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.
COMMUNITY OF GOODS
Christian Life - New Testament
The early Jerusalem believers held their possessions for the benefit of the whole fellowship and voluntarily sold property to meet urgent needs. This was a temporary expression of Christian brotherhood, not a universal command abolishing individual ownership.
COMPARATIVE RELIGION
Doctrine & Theology - Both
Comparative religion studies religious beliefs, practices, origins, and development across different peoples and traditions. From a Christian perspective, such study may identify common religious longings while contrasting them with God’s revelation and salvation in Christ.
COMPARE
Scripture - Both
To compare means to examine things together for likeness, difference, or relative value. Scripture uses the idea for likening, equating, arranging, and interpreting or relating spiritual truths appropriately.
COMPASSION
God - Both
Compassion is tender pity and a willingness to act mercifully toward those who suffer. It is a prominent attribute of God, displayed supremely in Jesus Christ, and a required quality of those who belong to Him.
COMPEL
Christian Life - Both
To compel means to press, force, or strongly urge someone to act. In the New Testament it can describe impressing a person into service or applying earnest moral persuasion, but it does not authorize forcing people to believe.
COMPLAINING
Christian Life - Both
Complaining is expressing dissatisfaction or an outcry. Scripture uses the term for the absence of public distress in a peaceful city and for the troubled speech of a drunkard.
COMPLETE
Doctrine & Theology - New Testament
To complete is to bring something to its full or intended measure, leaving nothing lacking. In the New Testament it can describe believers being fully equipped or attaining fullness.
COMPREHEND
Doctrine & Theology - Both
To comprehend can mean to understand mentally or spiritually, or to contain and measure. Scripture also uses it for grasping the breadth of God’s love and for summing up the law in love for one’s neighbor.
Conaniah
People & Groups - Old Testament
Conaniah was a Levite appointed to oversee offerings, tithes, and dedicated things. Another Levite of the same or similar name served among the leaders of Josiah’s Passover (2 Chronicles 31:12–13; 35:9).
CONCEAL
Doctrine & Theology - Both
To conceal is to cover or withhold something from view or understanding. Concealment may involve prudent reserve rather than falsehood, and Scripture recognizes that God reveals some things while withholding others.
CONCEIT
Sin & Judgment - Both
Conceit is an inflated opinion of one’s own wisdom or importance—being “wise in one’s own eyes.” Scripture warns against this kind of self-confident pride.
CONCERNING
Other - Both
“Concerning” means about, regarding, or with reference to something. Bible translations use it in various contexts to introduce a subject, matter, or person.
Concision
Sin & Judgment - New Testament
Concision means “mutilation.” Paul used the term contemptuously for teachers who insisted on circumcision as necessary for Gentile believers, contrasting their outward cutting with true spiritual worship in Christ.
CONCLUDE
Other - New Testament
To conclude is to reach a judgment or inference from the facts. In biblical usage it may also mean to reckon, give judgment, or shut up, depending on the context.
CONCLUSION
Doctrine & Theology - Old Testament
A conclusion is the end or summary of an argument. In Ecclesiastes 12:13 it introduces the book’s final summation: fear God and keep His commandments.
Concubine
Jewish Life & Customs - Both
A concubine was a woman joined to a man in a secondary marital relationship and household position. The Old Testament regulates the practice, while the teaching of Christ restores marriage to its proper covenantal character.
Concupiscence
Sin & Judgment - New Testament
Concupiscence means an inward desire or longing, especially an inordinate desire for what God forbids. In the New Testament it commonly refers to coveting or sinful lust, though desire itself is not always sinful.
Conduit
Agriculture & Daily Life - Old Testament
A conduit is a channel, trench, or aqueduct for carrying water. Hezekiah made a conduit bringing the waters of Gihon into Jerusalem so the city would have water during a siege.
Coney
Agriculture & Daily Life - Old Testament
The coney of the Bible is the Syrian hyrax, a small animal living in rocky clefts. Though it resembles a rabbit and appears to chew its food, it is neither a true rabbit nor a ruminant.
Confection
Worship & Prayer - Old Testament
Confection refers to a compounded perfume or ointment made by combining fragrant substances. Such preparations were used in the sacred anointing oil and other forms of worship.
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