Dictionary Entries: R

• Blue Cord — The blue cord or blue thread in Israel’s tassels was a covenant reminder to obey the Lord’s commandments. It functioned as a visib
• Cities of Refuge — Cities of Refuge were six towns appointed by God in Israel where a person who killed someone unintentionally could flee for protec
• John and the Synoptics — The study of how the Gospel of John relates to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. John presents the same Lord Jesus Christ with a distinct s
• Parable of the Rich Fool — Jesus’ parable in Luke 12:13–21 warns against greed, false security in wealth, and living without readiness to answer to God.
• Protestant Reformers — Leading figures of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation who sought to correct church doctrine and practice by Scripture. T
• Raamah — Raamah is a biblical proper name for a descendant of Cush and, in Ezekiel, a people or region associated with Arabian trade.
• Raamiah — Raamiah is a postexilic Israelite named among the returnees who came back from exile with Zerubbabel.
• Rabbinic disciple — A rabbinic disciple is a student who attaches himself to a rabbi to learn that teacher’s interpretation of Scripture and way of li
• Rabbinic Judaism — Rabbinic Judaism is the post-Temple form of Judaism shaped by rabbinic teaching, the Oral Torah, and later legal and liturgical tr
• Rabbinic precursors — A modern historical label for Jewish teachers, traditions, and interpretive patterns in the Second Temple and early post-70 period
• Rabbinic Tradition — Rabbinic tradition is the body of Jewish teaching, interpretation, and custom associated with the rabbis, especially in the post-O
• rabbis — rabbis are Jewish teachers and interpreters of Torah.
• Rabboni — Rabboni is an Aramaic form of address meaning my teacher or my master, used of Jesus in the Gospels.
• Raca — An Aramaic insult used by Jesus as an example of contemptuous speech in Matthew 5:22. It likely means something like “empty-headed
• Rachel — Rachel was Jacob’s beloved wife, the daughter of Laban, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She is a major matriarch in Israel’
• Raddai — Raddai is a biblical personal name. He is listed in 1 Chronicles as one of Jesse’s sons and therefore a brother of David.
• Radical orthodoxy — Radical orthodoxy is a late-20th-century theological movement that critiques secular reason and seeks to recover premodern Christi
• Radical Reformation — A sixteenth-century umbrella term for reform movements that went beyond the magisterial Reformers, especially in their rejection o
• Ragau — Variant Greek form of the biblical name Reu, found in Jesus’ genealogy.
• Raging Sea — A biblical image of danger, turmoil, and forces beyond human control. In some passages it also symbolizes the unrest of the nation
• Raguel — Raguel is a personal name in the Book of Tobit, best known as Sarah's father; it should be treated as a deuterocanonical person en
• Rahab — Rahab was the woman of Jericho who hid the Israelite spies and was spared when the city fell. Scripture remembers her as an exampl
• Rahab (Jericho) — Rahab was the woman of Jericho who hid the Israelite spies and trusted the Lord before the city fell. Scripture remembers her for
• raiment — Raiment is an older English word for clothing or garments, often used in Bible translations.
• Rain — Rain in Scripture is a created provision under God’s providential rule, often associated with blessing, fruitfulness, mercy, judgm
• Rain and dew — Rain and dew are common biblical images of God’s provision, blessing, and faithful care for the earth. In some contexts, the withh
• Rainbow — In Scripture, the rainbow is most clearly the sign of God’s covenant with Noah and all living creatures after the flood. It signif
• Raising Jairus's daughter — The raising of Jairus’s daughter is a Gospel miracle in which Jesus restored a synagogue ruler’s daughter to life, displaying his
• Raising of Lazarus — The miracle in John 11 in which Jesus raised Lazarus of Bethany from the dead after four days, revealing His authority over death
• Raising the widow's son at Nain — Jesus raised a widow’s dead son to life in the village of Nain, revealing His compassion and His authority over death (Luke 7:11–1
• Raisins — Raisins are dried grapes mentioned in the Bible as food, provisions, and part of festive or gift-giving occasions. They are a back
• Ram — An adult male sheep; in Scripture, rams are especially associated with sacrifice, consecration, and symbolic visions.
