Smith's Bible Dictionary

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still bearing the ancient name Helbon, and still celebrated as producing the finest grapes in the
country.
Heldai
(worldly).
•The twelfth captain of the monthly courses for the temple service. (1 Chronicles 27:15) (B.C.
1014.)
•An Israelite who seems to have returned from the captivity. (Zechariah 6:10) (B.C. 520.)
Heleb
(milk), or He’led (transient) son of Baanah the Netophathite, one of the heroes of King David’s
guard. (2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30)
Helek
(portion), one of the descendants of Manasseh, and second son of Gilead, (Numbers 26:30) and
founder of the Helekites. (B.C. 1445.)
Helem
(strength).
•A descendant of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:35)
•A man mentioned only in (Zechariah 6:14) Apparently the same as Heldai.
Heleph
(exchange), the place from which the boundary of the tribe of Naphtali started. (Joshua 19:33)
Helez
(strength).
•One of “the thirty” of David’s guard, (2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:27) an Ephraimite, and
captain of the seventh monthly course. (1 Chronicles 27:10) (B.C. 1016.)
•A man of Judah, son of Azariah. (1 Chronicles 2:39)
Helhath
(portion), the town named as the starting-point for the boundary of the tribe of Asher, (Joshua
19:25) and allotted with its “suburbs” to the Gershonite Levites. ch. (Joshua 21:31) Perhaps Yerka,
seven miles from Acre.
Heli
(ascending), the father of Joseph the husband of the Virgin Mary, (Luke 13:23) perhaps the
grandfather of Mary herself. [See Genealogy Of Jesus Christ OF JESUS CHRIST]
Heliopolis
[See On]
Helkathhazzurim
(field of rock), a smooth piece of ground, apparently close to the pool of Gibeon, where the
combat took place between the two parties of Joab’s men and Abner’s men which ended in the
death of the whole of the combatants, and brought on a general battle. (2 Samuel 2:16)
Hell
In the Old Testament this is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to
render the Hebrew Sheol. It really means the place of the dead, the unseen world, without deciding
whether it be the place of misery or of happiness. It is clear that in many passages of the Old
Testament Sheol can only mean “the grave,” and is rendered in the Authorized Version; see, for
example, (Genesis 37:35; 42:38; 1 Samuel 2:6; Job 14:13) In other passages, however, it seems to
Involve a notion of punishment, and is therefore rendered in the Authorized Version by the word

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