Kaneh
Kaneh (rup) Occurs In Several Places Of The O. T., In All Of Which, In The A. V., It Is Lated Reed ; As In Kings Xiv. 15 ; 2 Kings Xviii. 21 ; Job Xl. 21 ; Is. Xix. 6 ; Xxxv. ; Xxxvi. 6 ; Xlii. 3 ; ...
Karcom
Karcom (rbl; ; Sept. Tcp6kos) Occurs Only Once In The O. T., Viz., In Cant. Iv. 14, Where It Is Mentioned Along With Several Fraorant And Stimu Lant Substances, Such As Spikena'rd, Calamus, A»d Cinnamon, Trees Of Frankincense, Myrrh, And Aloes (ahalim) ; We May, Therefore, Suppose That It Was ...
Karkor
K.a.rkor Level Ground' ; Kap : - -j Kcip; Alex. Kaptcd; Omitted In The Vulgate), A Place On The East Side Of The Jordan To Which Zeba And Zal Munna Fled With Their Army When Defeated By Gideon ( Judg. Viii. Ro). Its Situation Is Not Described, But We Read ...
Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider
Bretschneider, Karl Gottlieb, Was Horn At Gersdorf, Rith Feb. 1776. Having Finished His Preparatory Studies He Became A Privat-docent, First At Leipsic, And After That At Wittenberg, Where He Read Lectures In The University On Logic And Meta Physics, And On The Proof Passages In The O. T. In 1806 ...
Karl Konr Fr W1lh
Lachmann, Karl Konr. Fr. W1lh., Was Born At Brunswick 4th March /798. His Early Education He Received In His Native City. His Aca Demical Career Began At Leipsic, But Was Princi Pally Pursued At Gottingen. During The Disturb Ances Of 1814, He For A Season Forsook Study For Warfare, But ...
Kedar 07
Kedar 07, Black ;' Knacip; Cedar), The Second Son Of Ishmael And Founder Of One Of The Most Distinguished Tribes Of Arabia (gen. Xxv. 13 16). The Word Kedar Si{,rnifies Black,' And The Tents Of The Tribe, Like All Those Of The Bedawin Of The Present Day, Were Black (cant. ...
Kenath
Kenath (n)p, Possession ; ' Kcua- And Kaua-; Alex. Kc/ava• ; Chanath), A Strong City Of Bashan, Situated In The Province Of Argob (num. Xxxii. 42 ; Chron. Ii. 23 ; Cf. Deut. I4). It Appears To Have Been One Of The Three Score Great Cities, Fenced With High Walls, ...
Kenaz
Kenaz (tp, Perhaps 'hunting ; Kevgr; Alex., In Citron. I. 36, Kqn'; Cenez), A Grandson Of Esau (gen. Xxxvi. It), And The Founder Of A Family Or Tribe Among The Edomites. Kenaz Is Styled One Of The Dukes (+0;,s, Literally 'leaders,' Probably Equivalent To The Modern Arabic Shiekhs) Of Edom ...
Kenezite Or Kenizzite
Kenezite Or Kenizzite Opp, 'hunter ;' Licycia(oc; Cenezieol). 1. One Of The Ancient Tribes Which Inhabited The Country Given In Covenant-pro Mise To Abraham (gen. Xv. 19). The Sacred Writer Gives No Information As To What Part Of The Country They Inhabited ; But As They Are Not Men Tioned ...
Kenite
Kenite (tr And In Sam. Xxvii. Ro ; Kevato/ • Cinmoi), A Tribe Of People Who Originally Inhabited The Rocky And Desert Region Lying Between Southern Palestine And The Mountains Of Sinai Ad Joining—and Even Partly Intermingling With—the Amalckites (num. Xxiv. 21; I Sam. Xv. 6). In The Time Of ...
