Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jeshimon (a wilderness), a name which occurs in (Numbers 21:20) and Numb 23:28 In designating the position of Pisgah and Peor; b ...

(wealthy), the father of David, was the son of Obed, who again was the fruit of the union of Boaz and the Moabitess Ruth. His gr ...

25, is not far from the real date of Christ’s birth. Since the 25th of December comes when the longest night gives way to the re ...

catechetical teaching in school. At twelve he became more directly responsible for his obedience of the law; and on the day when ...

Jethro (his excellence) was priest or prince of Midian. Moses married his daughter Zipporah. (B.C. 1530.) On account if his loca ...

(the country of Judea), the same word elsewhere rendered Judah and Judea. It occurs several times in the Apocalypse and the New ...

town probably, were a temple and grove of Eastward, with an establishment of 400 priests supported by Jezebel. (1 Kings 16:33; 2 ...

well known. He describes it as a village entirely of Christians, ten miles west of Medeba, “close to the Baris.” •A town in Naph ...

Joanna (grace or gift of God) (in Revised Version spelled Joanan). •Son of Rhesa, according to the text of (Luke 3:27) and one o ...

the patriarch, from whom one of the books of the Old Testament is named. His residence in the land of Uz marks him as belonging ...

•One question could be raised by envy: may not the goodness which secures such direct and tangible rewards be a refined form of ...

•Head of a Benjamite house. (1 Chronicles 8:9) Jochebed (whose glory is Jehovah), the wife and at the same time the aunt of Amra ...

(lofty), one of the cities on the east of Jordan which were built and fortified by the tribe of Gad when they took possession of ...

who is left desolate. (John 19:26,27) It is to Peter and John that Mary Magdalene first runs with the tidings of the emptied sep ...

was working in Judea. Nothing but the death of the Baptist would satisfy the resentment of Herodias. A court festival was kept a ...

are, on the part of Christ, his atoning blood, ch. (1 John 1:7; 2:2; 3:5; 4:10,14; 5:6) and advocacy, ch. (1 John 2:1) on the pa ...

(subdued by God). •A city in the low country of Judah, (Joshua 15:38) named next to Lachish. •“God-subdued,” the title given by ...

•The prophet Jonah. (Matthew 12:39,40,41; 16:4) •Father of Peter. (John 21:15-17) [Jona] Jonathan that is, “the gift of Jehovah, ...

(the early rain), the ancestor of a family of 112 who returned from Babylon with Ezra. (Ezra 2:18) In (Nehemiah 7:24) he appears ...

plane, only broken by a series of rapids or precipitous falls. Between the Lake of Gennesaret and the Dead Sea there are 27 rapi ...