• Ramah — Ramah is a biblical place-name used for more than one location, most notably a town in Benjamin associated with Samuel and later p
• Ramath-Lehi — A place name associated with Samson’s victory over the Philistines in Judges 15. The name is commonly understood as a wordplay mea
• Ramath-Mizpeh — An Old Testament place-name, likely a high place or watchtower site in the territory of Gad east of the Jordan, mentioned in a tri
• Ramathaim-Zophim — A place in the hill country of Ephraim identified as the home of Elkanah and Hannah and the setting connected with Samuel’s birth
• Rameses — Rameses is an Egyptian place name in the Old Testament, especially associated with Israel’s bondage and the starting point of the
• Ramiah — Ramiah is an Israelite named in Ezra 10:25 among the sons of Parosh who had taken foreign wives after the exile.
• Ramoth — Ramoth is a biblical place name, best known as Ramoth-gilead east of the Jordan River. It is a geographic entry rather than a theo
• Ramoth-Gilead — An important city in Gilead east of the Jordan River, Ramoth-Gilead served as a city of refuge and a Levitical city and later beca
• Ransom — A price paid to secure release, deliverance, or redemption; in the New Testament, a key image for Christ’s saving death for sinner
• Raphael — Raphael is a named angelic figure in the book of Tobit, part of the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical literature rather than the Protesta
• Raphu — Raphu is a biblical personal name. In Scripture he is identified as the father of Palti, the Benjaminite spy sent by Moses to surv
• rapture — rapture is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Rapture timing — Rapture timing is the question of when believers will be caught up to meet Christ in relation to the tribulation and His visible r
• Rational — Rational means conformed to sound reason or capable of coherent thought and inference.
• Rationalism — Rationalism is the view that human reason is the primary or sufficient source of knowledge. In stronger forms, it gives reason aut
• rationality — rationality is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Raven — A raven is a bird mentioned in Scripture in narratives, dietary laws, and illustrations of God’s provision.
• Reaiah — Reaiah is a biblical personal name borne by more than one Old Testament figure, including a Judahite named in a genealogy and a fa
• Realism — Realism is a broad philosophical family of views that affirm some form of objective reality independent of mere human thought, lan
• Realized eschatology — A theological term for the present fulfillment of some end-time promises in Christ and the work of God’s kingdom, while still affi
• Reasonable — Reasonable describes what is supported by good reasons, fits the evidence, or shows sound judgment. The term is common in philosop
• Reba — Reba was one of the Midianite kings defeated by Israel during the wilderness period.
• Rebekah — Rebekah was Isaac’s wife and the mother of Esau and Jacob. She is an important matriarch in Genesis and in the line of God’s coven
• rebellion — rebellion is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Rebuilding the Temple — The postexilic rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple after the Babylonian exile, especially under Zerubbabel and Joshua and with prop
• Rebuke — A rebuke is a verbal correction or reproof that exposes wrong belief or behavior. In Scripture, rebuke may come from God or from p
• Recapitulation — Recapitulation is the biblical-theological idea that Christ gathers up, fulfills, and brings to completion God’s saving purpose in
• reception history — The study of how biblical texts have been read, interpreted, preached, and used by later readers and communities over time.
• Rechab — An Old Testament personal name borne by at least two men: a Benjamite linked to the murder of Ish-bosheth, and the ancestor or fat
• Rechabites — A clan associated with Jonadab son of Rechab, known in Jeremiah 35 for faithfully keeping ancestral rules of simplicity and abstin
• Reckoning — Reckoning is the biblical idea of counting, crediting, or regarding something in a certain way, especially God crediting righteous
• reconciliation — reconciliation is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Red and Scarlet — Biblical color terms that appear in fabrics, garments, sacrifice, purification rites, and symbolic visions. Their meaning is alway
• Red Herring — A red herring is a diversion in an argument that draws attention away from the real issue. It is a common logical and rhetorical e
• Red Sea / Sea of Reeds — The body of water God miraculously parted so Israel could escape from Egypt. The exact location is debated, but Scripture emphasiz
• redaction criticism — Redaction criticism studies how an author or editor arranged, selected, and shaped material in the final literary composition in o
• Redeemer — A redeemer is one who rescues or buys back another from loss, bondage, or danger. In Scripture, the term is used especially of God
• Redemption — God's rescue and reclaiming of sinners through Christ.
