Easton's Bible Dictionary

The whole priestly system of the Jews was typical. It was a shadow of which the body is Christ. The priests all prefigured the g ...

Testament times (Matthew 11:2; 25:36, 43). The apostles were put into the “common prison” at the instance of the Jewish council ...

numerous to be quoted. “To him gave all the prophets witness.” (Comp. Micah 5:2; Hag. 2:6-9; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6, 7; 11:1, 2; 53; 6 ...

The seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:16-29), “when the spirit rested upon them, prophesied;” Asaph and Jeduthun “prophesied ...

him loving; it only renders it consistent for him to execise his love towards sinners. In Romans 3:25 and Hebrews 9:5 (A.V., “me ...

privileges of Israelites. Thus also we hear of individual proselytes who rose to positions of prominence in Israel, as of Doeg t ...

PROVERB a trite maxim; a similitude; a parable. The Hebrew word thus rendered (mashal) has a wide signification. It comes from ...

PROVIDENCE literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God’s preserving and governing all things by means of sec ...

PSALMS The psalms are the production of various authors. “Only a portion of the Book of Psalms claims David as its author. Othe ...

(4.) The fourth book also contains 17 psalms (90-106), of which the 90th is ascribed to Moses, and the 101st and 103rd to David. ...

PSALTERY a musical instrument, supposed to have been a kind of lyre, or a harp with twelve strings. The Hebrew word nebhel, so ...

conquests on a large scale. He subdued Northern Syria and Hamath, and the kings of Syria rendered him homage and paid him tribut ...

But in the details of daily life there were special causes of cermonial uncleanness which were severally provided for by ceremon ...

Way,” to Rome. It is now called Pozzuoli. The remains of a huge amphitheatre, and of the quay at which Paul landed, may still be ...

Q QUAILS The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness of Sin ( ...

QUARANTANIA a mountain some 1,200 feet high, about 7 miles north-west of Jericho, the traditional scene of our Lord’s temptatio ...

Kings 11:19, Pharaoh’s wife is called “the queen,” but the Hebrew word so rendered (g’birah) is simply a title of honour, denoti ...

instances), and sometimes it is corrected or altered in the quotations (in over eighty instances). Quotations are sometimes made ...

R RAAMAH thunder. (1.) One of the sons of Cush (Genesis 10:7). (2.) A country which traded with Tyre (Ezekiel 27:22). RAAMIAH t ...

RABBI my master, a title of dignity given by the Jews to their doctors of the law and their distinguished teachers. It is somet ...