Bible Dictionary
Explore biblical people, places, events, objects, ideas, and other terms. Search the dictionary directly, browse alphabetically, or narrow the list by category or Testament.
WEATHER
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
The Bible has no single Hebrew word corresponding exactly to “weather.” It describes clear skies, cold days, storms, heat, and changing conditions, and Jesus used weather signs to rebuke spiritual blindness.
Weaving
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
Weaving is the craft of interlacing warp and woof threads on a loom to make cloth. Biblical peoples produced fabrics from wool, flax, goat hair, and other fibers, including the skilled work used for the tabernacle.
Weaving, weavers
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
Weavers made cloth by interlacing warp and woof threads on looms. Scripture refers to their tools and products, including webs, shuttles, beams, linen, wool, and patterned fabrics.
Wedding
Jewish Life & Customs - Both
A wedding is the celebration and public recognition of marriage. Biblical wedding customs included feasting and rejoicing, and marriage is also used as a figure for Christ’s relationship with his people.
WEDGE, OF GOLD
Measures & Money - Old Testament
The wedge of gold was a shaped piece of gold taken by Achan at Jericho. It functioned as a valuable, weighed form of money or bullion.
Week
Measures & Money - Both
A week is a period of seven days, ordinarily six days of work followed by a Sabbath rest. This ancient division shaped Israel’s calendar and worship and also appears in prophetic expressions in Daniel.
Weeks, Feast of
Festivals & Holy Days - Both
The Feast of Weeks was the Israelite harvest festival held seven weeks after the beginning of the grain harvest. It was also called Pentecost and became associated in the New Testament with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
WEIGHT
Measures & Money - Both
A weight was a stone, metal piece, or other standard used to measure quantity in a balance. Scripture also uses “weight” figuratively for importance, glory, burden, or hindrance.
Weights
Measures & Money - Old Testament
Biblical weights included the gerah, bekah, shekel, maneh, and talent. They were used to measure precious metals, offerings, tribute, and commercial goods, though their exact modern equivalents vary by standard and period.
Weights And Measures
Measures & Money - Both
Biblical weights and measures included units of length, capacity, and weight, such as the cubit, span, palm, ephah, bath, shekel, maneh, and talent. Their values varied somewhat, but they regulated trade, construction, offerings, and taxation.
Well
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
A well is an artificial shaft dug into the ground or rock to obtain water, often marked by a stone curb or covering. Wells were essential for households, travelers, flocks, settlements, and biblical encounters.
WEN
Agriculture & Daily Life - Old Testament
A wen is a tumor or swelling. In Leviticus the English word represents a suppurating or running sore, though the modern medical meaning of “wen” does not precisely match the Hebrew term.
WENCH
People & Groups - Old Testament
“Wench” is an obsolete English rendering for a maidservant or female slave. In the biblical passage, the underlying term simply means a female servant.
WEST
Places & Geography - Both
West is commonly expressed in Hebrew by reference to the sea or to the setting of the sun. Figuratively, the distance between east and west represents the immeasurable removal of sin.
Westward
Places & Geography - Old Testament
Westward means toward the west, especially toward the Mediterranean Sea when used in descriptions of the land of Israel.
Whale
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
“Whale” is an English rendering of words that may mean a sea monster, large fish, or serpent. In Jonah the creature is called a great fish, while Jesus refers to the event using the Greek term for a large sea creature.
Wheat
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
Wheat was a principal cultivated grain of Palestine and the ancient Near East. It supplied flour and roasted grain, formed an important harvest, and appears in Scripture as a picture of fruitful believers and the righteous gathered by God.
Wheel
Objects & Symbols - Both
A wheel is a circular device used on vehicles, threshing instruments, windlasses, and potter’s equipment. Scripture also uses wheels and rolling or whirling movement in poetic and figurative descriptions.
WHELP
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
A whelp is a young animal, especially a lion’s cub. Scripture uses the image figuratively for powerful nations, rulers, and the strength or fierceness of a people.
WHIRLWIND
Prophecy - Both
A whirlwind is a violent rotating storm or tempest, sometimes carrying water or desert sand. In Scripture it symbolizes God’s power, judgment, destruction, swiftness, and overwhelming presence.
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