a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God

himself, herself, themselves, itself

he, she, it

the same

to write, with reference to the form of the letters

1. to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material

to write, with reference to the contents of the writing

1. to express in written characters

2. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write down, record

3. used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the OT)

4. to write to one, i.e. by writing (in a written epistle) to give information, directions

to fill with writing

to draw up in writing, compose

a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly

1. an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating

2. the assembly of the Israelites

3. any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously

4. in a Christian sense

   1. an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting

   2. a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order's sake

   3. those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body

   4. the whole body of Christians scattered throughout the earth

   5. the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven

in, by, with etc.

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

a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities

the Godhead, trinity

1. God the Father, the first person in the trinity

2. Christ, the second person of the trinity

3. Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity

spoken of the only and true God

1. refers to the things of God

2. his counsels, interests, things due to him

whatever can in any respect be likened unto God, or resemble him in any way

1. God's representative or viceregent

   1. of magistrates and judges

Thyatira = "odour of affliction"

1. a colony of Macedonia Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamos on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple

and, also, even, indeed, but

to say, to speak

1. affirm over, maintain

2. to teach

3. to exhort, advise, to command, direct

4. to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say

5. to call by name, to call, name

6. to speak out, speak of, mention

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

this one here, these things, as follows, thus

like, similar, resembling

1. like: i.e. resembling

2. like: i.e. corresponding to a thing

the eye

metaph. the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing

a foot, both of men or beast

1. often in the orient, one put his foot on vanquished

2. of disciples listening to their teacher's instruction are said to be at his feet

fire

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

a flame

some metal like gold if not more precious

as, like, even as, etc.