Day Of Atonement
Atonement, Day Of (n+-ppn 12i+, Lxx. Talm. Nv+, The Day), A Great Religious Festival Of The Jews, Of Which The Rule And Order Are Given, Lev. Xvi. 1-34 • Xxiii. A6-32 ; Num. Xxix. 7-ii. It Was Observed On The Tenth Day Of The Seventh Month (tisri), And Was Held ...
Daysman
Daysman Is A Word Which Occurs But Once In The A. V. Of The Scriptures, In Job Ix..33 ; It Is More Remarkable From Its Structure And Derivation As An English Word, Than From Any Doubt Of The Meaning Of The Original Hebrew Term, Which It Re Presents. This Term ...
De Cisneros Francisco Ximenes
Ximenes, De Cisneros Francisco. This Distinguished Cardinal And Primate Of Spain, To Whom Biblical Literature Is Indebted For The First Polyglott, Was Born In 1436 At The Little Town Of Tordelaguna, Of An Ancient But Decayed Castilian Family, Who Originally Lived At Cisneros, Whence The Cardinal Derived The Name De ...
Deacon
Deacon (auleorv/), The Designation Of An Office-bearer In The Apostolic Churches (phil. I. 1 ; I Tim. Iii. 8-13). Respecting This Office Certain Questions Require To Be Considered. 1. Did It Correspond To That Of The 1111 Chazan In The Jewish Synagogue, The Inrmolrns Of The N. T. (luke Iv. ...
Deaconness
Deaconness (attu;6virraa,-batcinovos). That In The Early Church There Were Females Who Were Officially Set Apart For Certain Duties Under The Title Of Deaconesses Seems Beyond Doubt (see Bingham, Bk. Ii., Ch. Xxii.) ; But Whether Such Were Found In The Churches Of The Apostolic Age Is Very Doubt Ful. The ...
Death
Death. Of The Scriptural Representations, Names, And Modes Of Speech Respecting Death, May Be Noticed The Following :— (a). One Of The Most Common In The O. T. Is, To Return To The Dust, Or To The Earth. Hence The Phrase, The Dust Of Death. It Is Founded On The ...
Death By Crucifixion
Crucifixion, Death By (physically Con Sidered), Is To Be Attributed To The Sympathetic Fever Which Is Excited By The Wounds, And Aggra Vated By Exposure To The Weather, Privation Of Water, And The Painfully Constrained Position Of The Body. Traumatic Fever Corresponds, In In. Tensity And In Character, To The ...
Debir
Debir (i+zri And -al ; Sept. Aapeip). 1. One - : Of The Ancient Royal Cities Of The Canaanites, Cap Tured By Joshua During His First Great Campaign, Along With Hebron And Others (josh. X. 33-39). It Was Inhabited By The Anakim, Who Appear To Have Re-occupied The City After ...
Deborah
Deborah ; Sept. Deppilipa. I. The Nurse Of Rebekah, Whom She Accompanied To The Land Of Canaan ; She Died Near Bethel, And Was Buried Under An Oak, Which, For That Reason, Was Thenceforth Called Allonbachuth—' The Oak Of Weeping' (gen. Xxxv. 8). The Time Of Her Death Deborah Was ...
Deborah
Deborah (min, A Bee). This Insect Be Longs To The Family Apidre, Order Hymenoptera, Species Apis Vrelli6ca, Commonly Called The Honey Bee, Because This Species Has Often Yielded Honey To Man. The Bee Is One Of The Most Generally Diffused Creatures On The Globe, Being Found In Every Region. Its ...
Decalogue
Decalogue (nn1in Ri*/, ; Sept. Of Saka Xeryot And Ta Mut Ii.7)/ha7 A; Vulg. Decem Verba, The Ten Words. Exod. Xxxiv. 28 ; Deut. Iv. 13 ; X. 4). This Is The Name Most Usually Given By The Greek Fathers To The Law Of The Two Tables, Given By God ...
