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OMNIPOTENCE
- -  See GOD, OMNIPOTENT 
- -  See JESUS, OMNIPOTENCE OF 
 
 

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OMNISCIENCE
- -  See GOD, OMNISCIENT 
- -  See JESUS, OMNISCIENCE OF 
 
 

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ONION
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Nu 11:5|
 
 

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ONYX
- -  Precious stone: ...  Job 28:16; Eze 28:13|
- -  Used in erecting the temple: ...  1Ch 29:2|
- -  Seen in the foundations of the city of the New Jerusalem in John's apocalyptic vision: ...  Re 21:20|
- -  Exported from Havilah: ...  Ge 2:12|
- -  Used in the breastplate: ...  Ex 28:9-12,20; 39:6,13|
- -  Contributed by Israelites for the priests' garments: ...  Ex 25:7; 35:9|
 
 

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OPINION, PUBLIC
- -  (Kings influenced by)
- -  See KINGS 
- -  Jesus inquires about: ...  Mt 16:13; Lu 9:18|
- -  Feared by
......  Nicodemus: ...  Joh 3:2|
......  Joseph of Arimathaea: ...  Joh 19:38|
......  The parents of the man who was born blind: ... Joh 9:21,22|
......  Rulers, who believed in Jesus, but feared the Pharisees: ...  Joh 12:42,43|
......  Chief priests, who feared to answer the questions of Jesus: ...  Mt 21:26; Mr 11:18,32; 12:12|
......  Chief preists, who feared to further persecute the disciples: ...  Ac 4:21; 5:26|

- -  CONCESSIONS TO
......  By Paul, in circumcising Timothy: ...  Ac 16:3|
......  James and the Christian elders, who required Paul to observe  certain rites: ...  Ac 21:18-26|
......  Disciples, who urged circumcision: ...  Ga 6:12|
......  Peter and Barnabas with others: ...  Ga 2:11-14|
......  See PRUDENCE 

- -  CORRUPT YIELDING TO
......  By Herod (Antipas), in the case of John the Baptist: ...  Mr 6:26|
......  Of Peter: ...  Ac 12:3|
......  By Peter, concerning Jesus: ...  Mt 26:69-75|
......  By Pilate: ...  Mt 27:23-27; Mr 15:15; Lu 23:13-25; Joh 18:38,39; 19:4-14|
......  By Felix and Festus, concerning Paul: ...  Ac 24:27; 25:9|
 
 

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OPPORTUNITY
- -  THE MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITY: ...  Pr 1:24-33; Jer 8:20; Eze 3:19; 33:1-17; Ho 5:6; Mt  10:14,15; 11:20-24; 23:34-38; 25:1-46; Lu 12:47; 13:25-28;  14:16-24; 19:12-27|
......  See JUDGMENT, ACCORDING TO OPPORTUNITY 
......  See RESPONSIBILITY 
 
 

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OPPRESSION
- -  God is a refuge from: ...  Ps 9:9|
- -  Prayers against: ...  Ps 17:9; 44:24; 119:121,134; Isa 38:14|
- -  God's help promised against: ...  Ps 12:5; 72:4,14; Jer 50:34|
- -  God will judge: ...  Ps 103:6; Ec 5:8; Isa 10; Jer 22:17; Eze 22:7; Am 4:1; Mic  2:2; Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4|
- -  National, God judges: ...  Ac 7:7|
- -  National, relieved: ...  Ex 3:9; De 26:7; Jud 2:14; 6; 7; 8; 10; 2Ki 13; Isa 52:4|
- -  INSTANCES OF
......  Of Hagar, by Sarah: ...  Ge 16:6|
......  Of Israelites, by Egyptians: ...  Ex 1:10-22; 5|
......  Rehoboam resolves to oppress the Israelites: ...  1Ki 12:14|
- -  UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO: ...  Ex 22:21-24; De 23:15,16; 24:14,15; Job 27:13-23; Ps 9:9;  10:17,18; 12:5; 62:10; 74:21; 119:134; Pr 3:31; 14:31;  22:22; 28:3; 30:14; Ec 4:1; 5:8; 7:7; Isa 1:17; 5:8;  33:15,16; 58:6; Jer 21:12; Eze 22:29; 45:9; Am 5:11,12;  8:4-6; Mic 2:1-3; Hab 2:5-11; Zec 7:10; Mt 23:2-4; Jas 2:6|
 
