Topic
Orator
5 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Isaiah 3:3Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
- Acts 24:1Smith · Nave INSTANCES OF — Tertullus
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
- Jonah 3:4–10Nave INSTANCES OF — Jonah
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the…
- Acts 2:1–41Nave INSTANCES OF — The apostles
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven…
- Acts 18:24–28Nave INSTANCES OF — Apollos
¶ And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord,…
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
- The Authorized Version rendering in (Isaiah 3:3) for what is literally "skillful in whisper or incantation."
- The title applied to Tertullus, who appeared as the advocate of the Jewish accusers of St. Paul before Felix, (Acts 24:1)
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 5 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → 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
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.