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Porcius Festus

Porcius Festus por'-shus. See FESTUS.

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Porcius Festus por'-shus.
See FESTUS.

Related meanings

Festus; Porcius

Festus; Porcius fes'-tus, por'-shi-us Porkios Phestos): The Roman governor or procurator who succeeded Felix in the province of Judea (Ac 24:27), and was thus brought into prominence in the dispute between Pau...

Porch

Porch porch: Chiefly in the Old Testament 'alam, used of the temples of Solomon and Ezekiel (see TEMPLE); once micderon, a "vestibule," in Jud 3:23. In the New Testament, the word occurs in connection with the...

Porch, Portico, Solomon's

Porch, Portico, Solomon's por'-ti-ko, (he stoa he kaloumene Solomontos): This important element of Herod's temple, preserving in its name a traditional connection with Solomon, is thrice referred to in the New...

Porcupine

Porcupine por'-ku-pin (qippodh (Isa 14:23, Isa 34:11, Zech 2:14) the King James Version "bittern," the Revised Version (British and American) "porcupine"; Septuagint echinos "hedgehog"; qippoz (Isa 34:15), the...

Or or: The word is used once for either (1Sa 26:10), and is still in poetic use in this sense; as in, "Without or wave or wind" (Coleridge); "Or the bakke or some bone he breketh in his dzouthe" (Piers Plowman...

Paarai

Paarai pa'-a-ri (pa`aray, "devotee of Peor"): One of David's 37 valiant men (2Sa 23:35). Doubtless the "Naarai" of 1Ch 11:37.

Pacatiana

Pacatiana pa-ka-ti-a'-na, pak-a-ti'-a-na (Pakatiane): About 295 AD, when the province of Asia was broken up, two new provinces were formed, Phrygia Prima (Pacatiana), of which Laodicea was "the chiefest city"...

Pace

Pace pas (tsa`adh): A step in 2Sa 6:13, hence, about one yard.

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