A Ssidyeans
A Ssidyeans Chasidinz, I Macc. 42; Vh. 13; 2 Macc. Xiv. 6,' Actsedot, The Pious, Or Righteous) ; A Name Derived From The Root -cm, A Word Used To Denote A Very Good Or A Very Had Action, But More Frequently The Former. As A De Scription Of A Particular ...
A The Period From
A. The Period From The Institution Of Tiiis Festival To The Babylonish Captivity. —the Mosaic Enactments About The Manner In Which This Festival Is To Be Celebrated Are As Fol Lows :—the Israelites Are To Live In Tabernacles During The Seven Days Of This Festival, That Your Generations May Know ...
A The Period From
A. The Period From The Institution Of This Festival To The I3arylonish Captivity. —in The First Institution Of The Passover, It Is Or Dained That The Head Of Each Family Is To Select, On The Tenth Of Nisan (i. E., Four Days Beforehand, Meant To Represent The Four Generations Which ...
Aaron
Aaron (rtn, Etymology And Signification Uncertain; Sept. 'aapciv), The Eldest Son Of Am Ram And Jochebad, Of The Tribe Of Levi, And Brother Of Moses. He Was Born B. C. (hales, B. C. 5730), Three Years Before Moses, And One Year Before Pharaoh's Edict To Destroy The Male Children Of ...
Aaron B Joseph Maghrebi
Maghrebi, Aaron B. Joseph, Called The Elder (11m1i1), The Saint Of God Vrp), And The Teacher (lin), And Generally Quoted By The Name Iltnnil 117v., Aaron Ha-rishozz, A Distinguished Karaite Grammarian And Commentator Who Flou Rished 1270-1300. He Was Born In The Crimea, Became A Famous Traveller, Studied Medicine For ...
Aaron B Moses Ben Asher
Ben-asher, Aaron B. Moses, Of Tiberias Or Mocziah (rorpn Olpv:), As This Town Was Then Called, Immortalized His Name By His Accurate Edi Ion Of The Text Of The Hebrew Bible, Which Is The Present Textus Receptus. He Flourished About A.d. 900 To 960, Up To Which Time The Massoretic ...
Aaronites
Aaronites. This Term Occurs In The E. V. In I Chron. Xii. 27; Xxvii. 17; But There Is Nothing Exactly Corresponding In The Hebrew. In Both Passages The Word Is L'iru.6 For Aaron.—w. L. A. Ab (zn, Father) Is Found As The First Member Of Compound Hebrew Proper Names, The ...
Abattichim
Abattichim (p+rmzts; ; Sept. Crlicuos). This Word Occurs Only In Numbers Xi. 5, Where The Murmuring Israelites Say, `we Remember The Fish Which We Did Eat Freely In Egypt, The Cucumbers ' And The Abattichim,' Etc. The Last Word Has Always I Been Rendered Melons.' The Probable Correct Ness Of ...
Abbreviations
Abbreviations. As There Are Satisfactory Grounds For Believing That The Word Selah, In The Psalms, Is Not An Anagram, The Earliest Positive Evidence Of The Use Of Abbreviations By The Jews Occurs In Some Of The Inscriptions On The Coins Of Simon The , Maccabee. Some Of These, Namely, Have ...
Abednego
Abednego Servant Of Negv, I.e., Nebo ; Sept. 'apar;a-y05); The Chaldee Name Im Posed By The King Of Babylon's Officer Upon Azariah, One Of The Three Companions Of Daniel. With His Two Friends, Shadrach And Meshach, He Was Miraculously Delivered From The Burning Fur Nace, Into Which They Were Cast ...
Abiathar
Abiathar Father Of Abundance ; Sept. 'apui0ap), The Tenth High-priest Of The Jews, And Fourth In Descent From Eli. When His Father, The High-priest Ahimelech Was Slain With The Priests At Nob, For Suspected Partiality To The Fugitive David, Abiathar Escaped The Massacre ; And Bearing With Him The Most ...
