Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Unxia a surname of Juno in Roman mythology, was the goddess of anointing. The young women in Rome are said to have anointed the doors of their future dwellings with salve before entering them, in order that nothing evil should enter their house. From this, Juno, the directress of marriages, received the above name. Fuente: … Continue reading “Unxia”

Unwritten Word That authority to which the Romish Church could lay no claim from the purity of its members it endeavored to support during the Dark Ages by its arrogant pretensions. The Scriptures, even in the Latin version, had long become a sealed book to the people; and the Roman see, in proportion as it … Continue reading “Unwritten Word”

Unwritten Sayings UNWRITTEN SAYINGS.The name Agrapha or Unwritten Sayings, is applied to sayings ascribed to Jesus which are not found in the true text of the canonical Gospels. That some genuine sayings of the Lord not recorded by the Evangelists should linger in the oral tradition of the early Church is only what we should … Continue reading “Unwritten Sayings”

UNWORTHINESS Mat 10:37; Mat 22:8; Act 13:46 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Unworthily, Unworthy is used in 1Co 11:27, of partaking of the Lord’s Supper “unworthly,” i.e., treating it as a common meal, the bread and cup as common things, not apprehending their solemn symbolic import. In the best texts the word is not found in 1Co 11:29 (see RV). a, negative, n, euphonic, axios, “worthy,” is … Continue reading “Unworthily, Unworthy”

Unworthily un-wurthi-li: 1Co 11:27, 1Co 11:29 the King James Version for , anaxos. In 11:29, the Revised Version (British and American), on convincing textual evidence, has omitted the word, which is a needless gloss (compare the Revised Version’s translation of the whole verse). In 11:27 the American Standard Revised Version has changed unworthily to in … Continue reading “Unworthily”

Unwise is translated “unwise” in Rom 1:14, AV; see FOOLISH, No. 2. is translated “unwise” in Eph 5:17, AV; see FOOLISH, No. 1. a, negative, is rendered “unwise” in Eph 5:15, RV (AV, “fools”). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Unwin, William Jordan, LL.D a Church of England divine, was born at Great Coggeshall, Essex, Nov. 29, 1811. He was educated at Totteridge; prepared for the ministry at Rothwell, Highbury College, entering in 1830, and Glasgow University, which he entered in 1833, and where he graduated in 1835, taking the two degrees of bachelor and … Continue reading “Unwin, William Jordan, LL.D”

Unwilling * Note: “I am unwilling” is the RV rendering of thelo, “to will,” with the negative ou, in 3Jo 1:13 (AV, “I will not”). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Unwashen un-wosh’n (, aniptos): Occurs only twice in the New Testament, not at all in the Hebrew or Greek Old Testament (Mat 15:20 = Mar 7:2). Jesus is here denouncing the traditionalism of the scribes and Pharisees. Uncleanness, to them, was external and purification was ceremonial. Hence, the Pharisaic view that the hands became unclean … Continue reading “Unwashen”