 

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ORACLE
- -  The holy place: ...  1Ki 6:5; Ps 28:2|
- -  The Scriptures are called "oracles,": ...  Ac 7:38; Ro 3:2; Heb 5:12; 1Pe 4:11|
- -  See TABERNACLE 
 
 

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ORATOR
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Isa 3:3|
- -  INSTANCES OF
......  Jonah: ...  Jon 3:4-10|
......  The apostles: ...  Ac 2:1-41|
......  Tertullus: ...  Ac 24:1|
......  Apollos: ...  Ac 18:24-28|
 
 

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ORDINANCE
- -  A decree: ...  Ex 12:14,24,43; 13:10; 15:25; Nu 9:14; 10:8; 15:15; 18:8;  Isa 24:5; Mal 4:4; Ro 13:2; 1Pe 2:13|

- -  INSUFFICIENCY OF, FOR SALVATION: ...  Isa 1:10-17; Ga 5:6; 6:15; Eph 2:15; Col 2:14,20-23; Heb  9:1,8-10|
......  See FORM 
......  See FORMALISM 
 
 

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ORDINATION
- -  Of priests
......  See PRIESTS 
 
 

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ORGAN
- -  See MUSIC, INSTRUMENTS OF 
 
 

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ORPHAN
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Ex 22:22-24; De 10:18; 14:28,29; 16:11,14; 24:17-22;  26:12,13; 27:19; Job 6:27; 22:9; 24:3,9; 29:12,13;  31:16-18,21; Ps 10:14,17,18; 27:10; 68:5; 82:3; 94:6; 146:9;  Pr 23:10; Isa 1:17,23; 10:1,2; Jer 5:28; 7:6,7; 22:3; 49:11;  Ho 14:3; Mal 3:5; Jas 1:27|

- -  See ADOPTION 
- -  See CHILDREN 
- -  See WIDOW 
- -  Commandment to oversee: ... Jas 1:27
- -  INSTANCES OF
......  Lot: ...  Ge 11:27,28|
......  Daughters of Zelophehad: ...  Nu 27:1-5|
......  Jotham: ...  Jud 9:16-21|
......  Mephibosheth: ...  2Sa 9:3|
......  Joash: ...  2Ki 11:1-12|
......  Esther: ...  Es 2:7|
......  A figure of Zion in affliction: ...  La 5:3|
 
 

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OSPREY
- -  A carnivorous bird
- -  Forbidden as food: ...  Le 11:13; De 14:12|
 
 

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OSSIFRAGE
- -  (A carnivorous bird)
- -  Forbidden as food: ...  Le 11:13; De 14:12|
 
 

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OSTENTATION
- -  In prayer and almsgiving: ...  Mt 6:1; Pr 25:14; 27:2|
 
 

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OSTRICH
- -  Unclean and unfit for food: ...  Le 11:13|
- -  Furnished with wings and feathers: ...  Job 39:13|
- -  Lays her eggs in the sand: ...  Job 39:14|
- -  DESCRIBED AS
......  Void of wisdom: ...  Job 39:17|
......  Imprudent: ...  Job 39:15|
......  Cruel to her young: ...  Job 39:16|
......  Rapid in movement: ...  Job 39:18|
- -  Illustrative
......  Of the unnatural cruelty of the Jews in their calamities: ...  La 4:3|
......  (Companionship with,) of extreme desolation: ...  Job 30:29|
- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Job 39:13-18; La 4:3; Isa 13:21; 34:13; 43:20|
- -  The cry of: ...  Mic 1:8|
- -  In A. V. the word "owl" occurs, but in the R. V., it is the word "ostrich,": ...  Le 11:16; De 14:15; Job 30:29; Isa 43:20; Jer 50:39; Mic  1:8|
 
 

