I Amos
I. Amos Al.tdos), Carried, Or A Burden; One Of The Twelve Minor Prophets, And A Contem Porary Of Isaiah And Hosea. Gesenius Conjectures That The Name May Be Of Egyptian Origin, And The Same As Amasis Or Amosis, Which Means Son Of The Moon (v. Gesenii Thesaztr. S. V. Vox/ ...
I Annual National Fasts
I. Annual National Fasts. I. The Fast Of The Fourth Month (1v1j) 11r311), Which Is Kept On The 17th Of Tal7111; Be Cause—t. On This Day The Jews Made The Golden Calf; 2. Moses Broke The Tables Of The Law, As Appears From A Comparison Of Exod. Xxiv. With Xxxii.; ...
I Arabia Felix
I. Arabia Felix (in Gr. 'apagla Bl Eizaip.wp, The Arabia Eudanzon Of Pliny), I. E., Happy Arabia. The Name Has Commonly Been Supposed To Owe Its Origin To The Variety And Richness Of The Natural Productions Of This Portion Of The Country, Compared With Those Of The Other Two Divisions. ...
I Chaldiean Philosophy
I. Chaldiean Philosophy. This Is A Subject Of Interest To The Student Of The Bible, In Conse Quence Of The Influence Which The Babylonian Philosophy Exerted On The Opinions And Manner Of Thinking Of The Israelites During Their Captivity In Babylon—an Influence Of A General And Decided Character, Which The ...
I Clement
I. Clement, Or Clemens Romanus. It Will Probably Be Generally Admitted That No Produc Tion Of The Early Church Approaches So Near The Apostolic Writings, In The Union Of Devout Feeling With Justness And Sobriety Of Thought, As That Deno Minated The ' First Epistle Of Clement To The Corin ...
I Cush
I. Cush (xoikros)`:reigned Over The Ethiopians; R.4frican Cusbites], Joseph. ; ',ethiopia' (vaguely), Jer. (in Quest. Iiebr. In Genes.); Both The Arabian Ethiopia, Which Was The Parent Country, And The African, Its Colony' [abyssinia = Cush In Vulg. Syriac], Ros.* After M. ; But These Gradations (confining Cush First, With Joseph., ...
I Description Of Colours
I. Description Of Colours. A. Simple Natural Colours. 1. By This The Hebrews Properly Desig Nated The Simple Natural Colour White. It Is Applied To A Fleece (gen. Xxx. 35, 37), To Milk (gen. Xlix. (12), To Manna (exod. Xvi. 31), To Hair Diseased By Leprosy (lev. Xiii. 3), To ...
I General Geography Of
I': General Geography Of The 'wilder Ness.-ii Will Be Seen From The Foregoing Remarks, That The Country Embraced In The Wilderness Of Wandering' Extended From The Borders Of Egypt And The Mediterranean On The West, To The Plateau Of Arabia On The East. How Much Of The Latter It Included ...
I Hara Nt
Hara (nt,i), A Province Of Assyria. We Read That Tiglath-pilneser Brought The Reubenites, Gadites, And The Half Tribe Of Manasseh, Unto Halah, And Habor, And Hara, And To The River Gozan' (i Chron. V. 26). The Parallel Passage In 2 Kings Xviii. It Omits Hara, And Adds 'in The Cities ...
I Havoth Jair
I Havoth-jair Itn; Sept. 'erat9teui I 'hap ; Alex. 'iadp, And Kthi.tas, And Aic.60 ; Vulg. Havoth-yair, Id Est, Villas 7air ; And Oppida The Name Given To A Group Of Villages' Or Towns' In Gilead, From The Fact Of Their Having Been Taken By Jair A Descendant Of Manasseh. ...
