Easton's Bible Dictionary

(5.) Hebrews Zamzummim (q.v.), Deuteronomy 2:20 so called by the Amorites. (6.) Hebrews gibbor (Job 16:14), a mighty one, i.e., ...

GIBBETHON a height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan, given to the Kohathites (Joshua 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the ...

A deputation of the Gibeonites, with their allies from three other cities (Joshua 9;17), visited the camp at Gilgal, and by fals ...

the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:3-27). The Gibeonites demanded blood for the wrong that had been done to them, and accordingly David ga ...

torches and pitchers and trumpets, rushed in from three different points on the camp of Midian at midnight, in the valley to the ...

“gift.” It differs from the charisma (1 Corinthians 12:4) as denoting not miraculous powers but the working of a new spirit in m ...

water, “stopped the upper water course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David” (2 Chronicl ...

Deuteronomy 3:12-17). “Half Gilead” was possessed by Sihon, and the other half, separated from it by the river Jabbok, by Og, ki ...

renewed the rite of circumcision, and so “rolled away the reproach” of their Egyptian slavery. Here the twelve memorial stones, ...

(4.) Hebrews ‘abnet, the girdle of sacerdotal and state officers (Exodus 28:4, 39, 40; 29:9; 39:29). (5.) Hebrews hesheb, the “c ...

GIRGASHITE dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Genesis 10:16), one of the original tribes inha ...

left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.) GLEDE an Old English ...

wasters of their own body. In Proverbs 28:7, the word (pl.) is rendered Authorized Version “riotous men;” Revised Version, “glut ...

(3.) Hebrews gedi, properly a kid. Its flesh was a delicacy among the Hebrews (Genesis 27:9, 14, 17; Judges 6:19). (4.) Hebrews ...

meaning to be strong; (2) of ’Eloah, plural ’Elohim. The singular form, Eloah, is used only in poetry. The plural form is more c ...

GODHEAD (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20; Colossians 2:9), the essential being or the nature of God. GODLINESS the whole of practical p ...

became the head of the province of Gaulanitis, one of the four provinces into which Bashan was divided after the Babylonish capt ...

(Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17). This name represents in Greek letters the Aramaic word Gulgaltha, which is the Hebrew G ...

names Cimmerian Bosphorus, Cimmerian Isthmus, etc. In the seventh century B.C. they were driven out of their original seat by th ...

GOMORRAH submersion, one of the five cities of the plain of Siddim (q.v.) which were destroyed by fire (Genesis 10:19; 13:10; 1 ...