Easton's Bible Dictionary

hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel” (Deuteronomy 34:10-12). The name of Moses occur ...

MOULDY Of the Gibeonites it is said that “all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy” (Joshua 9:5, 12). The Hebrew wor ...

was situated in the far north, and in Babylonian inscriptions is described as a mountain called Im-Kharasak, “the mighty mountai ...

The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Genesis 50:3); for Aaron (Numbers 20:29) and Moses (D ...

the oak to overshadow the watercourses of the Lebanon, and with the oleander and the acacia to adorn the ravines of Southern Pal ...

that resulted in the sudden and widespread death of the cattle. It was confined to the cattle of the Egyptians that were in the ...

probably the apocopated (i.e., shortened) plural, rendered, Authorized Version, “whereby,” and in the Revised Version “stringed ...

emblem of any small insignificant object. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament; and in each of the three instances of its oc ...

(2.) Another word lot is also translated “myrrh” (Genesis 37:25; 43:11; R.V., marg., “or ladanum”). What was meant by this word ...

N NAAM pleasantness, one of the three sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh (1 Chronicles 4:15). NAAMAH the beautiful. (1.) The d ...

NAAMAN pleasantness, a Syrian, the commander of the armies of Benhadad II. in the time of Joram, king of Israel. He was afflict ...

to her, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me.” On her return she found her husband incapable f ...

NACHON prepared, the owner of a thrashing-floor near which Uzzah was slain (2 Samuel 6:6); called also Chidon (1 Chronicles 13: ...

scattered, so that two of them [the Ammonites] were not left together” (1 Samuel 11:1-11). (2.) Another king of the Ammonites of ...

(Exodus 6:23). His sister Elisheba was the wife of Aaron. He died in the wilderness (Numbers 26:64, 65). His name occurs in the ...

NAIL for fastening. (1.) Hebrew yathed, “piercing,” a peg or nail of any material (Ezekiel 15:3), more especially a tent-peg (E ...

long tunic or under robe worn next the skin (1 Samuel 19:24; Isaiah 47:3; comp. Mark 14:52; John 21:7). It is used figuratively, ...

The possession assigned to this tribe is set forth in Joshua 19:32-39. It lay in the north-eastern corner of the land, bounded o ...

NAPHTUHIM a Hamitic tribe descended from Mizraim (Genesis 10:13). Others identify this word with Napata, the name of the city a ...

providentially led to go up to Bethlehem at this period, and there Christ was born (Matthew 2:1, 6; Luke 2:1, 7). The exact year ...