• redemptive history — redemptive history is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• redemptive-historical reading — A redemptive-historical reading interprets a Bible passage within God’s unfolding plan of redemption, which centers on Christ and
• Reductio Ad Absurdum — A reductio ad absurdum is an argument that tests a claim by showing that it leads to contradiction, impossibility, or an unaccepta
• Reed — A reed is a slender cane-like plant common in biblical lands. In Scripture it can be a measuring rod, a staff-like object, a writi
• Reed and Grass — A broad biblical imagery topic, not a standard doctrinal term. Reeds and grass are used in Scripture to picture frailty, transienc
• Reformation — The sixteenth-century Protestant movement that called the church back to the authority of Scripture and the gospel of salvation by
• Reformation Traditions — The major Protestant streams that arose from the sixteenth-century Reformation, sharing core commitments such as the authority of
• Reformational Catholicism — A label for some Reformed theologians and churches that seek a more consciously catholic, historically continuous expression of Pr
• Reformed — Reformed refers to the Protestant theological tradition shaped by sixteenth-century reformers and known especially for covenantal
• Reformed Epistemology — A modern philosophy of religion associated especially with Alvin Plantinga that argues belief in God can be rational and warranted
• Reformed theology — Reformed theology is a Protestant theological tradition shaped by the Reformation that emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the auth
• Refuge — In Scripture, refuge is a picture of safety and protection found in God. It expresses trust in the Lord as the secure shelter of h
• Regenerate — Regenerate means made spiritually alive by God through the Holy Spirit. In Christian theology, it describes the new birth by which
• Regeneration — God's work of giving new spiritual life to a sinner.
• Rehob — Rehob is a biblical proper name used for more than one person and place in the Old Testament, especially in genealogical, territor
• Rehoboam — Rehoboam was Solomon’s son and successor as king. His harsh reply to the northern tribes helped trigger the division of the united
• Rehoboth — Rehoboth is a biblical place-name, used especially of the well-site Isaac named after the Lord gave him room and relief from dispu
• Rehum — Rehum is a biblical personal name borne by more than one postexilic figure, including a Persian-era official who opposed the rebui
• Reign — Reign is the exercise of royal rule or authority. In Scripture it is used especially of God’s sovereign rule, Christ’s kingly auth
• reign of God — reign of God is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Rejection — In Scripture, rejection is the act of refusing, resisting, or turning away from a person, message, covenant claim, or calling. It
• Rekem — A biblical proper name used for more than one figure and for a place name in the Old Testament.
• relationality — relationality is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Relations of origin — In Trinitarian theology, the eternal personal distinctions by which the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are known: the Son is eternal
• Relationship of exegesis and theology — The mutual relationship between careful biblical interpretation and the church’s doctrinal understanding: exegesis should ground t
• Relationship of Old and New Testaments — The Old and New Testaments are one inspired Scripture, with the New Testament fulfilling, clarifying, and completing God’s saving
• relativism — Relativism is the view that truth, morality, or meaning depends on the individual, culture, or situation rather than being univers
• Reliability of Scripture — The reliability of Scripture is the truth that the Bible is trustworthy in all that God intends it to teach. Because it is God’s W
• Religion — Religion is an ordered pattern of belief, worship, and devotion directed toward what a person treats as ultimate. Scripture recogn
• Religious Disagreement — Religious disagreement is the reality that different religions and religious thinkers make conflicting truth claims about God, rev
• Religious Pluralism — Religious pluralism is the view that multiple religions are equally true, equally valid, or equally able to lead people to salvati
• Remaliah — Remaliah is a biblical personal name best known as the father of Pekah, king of Israel. Scripture mentions him mainly to identify
• remarriage — Remarriage is entering a new marriage after a prior marriage has ended and must be considered with careful biblical judgment.
• Remeth — Remeth is a minor Old Testament place name, likely a town in the territory allotted to Issachar.
• Remez — Remez is Jewish interpretive language for a hint or allusion that points beyond the most immediate surface of the text.
