Easton's Bible Dictionary

ARPAD (Isaiah 10:9; 36:19; 37:13), also Arphad, support, a Syrian city near Hamath, along with which it is invariably mentioned ...

ARTIFICER a person engaged in any kind of manual occupation (Genesis 4:22; Isaiah 3:3). ARTILLERY 1 Samuel 20:40, (Hebrews keli ...

(3.) The “keeper of the king’s forest,” to whom Nehemiah requested from Artaxerxes a “letter” that he might give him timber for ...

through the desert was between Dan and Naphtali (Numbers 2:27). The boundaries of the inheritance given to it, which contained s ...

official despatches from Yadaya, “captain of horse and dust of the king’s feet,” to the “great king” of Egypt, dated from Ascalo ...

employed in its service (1 Kings 18:19). It was called the “queen of heaven” (Jeremiah 44:25). ASHURITES mentioned among those ...

male ass (Hebrews hamor), the common working ass of Western Asia, so called from its red colour. Issachar is compared to a stron ...

It was about 30 miles distant from Troas by sea. The island of Lesbos lay opposite it, about 7 miles distant. ASSURANCE The res ...

ASSYRIA the name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from ...

continue the siege, “he advanced through the province east of Jordan, spreading fire and sword,” and became master of Philistia, ...

the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are distinguished and named. Mention is made of the “morning ...

ATER shut; lame. (1.) Ezra 2:16. (2.) Nehemiah 10:17. (3.) Ezra 2:42. ATHALIAH whom God afflicts. (1.) The daughter of Ahab and ...

satisfaction for his offences (Exodus 32:30; Leviticus 4:26; 5:16; Numbers 6:11), and, as regards the person, to reconcile, to p ...

ATONEMENT, DAY OF the great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, “the fast” (Acts 27:9), and the ...

and every facility was afforded the manslayer that he might flee to the city that lay nearest him for safety. Into the city of r ...

(2.) Son of Ahimaaz, who succeeded his grandfather Zadok as high priest (1 Chronicles 6:9; 1 Kings 4:2) in the days of Solomon. ...

the high priest alone in the sanctuary should be embodied in a visible transaction, and hence the dismissal of the “scape-goat.” ...

(3.) One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Nehemiah 10:17). ...

B BAAL Lord. (1.) The name appropriated to the principal male God of the Phoenicians. It is found in several places in the plur ...

BAALATH a town of the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:44). It was fortified by Solomon (1 Kings 9:18; 2 Chronicles 8:6). Some have iden ...