Heavens Heaven
Heaven, Heavens. Definihons And Dis Tinctions. — The Ancient Hebrews, For Want Of A Single Term Like The Rorrlizr And The Mundus Of The Greeks And The Latins, Used The Phrase Heaven And Earth (as In Gen. I. T ; Jer. 24 ; And Acts Xvii. 24, Where H. Ana' ...
Hebbew Army
Army, Hebbew. The Hebrews, Although Mainly An Agricultural People, Were Involved In Frequent Wars In The Course Of Their National His Tory. The Beginning Of Their History As A Nation Was Signalized By An Offensive War, From Which They Were Obliged Soon To Pass To A Defensive, Which Lasted During ...
Heber
Heber Ri;1.71; Sept. Xaplp), A Descendant Of Ilobab, Son Of Jethro, And Brother Of The Wife Of Moses. His Wife Was The Jael Who Slew Sisera, And He Is Called Heber The Kenite (judg. Iv. T, 17 ; V. 24), Which Seems To Have Been A Name For The Whole ...
Hebrew Language
Hebrew Language. R. Hebrew As A Spoken Language,—the Hebrew Language Is That Which Was The National Idiom Of Those Descendants Of 'etter Which Received The Distinctive Name Of The People Of Israel, And, As Such, Was That In Which All The Books Of The O. T. (with The Exception Of ...
Hebrew Poetry
Poetry, Hebrew ; The Poetry Which Is Found In The Bible, And Which, Rich And Multifari. Ous As It Is, Appears To Be Only A Remnant Of A Still Wider And Fuller Sphere Of Shemitic Literature. The N. 'i'. Is Intended To Be Comprised In Our Definition, For, Besides Scattered ...
Heduosmon
Heduosmon (gr. I751/ocraop, E., Having A Sweet Smell), Translated Mini, Is Mentioned In Matt. Xxiii. 23 : Woe Unto You, Scribes And Pharisees, Hypocrites ! For Ye Pay Tithe Of Nzhzt And Anise (properly Dill) And Cummin, And Have Omitted The Weightier Matters Of The Law ;' And, Again, In ...
Hein Andr Christ Hatvernick
Hatvernick, Hein. Andr. Christ., Was Born In 1805, At Kroplin, In Mecklenburg, And Died At Konigsberg In 1845. He Studied Theology First At Halle, But Having Been Involved In The Troubles Which Disturbed That University In Consequence Of The Prosecution For Anti - Christianism Brought Against Wegscheider And Gesenius, The ...
Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus
Paulus, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob, Was Born Sept. I, 1761, At Leonberg Near Stutt Gard. In 1779 Lie Entered The University Of Tiibin Gen As A Theological Student, And Gave Himself With Especial Zest To The Study Of The Oriental Languages. He Early Avowed Himself A Convert To The Principles Of ...
Heinrich Ludwig Planck
Planck, Heinrich Ludwig, The Eldest Son Of Gottlieb Jacob Planck, Was Born At Gottingen, July 19, 1785. He Studied In The University Of His Native Town, Where He Had For His Teachers Sthmd Lin, Eichhorn, Heyne, And Heeren. Whilst Still A Student, He Attracted Notice By A Prize-essay Which Was ...
Heinricii Corrodi
Corrodi, Heinricii, A Distinguished Critic Of The Last Century, Was Horn July 31st, 1752, And Educated By His Father In Ziirich. He Was Ordained As A Preacher, But Soon Felt That His Weakness Of Voice Disqualified Him For The Office. Having Visited The University Of Halle, And Received Sem Ler's ...
Heir Arama
Arama, Heir, Also Called, By Way Of Dis Tinction, Min, The Rabbi Mcieri, Son Of The Celebrated Isaac Amnia, Was Born In Saragossa, Accompanied His Father To Naples In 1492, After The General Expulsion Of The _jews From Spain, And After The Death Of His Father (1494) Emigrated To Salonica, ...
Helbon
Helbon (fial ; Xottitto). The Prophet Ezekiel, In Describing The Tithes And Splendour Of Tyre, Represents That City As The Centre Of The World's Commerce. All Other Great Cities And Countries Traded In Her Marts ; Each Bringing Its Own Staple Produce Or Manufactures. Among These Damascus Is Enumerated. Damascus ...
