Easton's Bible Dictionary

Antiochus marched against them in person, threatening utterly to exterminate the nation; but on the way he was suddenly arrested ...

ANTIPATRIS a city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in honour of his father, Antipater. It lay between Caesarea ...

of strange wildness and beauty”, are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adoni ...

APOLLONIA a city of Macedonia between Amphipolis and Thessalonica, from which it was distant about 36 miles. Paul and Silas pas ...

transgression, and Matthias was substituted in his place (Acts 1:21). Saul of Tarsus was afterwards added to their number (Acts ...

2:13), a loose and flowing robe. The folds of this upper garment could be formed into a lap (Ruth 3:15; Psalm 79:12; Proverbs 17 ...

of the eye (Proverbs 7:2). (Comp. the promise, Zechariah 2:8; the prayer, Psalm 17:8; and its fulfilment, Deuteronomy 32:10.) Th ...

APRON found in the Authorized Version in Genesis 3:7, of the bands of fig-leaves made by our first parents. In Acts 19:12, it d ...

country now known by the name of Arabia. The Arabs call it Yemen. It lies between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. (2.) Arabia ...

ARAM the son of Shem (Genesis 10:22); according to Genesis 22:21, a grandson of Nahor. In Matthew 1:3, 4, and Luke 3:33, this w ...

Ararat came to an end, and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the Armenians of the present day. ARAUNAH ...

ARCHER a shooter with the bow (1 Chronicles 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Genesis 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by th ...

constituted by Solon, and consisted of nine archons or chief magistrates who were then in office, and the ex-archons of blameles ...

ARETAS the father-in-law of Herod Antipas, and king of Arabia Petraea. His daughter returned to him on the occasion of her husb ...

ARIMATHEA a “city of the Jews” (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matthew 27:57, 60; ...

Hebrews 9:4), “ark of the testimony” (Exodus 25:22). It was made of acacia or shittim wood, a cubit and a half broad and high an ...

procession round Jericho (Joshua 6:4, 6, 8, 11, 12). When carried it was always wrapped in the veil, the badgers’ skins, and blu ...

western Asia lying between the Caspian and the Black Sea. Here the ark of Noah rested after the Deluge (Genesis 8:4). It is for ...

the covering of the back and breast and both upper arms (Isaiah 59:17; Ephesians 6:14). The cuirass and corselet, composed of le ...

the Exodus the number of males above twenty years capable of bearing arms was 600,000 (Exodus 12:37). In David’s time it mounted ...