is found also in Palestine. It is reddish brown spotted with white. The gecko lives on insects and
worms, which it swallows whole. It derives its name from the peculiar sound which some of the
species utter.
Lmri
(eloquent).
•A man of Judah, of the great family of Pharez. (1 Chronicles 9:4) (B.C. much before 536.)
•Father or progenitor of Zaccur. (Nehemiah 3:2) (B.C. before 446.)
Loammi
(not my people), the figurative name given by the prophet Hosea to his second son by Gomer
the daughter of Diblaim, (Hosea 1:9) to denote the rejection of the kingdom of Israel by Jehovah.
Its significance is explained in vs. 9,10
Loan
The law strictly forbade any interest to be taken for a loan to any poor person, and at first, as
it seems, even in the case of a foreigner; but this prohibition was afterward limited to Hebrews
only, from whom, of whatever rank, not only was no usury on any pretence to be exacted, but relief
to the poor by way of loan was enjoined, and excuses for evading this duty were forbidden. (Exodus
22:25; Leviticus 25:35,37) As commerce increased, the practice of usury, and so also of suretyship,
grew up; but the exaction of it from a Hebrew appears to have been regarded to a late period as
discreditable. (Psalms 15:5; Proverbs 6:1,4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; Jeremiah 15:10; Ezekiel
18:13) Systematic breach of the law in this respect was corrected by Nehemiah after the return
from captivity. (Nehemiah 5:1,13) The money-changers, who had seats and tables in the temple,
where traders whose profits arose chiefly from the exchange of money with those who came to pay
their annual half-shekel. The Jewish law did not forbid temporary bondage in the case of debtors,
but it forbade a Hebrew debtor to be detained as a bondman longer than the seventh year, or at
farthest the year of jubilee. (Exodus 21:2; Leviticus 25:39,42; 15:9)
Loaves
[Bread]
Lock
Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of
wood, and consist of a partly hollow bolt from fourteen inches to two feet long for external doors
or gates, or from seven to nine inches for interior doors. The bold passes through a groove in a
piece attached to the door into a socket in the door-post.
Locust
a well-known insect, of the grasshopper family, which commits terrible ravages on vegetation
in the countries which it visits. “The common brown locust is about three inches in length, and the
general form is that of a grasshopper.” The most destructive of the locust tribe that occur in the
Bible lands are the (Edipoda migratoria and the Acridium peregrinum ; and as both these species
occur in Syria and Arabia, etc., it is most probable that one or other is denoted in those passages
which speak of the dreadful devastations committed by these insects. Locusts occur in great numbers,
and sometimes obscure the sun. (Exodus 10:15; Judges 6:5; Jeremiah 46:23) Their voracity is
alluded to in (Exodus 10:12,15; Joel 1:4,7) They make a fearful noise in their flight. (Joel 2:5;
Revelation 9:9) Their irresistible progress is referred to in (Joel 2:8,9) They enter dwellings, and
devour even the woodwork of houses. (Exodus 10:6; Joel 2:9,10) They do not fly in the night.
(Nahum 3:17) The sea destroys the greater number. (Exodus 10:19; Joel 2:20) The flight of locusts
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