Kerciiiefs
Kerciiiefs. This Is The Rendering In The A. V. Of The Hebrew Word N'irspn, Which Occurs Only In Ezek. Xiii. 18, 21 ; Lxx. Irrei36xaza ; Sym. T'nrcovvta ; Vulg. Cervicalia ; Chaa Idola, Imagines Idololatricze, S. Species Velaminum (castel], S. V. 111d) ; Syr. 1l1...,0_,l0l, Tecta, Open% Menta. There ...
Keri
Keri And Kethiv (m+ral +ip, Plural I",p Immvo, So Frequently Found In The Margins And Foot-notes Of The Ilebrew Bibles, Exhibit The Most Ancient Various Readings, And Constitute The Most Important Portion Of The Critico-exegetical Appa Ratus Bequeathed To Us By The Jews Of Olden Times [massoraf1]. I. Signification, Classification, ...
Keseph Om
Keseph Om), The Hebrew Word For Silver, Whether In The Ore, In Bars, Or Coined. Silver Is Commonly Mentioned Along With Gold In The Bible, As, Next To It, The Most Precious Of Metals. It Is Found Native In Veins Ramifying Through Various Kinds Of Stone ; Hence, Perhaps, The ...
Kesitah
Kesitah (rity'vp). The Meaning And Deri Vation Of This Word, Which Only Occurs Thrice In The O. T., Has Been A Subject Of Much Controversy. The Places Where It Is Found—gen. Xxxiii. 19, Re Cording Jacob's Purchase Of A Piece Of Ground At Shechem ; Josh. Xxiv. 32, A Verbal ...
Keturah
Keturah (riti.07, Incense ; Sepkt. Xer Rob Pa), The Second Wife, Or, As She Is Called In Chron. I. 32, The Concubine Of Abraham, By Whom He Had Six Sons, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, And Shuah, Whom He Lived To See Grow To Man's Estate, And Whom He Established ...
Ketzach
Ketzach (rip ; Sept. Aexcfpotop), Alsc Written Kezach And Ketsah, Occurs Only In Is. Xxviii. 25, 27, And Is Translated Fiches, That Is, Vetches, In The A. V. It Is No Doubt From The Difficulty Of Proving The Precise Meaning Of Ket Zach, That Different Plants Have Been Assigned As ...
Ketzioth
Ketzioth Otrvp) Is Translated Cassra. In The A. V., And Is Said To Be Derived From Imp, To Cut Off: It Therefore Denotes Pieces Cut Off,' Or 'fragments ' And Hence Is Applicable To Cassia. But Many Of These Derivations Have Often Been Traced Out In Ignorance Of The Names ...
Kexe6w
Kexe6w, ,heptµpdw, Aarccipcos, 6s6e/xcu, Kcixico, Only Three Times, To Math Twenty-six, Luke Forty-two ; 7rep.xcu, Only Once ; Xpurrós, Seven, Matt. Sixteen, Luke Thirteen. Publicans Are Only Mentioned Twice, Samaria And Its Inhabitants Not Once. 6. Ivhom Written For. -a Dispassionate Review Of The Gospel Confirms The Traditional Statement That ...
Kiahu
Kiahu. Sept. Xexiciar). Of The Seven Persons Bearing This Name In The Bible, The Most Important Is The High-priest In The Reign Of Joash (2 Kings Xxii. 4, ; 2 Chron. Xxxiv. 9, Ff.) He Was The Son Of Shallum (t Chron. Vi. 13); And Ezra, The Scribe, Was His ...
Kiddah
Kiddah (rilp), As Well As Ketzioth, Is Ren Dered Cassia In Our A. V.; But Translators Do Not Uniformly Coincide In, Though The Great Majority Are In Favour Of, This Interpretation. It Is Well Known That The Greeks Were Acquainted With Seve Ral Varieties Of Cassia ; And As One ...
Kidron
Kidron, In N. T. Cethvn Turbid ;i Lxx. And N. T., Kespthv ; Cedron). In Ever3 Instance, Except One, In Which This Name Is Men Tioned In The O. T., The Word Nakhal 617p, A. V. Brook') Is Joined To It. This Word Appears To Be Exactly Equivalent To The ...
