Smith's Bible Dictionary

Saffron (yellow). (Song of Solomon 4:14) Saffron has front the earliest times been in high esteem as a perfume. “It was used,” s ...

(garment), (Ruth 4:20,21; 1 Chronicles 2:11,51,54; Matthew 1:4,5; Luke 3:32) son of Nahshon. the prince of the children of Judah ...

Salt, City Of the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the “wilderness.” (Joshua 15:62) Mr. Robinson expresses his beli ...

time of John Hyrcanus, who took it after a year’s siege, and did his best to demolish it entirely. (B.C. 109.) It was rebuilt an ...

in the terms applied to the Creator. Thus in the Samaritan Pentateuch no one in the antediluvian times begets his first son afte ...

Certain other Jewish renegades had from time to time taken refuge with the Samaritans; hence by degrees the Samaritans claimed t ...

taking 300 foxes (or rather jackals) and tying them together two by two by the tails, with a firebrand between every pair of tai ...

thought complete without his blessing. Ibid. (1 Samuel 9:13) A peculiar virtue was believed to reside in his intercession. After ...

every measure for the welfare of Jerusalem. The only other incident in his life is his alliance with the high priest’s family by ...

and also of a tribe fallen into idolatry. As an administrative council, it determined other important matters. Jesus was arraign ...

(red) (Heb. odem) the stone which occupied the first place in the first row of the high priest’s breastplate. (Exodus 28:27) The ...

Sarid (survivor), a chief landmark of the territory of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:10,12) All that can be gathered of its position is th ...

temper of the finite and dependent we find creature, the spirit of faith. We find, accordingly, opposites of qualities are dwelt ...

•The first king of Israel, the son of Kish, and of the tribe of Benjamin. (B.C, 1095-1055.) His character is in part illustrated ...

persecution. At this distance of time it is impossible to determine the relative amount of fraud or of reality in the scene whic ...

pupils in the house of Rabban Simeon Ben-Gamaliel. Maimonides thus describes a school: “The teacher sat at the head, and the pup ...

as the men of the Great Synagogue. Never perhaps, was so important a work done so silently. They devoted themselves to the caref ...

The Hebrew word thus translated appears in (1 Samuel 17:40) as a synonym for the bag in which the shepherds of Palestine carried ...

the extreme north of Syria. Viewed on the map, the lake is of an oblong form, of tolerably regular contour, interrupted only by ...

(Numbers 34:8,12) Besides this the name occurs once twice in the imagery of the prophets the New Testament there is not even an ...