Bible Encyclopedia: Envoys

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Strong's Hebrew

2831. chashman -- ambassador
... 2830, 2831. chashman. 2832 . ambassador. Transliteration: chashman Phonetic
Spelling: (khash-man') Short Definition: envoys. Word ...
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6737. tsayar -- to act as envoy
... 6736, 6737. tsayar. 6738 . to act as envoy. Transliteration: tsayar Phonetic
Spelling: (tsaw-yar') Short Definition: envoys. Word ...
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3917b. lits -- to scorn
... root Definition to scorn NASB Word Usage carry on as scoffers (1), deride (1), envoys
(1), interpreter (1), makes a mockery (1), mediator (1), mock (1), mocker ...
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4397. malak -- a messenger
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a messenger NASB Word Usage ambassadors
(2), angel (101), angels (9), envoys (1), messenger (24), messengers (76). ...
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6735a. tsir -- an envoy, messenger
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition an envoy, messenger NASB Word Usage envoy
(3), envoys (2), messenger (1). 6735, 6735a. tsir. 6735b . ...
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Library

Council of Ariminum .
... Wherefore we have sent envoys to your clemency to signify and explain the
mind of the synod as expressed in this letter. These envoys ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/chapter xv council of ariminum.htm

Mr. Beecher in England
... The feeling on both sides was intensified by the "Trent Affair." Two Confederate
envoys, sent to Europe to secure the recognition of the Confederacy, were ...
/.../griswold/sixty years with plymouth church/mr beecher in england.htm

John i. 24, 25. Of the Baptism of John, that of Elijah, and that ...
... They send envoys who deal in rebukes, and so far as their power extends debar him
from baptizing; their envoys ask, Why baptizest thou, then, if thou art not ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/13 john i 24 25.htm

Excursus on the Conciliabulum of John of Antioch.
... The envoys immediately informed the Synod of what had happened, and showed the wounds
which they had received, which called forth great indignation against ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on the conciliabulum of.htm

Guelf and Ghibelline. (I)
... At the Diet of Besancon in Burgundy in 1157 two papal envoys appeared with
a complaint of Frederick's conduct in some particular. ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter viii guelf and ghibelline.htm

The End of the Quarrel
... In 1095, therefore, when Alexius needed aid against the Seljuk Turks, it was to
the Pope that he sent his envoys, who appeared at the Synod of Piacenza. ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter iii the end of.htm

The Church and the Heathen
... Perhaps in consequence of this failure Louis turned his army against Egypt instead
of Syria; but the envoys returned to find him after the disastrous Egyptian ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter xiv the church and.htm

The Church and the Young Man.
... They come to her in the flush of their manly strength, like the Roman envoys to
Carthage, holding in their robes peace and war, and offering the church her ...
/.../vincent/amusement a force in christian training/the church and the young.htm

The Mildness of the Yellow Press
... The fictitious version of the massacre of the envoys of Pekin was mendacious, but
it was not interesting, except to those who had private reasons for terror or ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/viii the mildness of the.htm

The Churches of the East
... But the violence of the papal envoys and the obstinacy of the Patriarch made agreement
impossible. Finally the legates laid upon the altar of St. ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter xvii the churches of.htm

Thesaurus

Envoys (16 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Envoys (16 Occurrences). Joshua 9:4 they also
resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ...
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Embassy (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business entrusted to
an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning ...
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Mattathias (2 Occurrences)
... (5) One of the three envoys sent by Nicanor to treat with Judas in 161 BC
(2 Maccabees 14:19). No names of envoys are given in the ...
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Posidonius
... Posidonios and Poseidon): One of the three envoys sent by the Syrian general Nicanor
to treat with the Jews under Judas during his invasion of Judea, 161 BC (2 ...
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Envoy (5 Occurrences)

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John (154 Occurrences)
... which see). (3) Father of Eupolemus, one of the envoys sent to Rome by Judas
Maccabeus (1 Maccabees 8:17; 2 Maccabees 4:11). (4) John ...
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Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)
... represents him (2 Chronicles 32:31) as lapsing from the wisdom of piety only by
his vainglory in revealing the resources of his realm to the envoys of Merodach ...
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Joah (10 Occurrences)
... and recorder under King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 26 Isaiah 36:3, 11, 22); he was
one of the 3 officers sent by the king to speak to the Assyrian envoys at the ...
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Treat (53 Occurrences)
... 9. (vi) To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed
by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France. 10. ...
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Rabshakeh (15 Occurrences)
... He and the other envoys returned to their master and reported that Hezekiah
and his people were obdurate, and would not submit. Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Envoys (16 Occurrences)

Joshua 9:4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,
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1 Kings 5:1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
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2 Kings 17:4 The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
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2 Kings 20:12 At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
(See RSV)

2 Chronicles 32:31 However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make haste: beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.
(See RSV)

Psalms 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
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Isaiah 18:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
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Isaiah 30:4 For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
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Isaiah 30:6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
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Isaiah 33:7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
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Isaiah 39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.
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Isaiah 39:2 And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.
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Isaiah 57:9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
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Jeremiah 27:3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
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Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
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Subtopics

Envoys

Related Terms

Embassy (2 Occurrences)

Mattathias (2 Occurrences)

Posidonius

Envoy (5 Occurrences)

John (154 Occurrences)

Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)

Joah (10 Occurrences)

Treat (53 Occurrences)

Rabshakeh (15 Occurrences)