Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Thym, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in Berlin, Sept. 5, 1768 and died there May 21,1803. He wrote, De Vita Mosis a Philone Conscripta (Halle, 1796): Versucheiner historisch-kritischen Darstellung der jd. Lehre von einer Fortdauer nachdem Tode (Berlin, 1795): Theol. Encyklop. u. Methodologie (Halle, 1797): Historisch kritisches Lehrbuch der Homiletik … Continue reading “Thym, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm”

THYINE-WOOD Jer 18:12, the wood of the Thyia or Thuja Articulata of Linnaeus, an aromatic evergreen tree, resembling the cedar, and found in Libya, near Mount Atlas. The wood was used in burning incense, and under the name of citron-wood was highly prized by the Romans for ornamental wood-work. It yields the sanderach resin of … Continue reading “Thyine Wood”

Thyine (wood) is akin to thuia, or thua, an African aromatic and coniferous tree; in Rev 18:12 it describes a wood which formed part of the merchandise of Babylon; it was valued by Greeks and Romans for tables, being hard, durable and fragrant (AV marg., “sweet”). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Thyine An aromatic wood. Rev 18:12 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

THYATIRA A city of Lydia, in Asia Minor, a Macedonian colony, anciently called Pelopia and Euhippia, now Ak-hisar. It was situated on the confines of Lydia and Mysia, near the river Lycus, between Sardis and Pergamos. It was the seat of one of “the seven churches,” Jer 1:11 ; 2:18,24. The art of dyeing purple … Continue reading “Thyatira”

Thy, Thine, Thine own, Thyself * Note: These are translations of (1) the possessive pronoun sos, and its inflections, e.g., Mat 7:3 (1st part); it is used as a noun with the article, in the phrases to son, “that which is thine,” Mat 20:14; Mat 25:25, “thine own;” hoi soi, “thy friends,” Mar 5:19; ta … Continue reading “Thy, Thine, Thine own, Thyself”

Thy Holy Angel Name applied to Our Lord in the Mass, in the third prayer after the Consecration. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Thus “in this way, so, thus,” is used (a) with reference to what precedes, e.g., Luk 1:25; Luk 2:48; (b) with reference to what follows, e.g., Luk 19:31, rendered “on this wise,” in Mat 1:18; Joh 21:1, and before quotations, Act 7:6; Act 13:34; Rom 10:6, AV (RV, “thus”); Heb 4:4; (c) marking intensity, rendered … Continue reading “Thus”

Thurston, Stephen, D.D a Congregational minister, was born at Sedgewick, Maine, December 22, 1797. He graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1825, became pastor at Searsport (then Prospect), Maine, in 1826, was secretary of the Maine Missionary Society from 1864 to 1876, and died May 27, 1884. He published several sermons. See Cong. Year-book, 1885, … Continue reading “Thurston, Stephen, D.D”

Thurston, Eli, D.D a Congregational minister, was born at Brighton, Massachusetts, June 14, 1808. At the age of seventeen he went to Millbury to learn the gunsmith’s trade, but having been converted in his twentieth year, he immediately began to study for the ministry, attending Day’s Academy at Wrentham, and graduating from Amherst College in … Continue reading “Thurston, Eli, D.D”