Aethiopia
Aethiopia is an alternate form of Ethiopia, a region mentioned in the Bible south of Egypt.
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Affection
Affection means feeling or emotion. Scripture warns against sinful or disordered affections and urges believers to set their minds and desires on things above.
Affinity
Affinity is a relationship formed by marriage or alliance. Scripture uses the term for marriage alliances and regulates relationships formed through marriage.
AFFLICTION
Affliction is bodily pain, mental distress, oppression, or trouble. Scripture presents suffering as sometimes punitive, but also as a test, discipline, purification, or occasion for faithful and redemptive endurance, supremely seen in Christ.
Afflictions
Afflictions are trials and sufferings common to human life. God may use them to discipline, test, strengthen, and glorify Him through the patient endurance of His people.
AFFRIGHT
To be affrighted is to be suddenly terrified or startled. The term describes fear and trembling caused by an unexpected event or alarming sight.
AFOOT
Afoot means traveling on foot. Paul walked from Troas to Assos rather than taking the longer voyage around the cape.
AFORE
Afore is an old word meaning before or formerly. It appears especially in expressions such as “aforetime” and “aforehand.”
AFRESH
Afresh means again or anew. Hebrews 6:6 uses the expression in describing those who, by apostasy, symbolically crucify the Son of God again.
AFRICA
Africa is not named as a continent in the Bible, but biblical peoples and regions included Egypt, Libya, Cush or Ethiopia, and Put. The Ethiopian official baptized by Philip came from this wider African world.
AFTERNOON
Afternoon is the part of the day after noon. Biblical expressions distinguish the heat of the early afternoon from the cool breeze and ordinary activity of late afternoon.
AGABA
Agaba was a fortress in Judea. Its commander surrendered it to Aristobulus during a struggle for control of the Judean government.
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