Heli
Heli Does Not Occur In This Form In The A. V. Of The O. T. According, However, To The Sept. And The Vulg., The Well-known Name Of The Aged High-priest Eli Is The Same Word. His Name, '63./ (similar In Meaning To The Greek Proper Name Tp6 0,uos, A Foster-child ...
Heliodorus
Heliodorus (`fixt6scopos). 1. The Treasurer Of Seleucus Philopator. This King, Being Impo Verished By His Annual Tribute Of Woo Talents To The Romans, And Tempted By False Accounts Of The Enormous Wealth Stored Up In The Jewish Temple, Sent Heliodorus To Plunder These Treasures. The Attempt Threw The People Of ...
Hell
Hell Must Be Carefully Freed From The Well Known Usage Which Restricts Its Meaning To The Abode Of The Wicked After Death,' If We Would Make It Commensurate In Signification With The Original Words Represented By It In The O. And N. T. These Terms, No Less Than The English ...
Hemsen
Hemsen, Johann Tychsen, A German Theologian, Was Born At Boldixum, October 15, 1792. After Studying At Copenhagen And Gottin Gen, He Became Doctor Of Philosophy In R821 At The University Of The Latter Place, Where He Was Ap Pointed Professor Extraordinary Of Theology In 1823. He Died May 14, 1830. ...
Henry Ainsworth
Ainsworth, Henry, An English Divine Of The Brownist Party. Of The Time And Place Of His Birth, And Of His Early Life, Nothing Is Known. He Is First Mentioned By Bishop Hall As Connected With The Church Of The Exiled Brownists At Amster Dam In 1392-93. He Was For Some ...
Herbert Marsh
Marsh, Herbert, D. D., Bishop Of Peter Borough, One Of The Acutest And Most Tnily Learned Divines Of His Day, Was Born In 1757, Entered St. John's Coll., Cambridge, As A Sizar In 1776, Where He Greatly Distinguished Himself; Taking His B.a. Degree As Second Wrangler And Second Smith's Prizeman ...
Herds And Flocks
Herds And Flocks. From The Earliest Times The Hebrews Were A Pastoral People. Abra Ham And His Sons Were Masters Of Herds And Flocks, And Were Regulated In Their Movements Very Much By A Regard To The Necessities Of Their Cattle, In Which Their Wealth Almost Entirely Consisted. In Egypt ...
Hermann Von Dkr Hardt
Hardt, Hermann Von Dkr, A Learned Theo Logian And Orientalist, Was Born At Melle, In West Phalia, In The Duchy Of Osnabruck, 15th November 1660. After Receiving His Early Education At Her Fort And Osnabriick, He Repaired To Koburg In His I7th Year, And Thence To The University Of Jena, ...
Hermas
Hermas, 'eppils, One Of The Christians At Rome To Whom Paul Addressed Special Salutations In His Epistle (rom. Xvi. 14). Of His History And Station In Life Nothing Is Known. By Several Writers, Ancient And Modern, He Has Been Reputed To Be The Author Of A Work Entitled The Shepherd ...
Hermogenes
Hermogenes Ceatto•yerns), The Name Of A Man Mentioned By St. Paul In The Latest Of The Pastoral Epistles (2 Tim. I. 15), Who, With Phyge Lus, Deserted Him When All They Which Are In Asia' (ol /v Tj'acricz, Or Perhaps They Of Or From Asia,' Ol K Aoias, Conybeare And ...
Hermon
Hermon (flintl, And In The Pl. Inivin; . ' Axpucca•,'epucornelu; Hermon), A Celebrated Moun Tain On The Northern Border Of Palestine, On The East Side Of The Great Valley Of The Jordan, And Just Above The Sources Of That River. Hence It Was Mentioned By Moses As Marking The Limit ...
Herod I
Herod I., Surnamed The Great. —the Large Extent Of Herod's Dominions, And The Immense Wealth He Is Said To Have Left To His Relatives And To Strangers, Would Lead Us To Infer That He Must Have Had A Very Rich Coinage. Josephus Distinctly States That He Left To His Sister ...
