Glossary Gloss
Gloss, Glossary. A Gloss Is A Note -wended To Any Word Or Phrase For The Purpose 3f Interpretation Or Illustration. Sacred Glosses Are Inch Notes Appended To Words Or Phrases Occurring In The Scriptures. A Glossary Is A Collection Of Such Explanatory Notes Properly Arranged. The Word Gloss Is Borrowed ...
Gnosticism Gnostic
Gnostic, Gnosticism. The Religion Of Jesus Christ Appearing As A Divine Message, In Which Is Announced God's Plan Of Reconciling Sin Ners Unto Himself, Necessarily Assumes A Position Of Exclusiveness. It Is Not One Religion Among The Many, The Rdigion Of A Nation Or A Class • It Is The ...
Goad
Goad. Two Hebrew Words Are Translated By This Term In The A. V. (r.) Derived From Lra To Teach, An In Strument To Guide Oxen And Keep Them In The Right Track ; The Word Occurs Only In Judg. 31 ; The Septuagint Renders It Ciporp6rost, And The Vulgate Vomere, ...
Goath
Goath (r1;b, Or With Stiff., Rin3fa ; Vulg. Goatha), Mentioned Only Jer. Xxxi. 39, Where It Apparently Denotes Some Prominent Object Which Served To Mark In One Direction The Boundary Of Jerusalem ; But Whether It Were A Hill, Or A Valley, Or A Pool, Is Altogether Uncertain. In The ...
Goblet
Goblet (in.:; Lxx. Quirnp, Dryav/50). This Word Is Only Once Used In The A. V., Song Vii. 2, Thy Navel Is Like A Round Goblet.' The Hebrew Word Prt: Also Occurs In Two Other Places (exod. Xxiv. 6, A. V. Basons,' And Is. Xxii. 24, A. V. Cups.') From Exod. ...
Golan
Golan (kb, And 11; Sept. Patat6v And Rtoxav), An Ancient City Of Bashan, Allotted To The Levites, And Made One Of The Three Cities Of Refuge East Of The Jordan (deut. Iv. 43; Josh. Xx. 8; Chron. Vi. 71). The Name Does Not Occur In Bible History After The Division ...
Golgotha
Golgotha (pokyo9a ; Heb. And V Chaldee A Skull.') In Considering The Import Of This 'name, And The Situation Of The Place, It Is Necessary To Distinguish Very Clearly Be Tween What Is Purely Historical And What Is Legen Dary And Hypothetical. The Hebrew Or Aramman Name Golgotha Is Mentioned ...
Gomer
Gomer ; Sept. Ragip). 1. A Son Or Japhet, From Whom Descended Ashkenaz, Rip. Hath, And Togarmah (gen. X. 2, 3). 2. A People Descended From Him, The Troops Of Which Appear Along With Those Of Togarmah In The Army Of Gog (ezek. Xxxviii. 6). Bochart, Follow Ing The Targ. ...
Gomorra H
Gomorra H, In The N. 'i'. Gomorrha Crinbr; T Sept. N. T. P6kkof3aa). One Of The Most Ancient Towns Of Palestine, Situated In That Part Of The Once Fertile Plain Of The Jordan Which Is Now Covered By Thc Dead Sea. Sodom Appears To Have Been The Chief City Of ...
Gorgias
Gorgias (poiryfas), One Of The Generals Of An Ttochus Epiphanes, Who Is Called In Maccab. And In Josephus A Mighty Man Of The King's Friends ' (bhp &wart's R63t, 017on, Parraiccv ; Maccab. Iii. 38 ; Joseph. -4ntiq. Xii. 7. 3.) He Was Chosen By Lysias, The General And Minister ...
Gorico Typical
Gorico-typical And The Allegorico-mystical, Are Found In The Christian Writers As Early As The 1st And 2d Centures ; The Latter As Yv6ct-ts, The Mer As A Demonstration That All And Everything, Both What Had Happened, And What Would Come To Pass, Was Somehow Contained In The Sacred Tures (see ...
Gortvna
Gortvna (ropruva Alex., Vat. ;* In Classical Writers, R6pruv, F6prupa ; On A Coin, Li:6prvpa [koprupitevp, A City Of Crete, And Next To Cnos I Sus, The Most Important In The Island For Power And Magnificence. At One Time Gortyna And Cnossus In Union Held The Whole Of Crete In ...
