Smith's Bible Dictionary

and also from the connection between Joseph and Potipherah(“he who belongs to Ela”) the priest of On, (Genesis 41:45) After thei ...

family Rallidae. It frequents marshes and the sedge by the banks of rivers in all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean a ...

special overseer, as he did for the olives (1 Chronicles 27:28) and it is mentioned as one of the heaviest of Egypt’s calamities ...

or sat down to teach. The congregation were divided, men on one side, women on the other a low partition, five or six feet high, ...

Talmud. Here also we trace the outline of a Christian institution. The Church, either by itself or by appointed delegates, was t ...

is but about 15 miles from that of the Litany. Its modern name is the Nahr-el-Asi, or “rebel stream,” an appellation given to it ...

among the province principis, were ruled by legates, who were of consular rank (consulares) and bore severally the full title of ...

600 feet high, with a long horizontal top, embanked against the western face of the mountains east of the Jordan, and descending ...

parts are very clearly distinguished in the Hebrew, but they are confounded in many places of the English version. The tabernacl ...

indicate that the entrance into the holiest of all is now laid open to all believers by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living ...

same, and the same God ever rules over all. But different ages require different methods of teaching these truths, and can under ...

ram, seven lambs and a goat for a sin offering. (Numbers 29:36,38) When the Feast of Tabernacles fell on a sabbatical year, port ...

Tabitha (gazelle), also called Dorcas by St. Luke, a female disciple of Joppa, “full of good works” among which that of making c ...

inhabited during the intervening Period that is in the days of Christ. Tabor, therefore, could not have been the Mount of Transf ...

empire. The grandeur and magnificence of the ruins of Palmyra cannot be exceeded, and attest its former greatness. Among the mos ...

•Son of Ammihud king of Geshur. (2 Samuel 3:3; 13:37; 1 Chronicles 3:2) He was probably a petty chieftain, dependent on David. ( ...

•Daughter of David and Maachah the Geshurite princess, and thus sister of Absalom. (2 Samuel 13:1-32; 1 Chronicles 3:9) (B.C. 10 ...

(delay), a desert-station of the Israelites between Tahath and Mithcah. (Numbers 33:27) Taralah (reeling), one of the towns in t ...

•From the book of Chronicles there would seem to have been a Tarshish accessible from the Red Sea, in addition to the Tarshish o ...

I. Under the judges, according to the theocratic government contemplated by the law, the only payments incumbent upon the people ...