Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Chederles in Oriental mythology, was a Turkish hero, similar to Saint George of the Christians, and, as there is. reason to believe, based upon the latter, and modified according to the fashion of Eastern countries. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Chedek SEE THORN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Cheddus bishop of the East Angles. SEE CEDDA. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Checquer (Chequer Or Checker) is the office, or place of business, of a monastic bursar or financial officer. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Checkley, Samuel (1) a Congregational minister, was born at Boston, Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1715. He was ordained the first minister of the New or South Church, in Boston, Nov. 22,1719, and died Dec. 1, 1769, aged seventy-three years. He published several pamphlets. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 31:3. … Continue reading “Checkley, Samuel (2)”

Checkley, John a missionary of the Church of, England, was born at. Boston, Mass., in, 1680. After studying at. the grammar school ins his native city, he completed his education at Oxford; travelled throughout Europe, collecting valuable paintings, manuscripts, etc., and was again in Boston in 1715. A pamphlet was published by him in 1723, … Continue reading “Checkley, John”

Checker-Work, (Network) cheker-wurk (, sebhakhah): This was a kind of ornamentation used on the tops of the pillars of Jachin and Boaz before the porch of the Temple (1Ki 7:17). Its exact form is not known. See TEMPLE. For a broidered coat (Exo 28:4 the King James Version), the Revised Version (British and American) gives … Continue reading “Checker-Work, (Network)”

Checker Work CHECKER WORK.A designation applied in 1Ki 7:17 (only) to the net-ornament on the pillars before the Temple. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Checker (, sebakah, 1Ki 7:17). The original term, thus rendered, is the same as that translated net-work in the context, and signifies a lattice forming the balustrade surmounting the capitals of columns. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Check (, musar): Occurs in Job 20:3 the King James Version, I have heard the check of my reproach (the Revised Version (British and American) the reproof which putteth me to shame), i.e. a check or reproof, such as that which closes the last speech of Job (chapter 19), and intended to put Zophar to … Continue reading “Check”