Easton's Bible Dictionary

ORACLE In the Old Testament used in every case, except 2 Samuel 16:23, to denote the most holy place in the temple (1 Kings 6:5 ...

OSPREY Hebrews ‘ozniyyah, an unclean bird according to the Mosaic law (Leviticus 11:13; Deuteronomy 14:12); the fish-eating eag ...

OTHNI a lion of Jehovah, a son of Shemaiah, and one of the temple porters in the time of David (1 Chronicles 26:7). He was a “m ...

50:39; Micah 1:8. In all these passages the Revised Version translates “ostrich” (q.v.), which is the correct rendering. (2.) He ...

OX Hebrews bakar, “cattle;” “neat cattle”, (Genesis 12:16; 34:28; Job 1:3, 14; 42:12, etc.); not to be muzzled when treading th ...

P PAARAI opening of the Lord, “the Arbite,” one of David’s heroes (2 Samuel 23:35); called also Naarai, 1 Chronicles 11:37. PAD ...

In the New Testament it designates the official residence of Pilate or that of the high priest (Matthew 26:3, 58, 69; Mark 14:54 ...

“entrance of Hamath,” and on the south by the “river of Egypt.” This extent of territory, about 60,000 square miles, was at leng ...

From an early period the land was inhabited by the descendants of Canaan, who retained possession of the whole land “from Sidon ...

After suffering persecution at the hands of Ptolemy’s successors, the Jews threw off the Egyptian yoke, and became subject to An ...

PALLU separated, the second son of Reuben (1 Chronicles 5:3); called Phallu, Genesis 46:9. He was the father of the Phalluites ...

PAMPHYLIA Paul and his company, loosing from Paphos, sailed north-west and came to Perga, the capital of Pamphylia (Acts 13:13, ...

PAPHOS the capital of the island of Cyprus, and therefore the residence of the Roman governor. It was visited by Paul and Barna ...

lying between the ‘Arabah on the east and the wilderness of Shur on the west. It is intersected in a north-western direction by ...

the outside by which persons seeking an audience may be admitted. While Eglon was resting in such a parlour, Ehud, under pretenc ...

gathers in eggs, not of her own laying, and is unable to hatch them; others (Tristram), with more probability, as denoting that ...

alliance with Egypt in opposition to the counsels of Jeremiah (20:4-6). He was carried captive to Babylon, and died there. (2.) ...

children of Israel of their deliverance out of Egypt; but it was, no doubt, also a type of the great deliverance wrought by the ...

PATARA a city on the south-west coast of Lycia at which Paul landed on his return from his third missionary journey (Acts 21:1, ...

two hundred; in the fourth and last it was brought down to one hundred” (Rawlinson’s Historical Illustrations). PATROBAS a Chri ...