Adummim
Adummim was a marked ascent or pass on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem, identified with the gorge near the Wady Kelt. Its name refers to reddish ground or stones.
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ADVANTAGE
Advantage means profit, benefit, or gain. Scripture also uses the term negatively for exploiting or taking advantage of another person.
ADVENTURE
To adventure is to risk or dare an undertaking involving danger. Paul’s friends urged him not to venture into the theater at Ephesus.
Adversary
An adversary is an opponent, enemy, accuser, or one who resists another. In Scripture the term can describe human opponents and, especially, the devil as the accuser of believers.
ADVERSITY
Adversity refers to distress, affliction, misfortune, or harmful circumstances. Biblical examples include poverty, oppression, war, sorrow, and persecution.
ADVERTISE
In older English, to advertise meant to advise or inform. Balaam used the word when telling Balak what would happen, and Boaz used it when informing Ruth’s nearer kinsman.
Advocate
An advocate pleads another’s cause or provides help. Jesus Christ is the believer’s Advocate with the Father, while the Holy Spirit is likewise called the Helper or Advocate sent to Christ’s followers.
Aegypt
Aegypt is an alternate form of Egypt, the ancient land frequently mentioned in Scripture.
Aeneas
Aeneas was a paralytic at Lydda who had been bedridden for eight years and was healed by Peter through the power of Jesus Christ.
AEnon
Aenon was a place near Salim where John baptized because there was much water. Its exact location is uncertain, but it was west of the Jordan.
AEON
Aeon means an age, duration, or dispensation. In later philosophical and Gnostic usage it could refer to spiritual beings or emanations, but that specialized meaning is not a biblical doctrine.
Aera
Aera is an alternate form referring to chronology, the ordering or reckoning of periods of time.
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