Jump to: ISBE • Easton's • Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms Easton's Bible Dictionary Curious arts(Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. Ephesus was noted for its wizard and the "Ephesian spells;" i.e., charms or scraps of parchment written over with certain formula, which were worn as a safeguard against all manner of evils. The more important and powerful of these charms were written out in books which circulated among the exorcists, and were sold at a great price. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.2. (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill. 3. (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. 4. (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia CURIOUSku'-ri-us (machashebheth; periergos): The above Hebrew word, meaning "thought," "device," "design," is translated "curious," Exodus 35:32 the King James Version "curious works"; the English Revised Version "cunning"; the American Standard Revised Version "skilful"; cheshebh ("device," "devised work"), translated the King James Version "curious girdle," is translated by the English Revised Version "cunningly woven band," the American Standard Revised Version "skilfully" (Exodus 28:8, 27, 28; Exodus 29:5; Exodus 39:5, 20, 21 Leviticus 8:7). In Psalm 139:15 raqam, "embroidered," "variegated" is used figuratively of a child in the womb, translated "curiously wrought"; "the body or the fetus is described as woven together of so many different-colored threads, like a cunning and beautiful network or tapestry" (Perowne in the place cited.). See also CURDLE. Periergos, "working round about," is used of the "curious arts" of some in Ephesus who brought their books to be burned (Acts 19:19 the American Standard Revised Version "magical"). Greek 4021. periergos -- overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a ... ... 4020, 4021. periergos. 4022 . overly careful, curious, meddling, subst. a busybody. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: periergos ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4021.htm - 7k Strong's Hebrew 4284. machashabah -- thought, device... 4), thoughts (19), ways (1). cunning work, curious work, imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought. Or machashebeth {makh-ash ... /hebrew/4284.htm - 6k 2805. chesheb -- ingenious work Library A Curious Interruption Of Avoiding of Curious Inquiry into the Life of Another The Twenty-Fourth Chapter: Avoiding Curious Inquiry About the ... We Shall not be Curious in the Ranking of the Duties in which ... As Pictures are Made Curious by Lights and Shades Suppose a Curious and Fair Woman A Curious Inconsistency in Hermogenes Exposed Certain Expressions ... Curious views Respecting God's Method of Working with Matter ... That a Man Should not be a Curious Searcher of the Sacrament, but ... Diamond Woke Very Early in the Morning, and Thought what a Curious ... Thesaurus Curious (18 Occurrences)... Easton's Bible Dictionary Curious arts. (Acts 19:19), magical arts; jugglery practised by the Ephesian conjurers. ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CURIOUS. ... /c/curious.htm - 14k Girdle (44 Occurrences) Gird (44 Occurrences) Breast-plate (22 Occurrences) Ephod (45 Occurrences) Curiously (1 Occurrence) Cunning (43 Occurrences) Loosed (41 Occurrences) Nightmonster Night-monster Bible Concordance Curious (18 Occurrences)Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Exodus 26:1 Moreover, thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of curious work shalt thou make them. Exodus 26:31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of curious work: with cherubim shall it be made. Exodus 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with curious work. Exodus 28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. Exodus 28:27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. Exodus 28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. Exodus 31:4 To devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, Exodus 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, Exodus 35:33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of curious work. Exodus 35:35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the skillful workmen, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise curious work. Exodus 36:8 And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: he made them with cherubim of curious work. Exodus 36:35 And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim he made it of curious work. Exodus 39:3 And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with curious work. Exodus 39:5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses. Exodus 39:8 And he made the breast-plate of curious work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. Exodus 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses. Leviticus 8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. Subtopics Curiosity of Abraham, to Know Whether God Would Destroy the Righteous People Who Lived in Sodom Curiosity of Angels, to Look Into the Mysteries of Salvation Curiosity of Daniel, to Know a Vision Curiosity of Herod (Antipas), to See Jesus Curiosity of Jacob, to Know the Name of the Angel Curiosity of Manoah, to Know the Name of an Angel Curiosity of the Athenians, to Hear some New Thing Curiosity of the Babylonians, to See Hezekiah's Treasures Curiosity of the Disciples, to Know Whether Jesus Would Restore the Kingdom of the Jews Curiosity of the People of Beth-Shemish, to Look Inside the Ark of the Covenant Curiosity: A Disciple, to Know If Few Would be Saved Curiosity: General Scriptures Concerning Curiosity: To Know What John Would be Appointed to Do Curiosity: To Know What Was Being Done With Jesus Curiosity: To See Lazarus, After he Was Raised from the Dead Curiosity: To Witness the offering in the Holy of Holies Related Terms Kiriath-jearim (17 Occurrences) Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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