Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

LUNATIC A word formed from the Latin luna, the moon, and thus corresponding to the original Greek word and to the English “moonstruck;” applied to a class of persons mentally and often corporally diseased, who were believed to suffer most when the moon was full. Inanity, epilepsy, and morbid melancholy were among the frequent effects … Continue reading “Lunatic”

Lunacy See Insanity; Demons Insanity; Demons Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Luna, Pedro de Antipope (1394-1417), born Illueca, Aragon, Spain, 1328; died Peftiscola, Spain, 1422 or 1423. A cardinal-deacon, he assisted at the election of Urban VI, but later joined the French cardinals when they elected the antipope Robert of Geneva (Clement VII), falsely claiming that Urban’s election had been secured under pressure from the Roman … Continue reading “Luna, Pedro De”

luna (Latin: moon or little moon) A circular receptacle, usually with glass sides, inserted into an ostensorium, to show the Sacred Host. It is blessed by a priest, and therefore is a sacred vessel. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Lumsden, Wlliam O a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Alexandria, Virginia, about 1805. He was converted in the fifteenth year of his age, was received into the Baltimore Annual Conference in 1824, and held the following appointments in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia: 1824, Prince George’s; 1825, Harford; 1826, … Continue reading “Lumsden, Wlliam O”

Lumpkin, John a distinguished Baptist minister of Georgia, was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, November 4, 1785, but went, when a child, to Georgia, and was reared in Oglethorpe County, where he spent his whole life. Socially, his relations were of a high character. One of his brothers, Wilson Lumpkin, was governor of the state … Continue reading “Lumpkin, John”

Lumper, Gottried a noted Benedictine, was born in 1747, and entered in his youth the Benedictine cloister of St. George at Villingen, in the Black Forest of Badlen. He remained there in various offices, and as theological teacher, till his death in 1801, and distinguished himself by his works on Church History, the chief of … Continue reading “Lumper, Gottried”

Lumper, Gottfried Benedictine patristic writer, born 6 Feb., 1747, at Füssen in Bavaria; died 8 March, 1800 (Hefele says 1801), at the Abbey of St. George at Billingen in the Black Forest. At an early age he commenced his education at the abbey school, received in the course of time the habit of the order, … Continue reading “Lumper, Gottfried”

Lump (, debelah’), a round mass of any substance pressed together, specially of dried figs (2Ki 20:7; Isa 38:21; “cake,” 1Sa 25:18; 1Sa 30:12; 1Ch 12:40). The Greeks adopted the Heb. term in a softened form, , which the Sept. uses. This was the usual shape in which figs were preserved for sale or use … Continue reading “Lump”

Lummi Indians (Abbreviated from Nuglummi, about equivalent to “people”, the name used by themselves). The Lummi Indians are the principal one of more than twenty small Salishan tribes originally holding the lower shores, islands, and eastern hinterland of Puget Sound, Washington; by the Treaty of Point Elliott (1855), gathered upon five reservations within the same … Continue reading “Lummi Indians”