Bible Dictionary
Explore biblical people, places, events, objects, ideas, and other terms. Search the dictionary directly, browse alphabetically, or narrow the list by category or Testament.
Grain
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
Grain refers to a seed or cereal crop such as wheat, barley, or spelt. Scripture uses it literally in agriculture and figuratively for individual seeds and the resurrection body.
Grape
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
A grape is the fruit of the cultivated vine, widely grown in biblical lands. Scripture also uses grapes and vineyards as images of Israel, judgment, blessing, and spiritual fruitfulness.
GRAPES, WILD
Agriculture & Daily Life - Old Testament
Wild grapes are the worthless or noisome fruit described in Isaiah’s song of the vineyard. The term indicates an undesirable harvest rather than a clearly identified species of grape.
GRASP
Jesus Christ - New Testament
In Philippians 2:6, “a thing to be grasped” expresses the sense that Christ did not regard equality with God as something to seize for advantage. Instead, He humbled Himself and accepted the form of a servant.
Grass
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
Grass denotes green herbage, tender growth, or dried fodder. Because it quickly withers under heat, Scripture frequently uses grass as an image of human frailty and the brevity of life.
Grasshopper
Agriculture & Daily Life - Both
“Grasshopper” is often used in older English Bible translations for insects that are more accurately identified as locusts. These insects appear in biblical descriptions of swarms, plagues, armies, and human smallness.
Grate
Temple & Tabernacle - Old Testament
The grate was a bronze network fitted near the bottom of the great altar of burnt offering. It formed part of the altar’s construction in the tabernacle.
Grave
Death & Afterlife - Both
A grave was a burial place, commonly a natural or rock-cut cave outside a city, sometimes used by a family. Graves could be closed with stones and were associated with ceremonial uncleanness when opened or touched.
GRAVEL
Agriculture & Daily Life - Old Testament
Gravel is small stone or grit. Scripture uses it figuratively for the painful consequences of falsehood and affliction, and also in a poetic reference to arrows.
Graven image
Sin & Judgment - Old Testament
A graven image was a carved idol or household deity made for false worship. The law condemned such images because Israel was to worship the Lord alone.
Graving
Objects & Symbols - Both
Graving is the carving, cutting, or engraving of designs in wood, stone, metal, or precious stones. Scripture uses the term for artistic work, inscriptions, engraved images, and carved gems.
GRAVITY
Christian Life - New Testament
Gravity means dignified seriousness, reverence, or honorable conduct. It is required of Christian leaders, parents, teachers, and believers whose lives should fittingly represent their faith.
GREASE
Sin & Judgment - Old Testament
Grease is a biblical image for excessive prosperity that makes a person spiritually dull, insensitive, or hardened. It describes hearts that have become gross and unresponsive to God’s instruction.
Greaves
Objects & Symbols - Old Testament
Greaves were pieces of defensive armor worn over the lower legs, extending from the foot toward the knee. Goliath wore bronze greaves as part of his battle equipment.
Grecian
People & Groups - New Testament
A Grecian, or Hellenist, was a Jew of foreign birth or background who spoke Greek rather than the Hebrew or Aramaic commonly spoken in Palestine. Such Jews formed a distinct group in the early church.
Grecians
People & Groups - New Testament
“Grecians” refers to Hellenists, especially Greek-speaking Jews from outside Palestine who worshiped in their own synagogues. In some passages the term may instead refer to Greek Gentiles.
Greece
Places & Geography - Both
Greece was the land of the Greeks, called Javan in parts of the Old Testament. It appears in prophecy and history, and its regions and cities became important settings for Paul’s ministry.
Greece, Greeks, Grecians
Places & Geography - Both
The biblical references to Greece, Greeks, and Grecians include the descendants of Javan, Greek peoples, Greek-speaking Jews, and Gentiles. Greece appears in Old Testament prophecy and in the New Testament setting of apostolic mission.
GREECE, RELIGION IN ANCIENT
Other - Inter-testament
Ancient Greek religion centered on many local gods, shrines, sacrifices, festivals, prayers, omens, and myths. Its gods were treated as superhuman members of society, in contrast with the biblical revelation of one holy Creator distinct from the world.
GREECE, SONS OF
Prophecy - Old Testament
“Sons of Greece” in Zechariah refers to Greeks holding Jewish captives and to the conflict between Zion and Greece. From the Jewish perspective, the later Maccabean wars were also a struggle against Greek rule.
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