Abijah
Abijah Sept. 'a(3ed, 2 Chron. Xiii. I., Pater Yehomn, E., Vir Divimus, Tit Vidttur, Q. ?ri'px Cpn,' Gesenius In Thesaur.; [7ehovah Ist Versorger, Furst; Whose Father Is Al]; Sept. 'aped). 1. One Of The Sons Of Samuel,whose Misconduct Afforded The Ostensible Ground On Which The Israelites Demanded That Their Government ...
Abila
Abila, Capital Of The Abilene Of Lysanias (luke Iii. S); And Distinguished From Other Places Of The Same Name As The Abila Of Lysanias ('apix1) Roe Avaaviou), And (by Josephus) As The Abila Of Lebanon.' It Is Unnecessary To Reason Upon The Meaning Of This Greek Name; For It Is ...
Abilene
Abilene ('agic?wivh, Luke Iii. 1), The District Or Territory Which Took Its Name From The Chief Town, Abila. Its Situation Is In Some Degree Detemiinecl By That Of The Town; But Its Precise Limits And Ex Tent Remain Unknown. Northward It Must Have Reached Beyond The Upper Barrada, In Order ...
Abimelech 1n
Abimelech (1**':n, Father Of The King, Or Perhaps Royal Father; Sept. 'a(3naxex), The Name Of Several Philistine Kings, And Probably Less A Proper Name Than A Titular Distinction Of These Kings, Like Pharaoh For The Kings Of Egypt, Or Augustus For The Emperors Of Rome. 1. A King Of Gerar ...
Abishag
Abishag (n;h:ti, Father Of Error; Sept. 'apard-r), A Beautiful Young Woman Of Shunam, In The Tribe Of Issachar, Who Was Chosen By The Servants Of David To Be Introduced Into The Royal Harem, For The Special Purpose Of Ministering To Iffin, And Cherishing Him In His Old Age. She Be ...
Abiyonaii 71jssn
Abiyonaii (71js'sn.; Sept. Xcir7rapts). This Word Occurs Only Once In The Bible, Eccles. Xii. 5 : When The Almond-tree Shall Flourish, And The Grasshopper Shall Be A Burden, And Desire Shall Fail ; Because Man Goeth To His Long Home.' The Word Translated Desire Is Abiyonah, Which By Others Has ...
Ablution
Ablution, The Ceremonial Washing, Whereby, As A Symbol Of Purification From Uncleanness, A Per Son Was Considered—t. To Be Cleansed From The Taint Of An Inferior And Less Pure Condition, And Initiated Into A Higher And Purer State ; 2. To Be Cleansed From The Soil Of Common Life, And ...
Abner Or
Abner Or Father Of Gett ; Sept. ' The Cousin Of Saul (being The Son Of His Uncle Ner), And The Commander-in-chief Of His Army. He Does Not Come Much Before Us Until After The Death Of Saul, B.c. To56. Then, The Experience Which He Had Acquired, And The Character ...
Abomination
Abomination (rivn And ) Sept. And New Test.—e. G., Matt. Xxiv. For Both). These Words Describe Generally Any Object Of Detestation Or Disgust (lev. Xviii. 22; Deut. Vii. 25); And Are Applied To An Impure Or De Testable Action (ezek. Xxii. I R ; Xxxiii. 26 ; Mal. Ii. Etc.); ...
Abraham
Abraham Multitude• Sept. Appacip), The Founder Of The Hebrew Nation. Up To Gen. Xvii. 4, 5, He Is Uniformly Called A Bram (013n, Father Of Elevation, Or High Father; Sept. '.a.opa,u), And This Was His Original Name; But The Extended Form, Which It Always Afterwards Bears, Was Given To It ...
Abraham Calovius
Calovius, Abraham, A Lutheran Divine Of The 17th Century, Was Born At Norungen In East Prussia, 1612 A.d. In 1626 He Went To The University Of Konigsberg, And Studied Four Years. In 1634 He Went To Rostock ; In 1637 He Became Extraordinary Professor At Konigsberg ; In 1643 He ...
