Smith's Bible Dictionary

(Jeremiah 14:5) Its shyness and remoteness from the haunts of men are also alluded to, (Job 39:1) and its timidity, causing it t ...

(descendans of Heth), The, the nation descended from Cheth (Authorized Version Heth), the second son of Canaan. Abraham bought f ...

Hodiah (majesty of Jehovah), one of the two wives of Ezra, a man of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:19) She is doubtless the same person ...

Various kinds of hooks are noticed in the Bible, of which the following are the most important: •Fishing hooks. (Job 41:2; Isaia ...

(sacred), one of the fortified places in the territory of Naphtali; named with Iron and Migdalel. (Joshua 19:38) Van Deuteronomy ...

locomotion or agriculture, if we except (Isaiah 28:28) The animated description of the horse in (Job 39:19-25) applies solely to ...

are woven upon images, metaphor strung upon metaphor. Like a bee he flies from one flower-bed to another, that he may suck his h ...

must be a “lover of hospitality (Titus 1:8) cf. 1Tim 3:2 The practice of the early Christians was in accord with these precepts. ...

Within this is a court or courts with apartments opening into them. Over the door is a projecting window with a lattice more or ...

we have an exhaustive division of the different ways in which the revelations of God are made to man. •Direct declaration and ma ...

these features more distinctly. In this great period of prophetism there is no longer any chronological development of Messianic ...

descendants of Hupham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Numbers 26:39) Huppah (protected), a priest in the time of David. (1 Chronicle ...

•Sibbechai. (2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicles 11:29; 20:4; 27:11) Josephus, however, called him a Hittite. •Mebunnai, (2 Samuel 23:2 ...

Hymn a religious song or psalm. (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16) Our Lord and his apostles sung a hymn after the last supper. I ...

(whom Jehovah will build up), son of Jehoram, a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8) Ibnijah (whom Jehovah will build up), a Benjamite. ...

we have not many traces in the Bible. Dagon, the fish-god of the Philistines, was a human figure terminating in a fish; and that ...

Chaldea, it spread through Egypt, Greece, Scythia, and even Mexico and Ceylon. Comp. (4:19; 17:3; Job 31:20-28) In the later tim ...

•A town in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 16:29) Ijeabarim (ruin of Abarim), one of the later halting-places of the childre ...

Incense from the Latin “to burn,” “a mixture of gums or spices and the like, used for the purpose of producing a perfume when bu ...

Dr. Knapp given as the definition of inspiration, “an extra-ordinary divine agency upon teachers while giving instruction, wheth ...