Easton's Bible Dictionary

governor at Jerusalem. The “porch” in Matthew 26:71 is the entrance-hall or passage leading into the central court, which is ope ...

fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites. One of the most important facts recorded in ...

occupied by the Hittites. It was among the conquests of the Pharaoh Thothmes III. Its king, Tou or Toi, made alliance with David ...

(3.) Hebrews halmuth, a poetical word for a workman’s hammer, found only in Judges 5:26, where it denotes the mallet with which ...

HAMMOTH-DOR warm springs, a Levitical city of Naphtali (Joshua 21:32); probably Hammath in 19:35. HAMON See BAAL-HAMON. HAMONAH ...

king Asa for entering into a league with Benhadad I., king of Syria, against Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1-10). He was probably the f ...

HANDBREADTH a measure of four fingers, equal to about four inches (Exodus 25:25; 37:12; Psalm 39:5, etc.). HANDKERCHIEF Only on ...

HANNAH favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1; 2). Her home was at Ramatha ...

Rabbah Ammon, his capital, were so grossly insulted that he proclaimed war against Hanun. David’s army, under the command of Joa ...

(q.v.), it is not a ruminant with four stomachs, but a rodent like the squirrel, rat, etc. Moses speaks of it according to appea ...

the LXX., has “and the harlots washed,” etc., instead of the rendering of the Authorized Version, “now they washed,” of 1 Kings ...

HAROD palpitation, a fountain near which Gideon and his army encamped on the morning of the day when they encountered and route ...

HARSHA worker or enchanter, one of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54). HART (Hebrews ‘ayal), a stag or male deer. It is ra ...

HASHMONAH fatness, the thirtieth halting-place of the Israelites during their wanderings in the wilderness, not far from Mount ...

massive walls. It retains its ancient name. It was known by the Greeks and Romans as “Auranitis.” HAVEN a harbour (Psalm 107:30 ...

species are all migrants from the south. Of those summer visitors to Palestine special mention may be made of the Falco sacer an ...

HAZAR-HATTICON village of the midway, a place near Hamath in the confines of Hauran (Ezekiel 47:16), probably on the north brow ...

HAZO vision, one of the sons of Nahor (Genesis 22:22). HAZOR enclosed; fortified. (1.) A stronghold of the Canaanites in the mo ...

HAZOR-HADATTAH New Hazor, a city in the south of Judah (Joshua 15:25). It is probably identified with the ruins of el-Hazzarah, ...

The heart is also the seat of the conscience (Romans 2:15). It is naturally wicked (Genesis 8:21), and hence it contaminates the ...