Easton's Bible Dictionary

DRAGON WELL (Nehemiah 2:13), supposed by some to be identical with the Pool of Gihon. DRAM The Authorized Version understood th ...

the material of John the Baptist’s robe (Matthew 3:4). Wool was also woven into garments (Leviticus 13:47; Deuteronomy 22:11; Ez ...

overlapping of the robe served as a pocket (2 Kings 4:39; Psalm 79:12; Hag. 2:12; Proverbs 17:23; 21:14). Female dress. The “coa ...

DRINK-OFFERING consisted of wine (Numbers 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Exodus 30:9). Joined with meat-offerings (Nu ...

DROWN (Exodus 15:4; Amos 8:8; Hebrews 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known ...

DRUSILLA third and youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:1-4, 20-23). Felix, the Roman procurator of Judea, induced he ...

DUMB from natural infirmity (Exodus 4:11); not knowing what to say (Proverbs 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Psalm 39:9; Levitic ...

DUNGEON different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16: ...

the days of his humiliation (John 1:14). He now dwells in the hearts of his people (Ephesians 3:17-19). The Holy Spirit dwells i ...

E EAGLE (Herb. nesher; properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its tearing its prey with its beak), refer ...

EAR used frequently in a figurative sense (Psalm 34:15). To “uncover the ear” is to show respect to a person (1 Samuel 20:2 mar ...

(2). As the rendering of ’erets, it means the whole world (Genesis 1:2); the land as opposed to the sea (1:10). Erets also denot ...

the Greek pascha (the Passover). When the Authorized Version (1611) was formed, the word “passover” was used in all passages in ...

(3.) A descendant of Seir the Horite (Genesis 36:23). EBED slave, the father of Gaal, in whom the men of Shechem “put confidenc ...

(5.) The head of the priestly family of Amok in the time of Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:20). EBONY a black, hard wood, brought by t ...

“And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar. It is a witness between us that Jehovah is God.” This great ...

in 2 Kings 19:12, and Isaiah 37:12, as the name of a region conquered by the Assyrians. (3.) Son of Joah, and one of the Levites ...

There are many prophecies concerning Edom (Isaiah 34:5, 6; Jeremiah 49:7-18; Ezekiel 25:13; 35:1-15; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11; Obad. ...

EFFECTUAL CALL See CALL. EFFECTUAL PRAYER occurs in Authorized Version, James 5:16. The Revised Version renders appropriately: ...

and recent excavations have shown that the valley of the Nile was originally inhabited by a low-class population, perhaps belong ...