himself, herself, themselves, itself

he, she, it

the same

of men who fathered children

1. to be born

2. to be begotten

   1. of women giving birth to children

metaph.

1. to engender, cause to arise, excite

2. in a Jewish sense, of one who brings others over to his way of life, to convert someone

3. of God making Christ his son

4. of God making men his sons through faith in Christ's work

a disposition, arrangement, of any sort, which one wishes to be valid, the last disposition which one makes of his earthly possessions after his death, a testament or will

a compact, a covenant, a testament

1. God's covenant with Noah, etc.

to give

to give something to someone

1. of one's own accord to give one something, to his advantage

   1. to bestow a gift

2. to grant, give to one asking, let have

3. to supply, furnish, necessary things

4. to give over, deliver

   1. to reach out, extend, present

   2. of a writing

   3. to give over to one's care, intrust, commit

      1. something to be administered

      2. to give or commit to some one something to be religiously observed

5. to give what is due or obligatory, to pay: wages or reward

6. to furnish, endue

to give

1. to cause, profuse, give forth from one's self

   1. to give, hand out lots

2. to appoint to an office

3. to cause to come forth, i.e. as the sea, death and Hell are said to give up the dead who have been engulfed or received by them

4. to give one to someone as his own

   1. as an object of his saving care

   2. to give one to someone, to follow him as a leader and master

   3. to give one to someone to care for his interests

   4. to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return

to grant or permit one

1. to commission

twelve

1. the twelve apostles of Jesus, so called by way of eminence

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.

Jacob = "heel-catcher or supplanter"

1. was the second son of Isaac

2. the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary

Isaac = "to laugh"

1. the son of Abraham and Sarah

and, also, even, indeed, but

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

the eighth

in this manner, thus, so

patriarch, founder of a tribe, progenitor

1. of the twelve sons of Jacob, founders of the tribes of Israel

2. of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

to cut around

to circumcise

1. cut off one's prepuce (used of that well known rite by which not only the male children of the Israelites, on the eighth day after birth, but subsequently also "proselytes of righteousness" were consecrated to Jehovah and introduced into the number of his people)

2. to get one's self circumcised, present one's self to be circumcised, receive circumcision

3. since by the rite of circumcision a man was separated from the unclean world and dedicated to God, the word is transferred to denote the extinguishing of lusts and the removal of sins

circumcised

1. the act or rite of circumcision, "they of the circumcision" is a term used of the Jews

   1. of Christians gathered from among the Jews

   2. the state of circumcision

2. metaph.

   1. of Christians separated from the unclean multitude and truly consecrated to God

   2. the extinction of passions and the removal of spiritual impurity