Smith's Bible Dictionary

Kithlish (man’s wall), one of the towns of Judah, in the Shefelah or lowland. (Joshua 15:40) Kitron (knotty), one of the towns f ...

•The father of Ahab the false prophet, who was burnt by the king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:21) (B.C. before 594.) Korah (baldness ...

Laban (white). •Son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel. (B.C. about 1860-1740.) The elder branch of th ...

Lahmam (provisions), a town in the lowland district of Judah. (Joshua 15:40) Lahmi (warrior), the brother of Goliath the Gittite ...

suffering. We may well believe that it soothed the weary years of the Babylonian exile. It enters largely into the order of the ...

were Jews in Laodicea. In subsequent times it became a Christian city of eminence, the see of bishop and a meeting-place of coun ...

the tabernacle court. (Exodus 38:8) The form of the laver is not specified, but may be assumed to have been circular. Like the o ...

to antiquity, we find an accommodation of the law to the temper and circumstances of the Israelites, to which our Lord refers in ...

accordingly protection and kindness toward them are enjoined as a sacred duty. (Exodus 22:21; Leviticus 19:33,34) •LAW OF THINGS ...

punished by death without sanctuary or reprieve, or satisfaction. (Exodus 21:12,14; 19:11-13) Death of a slave, actually under t ...

(2 Kings 11:17) the remonstrance with Rehoboam being clearly not extraordinary. (1 Kings 13:1-6) The princes of the congregation ...

necessarily on the belief in God, as not only the creator and sustainer of the world, but as, by special covenant, the head of t ...

•The name of a poor man in the well-known parable of (Luke 16:19-31) The name of Lazarus has been perpetuated in an institution ...

seldom noticed, yet we cannot doubt that it was extensively used by the Jews; shoes, bottles, thongs, garments, ropes and other ...

feet; and below this the features of the western slopes are entirely different. The rugged limestone banks are scantily clothed ...

Leech [HORSE-LEECH] Leeks (Heb. chatsir). The leek was a bulbous vegetable resembling the onion. Its botanical name is Allium po ...

Leopard (Heb. namer) is invariably given by the Authorized Version as the translation of the Hebrew word, which occurs in the se ...

of others. Yet modern science has established what goes far to vindicate the Mosaic classification as more philosophical than su ...

(hammered), the name of the second of the sons of Dedan son of Jokshan. (Genesis 25:3) Leummim (peoples), the name of the third ...

was the sign of the presence among the people of their unseen King, so the Levites were, among the other tribes of Israel, as th ...