Smith's Bible Dictionary

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A See Alpha Aarat (high or holy ground), a mountainous district of Asia mentioned in the Bible in connection with the following ...

form of Egyptian idolatry (Apis or Mnevis). He repented of his sin, and Moses gained forgiveness for him. (9:20) Aaron was not c ...

•A Merarite, and ancestor of Ethan the singer. (1 Chronicles 6:44) (B.C. before 1015.) •The father of Kish, a Merarite, in the r ...

the east of) Jordan. See Atad. (Schaff and others say it was on the west bank, for the writer was on the east of Jordan. It was ...

Abida, Or Abidah (father of knowledge), a son of Midian. (Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:33) Abidan (father of the judge), chief o ...

reigned three years. He endeavored to recover the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, and made war on Jeroboam. He was successful in batt ...

•Second son of Jesse, who followed Saul to his war against the Philistines, (1 Samuel 16:8; 17:13) (B.C. 1063.) •A son of Saul, ...

[Purification] Abner (father of light). •Son of Ner, who was the brother of Kish, (1 Chronicles 9:36) the father of Saul. (B.C. ...

Sarai should represent herself as his sister, which her actual relationship to him, as probably the daughter of his brother Hara ...

Abraham’s life are marked by but few incidents. After Isaac’s marriage with Rebekah and his removal to Lahai-roi, Abraham took t ...

(the Ptolemais of the Maccabees and New Testament), Now called Acca, or more usually by Europeans St. Jean d’Acre, the most impo ...

Achmetha [Ecbatana] Achor, Valley Of (valley of trouble), the spot at which Achan was stoned. (Joshua 7:24,26) On the northern b ...

Adah (ornament, beauty). •The first of the two wives of Lamech, by whom were borne to him Jabal and Jubal. (Genesis 4:19) (B.C. ...

command which had been imposed upon them. She took of the fruit of the forbidden tree and gave it to her husband. The propriety ...

•Tsepha, or Tsiphoni, occurs five times in the Hebrew Bible. In (Proverbs 23:32) it is it is translated adder, and in (Isaiah 11 ...