I Herod
I. Herod, Surnamed The Grea1 Was The Second Son Of Antipater And Cypros, An Arabian Lady Of Noble Descent (joseph. Antiq. Xiv. 7. 3)• In B.c. 47 Julius Cmsar Made Antipater Procurator Of Judma, And The Latter Divided His Territories Among His Four Sons, Assigning The Dis Trict Of Galilee ...
I Ianging 222 Hapiitara
I Ianging 222 Hapiitara West Of The Nile, Near The Parallel Of Benisuef. Elkanah, And Mother Of Samuel. The Family The Great Objection To This Theory Is The Distance Lived At Ramathaim-zophint. And, As The Law Quired, There Was A Yearly Journey To Offer Fices At The Sole Altar Of ...
I James
I. James, The Son Of Zebedee Elcitcwpos Roi; Zei3esaiou), And Brother Of The Evangelist John. Their Occupation Was That Of Fishermen, Probably At Betlisaida, In Partnership With Simon Peter (luke V. To). On Comparing The Account Given In Matt. Iv. 21, Mark I. 19, With That In John I., It ...
I Mizpah
I. Mizpah, Called Also Galeed (1911n1; Lipao-is; Omitted In Vulgate), One Of The Names Given To The Cairn' Raised By Jacob And Laban As A Memorial And Testimony Of The Covenant They Entered Into At The Time Of Their Interview In Gilead (gen. Xxxi. 49). Details Of The Event Have ...
I Pre Exile Or Mosaic
I. Pre-exile Or Mosaic Festivals. Their General Designation And Classification.— All The Festivals In The Mosaic Law Are Desifm„ Ated By One Common Name, Myr 4-11/10 Or A+-inn (comp. Lev. Xxiii. 21 4, 44 ; Num. Xxviii. 2, 29). As Inn, Front 11/4 To Appoint, Signi'des Meeting; A Coming Too,ether,rilit ...
I Sabbath
I. Sabbath, Nzc), A Day Of Rest. Its Derivation Is, By General Concurrence, From Nmv), Signifying, To Rest,' To Cease From Action.' This Is So Natural, And So Obviously Connected With Gen. Ii. 2, 3, That It Does Not Seem Worth While To Say Anything More Respecting Its Etymology. The ...
I Sidon
I. Sidon (moan, 3' 1:40' .eaviplov Kai Vi> Ruaeiraz, Joseph. Antic,. I. 6. 2), Founded The Ancient Metro Polis Of Phcenicia, The Renowned City Called After His Own Name, And The Mother-city Of' The Still More Celebrated Tyre : On The Commercial Enterprise Of These Cities, Which Reached Even To ...
I Uncoined
I. Uncoined Money.—i. Uneoined Money In The Many Excavations Which Have Been Made In Egypt, Assyria, And Babylonia, No Specimen Of Coined Money Has Yet Been Discovered. Egyptian Money Was Composed Of Rings Of Gold And Silver ; And In Assyria And Babylonia Only Clay Tablets Commemorating Grants Of Money ...
I Wine
I. Wine, Denoting Properly The Fermented Juice Of The Grape, Is Used In The A. V. As The Rendering Of Several Hebrew And Greek Words. To These Our Attention Must, In The First Place, Be Directed. Yayin, According To Gesenius, From 1'14, An Unused Root, Having The Force Of Fervendi, ...
I The East Aramaic
I. The East Aramaic Or Chaldee.—tiiis Is Not To Be Confounded With The Language Of The Chaldees ' (dan. I. 4), Which Was Probably A Medo Persic Dialect ; But Is What Is Denominated Aramaic ' (itv%) In Dan. Ii. 4. This Was Properly The Language Of Babylonia, And Was ...
I The Song Of
I. The Song Of The Three Holy Chil Dren. I. Title And Position.—this Piece Is Generally Called The Song Or Hymn Of The Three Holy Chit. Dim, Because Ver. 28 Says, That The Three, As Out Of One Mouth, Praised, Glorified, And Blessed God,' Though It Ought More Properly To ...
