Easton's Bible Dictionary

about ten thousand flat bricks or tablets, all written over with Assyrian characters. They contain a record of the history, the ...

NISAN month of flowers, (Nehemiah 2:1) the first month of the Jewish sacred year. (See ABIB.) Assyrian nisannu, “beginning.” NI ...

NOADIAH meeting with the Lord. (1.) A Levite who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:33). (2.) A false prophetess who assisted Tobia ...

the mountains of Ararat (Genesis 8:3,4); but not for a considerable time after this was divine permission given him to leave the ...

NOBAH howling. (1.) Numbers 32:42. (2.) The name given to Kenath (q.v.) by Nobah when he conquered it. It was on the east of G ...

NOBLEMAN (Gr. basilikos, i.e., “king’s man”), an officer of state (John 4:49) in the service of Herod Antipas. He is supposed t ...

hung upon the mouth. Eliezer gave one to Rebekah which was of gold and weighed half a shekel...At the present day the women in t ...

wilderness of Sinai (1-4), and of their numbering afterwards on the plain of Moab (26). This book is of special historical inter ...

NUN Beyond the fact that he was the father of Joshua nothing more is known of him (Exodus 33:11). NUTS were among the presents ...

O OAK There are six Hebrew words rendered “oak.” (1.) ‘El occurs only in the word El-paran (Genesis 14:6). The LXX. renders by ...

of the foliage, which is unsymmetrical, being about 90 feet.” (See HEBRON; TEIL-TREE.) OATH a solemn appeal to God, permitted o ...

(10.) A prophet, fourth of the minor prophets in the Hebrew canon, and fifth in the LXX. He was probably contemporary with Jerem ...

or eminence near Kirjath-jearim), and had reached Nachon’s threshing-floor, he became afraid because of the “breach upon Uzzah,” ...

1:4), and whose kingdom was given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh (Numbers 21:32-35; Deuteronomy ...

OIL-TREE (Isaiah 41:19; R.V. marg., “oleaster”), Hebrews ‘etz shemen, rendered “olive tree” in 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32, 33 (R.V., ...

olive into a “good” olive which has become unfruitful. By such a process the sap of the good olive, by pervading the branch whic ...

This mount, or rather mountain range, has four summits or peaks: (1) the “Galilee” peak, so called from a tradition that the ang ...

stone” also records that “Omri took the land of Medeba, and occupied it in his day and in the days of his son forty years.” ON ...

ONESIPHORUS bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and ...

This wall has been discovered by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund at the south-eastern angle of the temple area. ...