Smith's Bible Dictionary

modern times; but about three miles to the west of Hebron is a deep and secluded valley called the Wady Nunkur, enclosed on the ...

Degrees, Songs Of a title given to fifteen Psalms, from 120 to 134 inclusive. Four of them are attributed to David, one is ascri ...

power of God “and tremble,” (James 2:19) they recognized the Lord as the Son of God, (Matthew 8:29; Luke 4:41) and acknowledged ...

Not a stretch of sand, an utterly barren waste, but a wild, uninhabited region. The words rendered in the Authorized Version by ...

Devil (slanderer). The name describes Satan as slandering God to man and man to God. The former work is of course, a part of his ...

animals and mystic inscriptions. This idol was regarded as an object of peculiar sanctity, and was believed to have fallen down ...

(judged, acquitted), the daughter of Jacob by Leah. (Genesis 30:21) (B.C. about 1751.) She accompanied her father from Mesopotam ...

these converts naturally prepared the way for the apostles int he interval which preceded the beginning of the separate apostoli ...

Dodo (loving). •A man of Bethlehem, father of Elhanan, who was one of David’s thirty captains. (2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11: ...

Dove The first menton of this bird occurs in Gen. 8. The dove’s rapidity of flight is alluded to in (Psalms 55:6) the beauty of ...

number of such dreams were granted, for prediction or for warning, to those who were aliens to the Jewish covenant. And where dr ...

The size and texture would vary with the means of the wearer. It might be worn in various ways, either wrapped round the body or ...

•Date wine, which was also manufactured in Egypt. It was made by mashing the fruit in water in certain proportions. •Various oth ...

[Mourning] Eagle (Heb. nesher, i.e. a tearer with the beak). At least four distinct kinds of eagles have been observed in Palest ...

senses alone concern us, the fairest involving an inquiry into the opinions of the Hebrews on cosmogony, the second on geography ...

feet above Nablus in the valley; and they are so near that all the vast body of the people could hear the words read from either ...

surround him. The writer is a man who has sinned in giving way to selfishness and sensuality, who has paid the penalty of that s ...

•BETH-EDEN, “house of pleasure:” probably the name of a country residence of the kings of Damascus. (Amos 1:5) Eder (a flock). • ...

•A town of northern Palestine, allotted to the tribe of Naphtali, and situated near Kedesh. (Joshua 19:37) About two miles south ...

ancient Egyptian name of the country is written in hieroglyphics Kem, which was perhaps pronounced Chem. This name signifies, in ...