Easton's Bible Dictionary

IV. HARVEST TIME. Nisan, latter half. (Beginning about vernal equinox. Barley green. Passover.) Ijar. Sivan, former half., Wheat ...

required great attention to keep them in the ground (Luke 9:62). They were drawn by oxen (Job 1:14), cows (1 Samuel 6:7), and as ...

Governor First Of The Territories Of Philip, Then Of The Tetrarchy Of Lysanias, With The Title Of King (“King Herod”), And Final ...

certain other concessions to Ahab. After three years of peace, for some cause Ahab renewed war (1 Kings 22:3) with Ben-hadad by ...

Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be the name of a place (Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the Euphrates, east of Damasc ...

AHIAM mother’s brother, one of David’s thirty heroes (2 Samuel 23:33; 1 Chronicles 11:35). AHIEZER brother of help; i.e., “help ...

AHIKAM brother of support = helper, one of the five whom Josiah sent to consult the prophetess Huldah in connection with the di ...

two names, as some think, may have been accidentally transposed in 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 18:16, marg.; 24:3, 6, 31. AHINA ...

AHIRA brother of evil = unlucky, or my brother is friend, chief of the tribe of Naphtali at the Exodus (Numbers 1:15; 2:29). AH ...

carried away captive, and ceased to be a kingdom. (Comp. Psalm 78:67-69; 1 Kings 12:25-33; 2 Chronicles 11:13-16.) AHOLIAB tent ...

AIJELETH SHAHAR hind of the dawn, a name found in the title of Psalm 22. It is probably the name of some song or tune to the me ...

AKRABBIM scorpions, probably the general name given to the ridge containing the pass between the south of the Dead Sea and Zin, ...

(3.) A sacerdotal city of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 6:60), called also Almon (Joshua 21:18), now Almit, a mile north-east of the an ...

engaged in executing it. It was, however, not all translated at one time. It was begun B.C. 280, and finished about B.C. 200 or ...

Israelites entered Palestine they were forbidden to enter into alliances with the inhabitants of the country (Leviticus 18:3, 4; ...

ALLON-BACHUTH oak of weeping, a tree near Bethel, at the spot where Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, was buried (Genesis 35:8). Large ...

14:31; Isaiah 10:2; Amos 2:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Ezekiel 22:29, would also naturally foster the same benevolent spirit. In the time ...

ALMUG (1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural almuggim (indicating ...

ALTAR (Hebrews mizbe’ah, from a word meaning “to slay”), any structure of earth (Exodus 20:24) or unwrought stone (20:25) on wh ...

Again the altar was erected by Herod, and remained in its place till the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans (70 A.D.). The f ...