Smith's Bible Dictionary

•A Levite of the family of Bani, who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:17) (B.C. 445.) •One of the chie ...

Rephah a son of Ephraim, and ancestor of Joshua. (1 Chronicles 7:26) Rephaiah (healed of Jehovah). •The sons of Rephaiah appear ...

him alone the preservation of Joseph’s life appears to have been due and afterward he becomes responsible for his safety. (Genes ...

simply John, without prefix or addition. is also described as a servant of Christ, one who had borne testimony as an eye-witness ...

•One of the families of the Nethinim. (Ezra 2:48; Nehemiah 7:50) (B.C. before 536.) Rezon (prince), son of Eliadah, a Syrian, wh ...

(fertility), One of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of the land of Israel, as specified by Moses. (Numbers 34:11) It seems ...

(a shout), one of the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:20) (B.C. 1300.) Riphath (spoken), the second son of Gomer. (Genesis ...

(Genesis 16:12) The Mosaic law on the subject of theft is contained in (Exodus 2:2) There seems no reason to suppose that the la ...

•The provinces .—The usual fate of a country conquered by Rome was to be come a subject province, governed directly from Rome by ...

may be that some of these Romans, “both Jews and proselytes,” present. On the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:10) carried back the earl ...

to them, not on the site of the modern Ghetto, between the Capitol and the island of the Tiber, but across the Tiber. Many of th ...

it is used for the official residence of a Roman governor. (John 18:28; Acts 23:35) the mention of “Caesar’s household,” (Philem ...

narcissus is intended. Chateaubriand mentions the narcissus as growing in the Plain of Sharon. Roses are greatly prized in the E ...

wealthy man and a near kinsman of her father-in-law, Elimelech. Upon learning who the stranger was, Boaz treated her with the ut ...

sending forth the birds out of the ark, an act naturally associated with the weekly service, (Genesis 8:7-12) and in the week of ...

refreshment and mercy, arising from remembrance of God’s goodness as Creator and as the Deliverer from bondage. The Sabbath was ...

was one of the national sins that were punished by the Babylonian captivity. Of the observance of the sabbatical year after the ...

offered after sacrifice in the holy place and (on the Day of Atonement) in the holy of holies, the symbol of the intercession of ...

to have been absent from it, for the blood was sprinkled round about the altar of sacrifice; but the main idea is the offering o ...

conjecture is that the Sadducees or Zadokites were originally identical with the sons of Zadok, and constituted what may be term ...