Smith's Bible Dictionary

issuing by more than one outlet. In Oriental cities generally public fountains are frequent. Traces of such fountains at Jerusal ...

They were placed at the bend of the left arm. Those worn on the forehead were written on four strips of parchment, and put into ...

Gaash (earthquake), a hill of Ephraim, where Joshua was buried. The brooks or valley of Gaash, ( 2 Samuel 23:30; 1 Chronicles 11 ...

tombs. Gadara was captured by Vespasian on the first outbreak of the war with the Jews, all its inhabitants were massacred, and ...

•John’s third epistle is addressed to Christian of this name. We may possibly identify him with No. 2. Galaad the Greek form of ...

Galileans the inhabitants of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine. The apostles were all Galileans by either birth or res ...

fisheries, some commerce, but were chiefly an agricultural people. They were eminent for patriotism and courage, as were their a ...

(fountains). This is given as the native place of the man to whom Michal, David’s wife, was given. (1 Samuel 25:44) There is no ...

This word occurs only in (Ezekiel 27:11) A variety of explanations of the term have been offered. •One class renders it “pygmies ...

a variation of the name Geshem. (Nehemiah 6:6) (B.C. 446.) Gatam (a burnt valley), the fourth son of Eliphaz the son of Esau, (G ...

•A city given out of the tribe of Dan to the Levites. (Joshua 21:24; 1 Chronicles 6:69) situated on the plain of Philistia, appa ...

Suweinit, looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, which also retains its old name of Mukhmas. Gebal (moun ...

(valley of vision), the servant or boy of Elisha. He was sent as the prophet’s messenger on two occasions to the good Shunammite ...

conclusion it may be that all who are called “sons” of such or such a patriarch or chief father must necessarily be his very chi ...

wanderings in the wilderness, B.C. 1491-1451. Time .—The book of Genesis covered 2369 years,—from the creation of Adam, A.M 1, t ...

the south, and called by the Arabs el-Ghuweir, “the little Ghor.” Mr. Porter gives the length as three miles, and the greatest b ...

(1 Samuel 27:8) [Gerzites] Gershom (a stranger or exile). •The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah. (Exodus 2:22; 18:3) (B.C. 1 ...

or three quarters of a mile English from the walls of Jerusalem, and 100 yards east of the bridge over the Kedron. There was a “ ...

(a hill). Sheva “the father of Macbenah” and “father of Gibea” is mentioned with other names, unmistakably those of places and n ...

giving up seven men of Saul’s descendants to the Gibeonites, who hung them or crucified them “before Jehovah”—as a kind of sacri ...