Bethany = "house of dates" or, "house of misery"

1. a village at the Mount of Olives, about two miles (3 km) from Jerusalem, on or near the normal road to Jericho

2. a town or village on the east bank of the Jordan, where John was baptising

to arouse, cause to rise

1. to arouse from sleep, to awake

2. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life

3. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.

4. to raise up, produce, cause to appear

   1. to cause to appear, bring before the public

   2. to raise up, stir up, against one

   3. to raise up i.e. cause to be born

   4. of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect

to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

out of, from, by, away from

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to come

1. of persons

   1. to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving and of those returning

   2. to appear, make one's appearance, come before the public

metaph.

1. to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence

2. be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto

to go, to follow one

the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night

1. in the daytime

2. metaph., "the day" is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness

of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)

1. Eastern usage of this term differs from our western usage. Any part of a day is counted as a whole day, hence the expression "three days and three nights" does not mean literally three whole days, but at least one whole day plus part of two other days.

of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom

used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.

I was, etc.

to die, to be dead

metaph. to be spiritually dead

Jesus = "Jehovah is salvation"

1. Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, God incarnate

2. Jesus Barabbas was the captive robber whom the Jews begged Pilate to release instead of Christ

3. Joshua was the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses' successor (Ac. 7:45, Heb. 4:8)

4. Jesus, son of Eliezer, one of the ancestors of Christ (Lu. 3:29)

5. Jesus, surnamed Justus, a Jewish Christian, an associate with Paul in the preaching of the gospel (Col. 4:11)

Lazarus = "whom God helps" (a form of the Hebrew name Eleazar)

1. an inhabitant of Bethany, beloved by Christ and raised from the dead by him

2. a very poor and wretched person to whom Jesus referred to in Luke 16:20-25

properly

1. one that has breathed his last, lifeless

2. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell

3. destitute of life, without life, inanimate

metaph.

1. spiritually dead

   1. destitute of a life that recognises and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins

   2. inactive as respects doing right

2. destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

where, whereas

who, which, what, that

then, therefore, accordingly, consequently, these things being so

the paschal sacrifice (which was accustomed to be offered for the people's deliverance of old from Egypt)

the paschal lamb, i.e. the lamb the Israelites were accustomed to slay and eat on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan (the first month of their year) in memory of the day on which their fathers, preparing to depart from Egypt, were bidden by God to slay and eat a lamb, and to sprinkle their door posts with its blood, that the destroying angel, seeing the blood, might pass over their dwellings; Christ crucified is likened to the slain paschal lamb

the paschal supper

the paschal feast, the feast of the Passover, extending from the 14th to the 20th day of the month Nisan

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