Smith's Bible Dictionary

instrument the nebel of the Hebrew exactly corresponded, From the fact that nebel in Hebrew also signifies a wine-bottle or skin ...

when he returned to Alexandria he determined to inflict on the Alexandrine Jews the vengeance for his disappointment. He was suc ...

“The son of Dorymenes,” 1 Macc. 3:38; 2 Macc. 4:45; comp. Polyb. v, 61, a courtier who possessed great influence with Antiochus ...

and of our Lord. The position of Zacchaeus as a “chief among the publicans,” (Luke 19:2) implies a gradation of some kind among ...

•False witness in certain cases. (19:16,19) II. But there is a large number of offences, some of them included in this list, whi ...

4:12) plucking out hair, (Isaiah 50:6) in later times, imprisonment and confiscation or exile. (Ezra 7:26; Jeremiah 37:15; 38:6; ...

Haman.” In the morning service in the synagogue, on the 14th, after the prayers, the passage is read from the law, (Exodus 17:8- ...

Pyrrhus the father of Sopater of Berea. (Acts 20:4) in Revised Version. (A.D. 55.) Quails There can be no doubt that the Hebrew ...

more properly THE Syrtis, The, (Acts 27:17) the broad a deep bight on the north African coast between Carthage and Cyrene. There ...

Rabbi a title of respect signifying master, teacher, given by the Jews to their doctors and teachers, and often addressed to our ...

esteem. She appears to have shared all the duplicity and falsehood of her family. See, for instance, Rachel’s stealing her fathe ...

In the Bible “early rain” signifies the rain of the autumn, (11:14) and “latter rain” the rain of spring. (Proverbs 16:1,5) For ...

•One of the kindred of Elihu. (Job 32:2) Ewald identified this Ram with Aram in (Genesis 22:21) [See BATTERING-RAM] Rama (Matthe ...

valley of the Pelusiac mouth of the Nile. McClintock and Strong say that its location is indicated by the present Tell Ramsis, a ...

was cared for by ravens. (1 Kings 17:4,6) They are expressly mentioned as instances of God’s protecting love and goodness. (Job ...

of the tribe was Jehonadab. [Jehonadab] He and his people had all along been worshippers of Jehovah, circumcised, though not loo ...

of volcanic mountains, beginning about lat. 28 degrees 4’ and running south, rear their lofty peaks at intervals above the limes ...

•Passage of the Red Sea .—The passage of the Red Sea was the crisis of the exodus. It is usual to suppose that the most northern ...

maps. The latest theory is that which Brugsch-bey has lately revived that the word translated Red Sea is “Sea of Reeds or Weeds, ...

(friend of the king). The names of Sherezer and Regem-melech occur in an obscure passage of Zechariah. (Zechariah 7:2) They were ...