Our Daily Devotional

ACSAF City on the border of the tribe of Asher. It is named between Bethen and Alamelech (Josh. 19:25). Their king was among the thirty-one kings killed by the children of Israel, having risen up

ACSA Daughter of Caleb, given as a wife to Othniel, because he conquered Kiriath-sepher (Debir) (Jos. 15:16-19; Judges 1:12-15; 1 Chron. 2:49).

ACRABIM “Scorpions”. Mountain pass south of the Dead Sea, which formed the southern limit of Palestine, and which was also “the border of the Amorites” (Num. 34:4; Judges 1:36; Joshua 15:3). It is also mentioned

ACHOR – Valley of Achor Achor means “anguish,” and it is the place where Achan, with all his followers, was stoned for having brought the curse on Israel by taking the anathema of Jericho for

ACMETA City that the Greeks and Romans called Ecbátana and that the Jews designated with the Aramaic name of Acmeta. Since the 700s BC it was the capital of Media, as well as the residence

UNLEAVENED BREAD They were flat bread cakes, lacking yeast; They are first mentioned in the three men’s visit to Abraham (Gen. 19:3). In the institution of the Passover and the seven-day feast that followed, the

STEEL This term must be translated, in the Old Testament, “metal” or “brass” (1 Sam. 17:5; Jb. 20:24; Ps. 18:34, etc.).

RESPECT OF PERSONS In Hebrew there are several expressions, such as “nasa panim”, “look at the face”, and “gur my penis”, “fear before the face”, which literally mean to judge someone from the outside, getting

ACELDAMA “field of blood.” A small piece of land in Jerusalem, which before the death of Christ was called “Potter’s Field” (Jer. 19), bought by the priests with the money returned by Judas, who used

OLIVE Fruit of the Olive Tree, and from which, by various means, oil is obtained. Its color, when it is mature, is black. Its collection is carried out by hand; in Palestine it is already