Dictionary Entries: T

• 1 Thessalonians — 1 Thessalonians is a Pauline New Testament letter that encourages a young church in holiness, steadfastness, and hope in Christ's
• 1 Timothy — 1 Timothy is a Pastoral New Testament letter that guides Timothy in doctrine, leadership, and ordered church life.
• 2 Thessalonians — 2 Thessalonians is a Pauline New Testament letter that corrects end-times confusion and calls the church to steadfast, disciplined
• 2 Timothy — 2 Timothy is a Pastoral New Testament letter that Paul's final charge to endure, guard sound doctrine, and finish ministry faithfu
• Beast — In biblical prophecy, “the beast” usually refers to a powerful evil ruler or kingdom opposed to God and hostile to His people, esp
• Devotio Moderna — A late medieval devotional movement that emphasized humility, prayer, repentance, and practical holiness, especially in the Low Co
• Parable of the Ten Virgins — Jesus’ parable in Matthew 25:1–13 about ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom. It teaches the need for watchful, genuine readiness f
• Parable of the Two Sons — Jesus’ parable in Matthew 21:28–32 about two sons who respond differently to a father’s command, teaching that genuine repentance
• Rich Young Ruler — The rich young ruler is the unnamed man who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life and went away sorrowful because he would not p
• Roman Centurion at the Cross — The Roman centurion at the cross was the Roman officer overseeing Jesus’ crucifixion who responded to His death with a remarkable
• Sun Standing Still — The miracle in Joshua 10 in which the Lord prolonged daylight so Israel could complete its victory over its enemies.
• Taanach — Taanach is a biblical city in northern Canaan, later associated with the territory of Manasseh. It appears in conquest lists, trib
• Taanath-shiloh — A biblical place-name mentioned in the boundary description of Ephraim’s territory in Joshua 16:6.
• Tabeel — Tabeel is a biblical proper name in Isaiah 7:6, where it appears in the phrase “the son of Tabeel” in a plot against Judah.
• Tabernacle — The tabernacle is the portable sanctuary where God dwelt among Israel in the wilderness.
• Tabernacle construction materials — The materials God commanded Israel to bring for building the tabernacle and its furnishings, including metals, fabrics, skins, woo
• Tabernacles — Tabernacles usually refers to the Feast of Tabernacles, one of Israel’s annual appointed feasts. It commemorated the Lord’s provis
• Tabitha — Tabitha (Dorcas) was a disciple in Joppa known for good works, charity, and care for widows. Peter prayed, and God restored her to
• Table customs — Meal practices and social expectations in biblical times, including hospitality, fellowship, seating, purity concerns, and shared
• Table fellowship — Table fellowship is the shared practice and meaning of eating together, especially as meals express welcome, covenant identity, an
• Table of Nations — The Table of Nations is the listing of peoples and lands descended from Noah’s sons after the flood, found mainly in Genesis 10. I
• Tabor — Tabor is a prominent hill in Lower Galilee named in Scripture as a landmark and historical setting, especially in the account of D
• Taborite — A member of the radical Hussite movement centered in Tábor, Bohemia, during the fifteenth century.
• Taborites — A radical Hussite movement in fifteenth-century Bohemia, important in church history but not a biblical doctrine or standard theol
• Tabrimmon — Tabrimmon is a biblical proper name, mentioned in 1 Kings 15:18 as the father of Ben-hadad king of Aram.
• Tabrimon — Tabrimon is a biblical personal name in 1 Kings 15:18, identified as the father of Ben-hadad king of Aram.
• Tabula rasa — Tabula rasa is the philosophical idea that the human mind begins as a blank slate, without innate ideas, and is shaped by experien
• Tacit knowledge — Tacit knowledge is knowledge a person uses without being able to state it fully in words. It includes skills, judgments, and backg
• Tacit presupposition — A tacit presupposition is an unstated assumption that shapes how a person thinks, interprets facts, or makes an argument. It is pr
• Tacitus — Tacitus was a Roman historian who mentioned Christ and Nero's persecution of Christians.
• Tail of Scorpions — A symbolic phrase in Revelation 9 describing the sting and torment of the abyssal locusts. It points to divinely permitted judgmen
• TALEBEARER — A talebearer is a person who spreads harmful, private, or untrue talk from one person to another. Scripture treats this as sinful
• Talent — A talent was a large ancient unit of weight and, by extension, a large sum of money. In Scripture it is especially important in Je
• Talmud — The Talmud is the large body of rabbinic discussion built around the Mishnah and later interpretation.
• Tambourine — A handheld percussion instrument associated in the Bible with dancing, rejoicing, and public praise.
• Tanakh — Tanakh is a Hebrew Bible collection that the Jewish ordering of the Hebrew Scriptures: Torah, Prophets, and Writings.
• Tannaim — The Tannaim were the early rabbinic teachers whose traditions stand behind the Mishnah.
• Tares — In Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares, tares represent evil people who remain mixed with the righteous until the final judg
• Targum — A Targum is an Aramaic translation and paraphrase of Scripture used in Jewish tradition.
• Targum Jonathan — A traditional Aramaic targum associated with the Prophets, valued as Jewish background literature but not treated as Scripture.
• Targum Neofiti — An ancient Aramaic Targum of the Pentateuch, valuable for Jewish interpretive background but not part of Protestant Scripture.
• Targum Onkelos — An ancient Aramaic targum of the Pentateuch used in Jewish tradition, valued as background literature rather than as biblical Scri
• Targumic idioms — Expressions associated with the Aramaic Targums, the ancient Jewish paraphrastic renderings of the Old Testament. It is a backgrou
• Tarsus — Tarsus was a city in Cilicia, best known in the New Testament as the hometown of Saul, later the apostle Paul.
• Tassels — Tassels were fringes God commanded Israelite men to wear on the corners of their garments as a reminder to obey His commandments a
• Taxicab Fallacy — A taxicab fallacy is the inconsistency of using a principle, standard, or method only while it supports one’s argument and then ab
• Taylor Prism — An Assyrian royal inscription of Sennacherib that records his military campaigns, including his invasion of Judah in the days of H
• Teachers — Teachers are people gifted and called to explain God’s Word so others can understand and obey it. In the New Testament, teaching i
• teaching — Teaching is the ministry of explaining and applying truth so that God’s people understand and obey His word.
• Teaching, Service, and Administration — A grouped New Testament topic for three important ministry functions or gifts: teaching biblical truth, serving practical needs, a
• Teachings of Christ — The teachings of Christ are the truths and commands Jesus taught about God, the kingdom of God, salvation, discipleship, and right
• Tebtynis Papyri — The Tebtynis Papyri are manuscript finds from Egypt that preserve documentary and literary material from the ancient world.
• Tel Dan — An archaeological site in northern Israel commonly identified with ancient Dan, a significant biblical city on Israel’s far northe
• Tel Dan Stele — A fragmentary ancient Aramaic inscription from Tel Dan in northern Israel, often discussed because many scholars think it refers t
• Teleological history — Teleological history is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• teleology — teleology is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Telology — Teleology is the study of ends, purposes, goals, or final causes. In Christian use, it can help discuss purpose in creation and hu
• temple — The temple is the sanctuary God appointed as the focal place of His presence, worship, sacrifice, and prayer in Israel, and in the
• Temple as type — A biblical typology in which the Old Testament temple points forward to the fuller reality of God dwelling with His people in Chri
• Temple Christology — A modern interpretive label for New Testament passages that present Jesus as fulfilling the temple’s role as God’s dwelling place
• Temple courts — The open courts surrounding the Jerusalem temple where people gathered for prayer, teaching, sacrifice-related activity, and publi
• Temple guards — Temple guards were officers attached to the Jerusalem temple who helped maintain order, control access, and carry out directives f
• Temple Mount — The elevated Jerusalem site associated with Israel’s temple worship, including the area on which Solomon’s temple and the Second T
• Temple Mount geography — Temple Mount geography describes the physical setting of the temple area in Jerusalem, including its elevation, surroundings, and
• Temple music and the Levitical choir — The organized musical ministry of the Levites in Israel’s worship, especially in the tabernacle-era preparations and the later tem
• Temple of the Holy Spirit — Temple of the Holy Spirit describes believers, individually and corporately, as the dwelling place of God’s Spirit, calling them to holiness and
• temple of the Spirit — The temple of the Spirit refers to the believer or the church as the dwelling place of God’s Spirit.
• Temple of Zerubbabel — The temple rebuilt in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile under Zerubbabel’s leadership. It restored postexilic Jewish worship an
• Temple Operations — Temple operations refers to the ordered worship, sacrifices, priestly service, and maintenance carried out at Israel’s tabernacle
• Temple priesthood — The temple priesthood was the divinely appointed ministry of priests who served at Israel’s sanctuary, especially in offering sacr
• Temple rituals — Temple rituals are the prescribed acts of worship connected with Israel’s tabernacle and temple, including sacrifices, priestly se
• Temple Scroll — A Jewish Dead Sea Scroll from Qumran that expands on temple, purity, and covenant law; useful background for Second Temple Judaism
• Temple symbolism — Temple symbolism is the biblical use of the tabernacle and temple to express God’s holy presence, covenant fellowship, sacrifice,
• temple tax — A tax or contribution associated with the support of the Jerusalem temple, commonly linked to the half-shekel offering in the Law
• Temple theology — Temple theology is the study of how the Bible’s temple theme develops from Eden and the tabernacle and temple to Christ, the churc
• Temple treasury — The temple treasury was the place or system in the Jerusalem temple where offerings and dedicated funds were received, stored, and
• Temple, Christ, and Church — A biblical theme showing that the temple points to Christ as God’s true dwelling with His people, and that believers in Christ, to
• temptation — Temptation is an enticement or testing that aims to draw a person into sin. Scripture teaches that people are tempted by sinful de
• Temptation in the Wilderness — The temptation in the wilderness refers to Satan’s testing of Jesus after His baptism and before the start of His public ministry.
• tempter — In Scripture, “the tempter” is a title for Satan as the one who entices people to sin and tests their obedience to God. The term i
• Ten Commandments — The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are the ten covenant words God gave to Israel through Moses, recorded chiefly in Exodus 20 and
• Ten Plagues of Egypt — The Ten Plagues of Egypt were the divine judgments God sent on Egypt through Moses before the exodus. They revealed the Lord’s pow
• tense — Tense is the verbal form often associated with time, though in Greek it also overlaps with aspect.
• Tension — Tension is a real or perceived strain between claims, duties, truths, or experiences that are not easily held together. In careful
• Tents of nomads and shepherds — Portable shelters used by pastoral and semi-nomadic peoples in Bible times, especially in patriarchal and wilderness settings.
• Terebinth — A terebinth is a large, recognizable tree named in the Old Testament, often serving as a landmark or setting for important events.
• Testament of Job — An ancient extra-biblical Jewish work that expands the story of Job and is useful only as background, not as Scripture.
• Testament of Moses — An ancient Jewish writing outside the Bible, often associated with the Moses tradition and sometimes linked to the Assumption of M
• Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs — A pseudepigraphal Jewish work framed as the farewell exhortations of Jacob’s twelve sons. It is useful as background to Second Tem
• Testimonia — Testimonia are curated scriptural proof texts or citation clusters brought together for proclamation, argument, or instruction, es
• Tests of truth — Tests of truth are standards used to evaluate whether a belief or statement is true. Common proposals include correspondence to re
• Tetragrammaton — The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter covenant name of God in the Old Testament, written in Hebrew as YHWH and often rendered in E
• Text types — A technical New Testament textual-criticism term for broad manuscript groupings that share similar patterns of readings, such as t
• Textual Criticism — Textual criticism is the disciplined comparison of manuscripts and ancient versions to determine, as closely as possible, the orig
• Textual Integrity — Textual integrity is the reliable preservation of Scripture through its manuscript transmission, such that the biblical text remai
• Textual variants and their classification — Textual variants are differences among manuscript copies of a biblical text, such as spelling, word order, omission, addition, or
• Textus Receptus — The Textus Receptus is the printed Greek New Testament text that strongly influenced the King James Version.
• Thaddaeus / Judas son of James — One of Jesus’ twelve apostles, named as Thaddaeus in Matthew and Mark and as Judas son of James in Luke and Acts. He is distinct f
• Thanksgiving Hymns — Biblical songs of gratitude that praise God for His character, mercy, deliverance, provision, and saving help, especially in the P
• Thanksgiving sections — A thanksgiving section is the portion of a biblical letter, especially in the New Testament, where the writer thanks God for the r
• The Book of the Twelve as a unit — The twelve Minor Prophets viewed as one collected prophetic book in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
• The Carnal Christian — A professing believer whose conduct is marked by fleshly immaturity, worldly behavior, or persistent inconsistency with Christ’s c
• The Copper Scroll — An ancient Dead Sea Scroll inscribed on copper, likely listing hidden caches of valuables. It is an important archaeological sourc
• The Day of the Lord theme — The Day of the Lord is a biblical theme for the time when God acts openly to judge sin, vindicate his name, and save his people, w
• The Didache — The Didache is an early Christian church manual about ethics, worship, and congregational practice.
• The Fall and its consequences — The Fall is humanity’s first sin in Adam and Eve’s disobedience in Eden, and its consequences include alienation from God, moral c
• The False Prophet — The false prophet is a figure in Revelation who supports the beast by deceiving people with signs and leading them into false wors
• The Father — The Father is the first Person of the Trinity, eternally distinct from the Son and the Holy Spirit yet fully God. In Scripture, he
• The great catch of fish — A descriptive label for the miraculous catches of fish in Jesus’ ministry, especially in Luke 5:1–11 and John 21:1–14, where the m
• The Great Isaiah Scroll — An ancient Hebrew manuscript of Isaiah from the Dead Sea Scrolls, important as a witness to the Old Testament text and its transmi
• The Great White Throne Judgment — The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment scene described in Revelation 20:11-15, where the dead stand before God, the
• The heavenly council / divine assembly — The heavenly council is the Bible’s way of describing God’s heavenly court: the Lord reigns as supreme King, and spiritual beings
• The Logia — The Logia usually refers to sayings material or a sayings collection associated with teaching traditions.
• The occult — A broad term for hidden or esoteric practices that seek supernatural knowledge, power, or spirit contact apart from God’s revealed
• The Principate — The Principate was the early Roman imperial system, begun under Augustus, in which emperors ruled while preserving the appearance
• The Seven Words from the Cross — A traditional Christian title for the seven sayings of Jesus spoken from the cross, gathered from the four Gospels and often used
• The Six Days of Creation — The six-day creation account in Genesis 1:1–2:3, where God creates the world in six days and rests on the seventh. Christians agre
• The Synoptic Problem — The Synoptic Problem is the question of how Matthew, Mark, and Luke are literarily related because they often report the same even
• The Telos (Divine Purpose) — The Telos (Divine Purpose) is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• The Twelve Sons of Jacob — The twelve sons of Jacob were the heads of the tribes of Israel. Their family line stands at the beginning of Israel’s covenant hi
• The unpardonable sin — The unpardonable sin is Jesus’ warning about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit: a hardened, willful rejection of the Spirit’s clea
• Thebes — Thebes was an ancient Egyptian city, commonly identified with the biblical No or No-amon, and appears in the prophets as an exampl
• theism — Theism is the belief that God exists as a real, personal, transcendent being distinct from the universe and active in relation to
• Theistic arguments — Theistic arguments are lines of reasoning offered to support the existence of God or the rationality of belief in God. In Christia
• Theistic evolution — Theistic evolution is the view that God used evolutionary processes, under his providence, in the development of living things. In
• Theistic Personalism — A philosophical-theological label for views that describe God chiefly in personal terms, usually as a supreme personal being who k
• theme — A theme is a recurring subject or unifying idea in a passage, book, or across the Bible. Common biblical themes include God’s king
• Theocentrism — Theocentrism is a God-centered outlook that treats God as the supreme reference point, final end, and rightful center of all reali
• Theocracy — Theocracy is a form of political order understood as ruled directly by God or governed by laws believed to be divinely given. In b
• theodicy — Theodicy is the attempt to explain how God’s goodness and power are compatible with the existence of evil and suffering.
• Theodore of Mopsuestia — Theodore of Mopsuestia was a fifth-century Christian bishop and biblical interpreter associated with the Antiochene school. He is
• Theodoret of Cyrrhus — A fifth-century bishop and theologian from Cyrrhus in Syria, known for his biblical commentaries and his role in Christological co
• Theologians — Theologians are people who study, explain, and teach about God and biblical doctrine. In Christian use, the term usually refers to
• Theological method — Theological method is the way theology is done: how believers gather, interpret, test, and organize biblical teaching. In evangeli
• Theological significance of the blood — In Scripture, “blood” represents life poured out in death and is central to sacrifice, atonement, covenant, cleansing, and redempt
• Theology — Theology is the disciplined study of God and all things in relation to God, grounded for Christians in God’s self-revelation, espe
• Theology Proper — Theology proper is the branch of Christian theology that studies God himself—his being, character, names, attributes, and works as
• Theonomy — Theonomy is the view that God’s revealed law should significantly shape civil society, especially in how Christians think about pu
• Theophany — A theophany is a visible or otherwise perceivable manifestation of God in Scripture.
• Theophilus of Antioch — Theophilus of Antioch was a second-century Christian bishop and apologist best known for the apologetic work To Autolycus.
• Theopneustos — Theopneustos is the Greek term in 2 Timothy 3:16 commonly rendered God-breathed, and it is central to discussions of Scripture, in
• Theos — Theos is the common Greek New Testament word for “God” or “deity.” Context determines whether it refers to the one true God, the F
• Theosis — Theosis is the believer’s participation in God’s life through union with Christ by the Holy Spirit, resulting in real transformati
• Theosophy — Theosophy is a broad term for claiming hidden spiritual wisdom about God, humanity, and the cosmos; in modern usage it most often
• Therapeutae — An ascetic Jewish community described by Philo of Alexandria, usually associated with Egypt in the Second Temple period.
• Thessalonica — Thessalonica was a major Macedonian city in the New Testament era and the setting of Paul’s mission there. It is especially known
• Thirty pieces of silver — The payment Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus. In Matthew, the phrase also echoes Old Testament passages about low valua
• THISTLE — A thorny plant used in Scripture as an image of curse, desolation, hardship, and neglected ground.
• Thomas — Thomas was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, remembered especially for his initial doubt about the resurrection until he saw th
• Thomas Aquinas and Scholastic theology — The medieval theological tradition associated with Thomas Aquinas, marked by careful definition, logical argument, and systematic
• Thomism — Thomism is the philosophical and theological tradition associated with Thomas Aquinas, especially its use of Aristotelian categori
• Thomistic — Thomistic refers to theology or philosophy shaped especially by Thomas Aquinas and his synthesis of Christian doctrine with classi
• Thorns and thistles — A biblical image of the curse, hardship, and frustration that entered human life after the fall, with later uses that can also sig
• Three — Three is a common biblical number that can function as ordinary counting or as a literary or theological pattern in context. It is
• THRESHING — Threshing is the agricultural process of separating grain from stalks and husks. In Scripture it also serves as a vivid image of j
• Threshing and winnowing — Biblical agricultural images of separation: threshing loosens grain, and winnowing removes chaff. Scripture often uses them to pic
• THUNDER — Thunder in Scripture is often associated with the power, majesty, and voice of God. It can function as a sign of divine presence,
• Thyatira — An ancient city in Asia Minor, known in the New Testament as Lydia’s hometown and as one of the seven churches addressed in Revela
• Tiberius Caesar — Tiberius Caesar was the Roman emperor during the opening years of John the Baptist’s and Jesus’ public ministries. Luke 3:1 uses h
• Tiglath-Pileser III — Tiglath-Pileser III was a powerful eighth-century BC king of Assyria whose campaigns shaped the biblical history of Israel and Jud
• Tigris River — One of the major rivers named in Scripture, associated with the region of Eden in Genesis and with Daniel’s vision setting. It is
• time — time is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• time and history — time and history is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Tithing and Offerings — Giving a portion of one’s resources to God. In the Old Testament, the tithe was a defined tenth within Israel’s covenant life, whi
• Titles of Christ — The biblical names and designations of Jesus that reveal his identity, offices, authority, and saving work.
• Titus — Titus is a Pastoral New Testament letter that calls the church to sound doctrine and godly living that adorns the gospel.
• Tobit — Tobit is an ancient Jewish narrative included in the Apocrypha and, in some Christian traditions, among the Deuterocanonical books
• Tomb types — Kinds of burial places mentioned or implied in Scripture, such as caves, rock-hewn tombs, and ordinary graves. This is mainly a hi
• tongues — tongues is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Torah — Torah is the Hebrew word commonly translated “law,” but it can also mean God’s instruction. In Scripture it often refers especiall
• Torah education in the home — The biblical duty of parents to teach children God’s words, works, and ways in the home through repeated instruction, example, and
• Torah reading cycle — The Torah reading cycle is the Jewish practice of reading the books of Moses in scheduled portions across the year, especially in
• Torah study traditions — The Jewish practice of reading, memorizing, discussing, and applying the Torah. Scripture commends meditation on God’s law, while
• Torn garments — The visible act of tearing one’s clothing as a sign of grief, alarm, repentance, or outrage.
• Tosefta — The Tosefta is a rabbinic collection that supplements and parallels material found in the Mishnah.
• Total Depravity — Sin has affected every part of human life and personhood.
• total inability — Total inability is the doctrine that fallen sinners are unable to come to saving faith apart from God's gracious work
• Tower of Babel — The Tower of Babel was the city-and-tower project in Genesis 11 through which humanity sought self-exalting unity apart from God.
• Trachonitis — A rugged district northeast of the Sea of Galilee, named in Luke 3:1 as part of the territory ruled by Philip the tetrarch.
• Trade routes — Trade routes were the established land and sea pathways used for travel and commerce in the biblical world. They help explain how
• Tradition — Tradition is the body of beliefs, practices, and teachings handed down within a community over time. In Christian use, faithful ap
• Trajan — Trajan was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 98 to 117 and is relevant to early Christian historical background, not as a biblic
• transcendence — transcendence is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Transcendental argument — A transcendental argument asks what must be true for knowledge, logic, morality, or meaningful experience to be possible. In Chris
• Transcendental knowledge (Kant) — In Kant’s philosophy, transcendental knowledge refers to inquiry into the a priori conditions that make human experience and knowl
• Transfiguration — The Transfiguration was the event in which Jesus was visibly revealed in glory before Peter, James, and John. It confirmed His div
• transgression — transgression is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Transjordan — The Transjordan is the region east of the Jordan River. In the Old Testament it is especially associated with the lands allotted t
• Translations — Bible translations are renderings of Scripture from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek into another language so that God’s Wo
• transliteration — Transliteration is writing the sounds of a word from one alphabet in the letters of another alphabet.
• Transmission — The historical passing down of Scripture through copying, preservation, collection, and translation across generations.
• Travel and Transportation — A Bible-background topic describing how people moved in the ancient world—on foot, by animal, by cart or chariot, and by ship.
• TREASURE — In Scripture, treasure may mean stored wealth, but it often symbolizes what a person values most—earthly riches, heavenly reward,
• Treaties and alliances — Formal agreements between peoples, rulers, or nations. Scripture recognizes such arrangements as part of public life, but often wa
• Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil — The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the tree in Eden from which God commanded Adam not to eat. It marked a clear test of ob
• Tree of Life — The tree of life is a special tree first seen in the Garden of Eden and later in the new creation. In Scripture it signifies life
• trespass — trespass is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Tribal allotments — The tribal allotments are the portions of the promised land assigned by God to the tribes of Israel, especially in Joshua. They di
• Tribal Territories — The land allotments assigned to the tribes of Israel in the Promised Land, described especially in Joshua 13–21.
• Tribe of Judah — One of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from Judah son of Jacob; it became the leading tribe in the south and is especially
• tribulation — tribulation is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Trinitarian communion — Trinitarian communion is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Trinitarian formulas in Scripture — Biblical passages that name the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit together in a coordinated way and thereby support the church’s doctri
• Trinitarian worship — Trinitarian worship is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Trinity — The Trinity means the one true God exists eternally as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Tritheism — Tritheism is the error that the Father, Son, and Spirit are three separate gods.
• Triumphal Entry — Jesus’ public entry into Jerusalem shortly before His crucifixion, riding on a donkey and welcomed by crowds who hailed Him as kin
• triune glory — triune glory is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• triune life — triune life is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• triunity — triunity is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Troas — Troas was a city and harbor in northwestern Asia Minor, mentioned in Acts and Paul’s letters as an important stop in Paul’s missio
• True deity — True deity means full and real divine nature, not a lesser or partial form of godhood. In Christian theology, the term is used esp
• True humanity — True humanity means possessing a real and complete human nature. In Christian theology, it is especially used to confess that Jesu
• True Vine — “True Vine” is Jesus’ self-description in John 15, presenting himself as the true source of spiritual life and fruitfulness for hi
• Truism — A truism is a statement that is obviously true or nearly tautological, so it may be correct yet too thin by itself to settle a rea
• Trumpet — A trumpet in Scripture is a horn or metal instrument used to signal worship, assembly, warning, battle, and major acts of God. It
• Trumpets — Trumpets in Scripture are used to summon people, signal action, mark worship and celebration, and announce solemn divine intervent
• trust — Trust is resting in God’s character, word, and care rather than in self-sufficiency.
• Truth — What is real, faithful, and in agreement with God's nature and word.
• Truth-bearers — Truth-bearers are the kinds of things that can be called true or false, such as propositions, beliefs, or statements.
• truthfulness — Truthfulness is honest speech and faithful representation of reality before God and others.
• Tunic — A tunic was a basic inner garment in Bible times, worn by men and women and usually covered by an outer cloak. It is a cultural cl
• Turban — A wrapped head covering mentioned in the Bible, especially in connection with Israel’s priests. In Scripture it can signal dignity
• TURTLEDOVE — A small dove-like bird mentioned in Scripture as an acceptable offering for those of modest means and as a poetic image in love po
• Twelve — Twelve is a prophetic book collection that another name for the Minor Prophets as one canonical collection.
• Two — A basic biblical number that usually functions as ordinary counting, but can also carry contextual significance, especially in mat
• Two kingdoms view — A theological framework that distinguishes God’s providential rule over civil life from his redemptive rule in the church. The lab
• Two tables structure — A traditional way of describing the Ten Commandments as two related groups: duties toward God and duties toward neighbor. It is a
• Two-age eschatology — Two-age eschatology is the Jewish and New Testament framework that contrasts the present age with the age to come, while the New T
• Tyndale Bible — A historical label for William Tyndale’s English Bible translation work, especially his New Testament and translated portions of t
• Types of sacrifices — The main kinds of Old Testament sacrifices were God-given offerings for worship, atonement, thanksgiving, fellowship, purification
• Typological fulfillment — Typological fulfillment is the way earlier God-given persons, events, institutions, or patterns in Scripture are brought to their
• typology — Typology is a biblical interpretive method that sees God-designed patterns in earlier persons, events, and institutions that fores
• Tyre — Tyre was a major Phoenician coastal city on the Mediterranean, often mentioned in Scripture for its wealth, trade, pride, and the
• Tzitzit — The tassels or fringes Israel was commanded to wear on the corners of their garments as a visible reminder to obey the Lord’s comm
• Veil — In Scripture, a veil is a covering that can serve literal, symbolic, and theological purposes. Most notably, the temple veil marke
• Yahweh Tsidkenu — A divine title meaning “The LORD is our righteousness,” used in Jeremiah to point to the LORD as the source of His people’s righte