- Valley of dry bones
- The scene from the vision of Ezekiel 37 that anticipates the restoration of Israel. See Chapter 12.
- Vassal
- A servant or slave; an underling who is dependent on an overlord for protection; a vassal received the use of land and military protection from a lord, and in return owed the lord loyalty, obedience, and a portion of the crops as payment.
- Vaticinia ex eventu
- A Latin phrase meaning prophecy from the results or prophecy after the event; it is used in reference to prophecy that has been composed after the events it predicts.
- Vow of praise
- A speech form found in the Psalms where the psalmist promises to credit God with deliverance once it happens. See Chapter 14.
- Vulgate
- The translation of the Bible into Latin done by the Christian scholar, Jerome, in the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E.
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