Smith's Bible Dictionary

affluent of the Tigris, flowing into it a little below Kurnah. Recent surveys show that the Choarspes once divided into two stre ...

while in abeyance. There is an intense reality in the fact of the divine law taking hold of a man by the ordinary infirmities of ...

however, has nothing at all to do with the one-horned animal of the Greek and Roman writers, as is evident from (33:17) where in ...

the Persian Gulf. Among the ruins which are now seen at the spot are the remains of one of the great temples, of a model similar ...

Urias Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba. (Matthew 1:6) •Urijah •1 Esdr. 9:43. Uriel A Kohathite Levite, son of Tahath. (1 Chroni ...

stones gave out the oracular answer by preternatural illumination; but it seems to be far simpler and more in agreement with the ...

which was originally Awzal. From its position in the centre of the best portion of that kingdom it must always have been an impo ...

•A priest, chief of the father’s house of Jedaiah, in the time of Joiakim the high priest. (Nehemiah 12:19) (B.C. about 500.) •O ...

Vajezatha (strong as the wind), one of the ten sons of Haman whom the Jews slew in Shushan. (Esther 9:9) (B.C. 473.) Vale, Valle ...

lastly, by women of loose character for purposes of concealment. (Genesis 38:14) Among the Jews of the New Testament age it appe ...

in 548; through him it is said that the Goths in general adopted Arianism. The great work of Ulphilas was his version of the Scr ...

which proves the common Peshito not to exhibit a text of extreme antiquity equally proves the early origin of this. Versions, Au ...

•TAVERNER (1539).—The boldness of the pseudo-Matthew had frightened the ecclesiastical world from its propriety. Coverdale’s ver ...

did not object to the principle of an English translation. They only charged the versions hitherto made with being false, corrup ...

says it is “the best of all translations, as giving the true sense of the original.” [For REVISED VERSION (of 1881), see under B ...

plucked by the hand, are dissolved into smoke and ashes.” It has been variously identified. Dr. Robinson pronounced in favor of ...

was void; but,if they heard without disallowance, it was to remain good. (Numbers 30:3-18) (3) Votive offerings arising from the ...

Wages The earliest mention of wages is of a recompense, not in money, but in kind, to Jacob from Laban. (Genesis 29:15,20; 30:28 ...

Samuel 1:23; 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8) At the same time various strategic devices were practiced, such as the ambuscade, (Joshua ...

case of the “fourth watch,” (Matthew 14:25) or by the terms “even,” “midnight,” “cock-crowing” and “morning.” (Mark 13:35) These ...