Goshen
Goshen Qt.?) ; Sept. Pargp, Purgg), A Province Or District Of Egypt In Which Jacob And His Family Settled Through The Instrumentality Of His Son Joseph, And In Which They And Their Descendants Remained For A Period Of 430 Years (gen. Xlv. ; Xlvi. 28 ; Xlvii. 27 ; 1. ...
Gospel According To I
John, Gospel According To. I. Genuine Ness. —there Is No Reason To Doubt That The Fourth Gospel Was From The Beginning Received In The Church As The Production Of The Apostle Whose Name It Bears. We May Decline To Accept As A Testimony For This The Statement At The Close ...
Gospel Mark
Mark, Gospel Of.—i. Voice Of The Church With One Consent Assigns Our Second Gospel To Mark, The Son ' (1 Pet. V. 17) And `interpreter' (papias Ap. Euseb. H. E. , Iii. 39) Of St. Peter. The Existence Of This Ascription Is The Best Evidence Of Its Truth. Had Not ...
Gospel Of I Matthew
Matthew, Gospel Of. I. Author.—there Is No Ancient Book With Regard To The Authorship Of Which We Have Earlier, Fuller, And More Unani Mous Testimony. From Papias, Almost If Not Quite Contemporary With The Apostles, Downwards, We Have A Stream Of Unimpeachable Witnesses To The Fact That Matthew Was The ...
Gothic Version
Gothic Version. —the Mceso-goths Were A German Tribe Which Settled On The Borders Of The Greek Empire, And Their Language Is Essentially A German Dialect. Their Version Of The Bible Was Made By Ulphilas, In The Fourth Century, After Greek Mss. In The N. T., And After The Seventy In ...
Governor
Governor, A Term Used By The A. V. To Denote Various Degrees Of Authority And Power : Absolute And Limited, Acquired By_ Birth Or By Election, Military And Civil. The Numerous And Mostly Yague Original Terms Are Found In Other Passages Translated By Ruler, Chief, Prince, Cap Min, One Who ...
Gozan V
Gozan (v ; Sept. Rc4,:iv), A Province Or Dis Trict Of Assyria. Ptolemy, In His Description Of Media, Mentions A Town Called Gauzania (geogr. Vi. 2) Situated Between The Zagros Motmtains And The Caspian Sea. Bochart, Rennell, And Others, Have Attempted To Identify This Town With Gozan (bochart, Opp. I. ...
Greece
Greece. The Relations Of The Hebrews With The Greeks Were Always Of A Distant Kind, Until The Macedonian Conquest Of The East : Hence In The O. T. The Mention Of The Greeks Is Naturally Rare. It Appears By Cruden's Concordance That Tubal And Javan,' In Connection, Are Named Four ...
Greek
Greek Versions.—l Septuagint. The Oldest Version Of The O. T. In Any Language Is The Greek Translation Commonly Called The Septuagint, Either Because It Was Approved And Sanctioned By The Jewish Sanhedrim Consisting Of Seventy-two Persons, Or Rather From The Jewish Account Which States That So Many Individuals Were Employed ...
Greek Language
Greek Language (biblical). There Has Been Much Discussion As To The Peculiar Nature Of The Language Used By The Septuagint Translators And By The Writers Of The N. T. It Would Be Use Less To Attempt To Give A History Of These Discus Sions In This Article. We Shall Simply ...
Greenfield
Greenfield, William, Was Born In Lon Don 1st April 1799. He Received The Elements Of His Education In Scotland, To Which His Family Ori Ginally Belonged, But In His Thirteenth Year He Be Came Apprentice To A London Bookseller. Whilst But A Child His Talent And Desire For Learning Lan ...
Grotius Hugo De Groot
Grotius (hugo De Groot). This Great Man, Prominent Among The Leading Writers Of The R7th Century As A Jurist, A. Scholar, A Statesman, And A Theologian, Was Born At Delft, In Holland, April To, 1583. He Was So Precocious, That Be Fore He Arrived At The Age Of Sixteen He ...
H A Hamaker
Hamaker, H. A., One Of The First Orientalists Of His Time, Was Born At Amsterdam, 25th Feb Ruary 1789. Destined By His Parents For The Pro Fession Of A Merchant, His Tastes Led Him Early To Learning ; And The Counsels Of Willmet Strength Ened Him In His Ardent Attachment ...
