Dead, The
Dead, The
They who have departed this life - Ge 23:2; 25:8; Job 1:19
TERMS USED TO EXPRESS
CHARACTERISED BY
- Being without the Spirit
- Jas 2:26 - Being incapable of motion
- Mt 28:4; Re 1:17 - Ignorance of all human affairs
- Ec 9:5 - Absence of all human passions
- Ec 9:6 - Inability to glorify God
- Ps 115:17
Return not to this life - Job 7:9,10; 14:10,14
Eyes of, closed by nearest of kin - Ge 46:4
Were washed and laid out - Ac 9:37
Were wrapped in lined with spices - Joh 19:40
MOURNING FOR, OFTEN
Regard often shown to the memory of - Ru 1:8
Too soon forgotten - Ps 31:12; Ec 9:5
Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden - Le 19:28; De 14:1,2
All offerings to, forbidden - De 26:14
Touching of, caused uncleanness - Nu 19:11,13,16; 9:6,7
In a house rendered it unclean - Nu 19:14,15
Even bones of, caused uncleanness - Nu 19:16; 2Ch 34:5
A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin - Le 21:1-3; Eze 44:25
High priest in no case to mourn for - Le 21:10,11
Nazarites not to touch or mourn for - Nu 6:6,7
Those defiled by, removed from the camp - Nu 5:2
Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation - Nu 19:12,18
IDOLATERS
- Tore themselves for
- Jer 16:7 - Offered sacrifices for
- Ps 106:28 - Invoked and consulted
- 1Sa 28:7,8 - Consecrated part of their crops to
- De 26:14
The Jews looked for a resurrection from - Isa 26:19; Ac 24:15
Instances of, restored to life before Christ - 1Ki 17:22; 2Ki 4:34-36; 13:21
Instances of, restored by Christ - Mt 9:25; Lu 7:15; Joh 11:44; Ac 9:40; 20:12
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