Kikayon
Kikayon (1j+jrp) Occurs Only In Jonah Iv Where It Is Several Times Mentioned, As In Ver. 6, 7, I 9, To. It Is Translated Gourd In Our A. V., Pro Bably From The Of The Sept., Often Ren Dered Cucurbita. In The Margin Of Thc English Bible, Pahnerist Is Given. ...
Kimchi
Kimchi, Moses B. Joseph, Also Called Remak, From The Initial Letters Pti-----+r-cp Ntvo -1, R. !vases Kimchi, The Eldest Son Of The Preceding Writer, Flourished About 116o- 7o. 'though Far Below His Father And Brother, Yet He Has Also Distin Guished Himself As A Commentator And Grammarian. He Wrote—(r.) A ...
Kindred
Kindred. Five Hebre.w Words Are Tht.:ts Translated In The A. V. :— 1. This Word Answers To The Latin Gens, Only That It More Distinctly Includes The Idea Of Original Affinity Or Derivation From A Common Stock. ; It Corresponds Exactly With Our Word Clan. Lt Is Used Of The ...
King
King, A. Title Applied In The Sc.riptures To Men (luke Xxii. 25 ; I Tim. Ii. R, 2 ; I Pet. Ii. 13-17), To God (i Tim. I. 17 ; Vi. 15, 16). And To Christ (matt. Xxvii. ; Luke Xix. 3s ; John I. 49 ; Vi. R5 ; ...
Kingdom And Province Of
Samaria, Kingdom And Province Of. The Political History Of The Kingdom Of Which Samaria Was The Capital Has Been Given Under The Word Israel. Is Intended In This Article Briefly To Explain The Geographical Meaning Attached To The Tenn Samaria By Some Of The Sacred Writers, As Well In The ...
Kingdom Of Israel
Israel, Kingdom Of. The Separation Of The Hebrew Nation Into Two Parts, Of Which One Was To Embrace Ten Of The Tribes, And Be Distinctively Named Israel, Had Its Origin In The Early Power And Ambition Of The Tribe Of Ephraim. The Rivalry Of Ephraim And Judah Began Almost From ...
Kingdom Of Judah
Judah, Kingdom Of. When The Territory Of All The Rest Of Israel, Except Judah And Benjamin, Was Lost To The Kingdom Of Rchoboam, A Special Single Name Was Needed To Denote That Which Re Mained To Him ; And Almost Of Necessity The Word 7ridah Received An Extended Meaning, According ...
Kings Dale
King's Dale (.1nri ; Re8ioy Rap Bao3xlcov ; Regilr). In Only Two Passages Of Scripture Is This Place Mentioned, And From Neither Of Them Can We Get Any Information As To Its Posi Tion. When Abraham Was Returning With The Spoil Of Sodom, The King Of Sodom Went Out To ...
Kinnamon
Kinnamon (f1np), Translated Cinnamon,' Occurs In Three Places Of Scripture ; First, About 1600 Years Before The Christian Era, In Exod. Xxx. 23, Where It Is Enumerated As One Of The Ingredi Ents Employed In The Prepatation Of The Holy Anointing Oil. It Is Next Mentioned In Prov. Vii. 17, ...
Kinnini Md
Kinnini (md And D'iz, Exod. Viii. 16, 17, Is : Cf. Hell 12, 13, 14; Ps. Cv. 3r ; Sept. Crkaofs. Or Alevircs; Vulg. Eyniphes And Seyniphes Wisd. Xix. Ro ; Sept. Crkplira ; Alex. Aid. O-kvioar ; Vulg. Nzuscas). The Name Of The Creature Employed In The Third Plague ...
Kinsman
Kinsman. • Of The Four Iiebrew Words Thus Translated In The A. V., Three, (num. Xxvii. It), Rtito (ruth Ii. 1), And 2'17 (ps. Xxxviii. 12 [ii]; Job Xix. 14, A. V. Kinsfolk' ), Indicate Simple Relationship. The Remaining One, Along With That, Implies Certain Obligations Arising Out Of That ...
