Easton's Bible Dictionary

Every Jew was required by the Levitical law to pay three tithes of his property (1) one tithe for the Levites; (2) one for the u ...

the business of his letter by the same transition (comp. 1 Timothy 1:2, 3 with Titus 1:4, 5; 1 Timothy 1:4 with Titus 1:13, 14; ...

TOB-ADONIJAH good is Jehovah, my Lord, a Levite sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people of Judah in the law (2 Chronicle ...

TOLAD productive, a town of Simeon, in the south of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:29). TOLAITES descendants of Tola (Numbers 26:23; 1 C ...

This “gift” was a different manifestation of the Spirit from that on Pentecost, although it resembled it in many particulars. To ...

and weapons” (John 18:1-3). Although it was the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron “there fell great, deep shado ...

TRANCE (Gr. ekstasis, from which the word “ecstasy” is derived) denotes the state of one who is “out of himself.” Such were the ...

secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson conveyed was that life was to be sought by man, not in him ...

whatever imposed by a foreign power on the people of Israel. The “tribute money” shown to our Lord (Matthew 22:19) was the denar ...

by the priests in announcing the approach of festivals and in giving signals of war. Some were also made of rams’ horns (Joshua ...

TUBAL-CAIN the son of Lamech and Zillah, “an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron” (Genesis 4:22; R.V., “the forger ...

TYRANNUS prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose “school” at Ephesus Paul disputed daily for the space of two years with those wh ...

Here a church was founded soon after the death of Stephen, and Paul, on his return from his third missionary journey spent a wee ...

U UCAL the name of a person to whom Agur’s words are addressed (Proverbs 30:1). ULAI the Eulaus of the Greeks; a river of Susia ...

UPHARSIN and they divide, one of the words written by the mysterious hand on the wall of Belshazzar’s palace (Daniel 5:25). It ...

the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple of the moon-God at Ur. “Between Ur and Harran there must, consequently, have b ...

URIJAH the Lord is my light. (1.) A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:10-16), at whose bidding he constructed an idol ...

which the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem. When the oxen stumbled, Uzzah, in direct violation of th ...

thee, Uzziah, to burn incense.” Uzziah was suddenly struck with leprosy while in the act of offering incense (26:19-21), and he ...

V VAGABOND from Lat. vagabundus, “a wanderer,” “a fugitive;” not used opprobriously (Genesis 4:12, R.V., “wanderer;” Psalm 109: ...