Our Daily Devotional

BIND AND UNLING In the use of the rabbis, to doctrinally declare a thing licit or illicit (also: impose or lift the anathema or excommunication). By means of contradictory concepts (such as, for example, good

ATAR (a) Tying: Figurative meaning: bond of spouses (Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:27, 39). Supernatural sense: being bound by Satan (Lk. 13:16) and binding Satan (Rev. 20:2). (b) Untie: figuratively: image of the demolition of

ATHALIAH (a) Port of Pamphylia at the mouth of the Cataraktes (today called Absu), founded by King Attalus II of Pergamon; today Aralia; This city was visited by Paul on his first missionary journey (Acts

AHASUERUS (a) Ruler of the Persian Empire mentioned in the book of Ezra (Ezra 4:6). In secular history he is called Xerxes or Artaxerxes, following Greek nomenclature. (See ARTAJERJES). In the Masoretic text, Persian king

ASTROLOGERS (1) In the book of Daniel (Dan. 1:20; 2:2, 10, 27; 4:7; 5:7, 11, 15) the Hebrew word is “ashshaph,” which means “magician, enchanter.” , one who practiced the occult arts. This word does

ASTROLOGY Astrology developed in Sumer, Chaldea and Babylon. From ancient times it was believed that the stars influenced the lives of men. This is evidently idolatry, since an action that belongs to God is transferred

ASHTORETH “a wife”. Goddess of the Phoenicians and Sidonians, worshiped by Israel after the death of Joshua and also by Solomon. Josiah destroyed the emblems of her worship, introduced by Solomon (Judges 2:13; 10:6; 1

ASHTEROTH KARNAIM Scene of the defeat of the Rephaim before the forces of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:5). Although there are those who have identified it with the previous one, there are others who, due to the

ASHTAROTH City of Bashan in the kingdom of Og, east of the Jordan. It was given to the half tribe of Manasseh and was later made a Levitical city (Deut. 1:4; Josh. 9:10; 12:4; 13:12,

ASP The Hebrew word designates a very poisonous snake other than the viper. Sometimes it is the “naja” or Egyptian cobra, extremely poisonous, small, yellowish green, with brown spots and an expandable neck. It was