Easton's Bible Dictionary

THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE EASTONS BIBLE DICTIONARY by M. G. Easton B o o k s F o r T h e A g e s AGES Software • Albany ...

EASTONS BIBLE DICTIONARY A Dictionary of Bible Terms by M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., from Illustrated Bible Dictionary Third Edition ...

A A Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text of Revelation 1:8,11; ...

instability of character, to their clamour, made unto them a golden calf, and set it up as an object of worship (Exodus 32:4; Ps ...

Aaron died on the top of the mount, being 123 years old (Numbers 20:23-29. Comp. Deuteronomy 10:6; 32:50), and was “gathered unt ...

range, about 23 miles north-west of Damascus, and after flowing southward for a little way parts into three smaller streams, the ...

This is the name also of a Levitical town of the Gershonites, in the tribe of Asher (Joshua 21:30; 1 Chronicles 6:74). The ruins ...

Hebrew text ’ebhen (= a stone), and accordingly translates “unto the great stone, whereon they set down the ark.” This reading i ...

ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in th ...

refers to the head of the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which David divided the priests (1 Chronicles 24:10). ABI-ALBO ...

was called Nisan, after the Captivity (Nehemiah 2:1). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf ...

ABIHAIL father of might. (1.) Numbers 3:35. (2.) 1 Chronicles 2:29. (3.) 1 Chronicles 5:14. (4.) The second wife of King Rehob ...

but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes to their allegiance. His address to “Jeroboam and all Israel,” before encou ...

ABIJAM father of the sea; i.e., “seaman” the name always used in Kings of the king of Judah, the son of Rehoboam, elsewhere cal ...

encamped at Beer-sheba, and expressed a desire to renew the covenant which had been entered into between their fathers (Genesis ...

of Korah), were swallowed up by an earthquake (Numbers 16:1-27; 26:9; Psalm 106:17). (2.) The eldest son of Hiel the Bethelite, ...

ABISHUR father of the wall; i.e., “mason”, one of the two sons of Shammai of the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:28,29). ABITAL ...

ABNER father of light; i.e., “enlightening”, the son of Ner and uncle of Saul. He was commander-in-chief of Saul’s army (1 Samu ...

fact that the Egyptians detested the lawless habits of these wandering shepherds. (3.) Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague ...

God (Genesis 12:1,2); whereupon he took his departure, taking his nephew Lot with him, “not knowing whither he went” (Hebrews 11 ...