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- CAB hollow (R.V., “kab”), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure,
the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about
two English quarts. - CABINS only in Jeremiah 37:16 (R.V., “cells”), arched vaults or recesses
off a passage or room; cells for the closer confinement of prisoners. - CABUL how little! as nothing. (1.) A town on the eastern border of
Asher (Joshua 19:27), probably one of the towns given by Solomon to
Hiram; the modern Kabul, some 8 miles east of Accho, on the very borders
of Galilee.
(2.) A district in the north-west of Galilee, near to Tyre, containing twenty
cities given to Hiram by Solomon as a reward for various services rendered
to him in building the temple (1 Kings 9:13), and as payment of the six
score talents of gold he had borrowed from him. Hiram gave the cities this
name because he was not pleased with the gift, the name signifying “good
for nothing.” Hiram seems afterwards to have restored these cities to
Solomon (2 Chronicles 8:2).
- CAESAR the title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar.
In the New Testament this title is given to various emperors as sovereigns
of Judaea without their accompanying distinctive proper names (John
19:15; Acts 17:7). The Jews paid tribute to Caesar (Matthew 22:17), and
all Roman citizens had the right of appeal to him (Acts 25:11). The
Caesars referred to in the New Testament are Augustus (Luke 2:1),
Tiberius (3:1; 20:22), Claudius (Acts 11:28), and Nero (Acts 25:8; Phil.
4:22). - CAESARA PHILIPPI a city on the northeast of the marshy plain of
el-Huleh, 120 miles north of Jerusalem, and 20 miles north of the Sea of
Galilee, at the “upper source” of the Jordan, and near the base of Mount
Hermon. It is mentioned in Matthew 16:13 and Mark 8:27 as the northern
limit of our Lord’s public ministry. According to some its original name
was Baal-Gad (Joshua 11:17), or Baal-Hermon (Judges 3:3; 1 Chronicles
5:23), when it was a Canaanite sanctuary of Baal. It was afterwards called