Bible Names, Places, Numbers, Symbols, and Types
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If a name or place has more than one meaning attached to it, or has more than one individual or place attached to it, each variant will be list as follows (2) (3), etc.
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| Cain | Spear or perhaps acquired; first born of Adam and Eve; Type of fleshly Israel and Tar Class; (2) There are also a town (Joshua 15:57) and a people (Numbers 24:22) which translations commonly transliterate Kain or Kenite instead of Cain. A Kenite town, a branch of Midian, on the E. edge of Mt. Engedi, probably the nest in the rock mention by Balaam, 3 miles S.E. of Hebron |
| Calf | Type of Justice |
| Calneh | Center Of The World, Beautifying Everything; City Founded by Nimrod (Genesis 10:10); (2) A City mentioned in Amos 6:2 (probably the same as Calno in Isaiah 10:9 and Canneh in Ezekiel 27:23) in the Assyrian Empire |
| Camp of the Saints | Faithful, pre-Christian ancients |
| Canaan | Land of Purple, humiliate; the 4th son of Ham; Canaan's offspring Hivites, Jebusites, Arvadites, Girgashites, Amorites, Arkite, Sinites, Hittites, Sidoniams, Perizzites, Zemarites (2) The land promised by God to the Jews. (See Land of Canaan) |
| Canaanites | Descended from Canaan, 4th son of Ham; Aegean origins, land to be inhabited by Israel |
| Candlesticks (Seven) | Type of the Seven Church Periods of the Gospel Age |
| Caphtor | Protected, Redeemed, Crown or Pomegranate; Son of Mizraim; From whom the Philistines came (See Caphtor) |
| Casluh | Fortified; son of Mizraim; From whom the Philistines through Caphtor |
Cedars of Lebanon |
Type of ecclesiastically great |
| Chains | Type of Connection of truths |
Chariots |
Type of Worldly organizations |
| Cedorlaomer or Kedorlaomer | Handful of sheaves; king of Elam who made conquests as far west as Canaan and exercised supremacy over its southeastern part; The name of the Elamite overlord with whom Amraphel, Arioch and Tidal marched against Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain (Genesis 14:1); This king is not positively identified. (See Kedorlaomer) |
| Circle (Pi) | Symbol of God, the everlastingness of God'd covenant. The Rainbow is a complete circle with 7 colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet |
| City | Type of Government, religious or secular |
| Clouds | Type of Trouble |
| Court (tabernacle) | Type of the Condition of Justification |
| Crown | Type of Authority (diadem); Type of Victory (stephanes) |
| Cup | Type of Experiences |
| Cush | As if He Were Weak, Were Getting Smarter; First son of Ham (Genesis 10:6); Father of the people of Sudan, Ethiopea; (2) area called Cush is usually equated with Ethiopia (Nubia, the region south of Egypt); (3) A Benjaminite (Psalm 7) |