Kipling
Kipling (thomas), A Native Of Yorkshire, Educated At St. John's College, Cambridge, Where He Graduated As B. A. In 1768, And Became D. D. In 1784, And Filled The Office Of Deputy Regius Pro Fessor Of Divinity Under Bishop Watson. In 1792 He Preached The Boyle Lectures, Which Were Not ...
Kir Iieres Kir Haresh
Kir-haresh, Kir-iieres, Kir-hara Seth, Kir- Hareseth, And Kir-moab (-vrin Vp, Is. Xvi. ; Trirrop, Jer. Xlviii. 31, 36 ; 71;?..,7! -op, 2 Kings Iii. 25 ; Ro:ai I4p, Is. Xvi. 7, 2t5-; Nbsiv-op, Is. Xv. A Strong City Of Moab. It Is Remarkable That In Not A Single Instance Does ...
Kiriathaim 2 Kirjatha1m
2. Kirjatha1m, Kiriathaim T14.1"1:1r.), Two Cities,' Or Donble City ;' Kaptcad,u ; Alex. Kapta Baia ; Curial/rain* I. A City Of Reuben, Situated A Little To The South Of Heshbon (num. Xxxii. 37). Though Taken And Rebuilt By This Tribe, It Was Again, On The Decline Of Jewish Power, Occu ...
Kirioth Kerioth
Kerioth, Kirioth Minp, Cities'). R. A Town On The Southern Border Of Judah, Towards Edom. It Is Only Mentioned In Josh. Xv. 25. The Lxx. Reads Al 7r6xets (alex. R6xes) Thus Translating The Clause, Cities Of Ilezron.' The Syriac Version Follows The Lxx. ; But The Whole Scope Of The ...
Kishion
Kishion And Kishan Vjp, 'hardness ;' Ktcrcfu, ; Alex. Ktatt6a ; Cesian), A Cown Of Tssachar, Apparently Situated In The Great Plain Of Esdraelon, Where Most Of Those With Which It Is Grouped Also Stood (josh. Xix. 2o). It Was One Of Four Allotted To The Levites (xxi. 2s). It ...
Kishuim
Kishuim (rf'ne4p) Is Translated Cucumbers In Our A. V., And The Correctness Of This Render Ing Has Been Almost Universally Admitted. It First Occurs In Num. Xi. 5, In The Verse Already Quoted In Abatticiiim, Where The Israelites, When In The Desert, Express Their Longings For The Melons And The ...
Kiss
Kiss. Originally The Act Of Kissing Had Sym Bolical Character, And, Though This Import May Now Be Lost Sight Of, Yet It Must Be Recognised The Moment We Attempt To Understand Or Explain Its Signification. Acts Speak No Less, Sometimes Far More Forcibly, Than Words. In The Early Period Of ...
Kissos
Kissos (gr. Kiao-60, ` Hy,' Is Mentioned Only Once, And That In The Apocrypha (2 Maccab. Vi. 7), Where The Temple Is Described'as Being Desecrated By The Gentiles, And The Jews Forced To Depart From The Laws Of Their Fathers : And When The Feast Of Bacchus Was Kept, The ...
Kitto
Kitto, John, Was Born At Plymouth, 4th 2-tovember 18°4. The Circumstances Of His Birth Were Very Unfavourable To His Education, And At The Age Of Twelve Ile Met With An Accident Which Destroyed His Hearing For Life, And Reduced Hira Almost To The Condition Of A Deaf Mr.re. Though He ...
Knife
Knife. The Purposes For Which Knives Are Mentioned In Scripture As Being Used Are—for The Slaying Of Sacrifices (gen. Xxii. 6), For Circumcision And Other Ritual Purposes (exod. Iv. 25 ; Josh. V. 2, 3 ; Kings Xviii. 28 ; Ezra I. 9), For Cutting In Pieces A Body (judg. ...
