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Wild Beasts WILD BEASTS.See Animals in vol. i. p. 64bf. Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels

Wild Beast Of The Islands is the rendering of the A.V. at Isa 13:22; Isa 34:14; Jeremiah 1:39, of the Heb. word which occurs in this sense only in the plur. , iyim, although it frequently occurs both in the sing. and plur. in the sense of “island.” The ancient interpreters variously understand cats (Chald. … Continue reading “Wild Beast Of The Islands”

Wild Beast Of The Desert is the rendering of the A.V. at Isa 13:21; Isa 34:14; Jeremiah 1:30 [elsewhere “dwelling in the wilderness,” (Psa 52:9; Psa 74:14; Isa 23:13] of the Heb. word found only in this sense in the plur. , tsiyim, although the sing. , tsi, occurs Num 24:24; Isa 33:21; Eze 30:9; … Continue reading “Wild Beast Of The Desert”

Wild Beast is the rendering of the A.V. at Psalm 1:11; Psa 80:13 [elsewhere “abundance,” Isa 66:11], of , ziz, a poetical word for any moving creature of the field. Another Heb. term, chayah (, Sept. , , , , , , , ; Vulg.fera, aninzantia, animal), also rendered “beast,” “wild beast,” is the feminine … Continue reading “Wild Beast”

Wild Ass (, pere.; once [Job 39:5] , arod; Chald. [Dan 5:21] ardd; Sept. . [ ]; so the Eastern , Photius, Cod. 42:91; Philostr. Apoll. 3:2; AElian, Anim. 5:52), a species inhabiting the desert (Job 24:5; Isaiah 32; Jer 2:2; Jer 2:4), roaming free (Job 39:5), living on herbs (6:5; Jer 14:6), which is … Continue reading “Wild Ass”

Wild denotes (a) “of or in fields” (agros, “a field”), hence, “not domestic,” said of honey, Mat 3:4; Mar 1:6; (b) “savage, fierce,” Jud 1:13, RV, metaphorically, “wild (waves),” AV, “raging.” It is used in the papyri of a malignant wound. Note: In Rev 6:8 the RV renders therion (plural) “wild beasts” (AV, “beasts”). Fuente: … Continue reading “Wild”

Wilcox, Robert, Venerable English martyr, born at Chester, 1558; suffered at Canterbury, 1 October, 1588. He arrived at Reims, 12 August, 1583, and received the tonsure and minor orders, 23 September following. He was ordained sub-deacon, 16 March, deacon, 5 or 6 April, and priest, 20 April, 1585, receiving all these orders at Reims. Sent … Continue reading “Wilcox, Robert, Venerable”

Wilcocks, Joseph, D.D an English clergyman, was born in 1673. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; chosen demy of his college at the same time with Boulter and Addison, from which circumstance this was called “the golden election;” became chaplain to the English Factory at Lisbon; returned to England, where he became chaplain to … Continue reading “Wilcocks, Joseph, D.D”

Wilcannia, Diocese of (WILCANIENSIS). Located in New South Wales, one of the six suffragan sees of Sydney; consists for the most part of the western portions of the older diocese of Bathurst, Armidale, and Goulburn. It is composed of nearly one-half of the State of New South Wales, its area being 150,000 sq. miles. Its … Continue reading “Wilcannia, Diocese of”

Wilburites SEE WILBUR, JOHN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature