Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jerusalem, halfway up. Of these, Gethsemane is the only one which has any claim to be authentic. [Gethsemane] •Next to the centr ...

(pupil of Jehovah). •Originally “captain of the host” to Elah, was afterward himself king of Israel, and founder of the third dy ...

(strong), the second son of Judah by the Canaanitess, “the daughter of Shua.” (Genesis 38:4; 1 Chronicles 2:3) “What he did was ...

and the Kidron, or valley of Jehoshaphat. Halfway down it on its eastern face is the (“Fount of the Virgin,” so called; and at i ...

•The son of Meonothai. (1 Chronicles 4:14) Orator The Authorized Version rendering in (Isaiah 3:3) for what is literally “skillf ...

(active). (1 Chronicles 21:15; 2 Chronicles 3:1) [Araunah] Orpah (a gazelle), a Moabite woman wife of Chilion son of Naomi, and ...

Kirjath-sepher, or Debir as it was afterward called. Caleb promised to give his daughter Achsah to whosoever should assault and ...

(hearing), one of the sons of Gad (Numbers 26:16) and founder of the family of the Oznites. (Numbers 26:16) Paarai In the list o ...

shells of almonds. The dye-stuff was moistened with oil and kept in a small jar. Whether the custom of staining the hands and fe ...

it, the Philistine plain became sooner known to the western world than the country farther inland, and was called by them Syria ...

which alone Egypt could get to Assyria and Assyria to lay along the broad hat strip of coast which formed the maritime portion o ...

as being nearer the arid desert and farther removed from the drainage of the mountains, is drier and less productive than the no ...

Perhaps the springs are the only objects which In themselves, and apart from their associations, really strike an English travel ...

•The Jordan valley .—The chacteristics already described are hardly peculiar to Palestine, but there is one feature, as yet only ...

species in Syria. There is also the carob or locust tree (Ceratonia siliqua), the pine, sycamore, poplar and walnut. Of planted ...

Europe do not possess a single piece of pottery or metal work, a single weapon or household utensil, an ornament or a piece of a ...

that this tree, once so abundant in Judea, is now comparatively rare, except in the Philistine plain and in the old Phoenicia ab ...

(boiling, or hot), a town at the west end of Cyprus, connected by a react with Salamis at the east end. It was founded B.C. 1184 ...

parables note— (1) The analogies must be real, not arbitrary; (2) The parables are to be considered as parts of a whole, and the ...

Parnaeh (delicate), father or ancestor of Elizaphan prince of the tribe of Zebulun. (Numbers 34:25) (B.C. before 1452.) Parshand ...