• Remission — Forgiveness or release from sin and its guilt or liability before God, especially through the atoning work of Jesus Christ.
• remnant — remnant is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Remphan — Remphan is the name used in Acts 7:43 for an idolatrous figure associated with star worship, echoing Amos 5:26. Scripture mentions
• Repent — To repent is to turn from sin to God with genuine sorrow, faith, and a changed direction of life. In Scripture, repentance is a wh
• Repentance — Turning away from sin and turning back to God.
• Repetition — Repetition is the deliberate reuse of words, phrases, commands, themes, or events in Scripture to emphasize truth, aid memory, sig
• Rephaim — An Old Testament term that usually refers to an ancient people associated with great size and strength, but in some poetic passage
• Rephidim — Rephidim was a wilderness campsite of Israel during the exodus, remembered for God’s provision of water from the rock and Israel’s
• reproach — Reproach in Scripture is blame, disgrace, or scorn brought on a person or people. It can refer either to deserved shame for sin or
• reprobate — A person or mind shown to be disapproved, rejected, or unfit; in Scripture it often describes moral corruption or a tested-and-fou
• Reprobation — Reprobation is a theological term for God’s righteous rejection of the unrepentant in judgment; in some systems it also refers to
• Reproductive ethics — The moral evaluation of human procreation and related decisions such as contraception, infertility treatment, pregnancy, abortion,
• Reproof — Reproof is a verbal correction that exposes wrong belief or behavior and calls a person back to what is right. In Scripture, it is
• Reptile — A reptile is a creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake or lizard. In Scripture, such creatures appear mainly in creation, cle
• Responses to Atheism — Christian ways of answering the denial that God exists, especially by appealing to Scripture, creation, conscience, history, and t
• Responses to Pluralism — Christian ways of answering the claim that all religions or truth-claims are equally valid. Scripture calls believers to speak tru
• Responses to Postmodernism — Christian engagement with postmodern thought, especially its skepticism toward universal truth claims, neutrality, and fixed meani
• responsibility — responsibility is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Restitution laws — Old Testament laws requiring a wrongdoer to repay what was stolen, damaged, or unjustly taken, often with an added amount. They sh
• Restoration — God’s gracious work of repairing what sin, judgment, loss, or brokenness has damaged, bringing persons, communities, or creation b
• restoration of all things — restoration of all things is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Restoration of Israel — The biblical hope that God will preserve, regather, renew, and bless His covenant people after judgment and exile, fulfilling His
• Restorationism — Restorationism refers to movements that aimed to restore primitive New Testament Christianity by stripping away later church tradi
• Resurrection — Rising from the dead into life by God's power.
• Resurrection and the Life — “The resurrection and the life” is Jesus’ self-description in John 11:25, declaring that resurrection life is found in Him. It tea
• Resurrection appearances — Resurrection appearances is the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus that confirmed He truly rose bodily.
• Resurrection hope — The believer’s confident expectation that God will raise the dead. In the New Testament, this hope is grounded in the bodily resur
• Resurrection of the body — The resurrection of the body is the future raising of the dead by God. Scripture teaches a real bodily resurrection for all people
• Resurrection, First — A phrase from Revelation 20:4–6 describing the blessed, victorious sharing in life with Christ that stands in contrast to the “sec
• Resurrection, General — The general resurrection is the future raising of the dead by God for final judgment and eternal destiny. Scripture clearly teache
• Retribution — Retribution is the just repayment of wrongdoing. In Scripture, it refers chiefly to God's righteous judgment against sin, while hu
• Return — Return is the return from Babylonian exile under Persian rule.
• Return from Babylon — The return from Babylon was the restoration of Jewish exiles to Judah and Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity, especially und
• Return of Christ — The future, visible coming of Jesus Christ in glory to judge evil, raise the dead, vindicate his people, and bring God’s redemptiv
• revelation — revelation is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• Revelation hymns — A descriptive label for the songs, acclamations, and doxologies in Revelation that exalt God and the Lamb.
• Revelational epistemology — A view of knowledge that treats God’s self-disclosure as the decisive basis for knowing God and rightly understanding reality.
