quatemion (kwa-rur'ni-an),
a squad of soldiers probably consisting of four men who acted as prison
guards (Acts 12:4):
it was conventional for two guards to be confined with the prisoner and two
to keep watch outside. There were four such squads, one for each watch of
the day.
queen of heaven, the Semitic goddess of love and fertility, identified with the Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar who was in turn identified with the Roman Venus: Jer. 44:17,25. Worship: of this goddess seems to have been most popular among women who attributed their past prosperity to this worship and their present misfortunes to the fact that they had ceased making offerings to her. Jeremiah denounced this cult and pointed out to its members that their sufferings had been brought about by God's disapproval of their idolatrous worship and not because they had discontinued their apostate rituals.
queen of the south, the queen of Sheba (Sheba was in Arabia, south of Israel): Jesus speaks of her response to the revelation of God through the wisdom of Solomon and tells of her reappearance at the day of judgment to condemn those who have failed to respond in His time: Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31.
quick (kwik), living: alive (Num. 16:30; Ps. 55:15), as in the phrase the quick and the dead (Acts 10:42).
quicken (kwik'an), to come back to life or bring back to life; revive: Rom. 4:17. Eph. 2: 1,5. Used figuratively to mean "restore vigor to" or "stimulate" that which has lost vitality: Ps. 119:50,93.
quicksands (kwik'sandz"), loose shifting sands, or shoals, in the Mediterranean off the African coast: treacherous to navigation: Acts 27:17.
quit (kwit), adj. clear; free: Ex. 21:19,28. v. to conduct (oneself): I Sam. 4:9; Cor. 16:13.
