Smith's Bible Dictionary

again, Acts 27:2 On his voyage to Rome. We trace him afterwards as St. Paul’s fellow prisoner in (Colossians 4:10) and Phle 1:24 ...

(land of Aram) is nowhere mentioned under that name in the original Hebrew, though it occurs in the English version, (2 Kings 19 ...

•The Sling is first mentioned in (Judges 20:16) This simple weapon, with which David killed the giant Philistine, was the natura ...

In the received Hebrew text “the sons of Arnan” are mentioned in the genealogy of Zerubbabel. (1 Chronicles 3:21) Arni (Used in ...

(the great warrior). •The first Artaxerxes is mentioned in (Ezra 4:7) and appears identical with Smerdis, the Magian impostor an ...

•Nephew of David, being the youngest son of his sister Zeruiah. He was celebrated for his swiftness of foot. When fighting under ...

Asenath (worshipper of Neith), daughter of Potipherah, priest, or possibly prince, of On [Potipherah, Or Potipherah], wife of Jo ...

2:3; 6:25; 1Kin 18:19 Ashtoreth being, perhaps, the proper name of the goddess, whilst Asherah is the name of her image or symbo ...

Ashtoreth (a star) the principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, called Ishtar by the Assyrians and Astarte by the Greeks an ...

(Heb. pethen), translated (adder in) (Psalms 58:4; 91:13) Probably the Egyptian cobra, a small and very poisonous serpent, a dwe ...

Assyria, Asshur was a great and powerful country lying on the Tigris, (Genesis 2:14) the capital of which was Nineveh. (Genesis ...

numerous minor divinities, at the head of all of whom stood the chief god, Asshur, who seems to be the deified patriarch of the ...

Ater (shut up). •The children of Ater were among the porters or gate-keepers of the temple who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2 ...

afterwards became the Acropolis; but gradually the buildings spread over the ground at the southern foot of this hill. It was no ...

(whom Jehovah afflicts), one of the sons of Bebai, who put away his foreign wife at the exhortation of Ezra. (Ezra 10:28) Atonem ...

Attai (opportune). •Grandson of Sheshan the Jerahmeelite through his daughter Ahlai, whom he gave in marriage to Jarha, his Egyp ...

•In (Hosea 10:8) the word is clearly an abbreviation of Bethaven, that is, Bethel. Comp. (Hosea 4:15) etc. •The sacred city of H ...

•Son of Ahimaaz. (1 Chronicles 6:9) He appears from (1 Kings 4:2) to have succeeded Zadok, his grandfather, in the high priestho ...

•The original name of Abednego. (Daniel 1:6,7,11,19) He appears to have been of the seed-royal of Judah. (B.C. 603.) Azaz (stron ...

•The father of Jeziel and Pelet, two of the skilled Benjamite slingers and archers who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 10:3 ...