Smith's Bible Dictionary

9:4) etc., and in the instances of civic strife mentioned (Judges 11:12) and Judg 20:12 Ambassadors are found to have been emplo ...

•An Ephraimite father of Elishama, the chief of the tribe at the time of the Exodus. (Numbers 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53; 10:22; 7:26) ...

Amninadab (Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:33) [Amminadab, 1] Amnon (faithful). •Eldest son of David. (B.C. 1052.) He dishonored his half-si ...

The book of the prophecies of Amos seems to be divided into four principal portions closely connected together. (1) From 1:1 to ...

•A priest. (Nehemiah 11:12) Anab (grape-town), a town in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:50) named with Debir and Hebron as o ...

•A high priest in (Acts 23:2-5; 24:1) He was the son of Nebedaeus. He was nominated to the office by Herod king of Chalcis in A. ...

•A Christian at Rome, saluted by St. Paul, (Romans 16:7) together with Junia. Anem (two springs), a city of Issachar, with “subu ...

providence, natural and supernatural, to the body and to the soul. In one word, they are Christ’s ministers of grace now, and th ...

•Ordinary. Anointing the body or head with oil was a common practice with the Jews, as with other Oriental nations. (28:40; Ruth ...

This term is employed by the apostle John alone, and is defined by him in a manner which leaves no doubt as to its intrinsic mea ...

the same political privileges with the Greeks. The chief interest of Antioch, however, is connected with the progress of Christi ...

the names of certain tribes, colonies from which had been planted in Samaria by the Assyrian leader Asnapper. (Ezra 4:9; 5:6) Th ...

of apocrypha, “hidden, secret,” seems, toward the close of the second century to have been associated with the signification “sp ...

them were related to Jesus according to the flesh; some had previously been disciples of John the Baptist. Our Lord chose them e ...

Appius, Market Of Revised Version for Appii Forum. (Acts 28:16) Apple Tree, Apple (Heb. tappuach). Mention of the apple tree occ ...

valley about 10 miles south of the Dead Sea. From their summits, southward to the Gulf of Akabah, the valley changes its name, o ...

•In northern and western Arabia are other peoples, which, from their geographical position and mode of life are sometimes classe ...

•An Asherite, one of the sons of Shamer. (1 Chronicles 7:34) •Son of Esrom or Hezron, and the Greek form of the Hebrew Ram. (Mat ...

(Joshua 16:2) A place in the neighborhood of Bethel, on the boundary between Ephraim and Benjamin. It designates a clan perhaps ...

Areopagus [Mars Hill’ HILL] Aretas, Or Aretas (graver). •A contemporary of Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 170, and Jason. 2 Macc. 5:8 ...