Herodian Family
Herodian Family. We Are Principally Indebted To Josephus For The Information Respecting The Herodian Family, Though Incidental Notices Occur In. The Classical Writers, Especially In Strabo (xvi. C. Ii. 46). It Will Be Sufficient For Our Purpose To Com Mence Our Consideration Of Their Origin From Anti Pater The Idumman, ...
Heshbon
Heshbon ; Sept. 'eo-eir3thv ; Euseb. 'ecro-egan) ; A Town In The Southern District Of The Hebrew Territory Beyond The Jordan, Parallel With, And Twenty-one Miles East Of, The Point Where The Jordan Enters The Dead Sea, And Nearly Midway Betv.een The Rivers Jabbok And Anion. It Originally Belonged To ...
Hezekiah
Hezekiah (` Strength Of The Lord,' Imp1r1 *• : • And Mptri, And In Both Forms With Initial 4, Lxx. 'ei-cnias), Son And Successor Of Ahaz, Reigned Twenty-nine Years In Jerusalem. There Is Some Thing Wrong- In The Numbers, According To Which He Was Twenty-five Years Old At The Death ...
Hezion
Hezion (ti+11:1) ; Lxx. ; Alex. 'araija ; Vulg. Hezion), The Grandfather Of The First Of The Benhadads Mentioned In Scripture History. A Question Has Long Been Raised Whether This Name (which Occurs In 1 Kings Xv. X8) Indicates The Same Person As The Rezon Of Kings Xi. 23. Thenius, ...
Hiddekel Pim
Hiddekel &pim ; Tlypcsandtlypls 'esserca; Trgris And Tigris), The Third River Of Eden, De. Scribed In Gen. Ii. 14. A.s Flowing To The East Of Assyria, Clit.”,t Nnip), Or It May Be Translated ',awards The East Of Assyria.' It Is Also Mentioned By Daniel, Who Saw One Of His Wondrous ...
Hierapolis
Hierapolis Riepdiroxis), A City Of Phrygia, Not Far From Colossie And Laodicea, Where There Was A Christian Church As Early As The Time Of St. L'aul (col. Iv. 12, 13). The Place Is Visible From The Theatre At Laodicea, From Which It Is Five Miles Distant Northward. Smith, In His ...
High Places And Groves
High Places And Groves, High Places.—the Word Rendered High Place' In The A. V. Is Ma, A Natural Height.' Upon Such Tt Heights In Palestine Altars Were Raised And Ples Built, The Latter Called Houses Of High Places' Minmn 11713 Sing. Romn Nn). When Used In Relation To Religion, Whether ...
High Priest Priest
Priest, High-priest, Etc. Priest; Sept. 'iepeos • Vulg. Sacerdos). The English Word Is Generally Derived From The N. T. Term Presbyter [elder], The Meaning Of Which Is, However, Essen Tially Different From That Which Was Intended By The Ancient Terms. It Would Come Nearer, If Derived From Irpotorm.“ Or Rpotioraaat, ...
Hillel
Hillel, And 3 In The Article Ishmael B. Elisa Of This Ix. Brachylogy (nivp Tr). The Scriptures Sometimes Express Themselves Briefly, And Words Must Be Supplied. Thus, E.g., Ill Where It Ought To Be 111 1r11, And David's Soul Was Consumed, Tfr.lea Being Omitted ; Again R Chron. Xvii. 5, ...
Hillel Ii
Hillel Ii., B. Jehudah M.,* Succeeded To The Presidential Throne About 33o, Which He Occu Pied About Thirty-five Years. He Immortalized His Name By The Introduction Of The Calendar, Which Is Followed By The Jews To The Present Day. Up To His Time The Beginning Of The Month Was Fixed ...
Hiram Or Huram
Hiram Or Huram (ant, N7111 ; Sept.•xei Pcibc. The Name Also Appears In The Form 125-01-1, And This Was Probably The Original Form, As Me Nander In Josephus (c. Apion. I. Is) Gives It Etpw U.os, And In Herodotus (vii. 98) It Appears As Itpco /los). I. A King Of ...
