Easton's Bible Dictionary

his three sons went down with Jacob (46:11) into Egypt, where he died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years (Exodus 6 ...

distinct position (Exodus 32). The religious primogeniture was then conferred on this tribe, which henceforth was devoted to the ...

LEVITICUS the third book of the Pentateuch; so called in the Vulgate, after the LXX., because it treats chiefly of the Levitica ...

come, a shadow whereof the substance is Christ and his kingdom. The principles on which it is to be interpreted are laid down in ...

dust of the land. “The entomologists Kirby and Spence place these minute but disgusting insects in the very front rank of those ...

LIE an intentional violation of the truth. Lies are emphatically condemned in Scripture (John 8:44; 1 Timothy 1:9, 10; Revelati ...

LIGURE (Hebrews leshem) occurs only in Exodus 28:19 and 39:12, as the name of a stone in the third row on the high priest’s bre ...

LIME The Hebrew word so rendered means “boiling” or “effervescing.” From Isaiah 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln l ...

The word “linen” is used as an emblem of moral purity (Revelation 15:6). In Luke 16:19 it is mentioned as a mark of luxury. LIN ...

The lion of Palestine was properly of the Asiatic variety, distinguished from the African variety, which is larger. Yet it not o ...

commission to those who execute it (Ezekiel 10:2, 7); they associate with the elders in their sympathy with the hundred and fort ...

opened and shut by large keys applied through an opening in the outside (Judges 3:24). (See KEY.) Lock of hair (Judges 16:13, 19 ...

of their dead, and the countless armies march on (Joel 2:8, 9). If a door or a window be open, they enter and destroy everything ...

(3.) Greek kurios, a supreme master, etc. In the LXX. this is invariably used for “Jehovah” and “‘Adonai.” (4.) Hebrews ba’al, a ...

It was designed, (1.) To commemorate the death of Christ: “This do in remembrance of me.” (2.) To signify, seal, and apply to be ...

Lot, (Hebrews lot), a covering; veil, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham (Genesis 11:27). On the death of his father, he wa ...

too cold a word, as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passion ...

LUDIM probably the same as Lud (2) (comp. Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:11). They are associated (Jeremiah 46:9) with African n ...

of mankind;” the “Gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man;” “the Gospel of womanhood;” “the Gospel of the out ...

63 or 64 A.D. This Gospel was written, therefore, probably about 60 or 63, when Luke may have been at Caesarea in attendance on ...