Easton's Bible Dictionary

Zephaniah 1:10), as there was a fish-gate which was probably contiguous to it. Sidon is the oldest fishing establishment known i ...

FISH-POOLS (Cant. 7:4) should be simply “pools,” as in the Revised Version. The reservoirs near Heshbon (q.v.) were probably st ...

extensively cultivated both in Egypt and Palestine. Reference is made in Joshua 2:6 to the custom of drying flax-stalks by expos ...

flesh. The fat of the sacrifice, together with the breast and shoulder (Leviticus 7:29-34), were presented by the worshipper to ...

FLOWERS Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine. It has been calculated that ...

water,” denoting the helplessness of the piece of wood as compared with the irresistable current. FODDER Hebrews belil, (Job 6: ...

FOOTSTOOL connected with a throne (2 Chronicles 9:18). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above ...

FOREIGNER a Gentile. Such as resided among the Hebrews were required by the law to be treated with kindness (Exodus 22:21; 23:9 ...

Hebrews pardes, meaning an enclosed garden or plantation. Asaph is (Nehemiah 2:8) called the “keeper of the king’s forest.” The ...

FORTUNATUS fortunate, a disciple of Corinth who visited Paul at Ephesus, and returned with Stephanas and Achaicus, the bearers ...

FOWLER the arts of, referred to Psalm 91:3; 124:7; Proverbs 6:5; Jeremiah 5:26; Hos. 9:8; Ezekiel 17:20; Ecclesiastes 9:12. Bir ...

FREEDOM The law of Moses pointed out the cases in which the servants of the Hebrews were to receive their freedom (Exodus 21:2- ...

“crystal” in Ezekiel 1:22. “At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but ...

Ecclesiastes 7:6), animal excrements (Ezekiel 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32). Wood or charcoal is much used still in all the towns of ...

The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1 Samuel 31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses as a p ...

(6.) Gr. kamnos, a furnace, kiln, or oven (Matthew 13:42, 50; Revelation 1:15; 9:2). FURROW an opening in the ground made by th ...

G GAAL loathing, the son of Ebed, in whom the Shechemites “placed their confidence” when they became discontented with Abimelec ...

The portion allotted to the tribe of Gad was on the east of Jordan, and comprehended the half of Gilead, a region of great beaut ...

with recesses in the sides for bodies...The present inhabitants of Um-Keis are all troglodytes, ‘dwelling in tombs,’ like the po ...

GALATIA has been called the “Gallia” of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli. They were an intermixture of Gau ...