Abraham R Meier Ibn
Ibn Ezra, Abraham R. Meier, Also Called By The Jews Rabe (.1).11:1), From The Initials Of Rabbi Abraham Ben Ezra (trity And By The Scholastics Eberlare Or Evenare, One Of The Most Remarkable Of The Jewish Literati Of The Middle Ages, Who Commanded The Whole Cycle Of Knowledge Of His ...
Abraham Usque
Usque, Abraham Oprx Crrax ',), Was One Of The Thousands Of Jews Who Were Expelled From Portugal By King Iinmanuel (1497), After Enjoying Five Years Of Comparative Rest From The Terrible Sufferings Consequent Upon The Expulsion Of His Family Ancl Co-religionists From Spain By Isabella And Ferdinand (1492). He Sought ...
Abravanel
Abravanel (also Called Abarbanel, Ravan Ella, And Barbanella), Rabbi Don Isaac Ben Jehudah, A Celebrated Jewish Statesman, Philoso Pher, Theoldgian, And Commentator, And A Very Voluminous Writer, Was Born In Lisbon In Of An Ancient Family Which Traced Its Descent From The Royal House Of David, And Which Emigrated Into ...
Absalom
Absalom Father Of Peace; Sept. 'ageacraxth,u,; Vulg. Absalan), The Third Son Of David, And His Only Son By Maachah, Daughter Of Talmai, King Of Geshur (2 Sam. Iii. 3). He Was Deemed The Handsomest Man In The Kingdom ; And Was Particularly Noted For The Profusion Of His Beautiful Hair, ...
Absaloms Tomb
Absalom's Tomb. A Remarkable Monu Ment Bearing This Name Makes A Conspicuous Figure In The Valley Of Jehoshaphat, Outside Jerusalem; And It Has Been Noticed And Described By Almost All Travellers. It Is Close By The Lower Bridge Over The Kedron, And Is A Square Isolated Block Hewn Out From ...
Absinthium
Absinthium Ca1/40os In N. T., While 14111v Is That By Which Aquila Renders The Heb. A.v. Wormwooa). This Proverbially Bitter Plant Is Used In The Hebrew, As In Most Other Languages, Metaphorically, To Denote The Moral Bitterness Of Dis Tress And Trouble (dent. Xxix. Is ; Prov. V.4 ; Jer. ...
Abstinence
Abstinence Is A Refraining From The Use Of Certain Articles Of Food Usually Eaten ; Or From All Food During A Certain Time For Some Particular Object. It Is Distinguished From Temperance, Which Is Moderation In Ordinary Food ; And From Fasting, Which Is Abstinence From A Religious Motive. The ...
Abyssinia
Abyssinia. There Is No Part Of Africa, Egypt Being Excepted, The History Of Which Is Connected With So Many Objects Of Interest As Abyssinia. A Region Of Alpine Mountains, Ever Difficult Of Access By Its Nature And Peculiar Situ Ation, Concealing In Its Bosom The Long-sought Sources Of The Nile, ...
Abyssinia
Abyssinia ' Is An European Improvement Upon The Native Name Of Habes1-1.' That This Country Lies To The South Of Nubia, Which Separates It From Egypt, And To The West Of The Gulf Of Bab-el-mandah And The Scuthern Part Of The Arabian Sea, Will Sufficiently Indicate Its Position. Abyssinia Is ...
Accabish
Accabish ((j'011t). This Word Occurs Job • Viii. 14 And Is. Lix. 5, In Both Which Places It Is Translated Spider In The A. V. That This Is The Cor Rect Rendering Cannot Be Doubted ; All The Ancient Versions Support It, And The Context In Both Places Fully Accords ...
Accad
Accad (inz,..1; Sept. 'apxci8), One Of The Four Cities In `the Land Of Shinar' Or Babylonia, Which Are Said To Have Been Built By Nimrod, Or Rather To Have Been 'the Beginning Of His Kingdom' (gen. X. So). Their Situation Has Been Much Disputed. Telian (de Animal. Xvi. 42) Mentions ...
Accent
Accent. This Term Is Often Used With A Very Wide Meaning ; As When We Say That A Person Has ' A Scotch Accent,' In Which Ease It Denotes All That Distinguishes The Scotch From The English Pronunciation. We Here Confine The Word, In The First Place, To Mean Those ...
