BULWARK
A bulwark is a fortified wall, rampart, defense, or battlement. Scripture uses the term for protective fortifications around cities and strongholds.
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Bulwarks
Bulwarks are defensive structures such as towers, bastions, or fortified walls. They were used to protect cities and are associated in Scripture with military strength and security.
Bunch
Bunch may refer to a bundle of hyssop, a cluster or cake of dried raisins, or a camel’s hump. The meaning depends on the biblical context.
BUNDLE
A bundle is a group of things tied or gathered together. The Bible also uses the image figuratively of being bound in the “bundle of the living,” signifying safety and preservation under God’s care.
Bunni
Bunni was the name of Levites associated with the worshiping community after the exile. The textual details are uncertain, and some passages may preserve variant readings of related names.
Burden
A burden is a load, task, duty, hardship, or responsibility that must be carried. In prophetic passages it can mean an oracle, often one announcing judgment; spiritually, believers are called to bear one another’s burdens while accepting their own responsibilities.
Burial
Burial is the placing of the dead in a grave, tomb, or family sepulchre. Biblical burials commonly involved prompt interment, washing and wrapping the body, mourning, and burial in a natural or rock-cut tomb; Jesus was buried in a new tomb.
Burial, Sepulchres
Burial sepulchres were graves or tombs, often natural caves or chambers cut into rock for family use. They could contain several burial places and were sometimes closed with a stone or otherwise marked.
BURIER
A burier is a person appointed to bury the dead. In Ezekiel’s vision, buriers followed those searching the land and marked places where human remains were found.
Burnt offering
A burnt offering was an animal sacrifice wholly consumed on the altar, except for the ashes. It symbolized complete dedication and surrender to God and was offered daily, on Sabbaths and festivals, and on special occasions.
Bush
A bush is a low woody plant or thorny shrub. Most biblical references concern the bush in which the Lord appeared to Moses in flames without consuming it; its exact species is uncertain, though an acacia or related thorn bush is suggested.
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