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With Glad and Joyous Strains Now Let Each Street R Hymn for Vespers on the feast of the Most Precious Blood, 1 July . It was written in the 17th century , by an unknown author. It has five translations. The English title given is by T. Potter. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

With (, yether, Jdg 16:7-9, a rope; “cord,” Job 30:11; “string,” Psa 11:2). In the passage of Judges cited we read that Delilah bound Samson with seven green withs which had not been dried.” Green ropes,” as distinguished from “dry ropes,” is the proper meaning, the peculiarity being in the greenness, not in the material. … Continue reading “With”

Witenagemot (or Witan) (Anglo-Saxon, witena, of wise men, from witan, to know, and genmot, assembly), the great national council of the Saxons, by which the king was guided in all his main acts of government. Each kingdom had its own witan before the union of the heptarchy, in 827, after which there was a general … Continue reading “Witenagemot (or Witan)”

Witchcrafts Witchcraft occurs in 2Ki 9:22; Isa 47:9; Isa 47:12; Mic 5:12; Nah 3:4; and in the New Testament, Gal 5:20; Rev 9:21; Rev 18:23. The precise idea, if any, now associated with the word ‘witch,’ but, however, devoutly entertained by nearly the whole nation in the time of our translators, is that of a … Continue reading “Witchcrafts”

Witchcraft, In Popular Estimation is the practice and powers of a person supposed to have formed a compact with Satan. The powers deemed to be possessed by the witches, and the rites and incantations by which they acquired those powers, were substantially the same as belonged to the devotees of the Greek Hecate, the Striga … Continue reading “Witchcraft, In Popular Estimation”

Witchcraft, Biblical Mention Of 1. The word “witchcraft” occurs in the A.V. as a translation of , kesheph (but only in the plur.), in 2Ki 9:22; Isa 47:9; Isa 47:12; Mic 5:12; Nah 3:4 (Sept. , ; Vulg. veneficium, maleficium). In the Apocrypha “witchcraft,” “sorcery,” occur as renderings of (Wis 12:4; Wis 18:13), and in … Continue reading “Witchcraft, Biblical Mention Of”

Witchcraft See Divination. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church WITCHCRAFT A supernatural power which persons were formerly supposed to obtain the possession of, by entering into a compact with the Devil. Witchcraft was universally believed in Europe till the 16th century, and even maintained its ground with tolerable firmness till the middle of the 17th. … Continue reading “Witchcraft”

Witch, Witchcraft WITCH, WITCHCRAFT.See Magic Divination and Sorcery. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Witch, Witchcraft wich, wichkraft: 1.Meaning and Use of the Words 2.Biblical Usage 3.Common Elements in Witchcraft and Ancient Oriental Magic 4.Rise, Spread and Persecution of Witchcraft LITERATURE 1. Meaning and Use of the Words: The word witch seems to denote etymologically … Continue reading “Witch, Witchcraft”

Witch Of Endor (Heb. , 1Sa 28:7; lit. a woman, mistress of an Ob in En-Dor; Sept. ; Vulg. mulierpythonem habens in Endor; A.V. “a woman that hath a familiar spirit in Endor”). The story of “the witch of Endor,” as she is commonly but improperly called, is usually referred to magical power. She, however, … Continue reading “Witch Of Endor (2)”

WITCH AND WIZARD Our best exposition of these terms as found in the Bible is in the narrative of the witch of Endor. She was widely known as “one that had a familiar spirit” or an attendant demon, and was thereby professedly able to summon departed souls from the spirit world and converse with them. … Continue reading “Witch and Wizard”