Decapolis
Decapolis (aoccbroxts). A District Lying Chiefly On The East Side Of The Upper Jordan And The Sea Of Tiberias, But Also Including A Small Portion Of Southern Galilee Around Scythopolis. It Received Its Name, As Pliny Says, From The Num Ber Of Leading Cities It Contained (setca, Ten') ; But ...
Dedan M
Dedan (m; Sept. Acusciv). Two Persons Of This Name Are Mentioned In Scripture ; 1. The Son Of Raamah, The Son Of Cush (gen. X. 7) ; 2. The Second Son Of Jokshan, Abraham's Son By Keturah (gen. Xxv. 3). Both Were Founders Of Tribes, Afterwards Repeatedly Named In Scripture ...
Defensive
Defensive Arms.—the Most Ancient Defensive Piece Was The Shield, Buckler, Roundel, Or Target, Composed Of A Great Variety Of Materials, Very Different In Form And Size, And Therefore In All Nations Bearing A Variety Of Names. The Hebrews Used The Word Ruv Tsinnah, For A Great Shield ; Defence, Protection ...
Deluge
Deluge. The Sacred Historian Informs Us That In The Ninth Generation From Adam, When The Race Of Man Had Greatly Multiplied On The Face Of The Earth, Wickedness Of Every Kind Had Fearfully Increased, That Every Imagination Of The Thoughts Of The Human Heart Was Only Evil Continually, That The ...
Demoniacs
Demoniacs (satilommuevoi.), Demonized Per Sons In The N. T. Are Those Who Were Supposed To Have A Demon Or Demons Occupying Them, Suspend Ing The Faculties Of Their Minds, And Governing The Members Of Their Bodies, So That What Was Said And Done By The Demoniacs Was Ascribed To The ...
Deposit
Deposit Is A Term Of The Civil Law (depositum), Which Sir W. Jones (the Law Of Bailments, Waits, Viii. 448) Defines As A Bailment (or Delivery Of Goods In Trust) To Be Kept For The Bailor Without A Recompense ; On A Contract Expressed Or Implied, That The Trust Shall ...
Derbe
Derbe (alpp71). A Town Of Lycaonia (acts Xiv. 6), In Asia Minor, Situated On The Great Road From Tarsus To Iconium, And Apparently About Eighty Miles North-west Of The Former. This Road, Traces Of Which Still Remain, Is Carried From Cilicia Through The Taurus Range By A Difficult Pass Called ...
Desert
Desert. This Word Is Employed In The A. V. Of The Bible To Represent No Less Than Four Distinct Hebrew Words ; And Even In The Rendering Of These It Is Not Employed Uniformly. The Same Hebrew Term Is Sometimes Translated Wilderness,' Some Times ' Desert,' And Once ' South.' ...
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus, Desiderius, Was Born At Rotter Dam The 28th Of October 1467, And Died At Basel On The 11th Or R2th July (o. S.) 1536. His Father's Name Was Gerhard Praet ; His Mother Was The Daughter Of A Physician Of Sevenbergen. They Were Never Married. He Was Called Gerhard ...
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy The Greek Name Given By The Alexandrian Jews To The Fifth Book Of Moses (a Corresponding Name, Rut:u Mrri, Is, However, Also Found With The Rabbins), By Which The General Tenor Of The Book Is Very Well Characterised. It Comprises That Series Of Ad Dresses Which The Lawgiver Delivered ...
Development Iii Origin
Iii. Origin, Development, And Extinction Of The Sanhedrim. According To The Most Ancient Jewish Tradition, The Sanhedrim Was Instituted By Moses, When He Appointed, According To The Command Of God, Seventy Elders, Who, Together With Him As Their President, Were To Act As Magistrates And Judges (num. Xi. 16-24), Thus ...
Dial
Dial. The Invention Of The Sun-dial Belongs Most Probably To The Babylonians. Herodotus Affirms, That The Greeks Derived From Them The Pole (supposed To Mean The Dial-plate), The Gnomon, And The Division Of Day Into Twelve Parts (ii. 1o9). Vitruvius Also Ascribes The Most Ancient Form Of The Dial, Called ...
Didrachm
Didrachm (mpaxi.cov), A Silver Coin Equal To Two Drachm, And Rendered In The English Version Of The N. T. By The Word Tribute. The Septuagint Renders The Hebrew Shekel Of The O. T. By Didrachma. Hence A Great Difficulty Has Arisen, For The Extant Shekels, Which Are Of The Maccabman ...
Dies Primitivorum
Dies Primitivorum, 'the Day Offirstfruits' (num. Xxviii. 26), Because The First Loaves Made From The New Corn Were Offered On It On The Altar (lev. Xxiii. 17), For Which Reason Philo (opp. Ii. 294) Calls It Enpri; Irpwro-yevvnuctrwp. Iv. It Is Also Denominated In The Post-canonical Jewish Writings Mypri An, ...
Diind
Diind, That He Was A Contemporary Of The Editor, And That He Made This Version For This Edi Tion Of The Pentateuch. It May, However, Be Ques Tioned Whether The Words, Which He Interpreted For Us,' Refer To The Editor, Or Mean That Tusi Made This Version For Us—i. E. ...
Dionysius The Areopagite
Dionysius The Areopagite, And Pseudo-dionysius. The Name Of Diony Sius The Areopagite' Enlivens The Scanty Ac Count Of Success Which Attended The Visit Of Paul To Athens (acts Xvii. 34). Nothing Further Is Related Of Him In The N. T., But Ecclesiastical Historians Record Some Particulars Concerning His Career, Both ...
Discus
Discus (ihrsos), One Of The Exercises In The Grecian Gymnasia, Being Included In The Wirra0x0v, Which Was Introduced In The Ath Olympiad (p.c. 708). The Profligate High-priest Jason, In The Reign Of Antiochus Iv., Surnamed Epiphanes (b.g. 175-164) Introduced Public Games At Jerusalem, Where He Erected A Gymnasium, Or Place ...
Diseases Of The Jews
Diseases Of The Jews. The Most Pre Valent Diseases Of The East Are Cutaneous Diseases, Malignant Fevers, Dysentery, And Ophthalmia. Of The First Of These The Most Remarkable Are Leprosy And Elephantiasis. [leprosy.] To The Same Class Also Belongs The Singular Disease Called The Mal D'aleppo, Which Is Confined To ...
Dispersion Of Nations
Nations, Dispersion Of. The List Of The Descendants Of Noah (gen. X.) Is The Most Import Ant Document Extant Of Primitive Geography And Ethnology. The List Itself Indicates The Geographi Cal Distribution Of The Noachians, And Enables Us To Trace The Origin Of Most Of The Nations Of The Primaeval ...
Dizahab
Dizahab (zriri ; Sept. Karaxpithea). The Passage In Which This Word Occurs Was Long Re Garded As One Of The Most Difficult, In A Geographical Point Of View, In The Bible : ' These Be The Words Which Moses Spake Unto All Israel On This Side Jor Dan, In The ...
Doors Of
Doors Of Houses.—among The Ancient Egyp Tians Doors Were Frequently Stained So As To Imitate Foreign Wood. They Were Either Of One Or Two Valves, Turning On Pins Of Metal,..and Were Secured Within By Bars And Bolts. Some Of The Bronze Pins Have Been Discovered In The Tombs Of Thebes, ...
Dophkah
Dophkah, An Encampment Of The Israelites In The Wilderness. [wandering, The.] Dor (111, And 1;,..;1 ; Sept. @pa), An Ancient Royal City Of The Canaanites (josh. Xii. 23), Situated On The Coast Of The Mediterranean (1 Maccab. Xv. Fourteen Miles South Of The Promontory Of Carmel, And Seven North Of ...
Dositheus
Dositheus (acocrlocos). I. One Of The Generals Of Judas Maccabreus (2 Maccab. Xii. 19, 24). 2. A Horse Soldier In The Army Of Judas Mac Cabuus, Of The Company Of Bacenor (2 Maccab. Xii. 35). 3. A Renegade Jew In The Camp Or Ptolemy Philopator (3 Maccab. I. 3).—s. N. ...
