Easton's Bible Dictionary

According to Jewish custom, however, he learned a trade before entering on the more direct preparation for the sacred profession ...

voice sounding in his ears, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” The risen Saviour was there, clothed in the vesture of his gl ...

which for “a whole year” became the scene of his labours, which were crowned with great success. The disciples now, for the firs ...

sends for Mark to come to him at Rome (Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11). Paul took with him Silas, instead of Barnabas, and bega ...

in ceaseless Christian labour. “This city was at the time the Liverpool of the Mediterranean. It possessed a splendid harbour, i ...

Mediterranean, and gazing wistfully across the blue waters in the direction of Macedonia, Achaia, and Ephesus, where his spiritu ...

his First Epistle to Timothy and his Epistle to Titus. The year of his release was signalized by the burning of Rome, which Nero ...

PAVEMENT It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or ...

PEDAIAH redemption of the Lord. (1.) The father of Zebudah, who was the wife of Josiah and mother of king Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23 ...

PELATIAH deliverance of the Lord. (1.) A son of Hananiah and grandson of Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 3:21). (2.) A captain of “th ...

onocrotalus, or white pelican, and the Pelicanus crispus, or Dalmatian pelican. PENNY (Gr. denarion), a silver coin of the valu ...

many different writers, patched together by a variety of editors! As regards the Pentateuch, they are not ashamed to attribute f ...

to the Feast of Tabernacles and other Jewish institutions, although we do not admit that any valid argument can be drawn from th ...

PENUEL face of God, a place not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan and north of the river Jabbok. It is also called “P ...

PERAZIM, MOUNT mount of breaches, only in Isaiah 28:21. It is the same as BAAL-PERAZIM (q.v.), where David gained a victory ove ...

thousand, of whom about two thousand profess to be Christians. Parchment (q.v.) was first made here, and was called by the Greek ...

PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS their certain continuance in a state of grace. Once justified and regenerated, the believer can neit ...

PERSIA an ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and from the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The ...

“Simon was a Galilean, and he was that out and out...The Galileans had a marked character of their own. They had a reputation fo ...

and entering into Simon’s boat, bade him launch forth and let down the nets. He did so, and enclosed a great multitude of fishes ...