Bible Dictionary: Culture

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

2. (n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

3. (n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

4. (v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CULTURE

kul'-tur: Found only in 2 Esdras 8:6 the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "give. culture to our understanding," i.e. to nourish it as seed in the ground.

Greek

915. barbaros -- barbarous, barbarian
... foreign. 915 -- properly, a barbarian; generically, anyone "lacking culture"
(an "uncivilized" person, cf. Ro 1:14). 915 () is specifically ...
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1484. ethnos -- a race, a nation, pl. the nations (as distinct ...
... 1484 (from , "forming a custom, culture") -- properly, people joined by practicing
similar customs or common culture; (), usually referring to unbelieving (non ...
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1672. Hellen -- a Greek, usually a name for a Gentile
... an Hellene, ie a . 1672/ ("Greek") originally referred to and later became synonymous
with any person, ie anyone who followed Greek culture (and especially) . ...
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225. aletheia -- truth
... 225 (from 227 , " to fact") -- properly, (true to ), . [In ancient Greek
culture, 225 () was synonymous for "" as the , ie .]. Word ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Hebrews 6:1-20
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
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1 Peter 3:1-22
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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Matthew 5:43-45
You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.
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Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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Library

Self Culture.
... PART II."ADDRESSES. II."SELF CULTURE. ... The theme selected for your consideration
is. "Self-Culture.". Man, though fallen, is in his ruins grand. ...
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Spiritual Culture.
... Spiritual Culture. ... Neglect the proper Scriptural culture of the spiritual life and
the Christian will degenerate into a few irksome duties of cold formality. ...
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The Benefit of Culture.
... The Stromata, or Miscellanies: Book I Chapter VI."The Benefit of Culture.
The readiness acquired by previous training conduces ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter vi the benefit of culture.htm

Culture and Christianity: their Relation and Necessity.
... PART II."ADDRESSES. I."CULTURE AND CHRISTIANITY: THEIR RELATION AND NECESSITY. ...
"Culture and Christianity: Their Relation and Necessity.". ...
/.../i culture and christianity their relation.htm

Book ii. The Mental Culture of Jesus. His Life to the Time of his ...
... BOOK II. THE MENTAL CULTURE OF JESUS. HIS LIFE TO THE TIME OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
CHAPTER I. JESUS NOT EDUCATED IN THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF THE JEWS. ...
/.../book ii the mental culture.htm

Letter ii. Self-Control and Self-Culture.
... LETTER II. SELF-CONTROL AND SELF-CULTURE. ... And as good behavior is the root of good
manners, so self-control is the root of all true self-culture. ...
/.../letter ii self-control and self-culture.htm

Letter ix. Religious Culture and Duty.
... RELIGIOUS CULTURE AND DUTY. ... I will press upon your attention only one argument for
the culture of a religious spirit, and that is the argument of experience. ...
/.../letter ix religious culture and.htm

The Common Conception among the Dregs of Darwinian Culture is that ...
... Chapter 15 The common conception among the dregs of Darwinian culture is
that men have slowly worked� The common conception among ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 15 the common conception.htm

Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture, to be Shunned ...
... Book II. Chapter IX."Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture,
to Be Shunned Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII. Wherefore ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter ix excess in dress as.htm

Letter viii. Who are the Cultivated?
... the English language are so much bandied about in efforts to describe or classify
society at the present day as are the words "culture," "cultured," "cultivated ...
/.../letter viii who are the.htm

Thesaurus

Culture
... 1. (n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and
raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil. ...CULTURE. ...
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Great (10383 Occurrences)
... and the personal influence of Epaminondas, Philip seems to have united to his
admiration for Greek tactics a tincture of Hellenistic culture, and something ...
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Barbarian (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A person destitute of culture. ... With the spread of Greek language and culture,
it came to be used generally for all that was non-Greek. ...
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Apocalyptic
... attempt to force them to abandon their religion, but the calm contempt of the Hellene
who looked down from the superior height of his artistic culture on all ...
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Woman (4043 Occurrences)
... advance against Sisera without her presence and commanding influence (Judges 4:8).
Her ode of victory indicates the intellectual endowment and culture of her ...
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Wild (147 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the
aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted ...
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Pontus (3 Occurrences)
... Thus, we catch glimpses of Assyrian culture at Sinope and Amisus, probably as far
back as the 3rd millennium BC The period of Hittite domination in Asia Minor ...
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Barbarous (1 Occurrence)
... With the spread of Greek language and culture, it came to be used generally
for all that was non-Greek. Philo and Josephus sometimes ...
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Cultured (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Culture. 2. (a.) Under culture; cultivated. 3. (a.) Characterized
by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. ...
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Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)
... pastures. The Greek geographers called Cappodax the son of Ninyas, thereby
tracing the origin of Cappadocian culture to Assyria. ...
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Subtopics

Cultural Difference

Culture

Multiculturalism

Related Terms

Great (10383 Occurrences)

Barbarian (2 Occurrences)

Apocalyptic

Woman (4043 Occurrences)

Wild (147 Occurrences)

Pontus (3 Occurrences)

Barbarous (1 Occurrence)