Smith's Bible Dictionary

(Leviticus 13:23) is merely marked by the notion of an effect resembling that of fire, like our “carbuncle.” The diseases render ...

Mehida (famous, noble), a family of Nethinim, the descendants of Mehida. returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:52; Nehe ...

tithes from him. (Genesis 14:18-20) The other places in which Melchizedek is mentioned are (Psalms 110:4) where Messiah is descr ...

(Heb. abattichim) are mentioned only in (Numbers 11:5) By the Hebrew word we are probably to understand both the melon (Cumcumis ...

(called Menna in the Revised Version), one of the ancestors of Joseph in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. (Luke 3:31) Mene (number ...

Merab (increase), eldest daughter of King Saul. (1 Samuel 14:49) In accordance with the promise which he made before the engagem ...

long by 1 1/2 cubits (2 2/3 feet) wide, representing a kind of throne of God, where he would hear prayer and from which he spoke ...

Yet that identity cannot be proved by any ancient record. In form the lake is not far from a triangle, base being at the north a ...

as his personal attendants and advisers. (Daniel 1:20) But notwithstanding their Chaldeans education, these three young Hebrews ...

•The son of Besodeiah: he assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:6) •One of tho ...

Messiah (anointed). This word (Mashiach) answers to the word Christ (Christos) in the New Testament, and is applicable in its fi ...

times is indicated by its entering into the composition of all articles of ornament and almost all of domestic use. Among the sp ...

(sweet odor). •A son of Ishmael. (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29) •A son of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:25) Mibzar (fortress), one ...

(who is like God?). Micahiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet of Samaria, who in the last year of the reign of Ahab king of Isra ...

rupture between Saul and David had become open and incurable, she was married to another man, Phalti or Phaltiel of Gallim. (1 S ...

fled after having killed the Egyptian, (Exodus 2:15,21) or the portion of it specially referred to, was probably the peninsula o ...

(eloquent), probably a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Asaph, who assisted at the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem. (Nehemi ...

“facing each other; both have hold of the handle by which the upper is turned round on the ’nether’ millstone. The one whose rig ...

(from the right hand). •A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:15) •The same as Miamin 2 and Mijamin 2. (Nehemiah 1 ...

the exception to common experience, that constitutes the miracle, as is assumed both in the popular use of the word and by most ...