Bible Dictionary: Koran

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.

Library

The Inroads of Mahometanism
... revelation. The Koran and the Sword were now called in to aid in their respective
ways in extending the power of the ambitious adventurer. ...
/.../blunt/a key to the knowledge of church history/chapter viii the inroads of.htm

Perpetuity
... 597. Against Mahomet."The Koran is not more of Mahomet than the Gospel is of
Saint Matthew, for it is cited by many authors from age to age. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section ix perpetuity.htm

Of the Religion of Mahomet.
... assertion by the evidence of the Koran, in which Mahomet not only does not affect
the power of working miracles, but expressly disclaims it. ...
/.../paley/evidences of christianity/section iii of the religion.htm

Mahometans.
... His system is a compound of Paganism, Judaism, and Christianity; and the
Koran, which is their Bible, is held in great reverence. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/mahometans.htm

Mahomet.
... He caused all that he pretended to have been told by the angel, to be set down in
writings, which were called the Koran, meaning the Book, the first sentence ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xxix mahomet.htm

Life in India.
... I discovered that the Mussulmen allow the gospel to be in general the command of
God, though the words of it are not His as the words of the Koran are, and ...
/.../rhea/life of henry martyn missionary to india and persia/life in india.htm

The Unclean Spirits.
... The Mohammedans, while they recognize God, are also "taught by the Koran to believe
the existence of an intermediate order of creatures, which they call Jin ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the unclean spirits.htm

Life in Persia.
... We desire you to look at the great Koran: that is an everlasting miracle." Mr. Martyn
replied, showing why men are bound to reject Mohammedanism; that Mohammed ...
/.../rhea/life of henry martyn missionary to india and persia/life in persia.htm

The Preachings on the Lake.
... such as we read them in the "Pirke Aboth." His teachings were not very extended,
and formed a species of sorites in the style of the Koran, which, joined ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/renan/the life of jesus/chapter x the preachings on.htm

The Greatest English Classic
... Yet among the three named are two very distinct attitudes. To the Mohammedan
the language as well as the matter of the Koran is sacred. ...
/.../mcafee/study of the king james bible/the greatest english classic.htm

Thesaurus

Koran (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Koran (1 Occurrence). Numbers 16:27 And they got up
from the habitation of Koran, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. ...
/k/koran.htm - 6k

Arabic
... But the dialect of the tribe of Koreish, to which Mohammed belonged, is the one
that, naturally, by the circumstance of the Koran's composition and diffusion ...
/a/arabic.htm - 17k

Language (112 Occurrences)
... But the dialect of the tribe of Koreish, to which Mohammed belonged, is the one
that, naturally, by the circumstance of the Koran's composition and diffusion ...
/l/language.htm - 101k

Charm (5 Occurrences)
... In modern Egypt drinking-bowls are used, inscribed with passages from the Koran,
and it is considered very lucky to drink from such a "lucky bowl," as it is ...
/c/charm.htm - 14k

Uz (8 Occurrences)
... he made to flow by striking the rock with his foot (Koran 38 41), and his tomb.
The passage in the Koran is, however, also made to refer to Job's Well. ...
/u/uz.htm - 14k

Ablution
... iv.759). The Romans also observed it (Virgil, Aeneid ii.217); as did and
do Orientals in general (compare Koran, Sura 5:8, etc.). ...
/a/ablution.htm - 18k

Lot (145 Occurrences)
... central figure in the destruction of Sodom, as Noah in the flood in the preceding
context (compare the association of these two characters in 2Pe and the Koran...
/l/lot.htm - 60k

Korah's (4 Occurrences)

/k/korah's.htm - 7k

Korathite (1 Occurrence)

/k/korathite.htm - 6k

Oath (286 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as
sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc ...
/o/oath.htm - 47k

Bible Concordance

Koran (1 Occurrence)

Numbers 16:27 And they got up from the habitation of Koran, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the entrance of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
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Subtopics

Koran

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Arabic

Language (112 Occurrences)

Charm (5 Occurrences)

Uz (8 Occurrences)

Ablution

Lot (145 Occurrences)

Korah's (4 Occurrences)

Korathite (1 Occurrence)

Oath (286 Occurrences)