week, holy Week preceding Easter. The commemoration of Christ’s sufferings determines many of its functions: the reading of the Passion on Palm Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, respectively according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the silence of the bells from Holy Thursday to Holy Saturday; the stripping of the altars on Thursday; the unveiling … Continue reading “week, holy”
week, cross
week, cross Week in which Rogation Days occur. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Week
Week See Time. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Week (, or , shabuia, from , “seven,” lit. a heptad of anything, but specifically used for a period of seven days; Sept. ; Vulg. septimana), SEE SEVEN. 1. The origin of this division of time is a matter which has given birth to much speculation. … Continue reading “Week”
Weeds
Weeds WEEDS.1. sph, Jon 2:6, referring to sea-weeds (cf. the designation yam sph sea of weeds, applied to the Red Sea [wh. see]). 2. Gr. chortos, Sir 40:16, used in the same indefinite sense as Eng. weeds. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Weeds wedz (, suph, a weed (Jon 2:5)). See FLAG; COCKLE; RED … Continue reading “Weeds”
Weeding
Weeding Mat 13:28 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Weedall, Henry
Weedall, Henry Born in London, 6 September, 1788; died at Oscott, 7 November, 1859. Both his parents died during his early childhood; his father was a doctor. He was educated at Sedgley Park (1794-1804), and at Oscott (1804-14), and was ordained priest at Wolverhampton, 6 April, 1814. He had been acting as a junior master … Continue reading “Weedall, Henry”
Weed, Henry Rowland, D.D
Weed, Henry Rowland, D.D a Presbyterian minister, was born at Ballston, N.Y., July 30, 1789. He graduated from Union College in 1812, and with the first class of Princeton Theological Seminary in 1815; was ordained pastor at Jamaica, L.I., in 1816; in 1822 went to Albany, N.Y., as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; in … Continue reading “Weed, Henry Rowland, D.D”
Weed, Bartholomew
Weed, Bartholomew a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Ridgefield (now Danbury), Connecticut, March 6, 1793. He was trained in the Calvinistic faith and became a Baptist in 1809, but joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in the eighteenth year of his age, under the ministry of Rev. Seth Crowell; was licensed to exhort in 1812: … Continue reading “Weed, Bartholomew”
Weed
Weed (, suph, Jon 2:6; elsewhere rendered flag,” Exo 2:3; Isa 19:6, but usually as an epithet of the Red Sea, lit. the weed-sea; Sept. ; Lat. alga, see Pliny, 31:46,4; 9:25), the sea-weed (Fucus natans of Linn.; Fucus marinus, Pliny, 26:66 and 79), a sort of sea-grass with lanciform, serrated leaves, and threadlike knotted … Continue reading “Weed”
Wedurhoelner
Wedurhoelner in Norse mythology, is the hawk, sitting between the eyes of the eagle, that dwells on the top of the ash Ygdrasil. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature