Dictionary Entries: V

• Vajezatha — One of the ten sons of Haman named in Esther; he was among those killed when Haman’s house fell.
• Valid — In logic, an argument is valid when its conclusion follows necessarily from its premises, assuming those premises are true. Validi
• Valley of Beracah — A place in Judah named after the people blessed the Lord there following Jehoshaphat’s victory over Judah’s enemies.
• Valley of Decision — A prophetic phrase in Joel 3:14 for the place of God's decisive judgment on the nations. In context, it refers to the Lord's verdi
• Valley of Elah — A valley in Judah best known as the setting of David’s battle with Goliath.
• Valley of Hinnom — A ravine south and west of Jerusalem associated in Israel’s history with idolatry, child sacrifice, and prophetic judgment; its na
• Valley of Jehoshaphat — The prophetic valley in Joel where the Lord gathers the nations for judgment. Its exact geographic location is uncertain, but the
• Valley of Rephaim — An Old Testament valley near Jerusalem, known for territorial references and David’s battles with the Philistines.
• Valleys and Plains — Biblical valleys and plains are real landforms that shape travel, settlement, farming, warfare, and prophetic imagery. They are ge
• vanity — vanity is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• variant reading — A variant reading is a place where manuscripts differ in wording.
• Vashni — A name appearing in some translations of 1 Chronicles 6:28; the verse is textually difficult and is often discussed alongside Samu
• Vashti — Vashti was the queen of Persia in the opening chapter of Esther who refused King Ahasuerus’s command to appear before his guests.
• Vatican II — Vatican II, or the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), was a major Roman Catholic council that addressed liturgy, the church, ecum
• Vengeance — Vengeance in Scripture is the just repayment of wrongdoing, belonging properly to God and to human authorities acting under His or
• veracity — veracity is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Vicarious Atonement — Vicarious atonement is the teaching that Christ died on behalf of sinners, bearing the penalty sin deserves so that forgiveness an
• vice — vice is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Vice and virtue lists — Vice and virtue lists is the label for catalog-style moral instruction that groups representative sins and commendable traits in o
• Vices to Avoid — "Vices to avoid" refers to sinful attitudes and behaviors that Scripture warns believers to reject. Bible vice lists commonly incl
• Village layout — The physical arrangement of an ancient village or small settlement in the biblical world, including houses, lanes, walls, wells, g
• Vine — A biblical image of fruitfulness, dependence, covenant blessing, and judgment. In John 15, Jesus identifies Himself as the true vi
• Vine and Vineyard — In Scripture, the vine and vineyard are common images for fruitfulness, covenant blessing, and God’s care and judgment. They are u
• Vinedresser — A vinedresser is one who tends a vineyard, especially by cultivating, pruning, and overseeing the vines. In Scripture the image ca
• Vineyard — A vineyard is a place where grapevines are cultivated. In Scripture it often functions as an image of God’s care, covenant blessin
• Vintage — “Vintage” is a biblical agricultural word for the grape harvest or the produce gathered from the vine.
• Violence — Violence is wrongful force, cruelty, or bloodshed that harms others and stands against God’s righteous order. Scripture repeatedly
• virgin birth — virgin birth is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Virgin Birth / Virginal Conception — The biblical teaching that Jesus was conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit while she was still a virgin. More strictly, “virginal c
• virtue — virtue is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Virtue and character — Virtue and character are the moral qualities and settled patterns of life Scripture commends in those who fear God, formed by fait
• Virtue ethics — Virtue ethics is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Visible Church — The visible church is the outward, observable community of professing Christians gathered in churches, including both genuine believers and false
• Vision — A vision is a God-given revelation in visible or symbolic form, given to a person or group by God’s initiative, often to convey gu
• Visions — Extraordinary revelatory experiences in which God discloses truth, warning, guidance, or future events to a person.
• Visit of the Magi — The visit of the Magi is Matthew’s account of wise men from the east who came to honor the newborn Jesus as King. The episode high
• Viticulture — Viticulture is the cultivation of grapevines and the management of vineyards. In Scripture, it is an important background practice
• Viticulture and olive cultivation — The cultivation of grapevines and olive trees in the biblical world, where wine and oil were essential for food, trade, worship, h
• Vocation — Vocation is your God-given calling to serve Him faithfully in the places and work He gives you.
• Vocation & Calling — In Christian usage, calling refers first to God’s summons to salvation and faithful discipleship in Christ, and secondarily to the
• voice — Voice is the verbal feature that shows how the subject relates to the action, such as doing it or receiving it.
• Voluntarism — Voluntarism is the philosophical view that the will is primary over intellect or reason. In ethics and theology, it can also mean
• Votive offerings — Offerings given to the Lord in fulfillment of a vow. In Scripture, they are voluntary gifts tied to a promised act of devotion, th
• Vow — A vow is a solemn promise made to God. Scripture treats vows as serious commitments that should not be made lightly and must be ke
• Vulgate — The Vulgate is the influential Latin Bible translation associated especially with Jerome.
• Vulture — A vulture is a carrion-eating bird mentioned in Scripture among the unclean birds. It appears mainly in biblical lists of animals