Bible Encyclopedia: Cult

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Greek

1108. gnosis -- a knowing, knowledge
... and it was (is) disastrous! ["" is literally, "the cult based on having
special, " (1108 ).]. Word Origin from ginosko Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6945. qadesh -- a temple prostitute
... Word Origin from the same as qodesh Definition a temple prostitute NASB Word Usage
cult prostitute (2), cult prostitutes (2), male cult prostitutes (2 ...
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Library

Contemporary Pagan and Heretical Hymns
... Variants of the Isis cult hymn or hymns have been preserved in inscriptions;
for example, a hymn of some fifty lines from Cyme in Aeolia,. ...
/.../v contemporary pagan and heretical.htm

Galilee
... Each of these religions was rapidly developing in the first century into a sacramental
cult which offered the blessing of partial protection in this world, and ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/i galilee.htm

Introduction
... It is also our earliest testimony to the cult of the martyrs in the Church, ie,
the veneration of the relics of the saints and the annual celebration of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/richardson/early christian fathers/introduction 4.htm

That the Platonists Themselves have Determined that God Alone Can ...
... Consequently, while it is quite true that, using the word in a special sense, "cult"
can be rendered to none but God, yet, as the word is applied to other ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 1 that the platonists themselves.htm

Chapter xxviii
... However, is maqôm, "place," here meant, as often in the Scriptures, as "the
cult-place" belonging to a certain town? We doubt it very much. ...
/.../leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxviii.htm

The Question of Novelty Further Considered in Connection with the ...
... Comp. de. Pa., c. xiii.; de. Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ix. ... [588] 1 Corinthians 7:32-34.
[589] Comp. ad Ux., lic iii.; de Cult. Fem., l. ii. cx sub fin.; and de Ex. ...
/.../tertullian/on monogamy/chapter iii the question of novelty.htm

Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity
... 64, 84. Caesar, cult of, 6 Caesarea, 61 Caligula, 7 Canon, Christian, 71
Censors, mediaeval, 15 Charles, RH, 14 Christ. See Jesus ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/index 2.htm

Corinth
... In Antioch, on the other hand, much that was distinctly Jewish was abandoned, and
Hellenistic thought adopted, so that Jesus became the divine centre of a cult ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/iv corinth.htm

Antioch
... interpreted it in the sense in which the word had become familiar to them, and thought
in consequence that Jesus was the divine head of a cult by which each ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/iii antioch.htm

Leviticus
... it is an eloquent reminder of the moral elevation of Israel's religion, and is
peculiarly welcome in a book so largely devoted to the externals of the cult. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/leviticus.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.

2. (n .) A system of religious belief and worship.

Topical Bible Verses

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
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Deuteronomy 23:17-18
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Thesaurus

Cult (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (n .) Attentive care; homage; worship. 2. (n .) A system of religious belief
and worship. Multi-Version Concordance Cult (7 Occurrences). ...
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Tammuz (1 Occurrence)
... among the Greeks in the myth of Adonis and Aphrodite, who are identified with Osiris
and Isis of the Egyptian pantheon, showing how widespread the cult became. ...
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Dionysus
... Then the cult of Dionysus passed down through the Balkan peninsula to Thebes; and
in the localized form of the myth the deity was born here-son of Zeus and ...
/d/dionysus.htm - 9k

Desolation (131 Occurrences)
... commonwealth, thus establishing a state under the rulership of priests, for the
high priest was not only the highest functionary of the cult, but also the ...
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Bacchus
... Then the cult of Dionysus passed down through the Balkan peninsula to Thebes; and
in the localized form of the myth the deity was born here-son of Zeus and ...
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Paphos (2 Occurrences)
... 4. The Temple and Cult: But the chief glory of Paphos and the source of its fame
was the local cult, of which the kings and their descendants remained ...
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Astoreth
... The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented
the evening and morning stars and was accordingly androgynous in origin. ...
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Astarte (2 Occurrences)
... The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented
the evening and morning stars and was accordingly androgynous in origin. ...
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Ashtoreth (3 Occurrences)
... The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented
the evening and morning stars and was accordingly androgynous in origin. ...
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Lystra (6 Occurrences)
... And this is precisely the character of the cult illustrated in our two inscriptions.
It is essentially a native cult, under a thin Greek disguise. ...
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Bible Concordance

Cult (7 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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1 Kings 14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
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1 Kings 15:12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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1 Kings 22:46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
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2 Kings 23:7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
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Job 36:14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
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Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Cult

Related Terms

Tammuz (1 Occurrence)

Dionysus

Desolation (131 Occurrences)

Bacchus

Paphos (2 Occurrences)

Astoreth

Astarte (2 Occurrences)

Ashtoreth (3 Occurrences)

Lystra (6 Occurrences)