Easton's Bible Dictionary

With reference to the report which the Roman soldiers were bribed (Matthew 28:12-14) to circulate concerning Christ’s resurrecti ...

REUBEN behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Genesis 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Genesis 35:22, broug ...

(q.v.), then this may be regarded as his proper name, and Jether or Jethro (i.e., “excellency”) as his official title. (3.) Numb ...

warfare and triumph of the Christ is described in language saturated with the Old Testament. The difference of date will go a lo ...

Here the apostle probably landed on his way from Greece to Syria (Acts 21:1), on returning from his third missionary journey. R ...

RIMMON-PAREZ a pomegranate breach, or Rimmon of the breach, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 33 ...

subsiding, and it was evident that the flood had spent its force.” (Comp. Matthew 7:27; Luke 6:49.) (3.) Nahar, a “river” contin ...

RIVER OF EGYPT (1.) Hebrews nahar mitsraim, denotes in Genesis 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chronicles 9:26). (2.) ...

Her marriage to Abner was the occasion of a quarrel between him and Ishbosheth, which led to Abner’s going over to the side of D ...

The Hebrew word (‘ayyalah) in Proverbs 5: 19 thus rendered (R.V., “doe”), is properly the “wild she-goat,” the mountain goat, th ...

in considerable numbers, and had probably more than one place of meeting (Romans 16:14, 15). The object of the apostle in writin ...

Tychicus (Ephesians 6: 21), Epaphroditus (Phil. 4:18), and John Mark (Colossians 4:10). (See PAUL.) Beneath this city are extens ...

Proverbs 3:15; 8:11). The price of a virtuous woman is said to be “far above rubies” (Proverbs 31:10). The exact meaning of the ...

Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families; but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love, the ...

S SABACHTHANI thou hast forsaken me, one of the Aramaic words uttered by our Lord on the cross (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34). SAB ...

moral and spiritual necessities of men also demand a Sabbath of rest. “I am more and more sure by experience that the reason for ...

observed from apostolic times, and the necessary conclusion is, that it was observed by the apostles and their immediate discipl ...

Their conversion to the Lord was predicted (Psalm 72:10). This word, in Ezekiel 23:42, should be read, as in the margin of the A ...

indeed a prominent and distinctive feature of the whole period (Exodus 12:3-27; Leviticus 23:5-8; Numbers 9:2-14). (See ALTAR.) ...

SADOC just, mentioned in the genealogy of our Lord (Matthew 1:14). SAFFRON Hebrews karkom, Arab. zafran (i.e., “yellow”), menti ...