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- ...d (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of "half a shekel for an offering to the Lord." This enactment was fait ...s made of the tax (telos) on merchandise and travellers (Matt. 17:25); the annual tax (phoros) on property (Luke 20:22; 23:2); the poll-tax (kensos, "tribute1,011 bytes (146 words) - 19:02, 17 November 2008
- The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran c669 bytes (73 words) - 15:03, 15 October 2010
- The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Ac428 bytes (73 words) - 21:35, 18 October 2008
- ...strengthen, and perpetuate it, nothing could be so well adapated as these annual feasts." (See FESTIVALS.)1 KB (217 words) - 15:06, 6 November 2008
- ...the easternmost branch, of the Delta. It was the seat of one of the chief annual festivals of the Egyptians. Its ruins bear the modern name of Tel-Basta.496 bytes (86 words) - 08:42, 16 November 2008
- ...rm and colour. It is the Coriandrum sativum of botanists, an umbelliferous annual plant with a round stalk, about two feet high. It is widely cultivated in E544 bytes (95 words) - 15:47, 2 November 2008
- ...28:26), and the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:35, 36). The great fast, the annual day of atonement, was "the holy convocation" (Lev. 23:27; Num. 29:7).577 bytes (75 words) - 15:43, 2 November 2008
- ...rendering of the Hebrew ketsah, "without doubt the Nigella sativa, a small annual of the order Ranunculacece, which grows wild in the Mediterranean countries624 bytes (97 words) - 15:23, 6 November 2008
- ...gainst Hoshea, the king of Israel, whom he subdued and compelled to pay an annual tribute. Hoshea, however, soon after rebelled against his Assyrian conquere736 bytes (113 words) - 14:02, 17 November 2008
- ...property of allaying pain. The common dill, the Anethum graveolens, is an annual growing wild in the cornfields of Spain and Portugal and the south of Europ878 bytes (150 words) - 06:28, 24 October 2008
- ...ored as a tribe and additional wives were supplied from the dancers at the annual festival at Shiloh. Judges ends with the notation of the lawlessness of the995 bytes (160 words) - 17:59, 5 October 2015
- ...e found in countless numbers on the shores of the Mediterranean, and their annual migration is an event causing great excitement.968 bytes (157 words) - 15:44, 17 October 2008
- Nidus celebrates the Christian faith, the arts, and justice through an annual festival, gatherings, and events. Nidus fosters unity and learning among Ch1 KB (151 words) - 19:07, 14 November 2009
- ...nary activity in the Northwest USA where we conduct seminars, organize the annual [[Seattle Creation Conference]], and produce weekly public access TV shows.1 KB (165 words) - 01:38, 3 July 2009
- ...eighteen years held that whole district in subjection, exacting from it an annual tribute. At length Ehud, by a stratagem, put Eglon to death with a two-edge933 bytes (146 words) - 14:33, 5 November 2008
- The great annual purification of the people was on the Day of Atonement (q.v.).1 KB (170 words) - 09:23, 16 November 2008
- ...sprinkled on the mercy-seat. Sin-offerings were also presented at the five annual festivals (Num. 28, 29), and on the occasion of the consecration of the pri1 KB (234 words) - 15:12, 17 November 2008
- The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the "feast of inga2 KB (289 words) - 18:43, 17 November 2008
- ...llows he had intended for Mordecai (Esther 7); and the Jews established an annual feast, the feast of Purim (q.v.), in memory of their wonderful deliverance.2 KB (323 words) - 14:00, 6 November 2008
- ...hat allow us to explore what it really means to be in God's presence, semi-annual Communion services that invite us into the deeper meaning and power of Chri2 KB (338 words) - 06:23, 17 August 2009