Accommodation
Accommodation. The General Idea Ex Pressed By This Term Is That Some Object Is Presented, Not In Its Absolute Reality, Not As It Is In Itself, But Under Some Modification, Or Under Some Relative Aspect, So As The Better To Secure Some End At Which The Writer Or Speaker Aims. ...
Accubation
Accubation, The Posture Of Reclining On Couches At Table, Which Prevailed Among The Jews In And Before The Time Of Christ. We See No Reason To Think That, As Commonly Alleged, They Borrowed This Custom From The Romans After Judea Had Been Subjugated By Pompey. But It Is Best Known ...
Aceldama
Aceldama ('a,casatai, From The Syro Chaldaic, Field Of Blood), The Field Purchased With The Money For Which Judas Be Trayed Christ, And Which Was Appropriated As A Place Of Burial For Strangers (matth. Xxvii. S ; Acts I. 19). [there Is An Apparent Discrepancy Between The Statement Of Matthew And ...
Achan
Achan (p.1; Sept. "axav, Or 'axap, Josh. Vii. ; In I Chron. Ii. 7 Spelt 'uv, Troubler), The Name Of A Man Who When Jericho Was Taken And Devoted To Destruction Fell Under The Temptation Of Secreting An Ingot Of Gold, A Quantity Of Silver, And A Costly Babylonish Garment, ...
Achbar
Achbar Achbar; Perhaps Generically Including Aliarbai Or Jerboa, Or 3,u Parnh Of The Arabs, Sept. Gos). The Word Occurs Where, It Seems, The Nomenclature In Modern Zoology Would Point Out Two Distinct Genera Or Species (lev. Xi. 29sam. Vi. 4, ;, 1, Is ; Is. Lxvi. 17). The Radical Meaning ...
Achish
A.chish Signification Uncertain ; Sept. 'a-yxas, Also 'apx(s, 'axis, Called Abimelech In The Title Of Ps. Xxxiv.), The Philistine King Of Gath, With Whom David Twice Sought Refuge When He Fled From Saul (i Sam. Xxi. 10-15; Xxvii. 1-3). The First Time David Was In Imminent Danger; For He Was ...
Achlamaii
Achlamaii (rithnti; Sept.'aplovcr!ros; Vulg. Amethystas), A Precious Stone, Mentioned In Scrip Ture As The Ninth In The Breastplate Of The High-priest (exod. Xxviii. ; Xxxix. 12)1 And The Twelfth In The Foundations Of The New Jerusalem (rev. Xxi. 20). The Concurrence Of Various Circumstances Leave Little Doubt That The Stone ...
Achmetha
Achmetha (nrinri,t, Ezra Vi. 2; 'eki3drava, 2 Mace. Ix. 3 ; Judith I. I, 2 ; Tob. Iii. 7 ; Joseph. Antiq. X. I 1, 7 ; Xi. 4, 6; Also, In Greek Authors, 'etypctrava And 'aypctrapa), A City In Media. The Derivation Of The Name Is Doubtful ; But ...
Acts Of Tiie Apostles
Acts Of Tiie Apostles. (11pcieets Rw 'airoar6xtev). This Title Has Been Borne By The Fifth Historical Book Of The N. T. From A Very Early Period [(canon Illuratori, Clem. Alex. Strom. V. 12 P. 696, Ed. Potter, Tertullian Cont. Mon V. 2, De 7ejnn Io, De Bap!. So. ) Perhaps ...
Ad Agrippa Ii
Agrippa Ii., A.d. 48-i00.—there Is An Interest. Ing Coin In The Cabinet Of Mr. Reichardt (num. Chron., N. S., Vol. Ii. P. 274) Bearing The Head Of Agrippa Il, An Unusual Circumstance For Jewish Coins (see, However, Under Alexander Jannmus). The Coins Of Agrippa Il, Struck Under Nero, Commemorate The ...
