- ONESIPHORUS bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed
great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and had oft
refreshed him. Paul expresses a warm interest in him and his household (2
Timothy 1:16-18; 4:19). - ONION The Israelites in the wilderness longed for the “onions and
garlick of Egypt” (Numbers 11:5). This was the betsel of the Hebrews, the
Allium cepe of botanists, of which it is said that there are some thirty or
forty species now growing in Palestine. The onion is “the ‘undivided’ leek,
unio, unus, one.” - ONO a town of Benjamin, in the “plain of Ono” (1 Chronicles 8:12; Ezra
2:33); now Kefr ‘Ana, 5 miles north of Lydda, and about 30 miles
north-west of Jerusalem. Not succeeding in their attempts to deter
Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah
resorted to strategem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they
invited him to meet them at Ono. Four times they made the request, and
every time Nehemiah refused to come. Their object was to take him
prisoner. - ONYCHA a nail; claw; hoof, (Hebrews sheheleth; Exodus 30:34), a Latin
word applied to the operculum, i.e., the claw or nail of the strombus or
wing-shell, a univalve common in the Red Sea. The opercula of these
shell-fish when burned emit a strong odour “like castoreum.” This was an
ingredient in the sacred incense. - ONYX a hail; claw; hoof, (Hebrews shoham), a precious stone adorning
the breast-plate of the high priest and the shoulders of the ephod (Exodus
28:9-12, 20; 35:27; Job 28:16; Ezekiel 28:13). It was found in the land of
Havilah (Genesis 2:12). The LXX. translates the Hebrew word by
smaragdos, an emerald. Some think that the sardonyx is meant. But the
onyx differs from the sardonyx in this, that while the latter has two layers
(black and white) the former has three (black, white, and red). - OPEN PLACE Genesis 38:14, 21, mar. Enaim; the same probably as
Enam (Joshua 15:34), a city in the lowland or Shephelah. - OPHEL hill; mound, the long, narrow, rounded promontory on the
southern slope of the temple hill, between the Tyropoeon and the Kedron
valley (2 Chronicles 27:3; 33:14; Nehemiah 3:26, 27). It was surrounded
by a separate wall, and was occupied by the Nethinim after the Captivity.
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