Easton's Bible Dictionary

God of Israel. The sin of Asa was not, therefore, in seeking medical advice, as we understand the phrase, but in forgetting Jeho ...

Isthmus of Suez at the time of the Exodus is not exactly known, and hence this, with the other places mentioned as encampments o ...

now withdrew with Jesus into the palace (John 18:33) and examined him in private (37,38); and then going out to the deputation s ...

this accusation with a superstitious awe, and taking him once more within the Praetorium, asked him, “Whence art thou?” Jesus ga ...

word. In Nehemiah 8:15 the Revised Version has “wild olive” instead of “pine.” (See FIR.) PINNACLE a little wing, (Matthew 4:5; ...

Halys, others the Jorak or Acampis, others the Jaab, the Indus, the Ganges, etc. PIT a hole in the ground (Exodus 21:33, 34), a ...

(1.) The river Nile was turned into blood, and the fish died, and the river stank, so that the Egyptians loathed to drink of the ...

Revised Version has “Abel-cheramim” (q.v.), comp. Judges 11:22; 2 Chronicles 16:4. (2.) Hebrews ‘elon (Genesis 12:6; 13:18; 14:1 ...

(7.) Hebrews shephelah, “low ground,” “low hill-land,” rendered “vale” or “valley” in Authorized Version (Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11: ...

correspondence of sentences or clauses, called parallelism, or “thought-rhyme.” Various kinds of this parallelism have been poin ...

of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3), and David’s “song of the bow” (2 Samuel 1:19-27). POISON (1.) Hebrews hemah, “heat,” the poison of ce ...

POMEGRANATE i.e., “grained apple” (pomum granatum), Hebrews rimmon. Common in Egypt (Numbers 20:5) and Palestine (13:23; Deuter ...

spoken of in Isaiah 14:23 are the marshes caused by the ruin of the canals of the Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Babylon. The ...

POOR The Mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially important. (1.) They had the right of gleaning the fields (Leviticu ...

The word “porch” is in the New Testament the rendering of three different Greek words: (1.) Stoa, meaning a portico or veranda ( ...

POTIPHAR dedicated to Ra; i.e., to the sun-God, the Egyptian to whom the Ishmaelites sold Joseph (Genesis 39:1). He was “captai ...

Acts 23:35), “palace” (Phil. 1:13). This is properly a military word. It denotes (1) the general’s tent or headquarters; (2) the ...

Elisha (2 Kings 4:33-36), Isaiah (2 Kings 19), Jeremiah (42:2-10), Peter (Acts 9:40), the church (12:5-12), Paul (28:8). No rule ...

“The believers in Jerusalem prayed, and God opened the prison doors and set Peter at liberty, when Herod had resolved upon his d ...

doctrine at once deepens his humility and elevates his confidence to the full assurance of hope” (Outlines). PRESIDENTS Three p ...