Doves Dung
Doves' Dung. This Expression Occurs In 2 Kings Vi. 25, As A Literal Translation Of In)nrs Airionim Or Eharei-yonim, Which In The Margin Is Written Dib-yonim, Both Meaning The Same Thing ; And It Is Curious That In The Arabic There Are Two Words Very Similar To These, Khzereh, And ...
Drachm
Drachm (6paxgh, Drachma), A Principal Sil Ver Coin Of The Greeks, Which Became Current Among The Jews After The Exile (2 Maccab. Iv. 19 ; X. 20 ; Xii. 43 ; Luke Xv. 8, 9).* It Is Of Various Weights, According To The Use Of The Different Talents. I. The ...
Dreams
Dreams. Of All The Subjects Upon Which The Mind Of Man Has Speculated, There Is Parhaps None Which Has More Perplexed Than That Of Dreaming ; But Whatever May Be The Difficulties Attending The Subject, We Know That It Has Formed A Channel Through Which Jehovah ;was Pleased In Former ...
Dress
Dress. The Subject Of The Costume Of The Ancient Hebrews Is Involved In Much Obscurity And Doubt. Sculptured Monuments And Coins Afford Us All Needful Information Respecting The Dress Of The Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, And Romans ; And Even The Garb Worn By The Bar Barous Nations Is ...
Dudaim
Dudaim This Word, In Its Plural Form, Only Occurs In Two Places Of Scripture, Genesis Xxx. 14-16, And Canticles Vii. 13, In Both Of Which It Is Rendered By Mandrakes. From The Above Passages It Is Evident That The Diedaiin Were Collected In The Fields, That They Were Fit For ...
Dukhiphath
Dukhiphath (nvzr), An Unclean Bird (lev. Xi. 19 ; Dent. Xiv. 18). As The Word Does Not Occur Except In These Two Passages, Our Means Of Identifying The Bird Whose Name It Is With Any Known Species Are Very Slender. The Lxx. Ren Dering Is Foot, The Vulg. Upupa, And ...
Dumah
Dumah (nnr ; Sept. 'isoukoxia). The Name Of The Country Colonized By The Posterity Of Dumah, The Son Of Ishmael (gen. Xxv. 14-16). No Indica Tion Is Given Either In Genesis Or Chronicles (1 Chron. I. 3o) Of Its Position. In Is. Xxi. I 1, Dumah Is Mentioned In Such ...
Dunash Adonim Benlabrat
Dunash = Adonim Ben Labrat Or Lirrat (u:rith) Ha-levi, Who Is Called By The Germano French Writers (e. G. Rashi, Cara, Etc.) Dunash, And By The Italian School (e. G., Ibn Ezra, Kimchi, Etc.), Is Denominated A'. Aa'oni In, Was One Of The Earliest Jewish Philologists, Whose Writings Greatly Influenced ...
Dunash Adonim Bentamim
Dunash = Adonim Ben Tamim, The Baby Lonian, Was Born At Irak About 90o A.d., And Died About 960. He Was Educated When A Youth At Kainvan, By The Celebrated Isaac Israeli, Who In Structed Him In Metaphysics, Medicine, And Philo Logy. He Distinguished Himself In His Studies At Such ...
Duncan
Duncan, ?robert, Born 1699, And Ordained Minister Of The Parish Of Tillicoultry 1728, Where He Died In The Following Year. His Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews Was Published In 1731. It Is A Simple But Useful Work, Consisting Of A Running Comment, Never At Any Great Length, On ...
Dupin
Dupin, Louis Ellies, A Distinguished French Writer, Was Born On The 17th June 1657, At Paris. After Studying In The College Of Harcourt At A Very Early Age, He Entered The Sorbonne With A View To The Ecclesiastical Profession ; Devoted Him Self There To The Study Of The Ecclesiastical ...