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OUCHES
- -  Sockets: ...  Ex 28:11|
 
 

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OVEN
- -  For baking: ...  Ex 8:3; Le 2:4; 7:9; 11:35; 26:26|
- -  See BREAD 
- -  FIGURATIVE: ...  Ps 21:9; Ho 7:4,6,7; Mal 4:1; Mt 6:30; Lu 12:28|
 
 

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OVERCOMING
- -  See PERSEVERANCE 
 
 

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OVERSEER
- -  SAME POSITION AS 
......  Bishop: ... 1Ti 3:2-7; Tit 1:5-11  (some translations)
......  Elder: ... 1Ti 3:2-7; Tit 1:5-11; 1Pe 5:1-5| 
......  Shepherd: ... Acts 20:28|
......  Pastor (bad translation of the same Greek word translated as Shepherd in every other occurrences in the New Testament)

- -  General scriptures concerning: ...  Mt 24:48,49|
- -  See also DEACON 
......  Also see CHURCH, GOVERNMENT OF
- -  IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: ...  Ac 11:29,30; 14:23; 15:1-35; 16:4,5; 20:17,28-32; 21:18; 1Ti 3:2-7; 4:14; 5:17-19; Tit 1:5-11; Heb 11:2; Jas 5:14,15; 1Pe 5:1-5; 2Jo 1:1; 3Jo 1:1 Php 1:1;|

- -  A TITLE OF JESUS: ...  1Pet 2:25|
 
 
 

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OWL
- -  Varieties of: ...  Le 11:16,17; De 14:15,16|
- -  Unclean and not to be eaten: ...  Le 11:13,16|
- -  DESCRIBED AS
......  Mournful in voice: ...  Mic 1:8|
......  Solitary in disposition: ...  Ps 102:6|
......  Careful of its young: ...  Isa 34:15|
- -  Inhabits deserted cities and houses: ...  Isa 13:21; 34:11-14; Jer 50:39|
- -  Illustrative of mourners: ...  Ps 102:6|
- -  (A carnivorous bird)
- -  Unclean: ...  Le 11:16,17; De 14:16|
- -  In R. V. ostrich is substituted: ...  Le 11:16; De 14:15; Job 30:29; Isa 13:21; 34:11,13; 43:20;  Jer 50:39; Mic 1:8|
 
 