I The Sopherim
I. The Sopherim Oosinlo) Or Scribes. Date And Institution. —the Period Of The So Pherim Begins With The Return Of The Jews From The Babylonish Captivity, And Ends With The Death Of Simon The Just (circa 4.58-3oo B.c.), Embracing Nearly A Hundred And Sixty Years. Though There Were Popular Teachers ...
I The Usage Of
I. The Usage Of By The Classical Writers.—no Instance Occurs In These Writers Of The Use Of Pciirricract, And Only One In A Very Late Author (antyllus) Of The Use Of Its Equivalent Gcisr ; But The Verb Occurs Frequently, Especially In The Later Writers. It Is Used To Designate ...
Ibn Balaam Jehudah
Ibn Balaam Jehudah (nlbn In Rrwr), Called In Ambic Able-zakaria Yahja, And By Ibn Ezra Rrnro ".), R. 7ehua'ah, The First Grammarian, +intcm Mbn In, Ben Balazzin The Spaniard, One Of The Most Distinguished Logians And Commentators Of The Spanish School, Who Lived In Seville Between A.d. 1050 And Ro9o. ...
Ibn Ganach
[ibn Ganach]. In His Thirtieth Year (circa 131o) He Devoted Himself To The Study Of Logic And The Speculative Sciences, As Well As To The Interpretation Of The Hebrew Scriptures, In Accord Ance With The Rules Of These Sciences. Passing By The Philosophical And Ethical Productions Of This Voluminous Writer, ...
Ibn Jachja
Ibn Jachja, Josepir, B. David, B. Joseph, B. David, B. Joseph, B. Salomon, B. David, B. Gedaliah, B. Salomo, B. Joseph, B. Jehudah, B. Don Jachja, The Spaniard. This Commentator, The Eleventh Generation Of The Celebrated Ancient Family Ibn Jachia, Was Born In 1494 At Florence, Whither His Mother Dinah, ...
Ibn Koreish Jehudah
Ibn Koreish Jehudah, One Of The Ear Liest Jewish Lexicographers, Who Flourished About A. D. 870 To Goo In Tahart Or Tahort In Africa, And May Be Regarded As The First Who Wrote On Comparative Philology. So Little Is Known Abont His Life, And So Thoroughly Have All The Endeavours ...
Iconium
Iconium Cbc6viop), A Large Inland City Of Asia Minor, Situated In The Province Of Lycaonia, On The Military Road Between Antioch Of Pisidia And Derbe. Strabo Describes It As A Small Town, Well Peopled, And Encompassed By A Fertile Region (xii. 6. According To Cicero, It Was The Capi Tal ...
Idalaii
Idalaii Yia'a/ah ; Sept. 'iepixi6 ; Alex. 'iabiati), A Town Of Zebulun, Apparently Lying Between Shimron And Bethlehem (josh. Xix. 15). It Is Only Once Mentioned In Scripture, And Does Not Occur In Any Other Writer. Bethlehem Is Situated About Six Miles West Of Nazareth, And Idalah Could Not Have ...
Idolatry
Idolatry. Introcluction.—tdolatry Is The Worship Of Anything Instead Of God. The Term, Therefore, Includes All The Kinds Of False And Cornipt Worship Mentioned In The Bible. There Is No Exactly Corresponding General Term In Hebrew, But There Are Some General Terms That Seem To Have The Same Range But A ...
Ii Aquila
Ii. Aquila. Aquila Was A Jew Of Pontus, Vvho Lived In The Reign Of Adrian, And Undertook A Greek Version Of The O. T. About A.d. 16o. It Appears From Jerome (in Ezek. Iii.) That There Were Two Edi Tions Of This Version, The Second More Literal Than The First. ...
Ii Coined Money I
Ii. Coined Money.-i. Coined Money.—there Are Two Generally Received Opinions Relating To Who Were The Inventors Of Coining Money. One, That Pheidon. King Of Argos, Coined Both Gold And Silver Money At Iregina At The Same Time When He Introduced A System Of Weights And Measures (ephor. Ap. Strati. Viii. ...
