Smith's Bible Dictionary

Gift The giving and receiving of presents has in all ages been not only a more frequent but also a more formal and significant p ...

•The site of the first camp of the Israelites on the west of the Jordan, the place at which they passed the first night after cr ...

with gold and precious stones or pearls. The military girdle was worn about the waist; the sword or dagger was suspended from it ...

Goad (Judges 3:31; 1 Samuel 13:21) The Hebrew word in the latter passage probably means the point of the plough-share. The forme ...

LXX., followed by the Vulgate, which uses Dominus, we have the Lord of our version. The substitution of the word Lord is most un ...

•The eldest son of Japheth, (Genesis 10:2,3) the progenitor of the early Cimmerians, of the later Cimbri and the other branches ...

is much smaller. It has been ascertained by Stroud that “if the total contents of the several Gospels be represented by 100, the ...

•A ruler in his capacity of lawgiver and dispenser of justice. •A ruler consider especially as having power over the property an ...

The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In (Genesis 10:2-5) Moses mentions the descendants o ...

Gunites, The the descendants of Guni, son of Naphtali. (Numbers 26:48) Gur (abode), The going up to, an ascent or rising ground, ...

(wise) Son of, and The Hach’monite. (1 Chronicles 11:11; 27:32) Hachmon or Hachmoni was no doubt the founder of a family to whic ...

in Revised Version. [See Hell] Hadid (sharp), a place named, with Lod (Lydda) and Ono, only in the later books of the history. ( ...

(named after Hagar), a people dwelling to the east of Palestine, with whom the tribes of Reuben made war in the time of Saul. (1 ...

3:3) The arrangement of Samson’s hair into seven locks, or more properly braids, (Judges 16:13,19) involves the practice of plai ...

(doubtful). Bene-Hattil were among the children of Solomon’s slaves “who came back from captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:57; N ...

those of Tiberias. In the list of Levitical cities given out of Naphtali, (Joshua 21:32) the name of this place seems to be give ...

•“Son of Maachah,” i.e. possibly a Syrian of Aram-maachah, one of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:43) (B.C. 1046). ...

•Grandfather of Irijah, the captain of the ward at the gate of Benjamin who arrested Jeremiah on the charge of deserting to the ...

13:10) was perhaps a sort of cob-wall of mud or clay without lime, which would give way under heavy rain. The use of whitewash o ...

•Eldest son of Reuben, (Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:5; 1 Chronicles 5:3) and founder of the family of the Hanochites. ...