Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Turquoise a Persian gem of a peculiar bluish green color, which was very generally used in the Middle Ages for the adornment of every species of sacred vessel, e.g. the chalice, ciborium, altar-cross, miter, and pastoral staff. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Turpin, Thomas D a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Somerset County, Md., June 30,1805. He was converted Sept. 8, 1823; licensed to preach Sept. 12, 1827; admitted on trial in the traveling connection Feb. 7, 1829, and was appointed to Union Circuit; in 1830, to Pendleton; in 1831, to the Savannah mission; in 1832, … Continue reading “Turpin, Thomas D”

Turpin Archbishop of Reims, date of birth uncertain; d. 2 Sept., 800. He was a monk of St. Denis when, about 753, he was called to the See of Reims. With eleven other bishops of France he attended the Council of Rome in which Pope Stephen III condemned the antipope Constantine to perpetual confinement. He … Continue reading “Turpin (2)”

Turpentine-tree (, ; Vulg. terebinthus) occurs only once, viz. in the Apocrypha (Sir 24:16), where wisdom is compared with the turpentine-tree that stretcheth forth her branches. The or of the Greeks, is the Pistacia terebinthus, terebinth-tree, common in Palestine and the East, supposed by some writers to represent the elh () of the Hebrew Bible. … Continue reading “Turpentine Tree”

Turnus in ancient Italian mythology, was the king of the Rutuli, and a son of Daunus and Venelia, who was a niece of queen Amata, wife of Latinus. Her daughter Lavinia, having been destined by fate to AEneas, was the subject of dispute between the Trojans and the Latins, in which the former were victorious. … Continue reading “Turnus”

Turning TURNING 1. The Gospel terms.In Authorized and Revised Versions of the Gospels the vbs. turn, convert represent no fewer than 8 different Gr. words. The ordinary terms, and the ones we have almost exclusively to do with in the following article, are and (whence , conversion, in Act 15:3). In addition to these we … Continue reading “Turning”

Turney, Edmund, D.D a Baptist minister, was born in Easton, Connecticut, May 6, 1816. He received his education at the Hamilton Institute, N.Y., and his first pastorate was in the Second Church, Hartford, Connecticut. Subsequently he was pastor in Granville, Ohio, and Utica, N.Y. He became professor of Biblical criticism in the Hamilton Seminary in … Continue reading “Turney, Edmund, D.D”

Turner, William Hindley an English Congregational minister, was born at Beeston, Leeds, in 1784. He was educated at Rotherham College, and became an exceedingly popular preacher. Mr. Turner’s first settlement was at Bury, and after seven years’ efficient work he removed to Hindley, where he built up a prosperous and manly ministry. In 1862 growing … Continue reading “Turner, William Hindley”

Turner, William an English-divine, was born near Broadoak, Flintshire, and for some time previous to going to Oxford he was an inmate of the house of Philip Henry, father of Matthew, the commentator. He took his A.M. at Edmund Hall, Oxford, June 8, 1675. Becoming, afterwards, vicar of Walberton, in Sussex, he resided there in … Continue reading “Turner, William”

Turner, Thomas, D.D an English divine, was born at St. Giles’s, Heckfield, in 1591. He was educated at St. John’s College, Oxford, and in 1623 was presented by his college to the vicarage of St. Giles’s in Oxford. Laud, when bishop of London, made him his chaplain, and in 1629 collated him to the prebend … Continue reading “Turner, Thomas, D.D”