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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
decree, law, usage, commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
decree, decree.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
decree, law, decree, law.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
decree, decree, ordinance
A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
decree, ordinance
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
cut in, inscribe, decree, appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
edict, decree, decree, sentence.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
decree.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
decree.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
decree, law.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
[phrase] chancellor, [phrase] command, commandment, decree, [phrase] regard, taste, wisdom.
Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 50
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Strong's Concordance
Indexed occurrences: 17
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Nave's Topical Bible
Indexed references: 2
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Josephus Antiquities Whiston
Antiquities Book 10, Chapter 11
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Antiquities Book 11, Chapter 6
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Antiquities Book 11, Chapter 8
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Antiquities Book 12, Chapter 2
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Antiquities Book 12, Chapter 10
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Antiquities Book 13, Chapter 9
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Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 8
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Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 10
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Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 12
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Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 16
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Antiquities Book 16, Chapter 6
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Antiquities Book 18, Chapter 9
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Antiquities Book 19, Chapter 2
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Nave’s Topical Bible references for DECREES.
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(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:29). It has been held by some, and we think correctly, that this law of prohibition was only ceremonial and temporary; while others regard it as still binding on all. Blood was eaten by the Israelites after the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 14:32-34). (2.) The blood of sacrifices was caught by the priest in a basin, and then sprinkled seven times on the altar; that of the passover on the doorposts and lintels of the houses (Ex. 12; Lev. 4:5-7; 16:14-19). At the giving of the law (Ex. 24:8) the blood of the sacrifices was sprinkled on the people as well as on the altar, and thus the people were consecrated to God, or entered into covenant with him, hence the blood of the covenant (Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19, 20; 10:29; 13:20). (3.) Human blood. The murderer was to be punished (Gen. 9:5). The blood of the murdered "crieth for vengeance" (Gen. 4:10). The "avenger of blood" was the nearest relative of the murdered, and he was required to avenge his death (Num. 35:24, 27). No satisfaction could be made for the guilt of murder (Num. 35:31). (4.) Blood used metaphorically to denote race (Acts 17:26), and as a symbol of slaughter (Isa. 34:3). To "wash the feet in blood" means to gain a great victory (Ps. 58:10). Wine, from its red colour, is called "the blood of the grape" (Gen. 49:11). Blood and water issued from our Saviour's side when it was pierced by the Roman soldier (John 19:34). This has led pathologists to the conclusion that the proper cause of Christ's death was rupture of the heart. (Comp. Ps. 69:20.)
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"The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, and relations, and determining their certain futurition. The several contents of this one eternal purpose are, because of the limitation of our faculties, necessarily conceived of by us in partial aspects, and in logical relations, and are therefore styled Decrees." The decree being the act of an infinite, absolute, eternal, unchangeable, and sovereign Person, comprehending a plan including all his works of all kinds, great and small, from the beginning of creation to an unending eternity; ends as well as means, causes as well as effects, conditions and instrumentalities as well as the events which depend upon them, must be incomprehensible by the finite intellect of man. The decrees are eternal (Acts 15:18; Eph. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13), unchangeable (Ps. 33:11; Isa. 46:9), and comprehend all things that come to pass (Eph. 1:11; Matt. 10:29, 30; Eph. 2:10; Acts 2:23; 4:27, 28; Ps. 17:13, 14). The decrees of God are (1) efficacious, as they respect those events he has determined to bring about by his own immediate agency; or (2) permissive, as they respect those events he has determined that free agents shall be permitted by him to effect. This doctrine ought to produce in our minds "humility, in view of the infinite greatness and sovereignty of God, and of the dependence of man; confidence and implicit reliance upon wisdom, rightenousness, goodness, and immutability of God's purpose."
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(Luke 2:2; R.V., "enrolment"), "when Cyrenius was governor of Syria," is simply a census of the people, or an enrolment of them with a view to their taxation. The decree for the enrolment was the occasion of Joseph and Mary's going up to Bethlehem. It has been argued by some that Cyrenius (q.v.) was governor of Cilicia and Syria both at the time of our Lord's birth and some years afterwards. This decree for the taxing referred to the whole Roman world, and not to Judea alone. (See [624]CENSUS.)
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