Durham
Durham, James, Born 1622, Ordained To The Ministry In Blackfriar's Church, Glasgow, 1647, And Appointed Professor Of Divinity In The University Of The Same City In 1650. He Could Not Enter On The Discharge Of This Office, However, As He Had To Attend The King In The Capacity Of Royal ...
Ear Rings
Ear-rings. No Custom Is More Ancient Or Universal Than That Of Wearing Ear-rings, From Which It Would Appear To Be A Very Natural Idea To Attach Such An Ornament To The Pendulous Lobe Of The Ear. There Are Two Words In Hebrew Denoting Ear-rings, Viz., Which Is Applied To Any ...
Earnest
Earnest. Is Evidently The Hebrew In Greek Characters. With A Slight Altera Tion In The Letters, But With None Whatever In The Sense, It Becomes The Latin Arrhabo, Contr. Arrha ; French Arses; English Earles And Earnest. These Three Words Occur In The Hebrew, Septuagint, And Vulgate In Gen. Xxxviii. ...
Earthquake
Earthquake (or)). There Is Good Rea Son For Holding That Earthquakes Are Closely Con Nected With Volcanic Agency. Both Probably Spring From The Same Cause; And May Be Regarded As One Mighty Influence Operating To Somewhat Dissimilar Results. Volcanic Agency, Therefore, Is An Indica Tion Of Earthquakes, And Traces Of ...
East
East. This Is The Rendering In The A. V. Of Two Hebrew Words Tintn And Nip, And Of The Greek Controx?) Dvaronal. 1. 1111d Properly Denotes The Sun-rising-, From Nit. It Is Used Tropically For The East Indefinitely (ps. Ciii. 12 ; Dan. Viii. 9 ; Am. Viii. 12, Etc.); ...
Ebal
Ebal (* ; Sept. Paa(3ax). In The Midst Of The Mountains Of Samaria Lies The Beautiful Upland Plain Of Mukhna. The Ridge Which Shuts It In On The West Is Steep And Rocky, And Towards Its North Ern End Is Cleft Asunder At Right Angles To Its Course By The ...
Ebenezer Henderson
Henderson, Ebenezer, D.d., Was Bom At Dunfermline, 17th Nov. 1784, And Died At Mort Lake In Surrey, 16th May 1858. Having Devoted Himself To The Work Of A Missionary To The Heathen, He Set Out With A View Of Proceeding To India By Way Of Denmark, Direct Access To The ...
Ecclesiasticus
Ecclesiasticus One Of The Most Important And Most Esteemed Of The Apocryphal Books Of The 0. T. 1. The Title Of The Book.—the Original Iiebrew Title Of This Book, According To The Authority Of The Jewish Writings, And St. Jerome (vide Infra, Sec. 3) Was Tr,vn Proverbs, Or More Fully ...
Eden
Eden Is The Most Ancient And Venerable Name In Geography, The Name Of The First District Of The Earth's Surface Of Which Human Beings Could Have Any Knowledge. The Word Is Found In The Arabic As Well As In The Hebrew Language. It Is Explained By Firuzabadi, In His Celebrated ...
Edmund Castell
Castell, Edmund, Eminent Among The Famous Band Of Oriental Scholars Which Adorned Our Literature In The 17th Century, Was Born In 1606 At Hatley, In Cambridgeshire. In 162r He Became A Pensioner Of Emmanuel College, Cam Bridge, From Which He Afterwards Migrated To St. John's College, For The Sake Of ...
Edrei
Edrei ; Sept. 'espacts.), One Of The Ancient Capitals Of Bashan, And The Residence Of Og, The Last Of Its Giant Kings (deut. I. 4 ; Josh. Xii. 4). Beside It Og Assembled His Forces To Oppose The Israelites, And There His Army Was Defeated, And He Himself Slain (deut. ...
Education
Education. As This Subject Is Intimately Connected With The Question Of Schools And Mode Of Instruction, Which Cannot Be Well Dealt With Sepa Rately, We Propose To Discuss Historically These Three Topics In The Present Article. 1. Education From The Exodus Of Egypt To The Return From Babylon.—being Under A ...