Smith's Bible Dictionary

and Arabians got their supply in large quantities from the Dead Sea, which hence received its classical name of Lacus Asphaltite ...

comparison with other passages strengthens us in the inference that the magicians succeeded merely by juggling. After this warni ...

by any of the earlier plagues. Hail is now extremely rare, but not unknown, in Egypt, and it is interesting that the narrative s ...

in this way. The seventh (hail) came when the barley was in ear, and before the wheat was grown, and hence in February; and the ...

[Loan] Pleiades The Hebrew word (cimah) so rendered occurs in (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 6:8) In the last passage our Authorized Vers ...

whether the book of Job is a dramatic poem or not. Inasmuch as it represents an action and a progress, it is a drama as truly an ...

only in (2 Chronicles 4:12,13) In (1 Kings 7:41) “bowls.” The word signifies convex projections belonging to the capitals of pil ...

with other aromatic substances. The Styrax officinale is a shrub from nine to twelve feet high, with ovate leaves, which are whi ...

Potsherd also in Authorized Version “sherd,” a broken piece of earthenware. (Proverbs 26:23) Pottage [Lentils] Potters Field, Th ...

•Its types and examples of prayer. •Scripture does not give any theoretical explanation of the mystery which attaches to prayer. ...

elements of prayer, acknowledgment of God’s mercy, self-dedication and prayer for future blessing. To this may perhaps be added ...

Levites on the other. [HIGH PRIEST; LEVITES] The ceremony of their consecration is described in HIGH PRIEST - 1986 (Exodus 29:1; ...

and unable to bear their witness to the true faith. They were, on the other hand as far as possible removed from the condition o ...

part of it. (1 Kings 22:27) Private houses were sometimes used as places of confinement. By the Romans the tower of Antoni, was ...

by act and teaching by word were alike their task. But during the time of the judges, the priesthood sank into a state of degene ...

person and earthly life of Jesus Christ as to be thereby shown to have been designed to apply to him. And if they were designed ...

their admission to the faith. The proselyte was placed in a tank or pool up to his neck in water. His teachers, who now acted as ...

•More commonly the word is used of the divisions of the Chaldean kingdom. (Daniel 2:49; 3:1,30) and the Persian kingdom. (Ezra 2 ...

has begun, it is still with the most exciting incidents of his history, private or public, that his psalms are mainly associated ...

engaged in their respective duties. Psal 139 is a psalm of the new birth of Israel from the womb of the Babylonish captivity, to ...