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Definition of Laying on of hands
1. Noun. The application of a faith healer's hands to the patient's body.
2. Noun. Laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laying On Of Hands
Literary usage of Laying on of hands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"The signification of the laying on of hands is not merely (as has often been ...
The laying on of hands must not be limited to the imputation of sin (as is ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The laying on of hands in the case of the scapegoat is a symbolic ... But Christ
performed a number of his miracles of healing by the laying on of hands ..."
3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"Similarly our Lord blessed by laying on of hands (Mk 1013-1" and II Mt. Lk.),
... The disciples also used' laying on of hands in healing (' Mk ' 1618 ..."
4. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"Again, other reference to the laying on of hands after immersion is seen by some
in 2 Ti Ie (which is usually taken to refer to Timothy's ordination, ..."
5. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"175 Mr. Cotton gave the weight of his influence substantially to this by receiving —
notwithstanding his ordination in England—the laying on of hands at his ..."
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