- EFFECTUAL CALL See CALL.
- EFFECTUAL PRAYER occurs in Authorized Version, James 5:16. The
Revised Version renders appropriately: “The supplication of a righteous
man availeth much in its working”, i.e., “it moves the hand of Him who
moves the world.” - EGG (Hebrews beytsah, “whiteness”). Eggs deserted (Isaiah 10:14), of a
bird (Deuteronomy 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isaiah
59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion, which is said to
be very like an egg in its appearance, so much so as to be with difficulty at
times distinguished from it. In Job 6:6 (“the white of an egg”) the word for
egg (hallamuth’) occurs nowhere else. It has been translated “purslain”
(R.V. marg.), and the whole phrase “purslain-broth”, i.e., broth made of
that herb, proverbial for its insipidity; and hence an insipid discourse. Job
applies this expression to the speech of Eliphaz as being insipid and dull.
But the common rendering, “the white of an egg”, may be satisfactorily
maintained. - EGLAH a heifer, one of David’s wives, and mother of Ithream (2 Samuel
3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3). According to a Jewish tradition she was Michal. - EGLAIM two ponds, (Isaiah 15:8), probably En-eglaim of Ezekiel 47:10.
- EGLON the bullock; place of heifers. (1.) Chieftain or king of one of the
Moabite tribes (Judges 3:12-14). Having entered into an alliance with
Ammon and Amalek, he overran the trans-Jordanic region, and then
crossing the Jordan, seized on Jericho, the “city of palm trees,” which had
been by this time rebuilt, but not as a fortress. He made this city his
capital, and kept Israel in subjection for eighteen years. The people at
length “cried unto the Lord” in their distress, and he “raised them up a
deliverer” in Ehud (q.v.), the son of Gera, a Benjamite.
(2.) A city in Judah, near Lachish (Joshua 15:39). It was destroyed by
Joshua (10:5, 6). It has been identified with Tell Nejileh, 6 miles south of
Tell Hesy or Ajlan, north-west of Lachish. (See LACHISH.)
- EGYPT the land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of
which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture.
The Egyptians belonged to the white race, and their original home is still a
matter of dispute. Many scholars believe that it was in Southern Arabia,