• Revelatory — Revelatory is a biblical and theological term that names a real doctrine, condition, or aspect of God's work.
• revellings — An archaic Bible term for riotous partying, carousing, and disorderly feasting marked by excess and lack of self-control.
• Revenge — In Scripture, personal revenge is generally forbidden to God’s people. Vengeance belongs to the Lord, who judges justly and calls
• reverence — Reverence is humble honor and awe before God expressed in worshipful obedience.
• Reverential circumlocution — Reverential circumlocution is indirect language that refers to God by substitute expressions or restrained naming out of reverence
• reversal — A recurring biblical theme in which God overturns human expectations by humbling the proud, lifting the humble, judging the wicked
• Revised Standard Version — An English Bible translation revised from the American Standard Version and widely influential in twentieth-century Bible publishi
• Revival — A revival is a renewed work of God among His people that restores spiritual life, repentance, prayer, holiness, and zeal for His W
• Rezin — Rezin was the king of Aram-Damascus who opposed Judah during the reign of Ahaz and figures prominently in the Syro-Ephraimite cris
• Rezon — Rezon was an adversary of Solomon who fled from Hadadezer and later ruled in Damascus.
• Rhegium — An ancient harbor city at the southern tip of Italy, mentioned in Acts as a stop on Paul’s voyage to Rome.
• Rhesa — Rhesa is a person named in Luke’s genealogy of Jesus. He appears in the line between Zerubbabel and Joanan in Luke 3:27.
• Rhetoric — The art of using language to persuade or move an audience. In biblical usage, it includes speech that teaches, exhorts, defends tr
• Rhetorical Devices — Rhetorical devices are literary features such as repetition, contrast, questions, metaphor, and parallelism that biblical writers
• Rich Man and Lazarus — Jesus’ account in Luke 16:19–31 of a wealthy man in torment and Lazarus in comfort after death. It warns that earthly wealth does
• Riddles — Riddles are sayings, questions, or word puzzles that conceal meaning and require insight to understand. In Scripture, they appear
• Righteous — Righteous describes what is morally right, just, and aligned with God’s character. In Scripture it can refer to upright conduct, G
• Righteous Branch — The “Righteous Branch” is a prophetic title for the coming Davidic king whom God would raise up to rule with justice and righteous
• Righteousness — What is right and morally straight in God's sight.
• Righteousness of God — The righteousness of God refers to God's own perfect righteousness and to his righteous saving action revealed in the gospel. In P
• riotous — An archaic Bible word meaning reckless, wasteful, and morally undisciplined.
• Rise of Arminianism — The historical emergence of Arminian theology in post-Reformation Protestantism, associated with Jacobus Arminius and the Remonstr
• Rishonim and Acharonim — Rishonim and Acharonim are later Jewish rabbinic authorities from the medieval and post-medieval periods.
• ritual cleanness — Ritual cleanness is the state of being ceremonially fit to participate in Israel’s worship under the Old Testament law. It concern
• Ritual purity — Ritual purity is the category of clean and unclean states, contamination concerns, and cultic or social boundary questions that ap
• Ritual purity and health — Biblical ritual purity is ceremonial cleanness required for worship and covenant life under the Mosaic law; it may overlap with pr
• River of life — The river of life is a biblical image of God’s life-giving presence, blessing, and eternal provision for His people. It appears mo
• River systems — Networks of rivers and tributaries that shape biblical geography, travel, agriculture, settlement, and symbolic imagery.
• Road to Emmaus appearance — The risen Jesus’ appearance to two disciples on the road to Emmaus after His resurrection, in which He explained the Scriptures co
• Roads — Roads in Scripture are ordinary routes for travel and movement. They function mainly as historical and geographical background, wh
• Rock-cut tombs — Burial chambers hewn into natural rock, commonly used in the biblical world, especially for family burials among those with means.
