Easton's Bible Dictionary

The upper stone was turned round by a stick fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and thus each family requi ...

(2.) In Judges 9:6, 20 it is the name of a rampart in Shechem, probably the “tower of Shechem” (9:46, 49). MINCING (Hebrews tap ...

MINNI only in Jeremiah 51:27, as the name of a province in Armenia, which was at this time under the Median kings. Armenia is r ...

true as to the walking of Christ on the water and the swimming of iron at the command of the prophet. The simple and grand truth ...

testimony is trustworthy. Unbelievers, following Hume, deny that any testimony can prove a miracle, because they say miracles ar ...

companions were afterwards cast into the burning fiery furnace for refusing to worship the idol the king had set up, from which ...

“diadem,” but in the Revised Version, “mitre.” It was a twisted band of fine linen, 8 yards in length, coiled into the form of a ...

“the Mizpeh,” “the watch-tower.” The modern village of Metullah, meaning also “the look-out,” probably occupies the site so call ...

MIZPAR number, one of the Jews who accompanied Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra 2:2); called also Mispereth (Nehemiah 7:7). MIZRAI ...

mysterious sepulchre, we have enough to enshrine the memory in our hearts.” MOABITE the designation of a tribe descended from M ...

MOABITE STONE a basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary ...

strong, bare snout, and with large gnawing teeth; its colour a pale slate; its feet short, and provided with strong nails; its t ...

7:70) and the ‘adarkon (Ezra 8:27). The daric (q.v.) was a gold piece current in Palestine in the time of Cyrus. As long as the ...

MOON heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the “white” (Cant. 6:10; Isaiah 24:23), was appointed by the Crea ...

delivered from destruction, Mordecai was raised to a high rank, and Haman was executed on the gallows he had by anticipation ere ...

MOREH an archer, teacher; fruitful. (1.) A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal ...

MOSERA a bond, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 10:6), at the foot of Mount Hor. (Comp. Num ...

oppression had not the result expected of reducing their number. On the contrary, “the more the Egyptians afflicted them, the mo ...

the advantages of training both as to his body and his mind. He at length became “learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians” (A ...

2:15). Moved by fear, Moses fled from Egypt, and betook himself to the land of Midian, the southern part of the peninsula of Sin ...