Easton's Bible Dictionary

Rabbath-Moab and 10 miles from the Dead Sea; called also Kir-haresh, Kir-hareseth, Kir-heres (Isaiah 16:7, 11; Jeremiah 48:31, 3 ...

summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel. KIRJATH-JEARIM city o ...

(5.) A Benjamite, the son of Abiel, and father of king Saul (1 Samuel 9:1, 3; 10:11, 21; 14:51; 2 Samuel 21:14). All that is rec ...

probably the red kite (Milvus regalis), a bird of piercing sight and of soaring habits found all over Palestine. KITHLISH a man ...

intrusion of cruel creditors. Peter stood knocking at the outer door (Acts 12:13, 16), and the three men sent to Joppa by Cornel ...

princes, “men of renown” i.e., well-known men from among the other tribes, joined this conspiracy. The whole company demanded of ...

KORHITES a Levitical family descended from Korah (Exodus 6:24; 1 Chronicles 12:6; 26:1; 2 Chronicles 20:19). KOZ thorn. (1.) A ...

L LABAN white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sist ...

Excavations at Lachish are still going on, and among other discoveries is that of an iron blast-furnace, with slag and ashes, wh ...

Christ is called the Lamb of God (John 1:29, 36), as the great sacrifice of which the former sacrifices were only types (Numbers ...

The book consists of five separate poems. In chapter 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city s ...

LANDMARK a boundary line indicated by a stone, stake, etc. (Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Proverbs 22:28; 23:10; Job 24:2). Landmar ...

LATCHET a thong (Acts 22:25), cord, or strap fastening the sandal on the foot (Isaiah 5:27; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16). LATIN the ver ...

men at all times. It is generally designated by the term conscience, or the capacity of being influenced by the moral relations ...

LAWYER among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogues (Matthew 22:35; Lu ...

LEAGUE a treaty or confederacy. The Jews were forbidden to enter into an alliance of any kind (1) with the Canaanites (Exodus 2 ...

and diffusive power is referred to in 1 Corinthians 5:6. In this respect it is used to illustrate the growth of the kingdom of h ...

The Lebanon range is now inhabited by a population of about 300,000 Christians, Maronites, and Druses, and is ruled by a Christi ...

horsemen, who were in number a tenth of the foot-men. The word is used (Matthew 26:53; Mark 5:9) to express simply a great multi ...

the Lord (2 Kings 5:7; 2 Chronicles 26:20). (See MIRIAM; GEHAZI; UZZIAH.) This disease “begins with specks on the eyelids and on ...