Pr 30:33 -Kid (a baby goat) not to be seethed (boiled) in its own mother's Ex 23:19; De 14:21 -FIGURATITE Ex 3:8,17; 13:5; 33:3; Nu 13:27; De 26:9,15; Isa 55:1; 60...

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Money in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. Uncointed money. --It is well known that ancient nations that were without a coinage weighed the precious metals, a practice represented on the Egyptian monuments, on which gold and silver are shown to have been kept in the form of rings. We have no evidence of the use of coined money before the return from the Babylonian captivity; but sil...

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Money in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob's purchase of a field at Shalem (Gen. 33:18, 19) for "an hundred pieces of money"=an hundred Hebrew kesitahs (q.v.),...

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