Easton's Bible Dictionary

was also a witness of the Ascension (Acts 1:4, 12, 13). He was an “Israelite indeed” (John 1:47). BARTIMAEUS son of Timaeus, on ...

was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 13:29-31). Golan, one of its cities, became a “city of refuge” (Joshua 21:27). A ...

BASILISK (in R.V., Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17), the “king serpent,” as the name imports; a fabulous serpent said t ...

word is also rendered in the Authorized Version “kettle” (1 Samuel 2:14), “caldron” (2 Chronicles 35:13), “seething-pot” (Job 41 ...

BASTARD In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word mamzer’, which means “polluted.” In Deuteronomy 23:2, it occurs i ...

1 Kings 1:11; 2:13). She took a prominent part in securing the succession of Solomon to the throne (1 Kings 1:11, 16-21). BATTE ...

BAY TREE named only in Psalm 37:35, Authorized Version. The Hebrew word so rendered is ereh, which simply means “native born”, ...

article of diet. They are extensively cultivated in Egypt and Arabia and Syria. BEAR a native of the mountain regions of Wester ...

Animals of different kinds were to be always kept separate (Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:10). Oxen when used in threshing wer ...

The Jewish bedstead was frequently merely the divan or platform along the sides of the house, sometimes a very slight portable f ...

BEDAN one of the judges of Israel (1 Samuel 12:11). It is uncertain who he was. Some suppose that Barak is meant, others Samson ...

BEER-ELIM well of heroes, probably the name given to Beer, the place where the chiefs of Israel dug a well (Numbers 21:16; Isai ...

legs above its feet, to leap withal.” The description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been an article of food from ...

was spared at Lot’s intercession (Genesis 19:20,23). It is first mentioned in Genesis 14:2,8. (2.) The eldest son of Benjamin (N ...

instance of the queen (i.e., his mother) Daniel was brought in, and he interpreted the writing. That night the kingdom of the Ch ...

BEN-AMMI son of my kindred; i.e., “born of incest”, the son of Lot by his youngest daughter (Genesis 19:38). BENCH deck of a Ty ...

The history of the tribe contains a sad record of a desolating civil war in which they were engaged with the other eleven tribes ...

BEREA a city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and fro ...

BERNICE bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her fir ...

the ancient ford of Jordan of which the men of Ephraim took possession (Judges 7:24). The Revised Version reads “Bethany beyond ...