Bible Dictionary and Concordance


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promise / promised / promisesTo assure, agree, guarantee something to another, to keep one's commitment. DTP Jesus, in the gospel, promised to send the Holy Spirit as a pledge of His commitment to those who believe in Him as Lord and Saviour. The marriage vows are a promise made between two people to love in sickness, in health, and through good and bad times. A promise is a covenant that is made and is morally binding between the participating parties.
prophecy /prophesy / prophesied /propheciesA message foretelling what is to come, speaking about the future. The Old Testament is full of hundreds of prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. There are also many prophecies that are, or soon will be fulfilled concerning the end times. The one who speaks the prophecy does so by divine inspiration.
prophet / prophetsThis is a person who speaks on behalf of God. This is known as forth-telling. Prophets often foretell the future. The Old Testament had many prophets. The validity of their prophecies was judged on the basis of whether or not what they prophesied came true; if they did not come true, they were judged to be false prophets and were to be taken out by the people and stoned. Sometimes prophets (example: Samuel) were God's mediators or spokesmen, receiving direct revelation from God and revealing God's will and truth.
prophetessA female prophet. (See prophet).
propitiationThis word comes from the Greek word which means to appease or to atone and stresses that the Holy God was fully satisfied by the sin offering of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. God's wrath was appeased and His righteous demands were met through the shed blood of Christ. Christ became our sin bearer so that we could be set free from the punishment demanded because of our sin nature which we inherited from Adam and Eve.
prostituteThis can be a man or woman who sells themselves for sexual acts. Throughout history there has always been immorality through prostitution; these people have not only "worked the streets", but have even been part of temple worship in times of old. Prostitution was a detestable sin against God's holy law. Satan desires that people fall to this temptation so that he can keep them in bondage of mind and body, with the end result of destroying their total being. The disciple of Christ should have no part in this type of activity.
prostrateTo cast oneself face downward on the ground or floor; to humble oneself before the Lord with body, soul and spirit. It is a sign of complete surrender to our Lord Jesus Christ.
proudDeep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements or qualities. A proud person may think too highly about himself; he is inwardly focused and driven mostly by his own personal goals and wants. The Bible teaches that a pride-filled heart can, and will, lead a person to destruction.
proveTo examine, to demonstrate or give evidence. DTP God wants us to show our commitment to Him; to do so, we must examine how we think and act towards God and others.
proverb / proverbsA short pithy saying stating a general truth or piece of advice. The Bible has one book, the book of Proverbs, which contains these kinds of truths.
PROVERBS, book ofThe book of proverbs was written by King Solomon, Agur, King Lemuel, and possibly other wise men; the book is full of short sayings that carry within them great truths of wisdom about God and His relationship to His people. The book was written between the tenth and sixth centuries BC and is comprised of 31 chapters.
provide / provided / providethTo furnish, to take care of, to deliver, make available, arrange for, be responsible for. DTP God loves and provides for His children. We have and serve a God Who desires to meet our needs. The key is to get align ourselves with God's will; He then provides what we need to fulfill His will through us.
providenceProtective care of God; also, a destiny that has been laid out by God. This is the full universal sovereign reign of God over all His creation. His providence also shows His divine grace and mercy that He generously provided through His Son, Jesus Christ. He fulfills and completes all things according to His purposes and will.
provoke / provoked / provokingTo arouse anger or displeasure in someone through one's words or actions. DTP The disciple's goal should be to show love; when correction is needed, it should always be seasoned by grace, mercy and love. We always need to be careful what we speak and how we act towards God and to those with whom we come in contact each day.
prune / prunedThe purpose of pruning of a tree or plant is to produce better and more fruit. The dead branches and suckers need to be removed so that the life-giving sap can produce a higher quality of fruit. DTP The disciple also needs to go through times of pruning, so that he will produce more fruit for God's glory. Jesus tells us that people will know that we are His disciples by the fruit we produce. John 15:1-12.
pruninghooksA tool that is used to trim out both the dead and sucker branches in a tree.
psalm / psalmsPsalms are like our modern day poems or hymns. They have structure and teach a truth or story which is put to music, and often sung in praise to God. A praise song has a melody that comes from one's heart.
PSALMS, book ofOne of the Old Testament books that contains both poetry and songs, written mostly by King David. There are 150 psalms used in worship and teaching; they are there to help the believer enter into a deeper heart-worship of God. They were written over 1000 years before the time of Christ; some of these chapters carry within them prophetic words about who He will be and how He will live here on earth. The psalms were sung in the temple, synagogues and in churches all around the world today. They have been used by many preachers to bring comfort to weary souls.
publican / publicansA tax collector for the Roman government; in Matthew's case, he was a Jewish tax collector who took in money for Rome. These people were often looked down upon for their work that they did. Jesus was often condemned by the Pharisees for spending time with publicans and for going to their homes. They were often the worst of all sinners, hopeless people of no value.
pulpitA raised platform or lectern in a church from which the preacher delivers a sermon. Pulpits are common in churches all over the world.
punish / punished / punishmentThis is an act of discipline towards a person that usually comes in response to a transgression of a legal or moral code. Punishment can come in many forms: a lecture, some type of work, spanking or strapping or whipping, imprisonment and, under severe circumstances, the death penalty. Around the world, there are all kinds of ways whereby people and governments punish their supposed wrongdoers. In many countries, not all punishment is legal or just.
purchase / purchasedTo buy or to acquire by payment. To give money or possession in exchange for something that is needed or wanted. DTP Christ shed His innocent blood as a payment for those who would chose to follow Him... for the church that would become His bride.
pureTo be clean without spot or blemish, to be white like new fallen snow, to be innocent or morally good or right, unmixed with anything else. DTP The disciple can stand pure before the Father because of what Christ did for us on the cross. He has clothed us with His pure righteousness, making it possible to come blameless before the Father as His children.
purgatoryAccording to Roman Catholic doctrine, a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before the possibility of going to heaven; the length of stay varies according to the prayers that are made on their behalf, and on the conditions of the person's life. At the end, the person may go to heaven or hell. This teaching is found nowhere in the Bible but is a manmade dogma of the Catholic Church.
purge / purgedTo refine or to make pure from all dross, to make clean and whole, to remove evil or something negative though a cleansing process. DTP When disciples submit to Christ's "refiner's fire", they can be purged/cleansed from all sin and wickedness in their lives.