Easton's Bible Dictionary

CRESCENS increasing, probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He was one of Paul’s assistants (2 Timothy 4:10), probabl ...

After the conversion, so-called, of Constantine the Great (B.C. 313), the cross first came into use as an emblem of Christianity ...

crowns the apostles speak of the incorruptible crown, the crown of life (James 1:12; Revelation 2:10) “that fadeth not away” (1 ...

by a party of four soldiers (John 19:23; Matthew 27:36, 54), with their centurion. The “breaking of the legs” of the malefactors ...

14:15 (R.V., “seamew”). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by “petrel” or “shearwater” (Puffinus cinereus), which is found on ...

The “cup of salvation” (Psalm 116:13) is the cup of thanksgiving for the great salvation. The “cup of consolation” (Jeremiah 16: ...

that as nothing but death was expected, God would by this cursing at once interpose and destroy Job, and so put an end to his su ...

India.” The Hamite races, soon after their arrival in Africa, began to spread north, east, and west. Three branches of the Cushi ...

money that was to be paid on certain goods (Matthew 17:25). These publicans were tempted to exact more from the people than was ...

CYMBALS (Hebrews tzeltzelim, from a root meaning to “tinkle”), musical instruments, consisting of two convex pieces of brass on ...

because he thought they would contribute to the security of the place. They increased in number and influence; and we are thus p ...

Cyrus became actual king over Palestine, which became a part of his Babylonian empire. The edict of Cyrus for the rebuilding of ...

D DABERATH pasture, a Levitical town of Issachar (Joshua 19:12; 21:28), near the border of Zebulum. It is the modern small vill ...

DAGON’S HOUSE (1 Samuel 5:2), or Beth-dagon, as elsewhere rendered (Joshua 15: 41; 19:27), was the sanctuary or temple of Dagon ...

The Beth-dagon of Joshua 19:27 was one of the border cities of Asher. That of 1 Chronicles 10:10 was in the western half-tribe o ...

DAMARIS a heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34). Some have supposed that ...

In A.D. 634 Damascus was conquered by the growing Mohammedan power. In A.D. 1516 it fell under the dominion of the Turks, its pr ...

Philistines, whom they were unable to conquer, they longed for a wider space. They accordingly sent out five spies from two of t ...

It is spoken of as symbolical of rejoicing (Ecclesiastes 3:4. Comp. Psalm 30:11; Matthew 11: 17). The Hebrews had their sacred d ...

His training in the schools of the wise men in Babylon (Daniel 1:4) was to fit him for service to the empire. He was distinguish ...