Smith's Bible Dictionary

(pious), one of the cities of Naphtali, (Joshua 19:38) hitherto totally unknown. Irpeel (God heals), one of the cities of Benjam ...

19:35) II. The last 27 chapters form a separate prophecy, and are supposed by many critics to have been written in the time of t ...

Ishi (my husband). This word occurs in (Hosea 2:16) It is the Israelite term, in opposition to Baali, the Canaanite term, with t ...

•The son of Nethaniah; a perfect marvel of craft and villainy, whose treachery forms one of the chief episodes of the history of ...

Ishui (quiet), the second son of Saul by his wife Ahinoam (1 Samuel 14:4) comp. 1Sam 14:50 (Died B.C. 1053.) Isle The radical se ...

will be found under the names of its nineteen kings. See chart of the kings of Judah and Israel, at the end of the work. A summa ...

(reward). I. The ninth son of Jacob and the fifth of Leah. (Genesis 30:17,18) (B.C. 1753-45) At the descent into Egypt four sons ...

•A Benjamite, son of Jesaiah. (Nehemiah 11:7) •One of two persons—Ithiel and Ucal— to whom Agur ben-Jakeh delivered his discours ...

(ruined), or A’va, which is mentioned in Scripture twice, (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13) comp. Isai 37:13 In connection with Hena and Se ...

(wild goat). (Ezra 2:56) Jaalam (whom God hides), a son of Esau, (Genesis 36:5,14,18) comp. 1Chr 1:35 And a head of a tribe of E ...

river afterward became, toward its western part, the boundary between the kingdoms of Sihon and Og. (Joshua 12:2,5) Its modern n ...

•Fourth son of Simeon, (Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15) founder of the family of the Jachinites. (Numbers 26:12) •Head of the twenty ...

Jadau (loving), one of the Bene-Nebo who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:43) (B.C. 459.) Jaddua (known). •Son and successor i ...

between the children of Israel and Sihon king of the Amorites. (Numbers 21:23; 2:32; Judges 11:20) It was in the allotment of Re ...

•A man who on his father’s side was descended from Judah, and on his mother’s from Manasseh. (B.C. 1451.) During, the conquest h ...

prayer. (Acts 1:13) Shortly before the day of the Passover, in the year 44, he was put to death by Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:1,2 ...

Jamnin [Jabneel] Janna (flourishing), son of Joseph, and father of Melchi, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:24) In the Revise ...

(adversary) is to be explained either as the proper name of a country or person, as a noun in apposition, or as a verb from a ro ...

(to whom the people turn), named first among the chief of the mighty men of David. ( 1 Chronicles 11:11) (B.C. 1046.) He came to ...

(whom God moves), a Hagarite who had charge of the flocks of King David. (1 Chronicles 27:31) (B.C. 1046.) Jearim (forests), Mou ...