BRIDGE
A bridge is a structure for crossing a river or other gap. Bridges are mentioned in the Apocrypha and later historical sources, but no bridge is clearly described in the canonical Scriptures.
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Bridle
A bridle, bit, or halter is used to control and guide an animal. Scripture uses it figuratively for restraint, including God’s governing power over nations and the discipline that should control human conduct.
Brier
A brier is a thorny or prickly plant, including various shrubs, thistles, and the land-caltrop. Briers symbolize desolation, barrenness, and troublesome people or circumstances.
Brigandine
Brigandine is an obsolete term for protective scale armor or a coat of mail. It was worn by soldiers and is mentioned in prophetic descriptions of warfare.
BRIM
Brim means the edge, border, or outermost part of something, such as the brink of a river or the rim of a vessel. In John 2:7, filling the jars to the brim means filling them completely.
Brimstone
Brimstone is sulfur, an inflammable mineral associated especially with the region around the Dead Sea. In Scripture, fire and brimstone represent divine judgment, destruction, and dreadful punishment.
BRING
Bring is used in Scripture for many forms of carrying, sending, producing, restoring, presenting, subduing, remembering, rescuing, and bringing to maturity. Its precise meaning depends on the Hebrew or Greek verb and the context.
BROAD
Broad describes something wide, spacious, or extended, including streets, courts, and structures. Figuratively, Scripture uses it for relief and liberty, but also for the wide way that leads to destruction and for ostentatious religious display.
BROIDERED
Broidered means decorated with colored, checkered, twined, or plaited work. The term describes parts of the high priest’s clothing and other ornamental garments, and can also refer to braided adornment.
BROKEN
Broken may describe something bruised, crushed, shattered, frustrated, collapsed, or removed. Scripture uses the word both for physical damage and for the breaking down of people or purposes.
BROKENFOOTED
Brokenfooted describes a person with a broken or injured foot. Under the law, this condition was one of the physical blemishes that prevented a priest descended from Aaron from performing priestly service.
BROKENHANDED
Brokenhanded describes a person with a broken or injured hand. Under the law, such a physical blemish prevented a priestly descendant from carrying out the priestly office.
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