Adad
Adad Is The Name Of The Chief Deity Of The Syrians, The Sun, According To Macrobius, Whose Words Are (saturnal, I. 23): Accipe Quid Assyrii De Solis Potentia Opinentur ; Deo Enim, Quem Sum. Mum Maximumque Venerantur, Adad Nomen Deder Unt. Ejusnoininis Interpretatio Significat . . Simulacrum, Adad Insigne Cernitur ...
Adam Clarke
Clarke, Adam, Ll.d. A Celebrated Wes Leyan Divine, Born Of Humble Parents In The North Of Ireland, 1762. Owing To The Poverty Of Their Circumstances His Education Was Extremely Limited, And Though, By Dint Of Unwearied Energy And Per Severance, He Afterwards Became Remarkable For The Extent And Variety Of ...
Adar Tin
Adar (tin, 'acsdp, Esth. Iii. 7; The Mace Donian Is The Sixth Month Of The Civil And The Twelfth Of The Ecclesiastical Year Of The Jews. The Name Was First Introduced After The Captivity. The Following Are The Chief Days In It Which Are Set Apart For Commemoration :—the 7th ...
Adarconim
Adarconim G. ; Sept. Spax,wij And Xpixrds ; Vulg. Drachma And Aureus). Gesenius And Most Others Are Of Opinion That These Words, Which Occur In R Chron. Xxix. 7 ; Ezra Viii. 27; Ii. 69 ; Neb. Vii. 70-72, Denote The Persian Dark, A Gold Coin, Which Must Have Been ...
Adashim
Adashim (vie ; Sept. Oak6s; Vulg. Lens). Is The Interpretation Given By Our Own And Most Other Versions, And There Is No Reason To Question Its Accuracy. In Syria Lentiles Are Still Called In Adders (russell, N. H. Of Aleppo, I. 74). Lentiles Appear To Have Been Cnieny Used For ...
Adoni Zedek
Adoni-zedek (pir+yin ; Sept. 'astopc F3es`/k, Confounding Him With Adonibezek). The Name Denotes Lord Of Justice, I, E. Just Lord, But Some Would Rather Have It To Mean King Of Zedele. He Was The King Of Jerusalem When The Israelites Invaded Palestine ; And The Similarity Of The Name To ...
Adonijah
Adonijah My Lard 7ehovah; Sept. 'aseeplas), 1. The Fourth Son Of David, By Haggith. He Was Born After His Father Became King, But When He Reigned Over Judah Only (2 Sam. Iii. 4). According To The Oriental Notion Developed In The Article Absalom, Adonijah Might Have Considered His Claim Superior ...
Adoption
Adoption. The Old Testament Does Not Contain Any Word Equivalent To This ; And It May Be Doubted Whether The Act Occurs In Any Form Answering To The Word. The New Testament Has The Word Ulooeo-ta Often (rom. Viii. 15, 23 ; Ix. 4 ; Gal. Iv. 5 ; Eph. ...
Adrammelecii Z11n
Adrammelecii (*z11n, 'aapaktexex) Is Mentioned, Together With Anammelech, In 2 Kings Xvii. 3r, As One Of The Idols Whose Worship The Inhabitants Of Sepharvaim Established In Samaria, When They Were Transferred Thither By The King Of Assyria, And Whom They Worshipped By The Sacrifice Of Their Children By Fire. This ...
Adullam 61n
Adullam (61n ; Sept. '05oxxclp), An Old City (gen. Xxxviii. I, 20) In The Plain Country Of The Tribe Of Judah (josh. Xv. 35), And One Of The Royal Cities Of The Canaanites (josh. Xii. 15). It Was One Of The Towns Which Rehoboam Fortified (2 Chron. Xi. 7 ; ...
Adultery
Adultery. In The Common Acceptation Of The Word, Adultery Denotes The Sexual Intercourse Of A Married Woman With Any Other Man Than Her Husband, Or Of A Married Man With Any Other Woman Than His Wife. But The Crime Is Not Under Stood In This Extent Among Eastern Nations, Nor ...
