Smith's Bible Dictionary

His residence was on the southern Carmel, in the pasture lands of Maon. His wealth, as might be expected from his abode, consist ...

Nachor [Nahor] Nadab (liberal). •The eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba. Exod 8 13 Numb 3:2. (B.C. 1490.) He, his father and broth ...

•King of the Ammonites who dictated to the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead that cruel alternative of the loss of their right eyes o ...

the prophecy was written before the final downfall of Nineveh and its capture by the Medes and Chaldeans, cir. B.C. 625. The all ...

customary to add to his own proper name that of his father or ancestors. Sometimes the mother’s was used instead. Simple names i ...

(stupidity), a dweller at Rome, (Romans 16:11) some members of whose household were known us Christians to St. Paul. Some have a ...

his Parents were led to take up their abode in Nazareth, was the filling out of the predictions in which the promised Messiah is ...

for life three are mentioned in the Scriptures—Samson, Samuel and St. John the Baptist. The only one of these actually called a ...

Nebat (aspect), the father of Jeroboam, (1 Kings 11:26; 12:2,15) etc., is described as an Ephrathite or Ephraimite of Zereda. (B ...

Jerusalem, (Daniel 1:1,2) pressed forward to Egypt, and was engaged in that country or upon its borders when intelligence arrive ...

that strange form of madness was sent upon him which the Greeks called Lycanthropy, wherein the sufferer imagines himself a beas ...

•Son of Hachaliah, and apparently of the tribe of Judah. All that we know certainly concerning him is contained in the book whic ...

like the preceding one of Ezra, is clearly and certainly not all by the same hand. [Ezra, Book Of, BOOK OF] By far the most impo ...

•The sons of Nekoda were among those who went up after the captivity from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, and other places, but were unabl ...

long afterward mounted the Babylonian throne. He is the same as the monarch called Neriglissar or Neriglissor, who murdered Evil ...

of the Midianites and 320 were given to them as having charge of the tabernacle, (Numbers 31:47) while 32 only were assigned spe ...

It is proposed in this article to consider the text of the New Testament. The subject naturally divides itself into— I. The hist ...

arisen before the first versions were made. The honor of carefully determining the relations of critical authorities for the New ...

•The number of uncial MSS. remaining. though great when compared with the ancient MSS. extent of other writings, is inconsiderab ...

•The number of readings which seem to have been altered for distinctly dogmatic reasons is extremely small. In spite of the grea ...