• Role of women in ministry — The biblical question of how women serve, teach, lead, and exercise gifts in the church and home. Evangelicals agree that women ar
• Roles of husband and wife — Biblical teaching on the responsibilities of husband and wife in marriage, emphasizing mutual dignity, covenant faithfulness, sacr
• Roles of husband, wife, children — Biblical teaching on the responsibilities of husbands, wives, and children within the Christian household, grounded in love, honor
• Roman administration of provinces — Rome governed its provinces through governors, local rulers, taxation, courts, and military oversight. This historical setting hel
• Roman Catholic vs. Protestant debate — A broad label for major historical and doctrinal disagreements between Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions, especially over a
• Roman Catholicism — Roman Catholicism is the historic Western church tradition centered on the bishop of Rome and marked by sacramental, creedal, and
• Roman citizenship — Roman citizenship was a legal status in the Roman Empire that granted certain civil rights and protections. In the New Testament i
• Roman conquest — Rome’s military expansion and political rule over the Mediterranean world, including Judea in the period leading up to and surroun
• Roman Empire — Roman Empire is the imperial power dominating the New Testament world.
• Roman legal system — The laws, courts, officials, and legal customs of ancient Rome that shaped the New Testament world, affecting citizenship, trials,
• Roman mile — A Roman mile was a standard unit of distance in the Roman world, equal to 1,000 paces and slightly shorter than a modern mile. In
• Roman military — The Roman military was the armed force of the Roman Empire and part of the historical setting of the New Testament. It appears in
• Roman officials — Roman officials were governors, magistrates, military commanders, and other representatives of the Roman Empire who appear in the
• Roman persecution — Roman persecution refers to opposition, punishment, or execution of Christians under Roman rule, especially in the first centuries
• Roman provinces — Administrative regions of the Roman Empire that formed the political setting for much of the New Testament world.
• Roman provincial coins — Coins minted for local circulation in Roman provinces. They are a useful historical and archaeological background term for the New
• Roman religious pluralism — The Roman Empire generally tolerated many gods, cults, and local religious customs, provided they did not threaten public order or
• Roman Republic to Empire — The political transition in ancient Rome from republican government to imperial rule, especially in the age of Augustus. It is imp
• Roman roads and travel — The Roman road system and common travel routes formed an important historical backdrop to the New Testament, shaping how people, l
• Roman rule in Palestine — Roman imperial authority over Judea and surrounding regions during the New Testament era, providing the political setting for the
• Roman slavery institution — The social and legal system of slavery in the Roman Empire, which forms part of the historical background for several New Testamen
• Roman trials — The Roman judicial hearings of Jesus, especially His appearance before Pontius Pilate and, in Luke’s account, Herod Antipas, leadi
• Romans — Romans is Paul's major letter explaining sin, salvation, faith, righteousness, and life in Christ.
• Rome — Rome is the imperial capital and an important symbol of Gentile rule and global reach.
• Root and Offspring of David — A title of Jesus that declares both His true descent from David and His supremacy over David as the promised Messiah and rightful
• Root fallacy — An interpretive error that treats a word’s etymology or original root as if it automatically determines its meaning in every passa
• Royal garments — Royal garments are the special clothing associated with kings, queens, and royal favor in Scripture, often signaling honor, author
• Royal grant covenants — A scholarly label for covenants understood as God’s gracious promise-giving, especially where the emphasis falls on divine initiat
• Royal vocabulary — The Bible’s language of kingship and rule, including words and images such as king, throne, kingdom, reign, dominion, and scepter.
• Ruach — Ruach is the Hebrew word for “wind,” “breath,” or “spirit.” In Scripture its meaning depends on context and can refer to natural w
• rulers of darkness — A biblical phrase, especially from Ephesians 6:12, referring to hostile spiritual powers that operate in moral and spiritual darkn
• Rules of Inference — Rules of inference are standard logical patterns for drawing valid conclusions from stated premises. They help distinguish valid a
• Ruth — Ruth is an Old Testament narrative book that shows covenant loyalty, providence, and the Davidic line emerging from ordinary faith
• Visions of Revelation — The symbolic visions recorded in the book of Revelation, given by God to John to disclose Christ’s glory, the state of the churche
• White Raiment — White raiment is a biblical symbol of purity, righteousness, victory, and acceptance before God, especially in visions and promise
• Yahweh Ro'i — A Hebrew phrase from Psalm 23:1 meaning "The LORD is my shepherd," describing God’s personal care, guidance, and provision for His