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• Qir-Hareseth; Kir-Hereskur-har'-seth, -ha-re'-seth> (qir-charesh, Isa 16:7; in 2Ki 3:25 the King James...
• Qophkof (qoph): The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet; transliterated in this...
• Quailkwal (selaw; ortugometra; Latin Coturnix vulgaris): A game bird of the family...
• Quarrelkwor'-el: Originally (1) "a complaint" (compare "querulous"), or (2) "a cause of...
• Quarrieskwor'-iz (pecilim (Jud 3:19,26, "graven images"), shebharim (Jos 7:5, "Shebarim," the...
• Quarterkwor'-ter: Literally, of course, "the fourth part," and so of the four "ends" (qatsah)...
• Quartuskwor'-tus (Kouartos): A Christian in Corinth who with "Erastus the treasurer of the...
• Quaternionkwa-tur'-ni-un (tetradion): The name given to a company of four soldiers of Herod's...
• Queen(1) To the wife of a king ("queen consort") (malkah). In the Book of Esther it is the...
• Queen Mother(gebhirah, literally, "mistress," then a female ruler, and sometimes simply the wife...
• Queen of Heaven(melekheth ha-shamayim, although there is another reading, mele'kheth, "worship" or...
• Queen of Shebashe'-ba (1Ki 10:1-13; 2Ch 9:1-12, called in Mt 12:42; Lu 11:31, "the queen of the...
• Quenchkwench, kwensh: Where the word is used of fire or of thirst it has the usual meaning:...
• Questionkwes'-chun: The noun for dabhar, "word," in 1Ki 10:3 parallel 2Ch 9:2, with "hard...
• Quick; Quickenkwik, kwik'-'n: Translates in the King James Version four different words: (1) chayah,...
• Quicksandskwik'-sandz. See SYRTIS.
• Quietkwi'-et: Verb or adjective only in English Versions of the Bible, "quietness" being...
• Quintus Memmiuskwin'-tus mem'-us. See MEMMIUS, QUINTUS.
• Quiriniuskwi-rin'-i-us. See CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, sec. I, 1, (2); LUKE, THE GOSPEL...
• Quitkwit: Same derivation as "quiet," so that "to be quit" (Ex 21:19,28; Jos 2:20 the King...
• Quiverkwiv'-er (ashpah, teli; pharetra (Sirach 26:12)): A case or sheath for carrying...
• Quotations in the New Testamentkwo-ta'-shunz, I. INTRODUCTORY Limitation of the Discussion II. CONSTRUCTIVE...