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OX
- -  Often found wild: ...  De 14:5|
- -  INCLUDES THE
......  Bull: ...  Ge 32:15; Job 21:10|
......  Bullock: ...  Ps 50:9; Jer 46:21|
......  Cow: ...  Nu 18:17; Job 21:10|
......  Heifer: ...  Ge 15:9; Nu 19:2|
- -  Was clean and fit for food: ...  De 14:4|
- -  DESCRIBED AS
......  Strong: ...  Ps 144:14; Pr 14:4|
......  Beautiful: ...  Jer 46:20; Ho 10:11|
......  Not without sagacity: ...  Isa 1:3|
- -  Horns and hoofs of, alluded to: ...  Ps 69:31|
- -  Lowing of, alluded to: ...  1Sa 15:14; Job 6:5|
- -  WAS FED
......  With grass: ...  Job 40:15; Ps 106:20; Da 4:25|
......  With corn: ...  Isa 30:24|
......  With straw: ...  Isa 11:7|
......  On the hills: ...  Isa 7:25|
......  In the valleys: ...  1Ch 27:29; Isa 65:10|
......  In stalls: ...  Hab 3:17|
- -  Rapid manner of collecting its food alluded to: ...  Nu 22:4|
- -  Formed a part of the patriarchal wealth: ...  Ge 13:2,5; 26:14; Job 1:3|
- -  Formed a part of the wealth of Israel in Egypt: ...  Ge 50:8; Ex 10:9; 12:32|
- -  Formed a part of the wealth of the Jews: ...  Nu 32:4; Ps 144:14|
- -  Required great care and attention: ...  Pr 27:23|
- -  Herdmen appointed over: ...  Ge 13:7; 1Sa 21:7|
- -  Urged on by the goad: ...  Jud 3:31|
- -  USED FOR
......  Drawing wagons &c: ...  Nu 7:3; 1Sa 6:7|
......  Carrying burdens: ...  1Ch 12:40|
......  Ploughing: ...  1Ki 19:19; Job 1:14; Am 6:12|
......  Earing the ground: ...  Isa 30:24; 32:20|
......  Treading out the corn: ...  Ho 10:11|
......  Sacrifice: ...  Ex 20:24; 2Sa 24:22|
......  Food: ...  1Ki 1:9; 19:21; 2Ch 18:2|
- -  Often stall-fed for slaughter: ...  Pr 15:17|
- -  Goes to the slaughter unconscious: ...  Pr 7:22|
- -  Young of, considered a great delicacy: ...  Ge 18:7; Am 6:4|
- -  Male firstlings of, belonged to God: ...  Ex 34:19|
- -  Tithe of, given to the priests: ...  2Ch 31:6|
- -  LAWS RESPECTING
......  To rest on the Sabbath: ...  Ex 23:12; De 5:14|
......  Not to be yoked with an ass in the same plough: ...  De 22:10|
......  Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn: ...  De 25:4; 1Co 9:9|
......  If stolen to be restored double: ...  Ex 22:4|
......  Of others not to be coveted: ...  Ex 20:17; De 5:21|
......  Of others if lost or hurt through neglect, to be made good: ...  Ex 22:9-13|
......  Killing a man, to be stoned: ...  Ex 21:28-32|
......  Mode of reparation for one, killing another: ...  Ex 21:35,36|
......  Straying to be brought back to its owner: ...  Ex 23:4; De 22:1,2|
......  Fallen under its burden to be raised up again: ...  De 22:4|
......  Fat of, not to be eaten: ...  Le 7:23|
- -  Increase of, promised: ...  De 7:13; 28:4|
- -  Publicly sold: ...  2Sa 24:24; Lu 14:19|
- -  Often given as a present: ...  Ge 12:16; 20:14|
- -  The wicked often took, in pledge from the poor: ...  Job 24:3|
- -  Custom of sending the pieces of, to collect the people to war: ...  1Sa 11:7|
- -  Sea of brass rested on figures of: ...  1Ki 7:25|
- -  ILLUSTRATIVE
......  (Engaged in husbandry,) of Ministers: ...  Isa 30:24; 32:20|
......  (Not muzzled in treading corn,) of Minister's right to   support: ...  1Co 9:9,10|
......  (Prepared for a feast,) of the provision of the gospel: ...  Pr 9:2; Mt 22:4|
......  (Led to slaughter,) of a rash youth: ...  Pr 7:22|
......  (Led to slaughter,) of saints under persecution: ...  Jer 11:19|
......  (Stall fed,) of sumptuous living: ...  Pr 15:17|
- -  BULL OR BULLOCK ILLUSTRATIVE
......  Of fierce enemies: ...  Ps 22:12; 68:30|
......  (Firstling of,) of the glory of Joseph: ...  De 33:17|
......  (In a net,) of the impatient under judgment: ...  Isa 51:20|
......  (Fatted,) of greedy mercenaries: ...  Jer 46:21|
......  (Unaccustomed to the yoke,) of intractable sinners: ...  Jer 31:18|
- -  KINE ILLUSTRATIVE
......  Of proud and wealthy rules: ...  Am 4:1|
......  (well favoured,) of years of plenty: ...  Ge 41:2,26,29|
......  (Lean,) of years of scarcity: ...  Ge 41:3; 27:30|
- -  HEIFER ILLUSTRATIVE
......  Of a beloved wife: ...  Jud 14:18|
......  (Sliding back,) of backsliding Israel: ...  Ho 4:16|
......  (Taught, &c) of Israel's fondness for ease in preference to   obedience: ...  Ho 10:11|
......  (Of three years old,) of Moab in affliction: ...  Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34|
......  (Fair,) of the beauty and wealth of Egypt: ...  Jer 46:20|
......  (At grass,) of the luxurious Chaldees: ...  Jer 50:11|

- -  See BULLOCK 
- -  See CATTLE