Bible Dictionary: Painting

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint.

2. (n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

3. (n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

4. (n.) Color laid on; paint.

5. (n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PAINTING

pan'-ting.

See CRAFTS, II, 12.

Strong's Hebrew

4886. mashach -- to smear, anoint
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to smear, anoint NASB Word Usage anoint (21),
anointed (42), anointing (1), oil (1), painting (1), spread (4). ...
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Library

The Opinions of Hermogenes, by the Prescriptive Rule of Antiquity ...
... [6133] Moreover, he despises God's law in his painting, [6134] maintaining repeated
marriages ... [6134] Probably by painting idols (Rigalt.; and so Neander). ...
/.../tertullian/against hermogenes/chapter i the opinions of hermogenes.htm

The Names of the Gods and their Images are but of Recent Date.
... honours and functions, and described their forms." Representations of the gods,
again, were not in use at all, so long as statuary, and painting, and sculpture ...
/.../athenagoras/a plea for the christians/chapter xvii the names of the.htm

Against Embellishing the Body.
... fields adjoining; the halls are surrounded with many pillars; and the walls gleam
with foreign stones, and there is no want of artistic painting; and the ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter ii against embellishing the body.htm

Reflection.
... While in the Museum of Art in one of our large cities last spring I saw an artist
reproducing on canvas a painting which hung upon the wall. ...
/.../orr/food for the lambs or helps for young christians/reflection.htm

A Trained Ear.
... only."[34]. A gentleman was asked by an artist friend of some note to come
to his home, and see a painting just finished. He went ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/a trained ear.htm

What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called.
... And it is just like geometry, which treats of measures and magnitudes and forms,
by delineation on plane-surfaces; and just as painting appears to take in the ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter vii what true philosophy is.htm

By the Wayside.
... I was at the Paris Exhibition in 1867, and I noticed there a little oil painting,
only about a foot square, and the face was the most hideous I have ever seen. ...
/.../moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/by the wayside.htm

Now if the Doctor did That, Though it was Only from Humility...
... And indeed, one would have thought, that as soon as the doctor had discovered these
writers to be only great masters in moral painting, it should have had the ...
/.../address 75 0 0 now if the.htm

How God Honors Pious Princes, but Destroys Tyrants.
... Some have employed the vivid delineations and colors of painting [3059] ; some have
carved statues from lifeless blocks of wood; while others, by engraving ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter iii how god honors pious.htm

Extracts from the Acts. Session iv.
... Gregory Nyssen in which he describes a painting representing the sacrifice
of Isaac and tells how he could not pass it "without tears."] ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/extracts from the acts session 21.htm

Thesaurus

Painting (5 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PAINTING. pan'-ting. See CRAFTS, II,
12. Multi-Version Concordance Painting (5 Occurrences). ...
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Paint (3 Occurrences)
... Jezebel "painted her face" (2 Kings 9:30); and the practice of painting the face
and the eyes seems to have been common (Jeremiah 4:30; Ezek. 23:40). ...
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Picture (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The art of painting; representation by
painting. 2. (n.) A representation of anything (as a person ...
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Brooch
... Formerly worn by men on the hat. 2. (n.) A painting all of one color, as a sepia
painting, or an India painting. 3. (imp. & pp) To adorn as with a brooch. Int. ...
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Color (18 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting,
etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. 10. (vt ...
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Crafts (2 Occurrences)
... Metal-Working (Mining) 11. Oil-Making 12. Painting 13. Paper-Making 14. ... Some of the
pigments used for painting were made of powdered colored glass. ...
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Impression (2 Occurrences)
... at a given time. 8. (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming
in house painting and the like. 9. (n.) A print on ...
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Miniature (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts;
in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait. ...
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Printed (2 Occurrences)
... The earliest use of printing seems to have been for painting the face or body with
ownership, tribal, trophy, or ceremonial marks for worship, war, mourning ...
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Print (3 Occurrences)
... The earliest use of printing seems to have been for painting the face or body with
ownership, tribal, trophy, or ceremonial marks for worship, war, mourning ...
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Bible Concordance

Painting (5 Occurrences)

2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 29:2 and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for 'things of' gold, and the silver for 'those of' silver, and the brass for 'those of' brass, the iron for 'those of' iron, and the wood for 'those of' wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all 'kinds of' precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 22:14 Who is saying, 'I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermillion.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:40 And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Painting

Painting of Portraits

Painting: Around the Eyes to Enlarge Their Appearance

Related Terms

Paint (3 Occurrences)

Picture (6 Occurrences)

Brooch

Color (18 Occurrences)

Crafts (2 Occurrences)

Impression (2 Occurrences)

Miniature (1 Occurrence)