Easton's Bible Dictionary

GOSHEN (1.) A district in Egypt where Jacob and his family settled, and in which they remained till the Exodus (Genesis 45:10; ...

GOSPEL a word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell” ...

53; Matthew and Luke, 21; Matthew and Mark, 20; Mark and Luke, 6. Looking only at the general result, it may be said that of the ...

treasury (26:24), captain of the army (13:1), the king (1 Samuel 9:16), the Messiah (Daniel 9:25). (2.) Hebrews nasi, raised; ex ...

(1.) Meaning an ethnarch (2 Corinthians 11:32), which was an office distinct from military command, with considerable latitude o ...

GRAFT the process of inoculating fruit-trees (Romans 11:17-24). It is peculiarly appropriate to olive-trees. The union thus of ...

GRATE a network of brass for the bottom of the great altar of sacrifice (Exodus 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30). GRAVE Among the anci ...

GREAVES only in 1 Samuel 17:6, a piece of defensive armour (q.v.) reaching from the foot to the knee; from French greve, “the s ...

GREYHOUND (Proverbs 30:31), the rendering of the Hebrew zarzir mothnayim, meaning literally “girded as to the lions.” Some (Ges ...

GUARD (1.) Hebrews tabbah (properly a “cook,” and in a secondary sense “executioner,” because this office fell to the lot of th ...

GUEST-CHAMBER the spare room on the upper floor of an Eastern dwelling (Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11). In Luke 2:7 the word is transl ...

H HABAKKUK embrace, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets. Of his personal history we have no reliable information. He was pr ...

habitation.) God inhabits eternity (Isaiah 57:15), i.e., dwells not only among men, but in eternity, where time is unknown; and ...

Hadad, sharp, (a different name in Hebrew from the preceding), one of the sons of Ishmael (1 Chronicles 1:30). Called also Hadar ...

HADAREZER Adod is his help, the name given to Hadadezer (2 Samuel 8:3-12) in 2 Samuel 10. HADASHAH new, a city in the valley of ...

(3.) One who was “over the tribute;” i.e., “over the levy.” He was stoned by the Israelites after they had revolted from Rehoboa ...

angel of the Lord, as before, appeared unto her, and she was comforted and delivered out of her distresses (Genesis 21:18, 19). ...

reiteration addressed alike to every class of the community, prince, priest, and people, ‘Be strong, be strong, be strong’ (2:4) ...

HAIL! a salutation expressive of a wish for the welfare of the person addressed; the translation of the Greek Chaire, “Rejoice” ...

Elijah is called a “hairy man” (2 Kings 1:8) from his flowing locks, or more probably from the shaggy cloak of hair which he wor ...