Smith's Bible Dictionary

Taxing The English word now conveys to us more distinctly the notion of a tax or tribute actually levied; but it appears to have ...

(cornhill) was probably a city of Chaldaea or Babylonia, not of upper Mesopotamia as generally supposed. (Ezekiel 3:16) The whol ...

an inhabitant of Teman. Temeni son of Ashur the father of Tekoa, by his wife Naarah. (1 Chronicles 4:6) (B.C. about 1450.) Templ ...

which were folding-doors. The whole interior was lines with woodwork richly carved and overlaid with gold. Indeed, both within a ...

of carved ornament, and the beauty of the textile fabrics, which made up their splendor and rendered them so precious in the eye ...

the defenses of the city, and was likewise without external gates. On the south side, which was enclosed by the wall of Ophel, t ...

The popular name in this, as in so many instances,is not that of Scripture. There we have the “TEN WORDS,” (Exodus 34:28; 4:13; ...

contrast to our human legislation, our British statute-book for instance, which it would need an elephant to carry and an OEdipu ...

(third), probably a Roman, was the amanuensis of Paul in writing the Epistle to the Romans. (Romans 16:22) (A.D. 55.) Tertullus ...

In this more accurate form the translators of the Authorized Version have given in two passages— (1 Kings 10:22; 22:48)—the name ...

of majestic gateways and towers, which were the appendages of later times to the original structure. The temple properly faces t ...

gratitude on receiving this welcome news. At the same time there report of Timothy was not unmixed with alloy. There were certai ...

the son of Antipater rebuilt and enlarged Therma, and named it after his wife Thessalonica, the sister of Alexander the Great. T ...

one of them there came a change. He looked back upon his past life, and saw an infinite evil. He looked to the man dying on the ...

only twice again, once on the Sea of Galilee with the seven disciples, where he is ranked next after Peter, (John 21:2) and agai ...

Jehovah,” apparently at its southwest corner. The allusion in (Nehemiah 12:29) is undoubtedly to the same place. [Gate] Throne T ...

a great amalgamation of races. If the sibyl Sambatha was in reality a Jewess, lending her aid to the amalgamation of different r ...

merits at length opened the way. Yet, on being raised to the supreme power, he suddenly became, or showed himself to be a very d ...

is used by the LXX. as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Hiddekel, and occurs also in several of the apocryphal books, as in To ...

(portion). •A place which formed one of the landmarks on the north boundary of the allotment of Judah. (Joshua 15:10) It is prob ...