Easton's Bible Dictionary

BETH-ARABAH house of the desert, one of the six cities of Judah, situated in the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea (Joshua ...

Almon-diblathaim (Numbers 33:46) and Diblath (Ezekiel 6:14). (R.V., “Diblah.”) BETHEL house of God. (1.) A place in Central Pal ...

BETHELITE a designation of Hiel (q.v.), who rebuilt Jericho and experienced the curse pronounced long before (1 Kings 16:34). B ...

BETH-HORON house of the hollow, or of the cavern, the name of two towns or villages (2 Chronicles 8:5; 1 Chronicles 7:24) in th ...

king by Samuel (1 Samuel 16:4-13); and it was from the well of Bethlehem that three of his heroes brought water for him at the r ...

BETH-PEOR house of Peor; i.e., “temple of Baal-peor”, a place in Moab, on the east of Jordan, opposite Jericho. It was in the t ...

28:18). It is the modern ruined Arabic village ‘Ain-shems, on the north-west slopes of the mountains of Judah, 14 miles west of ...

BETHZUR house of rock, a town in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:58), about 4 miles to the north of Hebron. It was built by R ...

(2.) The place where Saul numbered the forces of Israel and Judah (1 Samuel 11:8); somewhere in the centre of the country, near ...

Hebrew name, a word formed of the initial letters of these books, emeth, meaning truth. (2) Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Eccle ...

BIER the frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14). BIGTHA garden, or gift of fortune, one of the seven ...

BIRSHA son of wickedness, a king of Gomorrah whom Abraham succoured in the invasion of Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:2). BIRTH As so ...

Hebrews 1:4-6). As first-born he has an inheritance superior to his brethren, and is the alone true priest. BISHOP an overseer. ...

any bitter herbs obtainable at the place and time when the Passover was celebrated. They represented the severity of the servitu ...

Mark 2:7). They who deny his Messiahship blaspheme Jesus (Luke 22:65; John 10:36). Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Matthew 12: ...

116:13 refers to this custom. It is also alluded to in 1 Corinthians 10:16, where the apostle speaks of the “cup of blessing.” ...

This has led pathologists to the conclusion that the proper cause of Christ’s death was rupture of the heart. (Comp. Psalm 69:20 ...

them bitterly to weep, and hence the name of the place (Judges 2:1, 5). It lay probably at the head of one of the valleys betwee ...

the turban (R.V., “head-tire”) of the common priest as distinguished from the mitre of the high priest. (See MITRE.) BOOK This ...

BOOTH a hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob sojourned for a season at a place named from this circums ...