Smith's Bible Dictionary

•The “sons of Paseah” were among the Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49) Pashur (freedom). •One of the families o ...

flesh. No male who was uncircumcised was to join the company. Each one was to have his loins girt, to hold a staff in his hand, ...

have been occasionally produced, But perhaps only in later times. What was termed the greater Hallel, Psal 120 to 138 was sung o ...

latter being followed by the notice of the Philistines and by the Caphtorim. (Genesis 10:13,14; 1 Chronicles 1:12) Pathros is me ...

he must have learned to use the Greek language with freedom and mastery in both speaking and writing. At Tarsus also he learned ...

bringing him to Antioch. There they labored together unremittingly for a whole year.” All this time Saul was subordinate to Barn ...

considerable space of the apostle’s life and labors. “They went throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia.” (Luke 16:6) At th ...

upon him as an innovator in religion. But Gallio perceived at once, before Paul could “open his mouth” to defend himself, that t ...

to evade their malice by changing his route. Several brethren were associated with him in this expedition, the bearers no doubt, ...

conspiracy was formed which the historian relates with a singular fullness of detail. More than forty of the Jews bound themselv ...

was sent to Rome. (Spring, A.D. 61.) First imprisonment of St. Paul at Rome. A.D. 61-63.—On their arrival at Rome the centurion ...

(Heb. gabish). The Hebrew word in (Job 28:18) probably means “crystal.” Pearls, however are frequently mentioned in the New Test ...

entered upon the siege of Jerusalem, B.C. 742. The history of the war is found in 2Kin 13 and 2Chr It is famous as the occasion ...

Peleth (swiftness). •The father of On the Reubenite who joined Dathan and Abiram in their rebellion. (Numbers 16:1) (B.C. 1490.) ...

Nehemiah it was called “the law of Moses,” (Ezra 7:6) or “the book of the law of Moses,” (Nehemiah 8:1) or simply “the book of M ...

is the spiritual interpretation and application of the law. But the letter is always before the spirit; the thing before its int ...

over the Philistines, which was in the valley of Rephaim, south of Jerusalem, on the road to Bethlehem. Peresh (dung), the son o ...

signification of the name is not by any means clear. It possibly meant rustics, dwellers in open, unwalled villages, which are d ...

restore to their own country: which he did by the remarkable edict recorded in the first chapter of Ezra. (Ezra 1:2-4) He was sl ...

time was passed afterward in attendance upon our Lord’s public ministrations in Galilee, Decapolis, Peraea and Judea. The specia ...