Smith's Bible Dictionary

years of famine. Pharaoh at once appointed Joseph not merely governor of Egypt, but second only to the sovereign, and also gave ...

had bought, consigned it to a tomb hewn in a rock, in a garden belonging to Joseph, and close to the place of crucifixion. There ...

•A governor of the city who gave his name to a gate of Jerusalem. (2 Kings 23:8) (In the reign of Josiah, B.C. 628.) •Jeshua the ...

Jot the English form of the Greek iota, i.e., the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. The Hebrew is yod, or y formed like a c ...

•The laws connected with the jubilee.—These embrace three points: (1) Rest for the soil. (Leviticus 25:11,12) The land was to li ...

•How long observed.—Though very little is said about its observance in the Bible history of the Jews, yet it is referred to, and ...

Judah, Kingdom Of Extent.—When the disruption of Solomon’s kingdom took place at Shechem, B.C. 975, only the tribe of Judah foll ...

appearance of his name in the lists of the apostles we know absolutely nothing. What that appearance implies, however, is that h ...

may be compared to that of Esau. (Genesis 27:32-38; Hebrews 12:16,17) It is contrasted with that of Peter. Judas proved his repe ...

as judge and prophet, but still as the servant of Jehovah, only to see it so abused by his sons as to exhaust the patience of th ...

the palace of King Herod, others the tower of Antonia; but it was probably the latter, which was then and long afterward the cit ...

Justus (just). •A surname of Joseph, called Barsabas. (Acts 1:23) (A.D. 30.) •A Christian at Corinth, with whom St. Paul lodged. ...

Shrubs in richness and variety abounded. Standing out from the mountain range at the northward of the beautiful oasis amphitheat ...

(dark-skinned), the second in order of the sons of Ishmael, (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29) and the name of a great tribe of ...

(swift messenger of Jehovah) = Kelita. (Ezra 10:23) Kelita (assembly), one of the Levites who returned with Ezra. (Ezra 10:23) H ...

(cities). •A name which occurs among the lists of the towns in the southern district of Judah. (Joshua 15:25) Supposed by some t ...

2Sam 15:30 And by our Lord on his way to Gethsemane. (John 18:1) comp. Mark 14:26; Luke 22:39 The distinguishing peculiarity of ...

The books of Kings contain the history from David’s death and Solomon’s accession to the destruction of the kingdom of Judah and ...

(brick fortress), (2 Kings 3:25) Kir-ha’resh, (Isaiah 16:11) Kir-har’es, (Jeremiah 48:31,36) These four names are all applied to ...

(city of books). (Joshua 15:15,16; Judges 1:11,12) [Debir] Kish (a bow). •The father of Saul; a Benjamite of the family of Matri ...