Smith's Bible Dictionary

Colony a designation of Philippi, in (Acts 16:12) After the battle of Actium, Augustus assigned to his veterans those parts of I ...

Conaniah (made by Jehovah), one of the chiefs of the Levites in the time of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 628). Concubine Th ...

Consecration [Priest] Convocation This term (with one exception)— (Isaiah 1:13) is applied invariably to meetings of a religious ...

(Jude 1:11) [Korah, 1] Coriander The plant called Coriandrum sativum is found in Egypt, Persia and India, and has a round tall s ...

1:13,14; 7:9,15,16) but there was still a faction who strenuously denied Paul’s claim to apostleship. The contents of this epist ...

on the return from his third missionary journey, passed the night here, after sailing from Miletus. Probably referred to in (Act ...

(thorn), a man among the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:8) Cozbi (deceitful), daughter of Zur, a chief of the Midianites. ...

As the emblem of a slave’s death and a murderer’s punishment, the cross was naturally looked upon with the profoundest horror. B ...

a mallet, was driven home into the wood. Then through either foot separately, or possibly through both together, as they were pl ...

Cucumbers (Heb. kishshuim). This word occurs in (Numbers 11:5) as one of the good things of Egypt produces excellent cucumbers, ...

one of the countries whence Shalmaneser introduced colonists into Samaria. (2 Kings 17:24,30) Its position is undecided. Cutting ...

which caused Joseph and Mary to visit Bethlehem. (Luke 2:2) The second enrollment is mentioned in (Acts 5:37) Cyrus (the sun), t ...

(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul’s preaching. (Acts 17:34) (A.D 48.) Chrysostom and others he ...

•The well-known city, so familiar as the most northern landmark of Palestine, in the common expression “from Dan even to beershe ...

•A priest who sealed the covenant drawn up by Nehemiah, B.C. 445. (Nehemiah 10:6) He is perhaps the same as No. 3. Daniel, Apocr ...

(from dara, a king), Authorized Version “dram,” (1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Nehemiah 7:70,71,72) a gold coin current in ...

“Daughters of music,” i.e. singing birds, (Ecclesiastes 12:4) refers to the power of making and enjoying music. David (well-belo ...

by night, and was from thenceforward a fugitive. He at first found a home at the court of Achish, among the Philistines; but his ...

double crime of adultery with Bath-sheba and the virtual murder of Uriah. The clouds from this time gathered over David’s fortun ...

cockcrow, (Judges 7:19) and the “morning watch,” lasting till sunrise. (Exodus 14:24) In the New Testament we have allusions to ...