Easton's Bible Dictionary

is used. This properly denotes the upper one of the two vats. (See WINE-PRESS.) WINE-PRESS Consisted of two vats or receptacles ...

(R.V., “sorceress”), and in Deuteronomy 18:10, as the rendering of mekhashshepheth, the masculine form of the word, meaning “enc ...

11:3, 8, 9; 1 Peter 3:7). Several women are mentioned in Scripture as having been endowed with prophetic gifts, as Miriam (Exodu ...

is an indispensable means of salvation, and is efficacious thereunto by the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit (John 17:17; 2 ...

Good works are an expression of gratitude in the believer’s heart (John 14:15, 23; Galatians 5:6). They are the fruits of the Sp ...

WORSHIP homage rendered to God which it is sinful (idolatry) to render to any created being (Exodus 34:14; Isaiah 2:8). Such wo ...

learn from it that they believed in the existence of one Supreme Being, the immortality of the soul, judgement after death, and ...

Y YARN Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chronicles 1:16. The Hebrews word mikveh, i.e., “a stringing together,” so rendered, rath ...

(3.) In 1 Samuel 11:7, 1 Kings 19:21, Job 1:3 the word thus translated is tzemed, which signifies a pair, two oxen yoked or coup ...

Z ZAANAIM wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and ...

ZABBUD gift, Ezra 8:14. ZABDI gift of Jehovah. (1.) An ancestor of Achan (Joshua 7:1, 17, 18). He is probably the “Zimri” of 1 ...

(3.) A son of Asaph, and chief of one of the courses of singers as arranged by David (1 Chronicles 25:2, 10). (4.) Son of Imri ( ...

opened, and he praised God (60-79). The child (John the Baptist), thus “born out of due time,” “waxed strong in spirit” (1:80). ...

ZALMONAH shady, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Numbers 33:41, 42). ZALMUNNA one of the two kings of M ...

Succoth, at the mouth of the Jabbok, some 30 miles up the river from where the people were encamped. There the water “stood and ...

(3.) The son of Ishmael, “the ruler of the house of Judah in all the king’s matters” (2 Chronicles 19:8-11). (4.) A son of Beria ...

ZEBUDAH given, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36). ZEBUL habitation, the governor of Shechem under Abim ...

Ezra 5:1 and 6:14 he is called “the son of Iddo,” who was properly his grandfather. His prophetical career began in the second y ...

Besides these, there is a large number of persons mentioned in Scripture bearing this name of whom nothing is known. (4.) One of ...

of Jeremiah of Libnah, and hence he was the brother of Jehoahaz (2 Kings 23:31; 24:17, 18). His original name was Mattaniah; but ...