Easton's Bible Dictionary

The Samaritans sought to “frustrate their purpose” (Ezra 4:5), and sent messengers to Ecbatana and Susa, with the result that th ...

calling forth spiritual worship and devotion is the glory here predicted” (Perowne). TEMPTATION (1.) Trial; a being put to the ...

Jonah 4:5; Isaiah 4:6; Nehemiah 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered). Jubal was “the father of such as dwell in tents” ...

TENTH DEAL i.e., the tenth part of an ephah (as in the R.V.), equal to an omer or six pints. The recovered leper, to complete h ...

TERAPHIM givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by ...

he was a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes; disturbed the Jews in the exercise of their religion, guaranteed by the state; ...

structure of the kind that ever existed. Theatres, as places of amusement, were unknown to the Jews. THEBEZ brightness, a place ...

The occasion of its being written was the return of Timotheus from Macedonia, bearing tidings from Thessalonica regarding the st ...

the most important town of European Turkey, under the name of Saloniki, with a mixed population of about 85,000. THEUDAS thanks ...

probably the so-called “apple of Sodom,” which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley. “It is a shrubby plant, from 3 to 5 f ...

Galatians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 10:10; also Acts 23:5, and for his generally making use of the help of an amanuensis (comp. Romans ...

counsel to Israel when these were needed. The method by which this was done can be only a matter of mere conjecture. They were a ...

TIBERIAS a city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias. It is said to have been founded by Herod Ant ...

TIBERIAS, SEA OF called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret. In the Old Testament it is called the Sea of Chinnere ...

He put Rezin to death, and punished Pekah by taking a considerable portion of his kingdom, and carrying off (B.C. 734) a vast nu ...

wild, rugged hills.” Opposite the town is a hill, on the northern side of which there are many excavated sepulchres. Among these ...

imprisonment he wrote to Timothy, asking him to rejoin him as soon as possible, and to bring with him certain things which he ha ...

Babylonish Captivity would be the means of purging out the idolatrous alloy that had corrupted the people. TINKLING ORNAMENTS ( ...

Nehemiah 8:9; 10:1, and the “governor” (pehah) in 5:18. Probably, therefore, tirshatha=pehah=the modern pasha. TIRZA pleasantne ...

TISHBITE Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1; 21:17, 28, etc.). In 1 Kings 17:1 the word rendered “inhabitants” is ...