Easton's Bible Dictionary

BOTCH the name given in Deuteronomy 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Exodus 9:9). The word so translated is usually re ...

the brethren of Joseph before him as the governor of the land (Genesis 43:28). Bowing is also frequently mentioned as an act of ...

(3.) In Isaiah 3:19, the rendering of a Hebrew word meaning chains, i.e., twisted or chain-like bracelets. (4.) In Exodus 35:22 ...

instruments (1 Chronicles 15:19; 1 Corinthians 13:1), and for money (Matthew 10:9). It is a symbol of insensibility and obstinac ...

19:6). This was probably the mode in which Sarah prepared bread on the occasion referred to in Genesis 18:6. In Leviticus 2 ther ...

are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dried in the sun, though also sometimes in kilns (2 Samuel 12:3 ...

(5.) In Hebrews 6:8 the Greek word (tribolos) so rendered means “three-pronged,” and denotes the land caltrop, a low throny shru ...

(8.) One beloved or closely united with another in affection (2 Samuel 1:26; Acts 6:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:1). Brethren of Jesus ( ...

The Israelites were by occupation shepherds and dwellers in tents (Genesis 47:3); but from the time of their entering Canaan the ...

(Isaiah 18:2). It was sometimes platted into ropes (Job. 41:2; A.V., “hook,” R.V., “rope,” lit. “cord of rushes”). (2.) In Exodu ...

Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah” (49:31). In compliance with the oath whic ...

Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matthew 27:57-60; M ...

BUSH in which Jehovah appeared to Moses in the wilderness (Exodus 3:2; Acts 7:30). It is difficult to say what particular kind ...

C CAB hollow (R.V., “kab”), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ...

Panium or Paneas, from a deep cavern full of water near the town. This name was given to the cavern by the Greeks of the Macedon ...

CAGE (Hebrews kelub’, Jeremiah 5:27, marg. “coop;” rendered “basket” in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were ...

into the “land of Nod”, i.e., the land of “exile”, which is said to have been in the “east of Eden,” and there he built a city, ...

[round] cake of barley bread” (Judges 7:13). In Leviticus 2 is a list of the different kinds of bread and cakes which were fit f ...

(3.) The son of Jephunneh (Numbers 13:6; 32:12; Joshua 14:6, 14). He was one of those whom Moses sent to search the land in the ...

Ages after this, Jeroboam, king of Israel, set up two idol calves, one at Dan, and the other at Bethel, that he might thus preve ...