Hircanus Lxx
Hircanus (lxx. 'tpicavbs ; Vulg. Hir Eanus), A Son Of Tobias, A Man Of Great Dignity' Criwavbs Tcolou A-0*a Ciz,0 Inrepoxii Acvos, Maccab. I). At The Time When Heliodorus, The Treasurer (o Irt 71;7p Irpa-yp.cirwv) Of Seleucus Iv. Philopator, Was Ordered To Seize The Riches Which Had Been Placed In ...
History
History. Under This Term We Here Intend To Give, Not A Narrative Of The Leading Events De Tailed In The Bible, But Such General Remarks On The Biblical History As May Enable The Reader To Esti Mate The Comparative Value, And Apply For Informa Tion To The Proper Sources, Of ...
Hivites
Hivites Or', Only Found In The Sing. And With The Article ; Lxx. Ezialos), A Nation Descended From Canaan. Gesenius Suggests That The Karne May Signify Villagers,' From Nv-.1 [unused] = Nap, A Village Of Nomades, A Village' (lex. S. V.) In The List Of The Descendants Of Canaan, The ...
Hobnim
Hobnim Vpin) Occurs Only In One Passage Of Scripture, Where The Prophet Ezekiel (xxvii. 15), Referring To The Commerce Of Tyre, Says The Men Of Dedan Were Thy Merchants ; Many Isles Were The Merchandise Of Thine Hand : They Brought Thee For A Present Horns Of Ivory And Ebony ...
Hooks Hook
Hook, Hooks. The Following Hebrew Words Are So Rendered In The A. V.: Nn Nmn, Rid, Ninrn, Wride3, L'n, The Idea Of A Thorn Enters Into The Etymology Of Several Of Them, Probably Because A Thorn, Hooked Ox Straight, Was The Earliest Instrument Of This Kind. Tacitns Thus Dcscribcs Thc ...
Hophra
Hophra), King Of Egypt In The Time Of Zedekiah King Of Judah, And Of Nebuchadnezzar King Of Babylon. He Formed Alliance With The Former Against The Latter, And His Advance With An Egyp Tian Army Constmined The Chaldxans To Raise The Siege Of Jerusalem (jer. Xxxvii. 5); But They Soon ...
Horn 17
Horn (17; Gr. Klpas ; Lat. Ornn). [the Term Is Used Literally In Scripture To Denote--t. The Hom Of An Animal (gen. Xxii. T3 ; Deut. Xxxiii. ; Ps. Xxii. 22) ; 2. A Trumpet, Originally Probably A Simple Horn With The Tip Cut Off, But Afterwards Composed Of Metal ...
Horne
Horne, Thoruas Hartwell., Was Born Of Humble Parentage In 1780. He Was Educated At Christ's Hospital, Where He Was A Contemporary Of Coleridge, Who Taught Him His Greek Alphabet, And Assisted Him In His Work. He Began Life As A Barrister's Clerk On £zo A Year, And Took To Such ...
Hosea
Hosea (veiro, The First In Order Of The Minor Prophets In The Common Editions Of The Hebrew Scriptures, As Well As Of The Alexandrian And Vul Gate Translations. The Arrangement Of The Other Writers In The Acackarp60,17-ov Of The Greek Ver Sion Differs Considerably From That Of The Hebrew Copies. ...
Hospitality
Hospitality. The Practice Of Receiving Strangers Into One's House And Giving Them Suitable Entertainment May Be Traced Back To The Early Origin Of Human Society. It Is Not, However, Con Fined To Any Age Or To Any Country, But Has Been Observed In All Parts Of The Globe Wherever Circum ...
House
House (rrs ; Okos). Houses Are Often Men Tioned In Scripture, Several Important Passages Of Which Cannot Be Well Understood Without A Clearer Notion Of The Houses In Which The Hebrews Dwelt, Than Can Be Realised By Such Comparisons As We Naturally Make With Those In Which We Ourselves Live. ...
Hugh Broughton
Broughton, Hugh, An Eminent Hebrew And Rabbinical Scholar, Was Born In 1549 At Old Bury In Shropshire, And Died Near London In 1612. His Life Was Spent Amidst Difficffities And Vexations Occasioned Chiefly By His Own Inordinate Vanity And His Quarrelsomeness ; But His Great Scholarship Pro Cured For Him ...
