Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Leadership See Abraham; Moses; Joshua; Gideon; Deborah Abraham; Moses; Joshua; Gideon; Deborah Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

LEADERS, RELIGIOUS (A) PRIESTS(1) General references to Gen 14:18; Exo 18:1; Exo 24:5; Jos 3:6; 2Ch 11:13; 2Ch 29:16 (2) Laws in Regard to Exo 29:1; Exo 40:15; Lev 10:9; Lev 21:1; Ezr 7:24; Neh 7:65 (3) Should be Holy Exo 19:22; Lev 10:3; Lev 21:6; Lev 22:9; 2Ch 6:41; Isa 52:11 Mal 2:7 (4) … Continue reading “LEADERS, RELIGIOUS”

Leaders Meetings As an essential part of the Wesleyan system of subpastoral superintendence by means of class-leaders, SEE LEADERS, an organized meeting was appointed to be held weekly under the above title. A leaders’ meeting is composed of the itinerant ministers of any circuit or station, and all persons regularly in office as leaders or … Continue reading “Leaders Meetings”

Leaders This term has a technical significance as applied to leaders of religious classes in the original Methodist societies, and in the Methodist churches of the present day. SEE CLASS-MEETINGS. The leader’s office is one of pastoral help. It therefore involves great responsibility, and requires for the proper discharge of its duties a deep religious … Continue reading “Leaders”

Leade Or Leadly, Jane all English mystic, founder of the Philadelphians, was born in the county of Norfolk in 1623. According to her own accounts she was convicted of sin in her sixteenth year by a mysterious voice whispering in her ear, and found peace in the grace of God three years after. Her parents, … Continue reading “Leade Or Leadly, Jane”

Lead, South Dakota, diocese of Erected as the diocese of Lead, South Dakota on 4 August 1902. Name changed to the diocese of Rapid City on 1 August 1930. Suffragen of the archdiocese of Saint Paul. See also Catholic-Hierarchy.Org diocese of Rapid City New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Lead, Led “to bear, bring, carry, lead,” is translated by the verb “to lead,” e.g., in Mar 13:11; Luk 4:1; Luk 4:9, RV; Luk 4:29; Luk 22:54; Luk 23:1, AV only; Luk 23:32; Joh 18:28 (present tense, RV); Act 8:32; metaphorically in Rom 2:4, of the goodness of God; Rom 8:14; Gal 5:18, of the … Continue reading “Lead, Led”

Lead, Diocese of (LEADENSIS). The Diocese of Lead, which was established on 6 August, 1902, comprises all that part of the State of South Dakota (U.S.A.) west of the Missouri River—an area of 41,759 square miles. The residence of the bishop is at Hot Springs. The territory taken to form the diocese had previously belonged … Continue reading “Lead, Diocese of”

Lead (Metal) Zec 5:7 (b) The ephah is a unit of measure. The size of it was according to GOD’s command, as in Eze 45:11. GOD measures and weighs every part of the earth. This weight of “lead” assures us that GOD will hold down or preserve honesty in measurements throughout the earth when His … Continue reading “Lead (Metal)”

LEAD There are early allusions to this well-known metal in Scripture. The Egyptians “sank as lead” in the Red Sea, Exo 15:10 ; Num 31:22 ; Eze 27:12 . Job refers to its use in preserving a permanent record of events, by being melted and poured into letters deeply cut in a rock, Job 19:24 … Continue reading “Lead”