Ha Saken Hillel I
Hillel I., Ha-saken Pro, Or The Great B. Simon. This Extraordinary Rabbi, The Second Ezra, Or The Restorer Of The Law, As He Is Called (succa, 20, A), Under Whose Presidency Christ Was Born, And Who, By His Self-denying And Holy Life, As Well As By His Great Wisdom And ...
Habakkuk
Habakkuk (pwri ; '.a.aparcoo,a), A Distin , Guished Jewish Prophet Who Flourished About 610 B.c., The Name Descending, In The Form Of 1113./e.), From Pzn, Amplecti, And Denoting, As Observed By Jerome, As Well A Favourite ' As A Struggler. Abarbancl Thinks That In The Latter Sense It Has Al ...
Hadad Rimmon
Hadad-rimmon Aitn-rri ; Sept. Korerds Boi3vos.). This Place Is Only Mentioned In One Pas Sage Of Scripture, And There It Is Introduced Inci Dentally—' In That Day There Shall Be Great Lamen Tation In Jerusalem, As The Lamentation Of Hadad Rimmon In The Valley Of Me,„rriddon' (zech. Xii. Reference Is ...
Hadad Tm
Hadad (tm ; Sept. 'aus) Is Equivalent To Adad, The Name Of The Chief Deity Of The Syrians [arun], And Borne, With Or Without Additions, As A Proper Name, Or More Probably As A Title, Like Pharaoh' In Egypt, By Several Of The Kings Of Southern Syria. 1. A King ...
Hadar
Hadar Crin ; Sept. Xonav), A Son Of Ishmael. In Chron. 3o The Name Is Written Hadad ; Xonato ; Xopsetp). The Former, According To Ge Senius, Is The Correct Reading. Hadar Was The Eighth Of The Twelve Sons Promised To Ishmael's Parents Long Before ; And Though All Became ...
Hagarites 1
Hagarites (1 Chron. V. To, 19, 20 ; ; Sept. A-yapnvoi [v. 19], 'a-yupazot [v. 20, In V. To Deestl, ; Vulg. .4 Gctrez): Hagarenes (psalm Lxxxiii. 6 [7 Hcbr. Bib.] ; Sept. Apnvoi [lxxxii. 6] ; Vulg. Ilgareni): Agarenes (baruch Iii. 23 ; 01 Viol "a.-yap ; Vulg. Fzlii ...
Haggai
Haggai (n_11 ; Sept. And Joseph. 'a7-ymos Terome And Vulg. Aggams Or Aggeus, Otherwis, -1iagganes), One Of The Twelve Minor Prophets, An( The First Of The Three Who, After The Return Of Th, Jews From The Babylonian Exile, Prophesied Palestine. Of The Place And Year Of His Birth His Descent, ...
Hair
Hair Is Frequently Mentioned In Scripture, And In Scarcely Anything Has The Caprice Of Fashion Been More Strikingly Displayed Than In The Various Forms Which The Taste Of Different Countries And Ages Bas Prescribed For Disposing Of This Natural Covering Of The Head. The Greeks Let Their Hair Grow To ...
Hales
Hales, Nvm., A.m., And Afterwards D.d., Of Trinity College, Dublin, Of Which He Was Also Sometime Fellow, As Well As Professor Of Oriental Languages In The University, Was Born About The Middle Of The Last Century, And Died A.d. 1331, At His Rectory Of Killesandra, In The County Of Cavan, ...
Hallel
Hallel ;3/.0, The Designation Of A Particular Part Of The Hymnal Service, Chanted In The Temple And In The Family On Certain Festivals. 1. Origin Of The Name, Contents Of The Service, Etc. The Name Hallel S5r_i, Which Signifies Praise, Is 'car' Itaxip, Given To This Distinct Portion Of The ...
Hallett
Hallett, Ioseph, A Learned Nonconformist Minister Born At Exeter In The Year 1692. He Was The Son Of Joseph Hallett, One Of The Pastors Of The Presbyterian Congregation In Exeter, And Was The Grandson Of Another Joseph Hallett Who Was Ejected From Chesleborough In Somersetshire By The Act Of Uniformity. ...
Hallohesh
Hallohesh ; Sept. 'anonjr, Alex. 'a505), One Of The Chiefs Of The People Who Sealed The Covenant With Nehemiah (x. 24). It Is The Same Name Which Appears In The A. V. As Iialosi1etii Gel 12). Probably The First Syllable Is The Article, And The Word Means The Whisperer Or ...
