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Gethsemane

See OLIVES, _Mount of_. Gethsemane is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a very fat or plentiful vale.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
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  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G1068
Greek
Γεθσημανῆ · Gethsēmanē
Name meaning
a very fat or plentiful vale According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Γεθσημανῆ

G1068
Transliteration
Gethsēmanē
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N--L
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

Gethsemane

Lexicon definition

Γεθσημασεί (Rec. -νῆ, LTr. -νεῖ) indecl. (Heb. גֵּת שְׁמָנִי, oil-press), Gethsemane: called in Jhn.18:1 a κῆπος, but named only in Mat.26:36, Mrk.14:32.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

Γεθσημανῆ

G1068
Transliteration
Gethsēmanē
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

Gethsemane

Lexicon definition

oil-press

Gethsemane, a garden near Jerusalem

Hebrew lexical coverage

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gethsemane

a very fat or plentiful vale

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

GETHSEMANE

See OLIVES, _Mount of_.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Gethsemane

Indexed occurrences: 2

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Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

GETHSEMANE

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for GETHSEMANE.

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Gethsemane

Meaning:
a very fat or plentiful vale

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GETHSEMANE

Nave’s Topical Bible references for GETHSEMANE.

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Agony

Contest; wrestling; severe struggling with pain and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It is only used in the New Testament by Luke (22:44) to describe our Lord's fearful struggle in Gethsemane. The verb from which the noun "agony" is derived is used to denote an earnest endeavour or striving, as "Strive [agonize] to enter" (Luke 13:24); "Then would my servants fight" [agonize] (John 18:36). Comp. 1 Cor. 9:25; Col. 1:29; 4:12; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7, where the words "striveth," "labour," "conflict," "fight," are the renderings of the same Greek verb.

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Gardens

Mentioned in Scripture, of Eden (Gen. 2:8, 9); Ahab's garden of herbs (1 Kings 21:2); the royal garden (2 Kings 21:18); the royal garden at Susa (Esther 1:5); the garden of Joseph of Arimathea (John 19:41); of Gethsemane (John 18:1). The "king's garden" mentioned 2 Kings 25:4, Neh. 3:15, was near the Pool of Siloam. Gardens were surrounded by hedges of thorns (Isa. 5:5) or by walls of stone (Prov. 24:31). "Watch-towers" or "lodges" were also built in them (Isa. 1:8; Mark 12:1), in which their keepers sat. On account of their retirement they were frequently used as places for secret prayer and communion with God (Gen. 24:63; Matt. 26:30-36; John 1:48; 18:1, 2). The dead were sometimes buried in gardens (Gen. 23:19, 20; 2 Kings 21:18, 26; 1 Sam. 25:1; Mark 15:46; John 19:41). (See [228]PARADISE.)

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Gethsemane

a very fat or plentiful vale

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Lord's Prayer

The name given to the only form of prayer Christ taught his disciples (Matt. 6:9-13). The closing doxology of the prayer is omitted by Luke (11:2-4), also in the R.V. of Matt. 6:13. This prayer contains no allusion to the atonement of Christ, nor to the offices of the Holy Spirit. "All Christian prayer is based on the Lord's Prayer, but its spirit is also guided by that of His prayer in Gethsemane and of the prayer recorded John 17. The Lord's Prayer is the comprehensive type of the simplest and most universal prayer."

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Torches

On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, "having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons" (John 18:1-3). Although it was the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron "there fell great, deep shadows from the declivity of the mountain and projecting rocks; there were there caverns and grottos, into which a fugitive might retreat; finally, there were probably a garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might be necessary for a searcher to throw light around." Lange's Commentary. (Nahum 2:3, "torches," Revised Version, "steel," probably should be "scythes" for war-chariots.)

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