EXACT
To demand money, interest, tribute, or labor, often by pressure or oppression. Scripture also uses the word for levying taxes or collecting required payments.
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EXACTION
A demand for money owed or pledged, or an oppressive eviction from house and home. The term can therefore describe financial pressure or forced removal.
EXACTORS
Those who forcefully collect tribute or labor. In Isaiah, oppressors and taskmasters are contrasted with the righteous order promised for Zion.
EXALT
To lift up, raise high, honor, or promote. Scripture calls people to exalt God, condemns proud self-exaltation, and teaches that humility leads to true exaltation.
Example
An example is a pattern or representative case that may be imitated or used as a warning. Scripture presents Christ, faithful leaders, the prophets, and the failures of earlier generations as examples for God’s people.
EXCELLENCY
Greatness, majesty, glory, dignity, or preeminence. Depending on context, the biblical term may describe God’s majesty, a person’s pride, or something surpassing others.
EXCELLENT
Surpassing in greatness, honor, quality, or value. Scripture uses the term for God’s majesty, superior rank, and the preeminence of the knowledge of Christ.
Excommunication
Excommunication is exclusion from religious fellowship as a form of discipline or for the purification of the congregation. In the New Testament, its purpose was corrective and preservative, with repentance and restoration remaining possible.
Executioner
An executioner was an official or armed officer who could carry out a sentence of death. In the New Testament, the term refers to a member of Herod’s bodyguard who was sent to behead John the Baptist.
Exercise, bodily
Bodily exercise refers to physical discipline or ascetic practices. Scripture acknowledges that such exercise has limited value compared with godliness, which is profitable for all things.
EXHORTATION
An appeal that urges, encourages, or consoles. Christian exhortation calls believers toward faithful conduct while also strengthening and comforting them.
Exile
Exile is the forced removal of people from their homeland. In biblical history it especially refers to the deportation of Israel and Judah by Assyria and Babylon, followed by the later return of some Jewish exiles to Jerusalem.
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