Smith's Bible Dictionary

(rebellion), the sister of Moses, was the eldest of that sacred family; and she first appears, probably as a young girl, watchin ...

Misrephothmaim (the flew of waters), a place in northern Palestine. Dr. Thomson treats Misrephoth-maim as identical with a colle ...

eastern ridge of Lebanon, not far from Mahanaim, where David lay after escaping from the rebellion of Absalom.—McClintock and St ...

Mizzah (fear), son of Reuel and grandson of Esau. (Genesis 36:13,17; 1 Chronicles 1:37) Mnason (remembering) is honorably mentio ...

while the country is almost bare of larger vegetation, it is still a rich pasture-ground, with occasional fields of grain. The l ...

scholars, according to McClintock and Strong’s “Cyclopedia,” consider that the Greek aspalax is the animal intended by both the ...

and half-shekels, of the weight of 220 and 110 grains. With this silver there was associated a copper coinage. The abundant mone ...

(1 Kings 6:38) and Ethanim, the seventh. (1 Kings 8:2) In the second place we have the names which prevailed subsequent to the B ...

•The hill of Moreh, at the foot of which the Midianites and Amalekites were encamped before Gideon’s attack upon them. (Judges 7 ...

of this remarkable proverb. The language is intentionally exaggerated, and there is no necessity for supposing an allusion to a ...

had already broken forth in behalf of his oppressed countrymen broke forth again in behalf of the distressed maidens. They retur ...

•“The song which Moses and the children of Israel sung” (after the passage of the Red Sea). (Exodus 15:1-19) •A fragment of the ...

Moses was the entire representative of his people, feeling for them more than for himself, absorbed in their interests, hopes an ...

direction may be mentioned diminution in offerings to God, and prohibition to partake of sacrificial food. (Leviticus 7:20; 26:1 ...

•Son of Caleb the son of Hezron. (1 Chronicles 2:46) •Son of Zimri and descendant of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:36,37; 9:42,43) Mozah ...

were known and employed to accompany the song. The three kinds are alluded to in (Job 21:12) On the banks of the Red Sea Moses a ...

15:1,20; Judges 5:1; 11:34) There were also religious songs. (Isaiah 30:29; James 5:13) Love songs are alluded to; in (Psalms 45 ...

•The trumpet (shophar) same as horn, 2. •The straight trumpet. •The flute (halil, meaning “bored through ”), a pipe perforated w ...

which exudes from the bark is at first oily, but becomes hard by exposure to the air. (This myrrh is in small yellowish or white ...

with his mortal wound, and thus “gave deliverance to Syria.” The expression in (2 Kings 5:1) is remarkable—“because that by him ...