but

1. nevertheless, notwithstanding

2. an objection

3. an exception

4. a restriction

5. nay, rather, yea, moreover

6. forms a transition to the cardinal matter

Balaam meaning "perhaps"

1. A native of Pethor a city in Mesopotamia, endued by Jehovah with prophetic power. He was hired by Balak to curse the Israelites; and influenced by the love of reward, he wished to gratify Balak; but he was compelled by Jehovah's power to bless them. Hence later the Jews saw him as a most abandoned deceiver.

Balak = "a devastator or spoiler"

1. a king of Moab

to throw or let go of a thing without caring where it falls

1. to scatter, to throw, cast into

2. to give over to one's care uncertain about the result

3. of fluids

   1. to pour, pour into of rivers

   2. to pour out

to put into, insert

to teach

1. to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic discourses

2. to be a teacher

3. to discharge the office of a teacher, conduct one's self as a teacher

to teach one

1. to impart instruction

2. instill doctrine into one

3. the thing taught or enjoined

4. to explain or expound a thing

5. to teach one something

teaching

1. that which is taught

2. doctrine, teaching, concerning something

the act of teaching, instruction

1. in religious assemblies of the Christians, to speak in the way of teaching, in distinction from other modes of speaking in public

sacrificed to idols, the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices

1. it was either eaten at the feasts or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market

there, in or to that place

in the presence of, before

1. of occupied place: in that place which is before, or over against, opposite, any one and towards which another turns his eyes

to have, i.e. to hold

1. to have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions, etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider or hold as

to have i.e. own, possess

1. external things such as pertain to property or riches or furniture or utensils or goods or food etc.

2. used of those joined to any one by the bonds of natural blood or marriage or friendship or duty or law etc, of attendance or companionship

to hold one's self or find one's self so and so, to be in such or such a condition

to hold one's self to a thing, to lay hold of a thing, to adhere or cling to

1. to be closely joined to a person or a thing

Israel = "he shall be a prince of God"

1. the name given to the patriarch Jacob (and borne by him in addition to his former name)

2. the family or descendants of Israel, the nation of Israel

3. Christians, the Israel of God (Gal 6:16), for not all those who draw their bodily descent from Israel are true Israelites, i.e. are those whom God pronounces to be Israelites and has chosen to salvation

and, also, even, indeed, but

down from, through out

according to, toward, along

to have power, be powerful

1. to be chief, be master of, to rule

to get possession of

1. to become master of, to obtain

2. to take hold of

3. to take hold of, take, seize

   1. to lay hands on one in order to get him into one's power

to hold

1. to hold in the hand

2. to hold fast, i.e. not discard or let go

   1. to keep carefully and faithfully

3. to continue to hold, to retain

   1. of death continuing to hold one

   2. to hold in check, restrain

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

little, small, few

1. of number: multitude, quantity, or size

2. of time: short

3. of degree or intensity: light, slight

who, which, what, that

that, because, since

to prostitute one's body to the lust of another

to give one's self to unlawful sexual intercourse

1. to commit fornication

metaph. to be given to idolatry, to worship idols

1. to permit one's self to be drawn away by another into idolatry

the movable stick or trigger of a trap, a trap stick

1. a trap, snare

2. any impediment placed in the way and causing one to stumble or fall, (a stumbling block, occasion of stumbling) i.e. a rock which is a cause of stumbling

3. fig. applied to Jesus Christ, whose person and career were so contrary to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah, that they rejected him and by their obstinacy made shipwreck of their salvation

any person or thing by which one is (entrapped) drawn into error or sin

thy, thee

you

a son

1. rarely used for the young of animals

2. generally used of the offspring of men

3. in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)

4. in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,

   1. the children of Israel

   2. sons of Abraham

5. used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower

   1. a pupil

son of man

1. term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality

2. son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.

3. used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.

son of God

1. used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38)

2. used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ

3. of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

   1. in the OT used of the Jews

   2. in the NT of Christians

   3. those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8)

4. those who revere God as their father, the pious worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts

to eat

to eat (consume) a thing

1. to take food, eat a meal

2. metaph. to devour, consume