This is the compilation of Easton's Bible Dictionary & World English Bible. It contains 3,947 definitions and 238,079 cross-references. The reason for the high number of cross-references is that each word within a given definition is further linked to its own definition in Easton's Bible Dictionary, if such a definition exists. We have also included the World English Bible and linked the Bible references from the dictionary. And we have referenced the use of the definitions in the Bible back into the dictionary. A reference work on topics related to the Christian Bible authored by Matthew George Easton. First edition published in 1893 and a revised edition was published the following year. It contains 3947 entries relating to the Bible from a 19th-century perspective.
2:3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence
now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber. 2:4 ForifGod
didn't spareangels when they sinned, but cast them down toTartarus, and
committed them to pits of darkness, to bereservedfor judgment; 2:5and didn't
spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of
righteousness, whenhe brought a flood on the world ofthe ungodly; 2:6 and
turningthe cities ...
This paper takes a look at the current state of English as a global medium. It
investigates two varieties, Indian English and West African English, by looking at
their major lexical, phonetic, and grammatical features, and has the two well-
acknowledged writers Raja Rao (India) and Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) comment
on their individual ways of and views on writing in English. It also discusses the
major 'side effects' of the emergence of a global language, as there are language
death, ...
Key features of the World English Bible: * The Majority Text used as the basis for the New Testament, * God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament translated as “Yahweh”, * Over 1,000 translation notes provided throughout the volume, offering important information concerning the translation of the Bible text (original wording, multiple possible readings, significant variants). This ebook edition offers a very intuitive and user-friendly navigation.
Easy Navigation World English Bible. have heard with our ears. 7.23 What one
nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem
to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great ... let it
please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before
you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be
blessed forever with your blessing.” 2 Samuel 8 8.1 After this, David struck the
Philistines.
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
World English, however, owes its existence to the fact that some 80% of its
approximately one-and-a-half to two billion users are bilingual (or multilingual) (
Crystal, 1997; World Englishes, 1998: 419). Since the existence of World English
results from the process of language spread as macroacquisition - second
language acquisition (SLA) by speech communities - bilingualism necessarily
occupies a central role in the study of World English. In refocusing its study from
the global, often ...