Hugh Farmer
Farmer, Hugh, A Learned Dissenting Mini Ster, Was Born Near Shrewsbury, 1714, And Received The Rudiments Of His Education In Llanegrin, Meri Onethshire. He Was Afterwards Placed Under The Care Of Dr. Charles Owen, At 'warrington, And In 173o, Under Dr. Doddridge, At Northampton. Having Finished His Collegiate Course, He ...
Hugo De Sancto Caro
Hugo De Sancto Caro, Sometimes Called Also H. De S. Theordorico, Was Born At St. Cher, Near To Vienne In Dauphiny, Towards The Close Of The 12th Century. He Studied In The Uni Versity Of Paris, Where He Subsequently Held One Of The Chairs Of Theolog,y. In 1225 He Was ...
Humphrey Hody
Hody, Humphrey, D.d., An Eminent Eng Lish Divine Was Born Jan. R, 1659, At Oldcombe, Somersetshire. Educated At Oxford University, He Took His Degree Of M.a. There In 1682, And Was Elected Fellow Of Wadham College In 1684. He Became Greatly Distinguished In The Nonjuring Controversy, In Which He Published ...
Humphrey Prideaux
Prideaux, Humphrey, D.d., Was Born At Padstow In Cornwall In The Year 1648, And After His Education, First At Liskeard And Bodmin, And Subsequently At Westminster School And Christ Church, Oxford, He Became Successively Rector Of St. Clement's, Oxford ; Prebendary Of Norwich ; Rector Of Bladen, Oxfordshire ; Vicar ...
Hunting
Hunting. The Pursuit And Capture Of Beasts Of The Field Was The First Means Of Sustenance Which The Human Race Had Recourse To, This Mode Of Gaining A Livelihood Having Naturally Preceded The Engagements Of Agriculture, As It Presented Food Already Provided, Requiring Only To Be Taken And Slaughtered ; ...
Hushai
Hushai (tirt ; Sept. Xouo-f ; Vulg. Chusai) Appears As A Prominent Actor In The History Of Absalom's Rebellion. When David Fled From His Capital Hushai Joined His Mournful Train At The Top Of Mount Olivet, And Seems To Have Been The Means Of First Raising The Forlorn Monarch From ...
Hushim
Hushim (n,c3n; Sept.'at6a; 'acri.b/.4), A Name Which Occurs First In The Catalogue Of The Descen Dants Of Jacob, And Is Used To Designate The Chil Dren Of Dan (gen. Xlvi. 23). The Form Of The Word Being Plural, It Is Understootl To Mean, As Obvi Ously Intended, Not An Individual ...
Hymen2eus
Hymen2eus Crplvatos), A Professor Of Chris Tianity At Ephesus, Who, With Alexander (t Tim. I. 2o) And Philetus (2 Tim. Ii. 18), Had Departed From The Truth Both In Principle And Practice, And Led Others Into Apostacy. The Chief Doctrinal Error Of These Persons Consisted In Maintaining That The Resurrection ...
Hymn T
Hymn ("t Avos). This Term As Used By The Greeks Primarily Signified Simply A Song (comp. Hom. Od. Viii. 429 ; Hes. Op. Et D. 659; Pindar 0/. I. 70 ; Xi. 74 ; Hthm. Iv. 74 ; Pyth. X. 82; Aesch. Eum. 331; Soph. Antig. 8o9 ; Plat. Rey). ...
Hyperbole
Hyperbole. Any One Who Carefully Exa Mines The Bible Must Be Surprised At The Very Few Hyperbolic Expressions Which It Contains, Consider Ing That It Is An Oriental Book. Some Of These Few Have Occasioned So Much Difficulty To Sincere Men, That We Have Reason To Bless God That The ...
I A Ms
I. A Ms. In The Library Of Petersburg, Found By Tischendorf On His Travels In The East. It Is A Rescript, Containing The Remains Of Seven Very An Cient Mss. Exhibiting Parts Of The Gospels, Acts, And Two Pauline Epistles. Tischendorf Thinks That The First, Second, And Third Belong To ...