Haman
Haman (iyr,i, A Name Of The Planet Mercury; Sept. 'af.tcfv), A Favourite Of The King Of Persia, Whose History Is Involved In That Of Esther And Mordecai. He Is Called An Agagite ; And As Agag Was A Kind Of Title Of The Kings Of The Amalekites [agag], It Is ...
Hammath
Hammath (11fl ; Sept. Aip.ca,'fip.a0). One Of The Fenced Cities Of Naphtali ( Josh. Xix. 35). Von Raumer Has Confounded It With The Great City Of Hamath (pal. P. 126) ; But The Latter Is Far Beyond The Boundary Of Naphtali. It Is Probably The Same As Ilammath-dor, Which Was ...
Hand
Hand Cr, Xdp). The Ordinary Usages Of Scripture In Regard To Hand, Right Hand,' Etc., Must Be Familiar To Ihe Student, And The Passages On Which The Representations Above Made Are Founded Are Too Easy Of Access, By Means Of A Concordance, To Need Being Enumerated Here ; It May ...
Handicraft
Handicraft. In The Early Periods To Which The Scriptural History Refers, The Entire Circle Of Achievement Which Man Had Effected In The Natural World, Was Too Immediately And Too Ob Viously Connected With The Labour Of The Hands, Which Is, In Truth, The Great Primary Source Of Wealth, For Any ...
Harmonies
Harmonies. The Object Of Harmonies Is To Arrange The Scriptures In Chronological Order, So That The Mutual Agreement Of The Several Parts May Be Rendered Apparent, And The True Succession Of Events Clearly Understood. With This View Vari Ous Scholars Have Compiled Harmonies Of The Old Testament, Of The New, ...
Harod
Harod Cfln ; Sept. Orrnyi7 'ape& The Fountain (a. V., Well ') Of Harod'), A Fountain • Which Became The Scene Of One Of The Most Re Markable Victories, And One Of The Most Memorable Defeats, In The Annals Of Israel. Its Site Is Fixed By One Or Two Incidental ...
Harosheth Of The Gentiles
Harosheth Of The Gentiles 0-0-1r, N,.;r1 ; Sept. 'apecra)5-; Alex. 'ao-cip60 Redv E51,6'2,), A Town Of Northern Palestine, The Home Of Sisera (judg. Iv. 2). At Harosheth The Army And Chariots Of Jabin Were Marshalled Under The Great Captain Before They Invaded Israel, And Defiled From The Nor Thern Mountains ...
Hartwig Wessely
Wessely, Hartwig, 0 R Naphtali Her Wessel 6r,11 Rrn Abbreviated171"1), One Of The Most Distinguished Hebraists Of The Eighteenth Century. He Was Born At Amsterdam In 1725, And Derived His Name From The Fact That His Ancestors Came From Wesel Or \vessel. His Parents Went To Live At Copenhagen When ...
Hashabiah
Hashabiah (r02ziri, Or With The 1 Parag. • )rom,.;r1; Lxx. 'acraplas, Lapla ; Vulg. Hasabia, Hasebia). 1. One Of The Descendants Of Merari The Son Of Levi, Chron. Vi. 45 (heb. 30.) It Is Probably The Same Who Is Referred To In Chron. Ix. 14. And Neh. Xi. 15. The ...
Havilah
Havilah (n{nri, Gen. Ii. ; Lxx. Ebtxd.r, Gen. X. 7, Efunci. ; Gen. X. 29, Eoelx.1). In The Genealogy Of Nations (gen. X.) Havilah Is Set Down As A Son Of Cush (v. 7.) ; As A Son Of Yoh Tan (v. 29). Since In The Other Places Where The ...
Hazael
Hazael Vz:rion Of God ; 'arcojx), An Officer Of Benhadad", King Of Syria, Whose Eventual Accession To The Throne Of That Kingdom Was Made Known To Elijah (i Kings Xix. 15) ; And Who, When Elisha Was At Damascus Was Sent By His Master, Who Ivas Then Ill, To Cons'ult ...
Hazeroth
Hazeroth ; 'aanoths ; Haseroth), One Of The Stations Of The. Israelites In The Wilder Ness. It Was Situated Apparently Four Days' March From Sinai (num. X. 33 ; Xi. 35), Towards The North-west It Was Also The First Place After Sinai Where The Camp Remained For A Number Of ...