Ii Design Of
Ii. Design Of A He Book.—we Here Assume The Integrity Of The Book Of Job, Or That It Has Been Preserved In Its Genuine, Unadulterated State ; And We May Do So The Rather, Because Those Who Would Eliminate Single Portions, Must Still Allow The Diffi Culty Of Showing In ...
Ii Greek Philosophy
Ii. Greek Philosophy. The Purpose Of The Following Article Is To Examine The Question Of The Influence Supposed By Some Writers To Have Been Exercised By Greek Philosophy On The Doctrines Of The New Testament. Thus Stated, It Is Obviously But A Limited Portion Of A More Extensive Subject—that Of ...
Ii Mineral Substances I
Ii. Mineral Substances :- I. Marble. We Find The Court Of The King Of Persia's Palace Covered With Marble Of Various Colours (esth. 6). David Is Recorded To Have Possessed Abundance Of Marble (1 Chron. Xxx. [xxix.] 2 ; Comp. Cant. V. 15), And It Was Used By Solomon For ...
Ii Periodical And Individual
Ii. Periodical And Individual Fasts. I. The Bi-weekly Fast Czy,nrm +ny), Kept Every Monday And Thursday Between Pesach And At Zereth, And Between Succoth And Chanzica, Making In All Twenty-eight Days. On These Days Of The Respective Weeks, The First Chapter Of The Section Of The Pentateuch Forming The Lesson ...
Ii Post Exile Festivals I
Ii. Post-exile Festivals. I. Character And Order Of Mese Festivals. —all The Festivals Which Were Instituted From The Baby Lonish Captivity To The Advent Of Christ Are Annual. In Treating, Therefore, Upon These, No Classification Is Necessary Beyond Enumerating Them According To The Regular Order Of The Months. I. The ...
Ii Shemites
Ii. Shemites, Including The Following : A. 7bktanites, I. E., The Descendants Of Joktan (called By The Arabs Kachtan), The Second Son Of Eber, Shem's Great-grandson (gen. X. 25, 26). According To Arab Tradition Kachtan (whom They Also Regard As A Son Of Eber), After The Confusion Of Tongues And ...
Ii Symbolical And Typical
Ii. Symbolical And Typical Significancy. —as The Central Point Of A Great Symbolical And Typical Institute, The Tabernacle Necessarily Pos Sessed, Both As A Whole And In Its Contents, A Sym Bolical And Typical Significancy. On This Head Much Fanciful And Unregulated Ingenuity Has Been Indulged ; But This Must ...
Ii The Red
Ii. The Red Sea.—this Gulf Of The Indian Ocean Is Called In Hebrew Rild Sup/z (exod. X. 19 ; Xiii. I8 ; Ps. Cvi. 7, 9, 22), Which Is Also Its Egyptian Name, And Is Supposed To Mean Weedy Sea' (michaelis, Sup's/. P. 1726 ; Jablonsky, Optscu/. I. 266). This ...
Ii The Second
Ii. The Second Temple.—in The Year B.c. 536 The Jews Obtained Permission From Cyrus To Colonise Their Native Land. Cyrus Commanded Also That The Sacred Utensils Which Had Been Pillaged From The First Temple Should Be Restored, And That For The Restoration Of The Temple Assistance Should Be Granted (ezra ...
Ii The Tanaim
Ii. The Tanaim Ptcro Or Teachers Of The Law. I. Name And Date Of The Tanaim.—the Appella Tion Tanaim Is Aramaic (nm, Sing. 'nm, Fre Quentative Of The Chaldee Ron = Hebrew Mv, To Repeat), And Literally Denotes Repeaters Of The La-w,1 Or Teachers Of The Law. The Hebrew Equivalent ...