Smith's Bible Dictionary

garments” of the poor, were made goat’s or camel’s hair. (Exodus 26:7; Matthew 3:4) Wool was extensively used for ordinary cloth ...

multiple, or higher unit, was the kikkar (i.e. circle or globe, probably for an aggregate sum), translated in our version, after ...

the most liberal construction on the demand. (b) The day’s journey was the most usual method of calculating distances in travell ...

of the liquid and the dry measures are stated differently by Josephus and the rabbinists, and as we are unable to decide between ...

size.” Although two or three species of whale are found in the Mediterranean Sea, yet the “great fish” that swallowed the prophe ...

not under sixty years of age; that they had been “the wife of one man,” probably meaning but once married ; and that they had le ...

Wimple an old English word for hood or veil, used in the Authorized Version of (Isaiah 3:22) The same Hebrew word is translated ...

from the rest of the juice, and to have formed the “sweet wine” noticed in (Acts 2:13) [See below] The “treading” was effected b ...

not enjoined by the law, but had become an established custom, at all events in the post-Babylonian period. The wine was mixed w ...

and the prophets, the basis of the Christian doctrine of the atonement: yet comp. (Genesis 15:2) In connection with the Old Test ...

long and black. The Syrian wolf is of lighter color than the wolf of Europe it is the dread of the shepherds of Palestine.—ED.) ...

Four kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine— Artemisia nilotica, A. Judaica, A. fructicosa and A. cinerea. The word occurs fre ...

understanding we may accept the genealogy of alphabets as given by Gesenius, and exhibited in the accompanying table. The old Se ...

But besides skins, which were used for the more permanent kinds of writing, tablets of wood covered with wax, (Luke 11:63) serve ...

•Seasons. Two seasons are mentioned in the Bible, “summer” and “winter.” The former properly means the time of cutting fruits, t ...

•A layman of Israel, of the sons of Zattu, who put away his foreign wife at Ezra’s command. (Ezra 10:27) (B.C. 458.) •One of the ...

(pure), a tax-collector near Jericho, who, being short in stature climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to obtain a sight of ...

(memorial), one of the sons of Jehiel, the father or founder of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. ( 1 Chronicles 8:31) (B.C. about 14 ...

[Zebah] Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2:20) only, the Ammonite name for the people who by others were called Rephaim. They are describe ...

(splendor of the dawn), a place mentioned only in (Joshua 13:19) in the catalogue of the towns allotted to Reuben. Zarhites, The ...