Adummim
Adummim Sept. 'asce/.4alv ; Various Readings Are 'mon/44, ''abogi.41, And 'esmafµ), A Place Which Is Only Twice Named In Scripture. The First Instance Is Josh. Xv. 7, Where, From The Context, It Seems To Indicate Th E Bo Rder Between Judah And Benjamin, And That It Was An Ascending Road ...
Affinity
Affinity Is Relationship By Marriage, As Distinguished From Consanguinity, Which Is Relation Ship By Blood. Marriages Between Persons Thus Related, In Various Degrees, Which Previous Usage, In Different Conditions Of Society, Had Allowed, Were Forbidden By The Law Of Moses. These Degrees Are Enumerated In Lev. Xviii. 7, Sq. The ...
Africa
Africa. This `quarter Of The World' Is Not Mentioned As Such By Any General Name In Scrip Ture, Although Some Of Its Regions Are Indicated. It Is Thought By Some, However, That Africa, Or, As Much Of It As Was Then Known, Is Denoted By ' The Land Of Ham' ...
Agapie Agape
Agape, Agapie (dt-ydr72, Eryclral), The Greek Term For Love, Used By Ecclesiastical Writers (most Frequently In The Plural) To Signify The Social Meal Of The Primitive Christians, Which Generally Accom Panied The Eucharist. Much Learned Research Has Been Spent In Tracing The Origin Of This Custom ; But Though Considerable ...
Agmon
Agmon (link.,7) Occurs In Job Xii. 2; Xli. 20; Isaiah Ix. 14; Xix. 15 ; Lviii. 5 ; In The First Of Which Passages It Is Translated In Our Authorized Version By Hook; In The Second By Caldron; In The Two Next By Rush; And In The Last By Bulrush. ...
Agricultural Operations
Agricultural Operations.- Of Late Years Much Light Has Been Thrown Upon The Agricultural Operations And Implements Of Ancient Times, By The Discovery Of Various Representations On The Sculptured Monuments And Painted Tombs Of Egypt. As These Agree Surprisingly With The Notices In The Bible, And, Indeed, Differ Little From What ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. The Antiquity Of Agriculture Is Indicated In The Brief History Of Cain And Abel, When It Tells Us That The Former Was A 'tiller Of The Ground,' And Brought Some Of The Fruits Of His Labour As An Offering To God (gen. Iv. 2, 3), And That Part Of ...
Agrielaia
Agrielaia ('a-ypzexafct ; New Test. Cl-ypig Xatos). The Wild Olive-tree Is Mentioned By St. Paul In Romans Xi. 17, 24. Here Different Opinions Have Been Entertained, Not Only With Respect To The Plant, But Also With Respect To The Explanation Of The Metaphor. One Great Difficulty Has Arisen From The ...
Agur
'agur Evp. This Word Occurs Is. Xxxviii 14 And Jer. Viii. 7; In Both Cases In Connection With Md, But In The Latter The Two Words Are Connected By The Copulative 1, While In The Former This Is Wanting. In The A. V. It Is Translated Swallow In Both Places, ...
Ahalim
Ahalim Ovirit.4 And Ahaloth 7 7 Usually Translated Aloes, Occur In Several Ps Sages Of The Old Testament, As In Ps. Xlv. 8, All Thy Garments Smell Of Mykih, And Ahaloth, And Cassia ;' Prov. Vii. 17, I Have Perfumed My Bed With Myrrh, With Cinnamon And Ahalim;' Canticles Iv. ...
Ahalini Kopher Qetziaq1ddah
[ahalini ; Kopher ; Qetzia ; Q1ddah ; Qin Namon] ; But Whether They Used Any Of These With Food Is Uncertain. Ii. The Early Acquaintance Of The Race With The Use Of Fire Renders It Probable That From The Beginning Men Used Some Process Of Cooking In The Preparation ...
Ahasuerus Or Achashverosh
Ahasuerus Or Achashverosh, Is The Name, Or Rather The Le, Of Four Median And Persian Monarchs Mentioned In The Bible. The Earlier Attempts Of Simonis And Others To Derive This Name From The Persian &hash Are Unworthy Of Notice. Hyde (de Relig. Vet. Pers. P. 43) More Boldly Proposed To ...