Biblia

Linen, Fine

Linen, Fine The word Shesh, thus translated in the Authorized Version, occurs twenty-eight times in Exodus, once in Genesis, once in Proverbs, and three times in Ezekiel. Considerable doubts have, however, always been entertained respecting the true meaning of the word; but it appears to us to signify hemp, which is a plant that in … Continue reading “Linen, Fine”

Linen

LINEN As is well known, is made of the fine fibers of flax, and was much used by the ancients. Four different words in Hebrew are translated in our Bible, “Linen,” “fine linen,” and “silk:” PISHTAH, Jdg 15:14 Eze 44:17,18 ; BAD, worn by the priests, Exo 28:42 39:28, and by king David, etc., 2Sa … Continue reading “Linen”

Lineage

Lineage (, paternal descent, “kindred,” Act 3:25; “family,” Eph 3:15), a family or race (Luk 2:4). SEE GENEALOGY. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Lineage line-aj (, patria): Found only once in Luk 2:4 (the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) family), and signifying the line of paternal family descent. … Continue reading “Lineage”

Line, Saint Anne

Line, Saint Anne English martyr, d. 27 Feb., 1601. She was the daughter of William Heigham of Dunmow, Essex, a gentleman of means and an ardent Calvinist, and when she and her brother announced their intention of becoming Catholics both were disowned and disinherited. Anne married Roger Line, a convert like herself, and shortly after … Continue reading “Line, Saint Anne”

Line of Beauty

Line of Beauty Title given by Wm. Hogarth to an undulating line supposedly containing the essence of the graphically beautiful, and so regarded as both the cause and the criterion of beauty; particular lines and paintings become beautiful as and because they exhibit this line. According to Hogarth, such lines must express “symmetry, variety, uniformity, … Continue reading “Line of Beauty”

Line

Line (represented by the following terms in the original: , che’bel, a measuring-line, 2Sa 8:2; Amo 7:17; hence a portion as divided out by a line, Psa 16:6; elsewhere cord,” “portion,” etc. or , kav, a measuring-line, Isa 34:17; Eze 47:3; either for construction, Job 38:5; Isa 44:13; Jer 31:39; Zec 1:16, or for destruction, … Continue reading “Line”