Koa
Koa (3/1p), A Word Occurring Along With Pekod Cripz) And Shoa (div) In The Prophet's Description Of The Lovers Of Aholibah (ezek. Xxiii. 23). The Versions Here Differ Very Much. The Lxx., Accord Ing To The Vat. Codex., Has 4)akok Kat /cal 'txove (in The Last Word Uniting The Preposition ...
Koph
Koph ; Gr. Kipros, Icijpos ; Whence The Latinized Name Cephus). In The Hebrevir And Semitic Cognate Tongues, And In The Classical Lan ,guages, These Names, Under Various Modifications, Designate The Simiadce, Including, No Doubt, Species Of Cercopithecus, Macacus, And Cynocephalus, Or Guenons, Apes, And Baboons ; That Is, All ...
Korah
Korah (ri,i), Ice ; Sept. Kopl, In The A. V. Of Jude R, Core), A Levne, Son Of Izhar, The Brother Of Amram, The Father Of Moses And Aaron, Who Were Therefore Cousins To Korah (exod. Vi. 21). From This Near Relationship We May, With Tolerable Certainty, Conjecture, That The ...
Krinon
Krinon (kpfrov). This Plant Is Mentioned In The Well-known And Beautiful Passage (matt. Vi. 28) : Consider The Lilies Of The Field, How They Grow ; They Toil Not, Neither Do They Spin, And Yet I Say Unto You, That Even Solomon, In All His Glory, Was Not Arrayed Like ...
Kussemeth 11id
Kussemeth (11*id) Occurs In Three Places Of Scripture. In The A. V. It Is Translated Rye In Exod. Ix. 32 ; Is. Xxviii. 25 ; And Filches In Ezek. Iv. 9 ; But Its True Meaning Still Remains Uncertain. It Was One Of The Cultivated Grains Both Of Egypt And ...
Laanah
Laanah (r1316), Translated Wormwood, Occurs In Several Passages Of Scripture, In Most Of Which It Is Employed In A Figurative Sense. Thus, In Deut. Xxix. 18, Lest There Be Among You A Root That Beareth Gall And Wormwood,' Is Applied To Such Israelites As Should Worship Foreign Gods. Prov. V. ...
Laban
Laban White ;' Lxx. Acfaav1, An Ara Mman Pastor;1' Chief, Son Of Bethuel, Brother Ot Rebecca. And Grand-nephew Of Abmham. In Gen. Xxix. 5 He Is Called The Son Of Natio' Bv A Common Extension In Meaning Of The Word He Is First Mentioned In Gen. Xxiv. 29, Where Rebecca ...
Labour
Labour (rit.6n, Trzz, Or The Exercise Of The Limbs, Both For Obtaining Subsistence And For The Benefit Of Health, Was Ordained By God As Soon As Man Was Created. We Are Told That Even Before His Fall Adam Was To Work In Paradise (gen. Ii. 5, 15). After The Fall, ...
Lachish
Lachish (t:',4n, Perhaps .,--- Obsti , Nate ; Sept. Aaxfs ; Alex. Aaxels ; Lachis), An Ancient Royal City Of The Canaanites, Whose King, At The Request Of Adonizedec, King Of Jerusalem, Joined The Alliance Against Joshua And The Israelites (josh. X. 3). The Allied Forces Having Been Conquered At ...
Ladder Of Tyre
Ladder Of Tyre. Josephus, In Describ Ing The Plain Of Ptolemais, States That It Is Encom Passed By Mountains—carmel On The South, Galilee On The East, And That On The North, The Highest Of Them All, Is Called By The People Of The Country The Ladder Of The Tyrians (kvival, ...
Lahai Roi
Lahai-roi, The Well (+wi 41:6 ; 15plap Bcfrnow Eisov, And 7-6 Q5plap 6pda-ea's; Puteum Nomine Viventis D And Putenne Viventis El Videnth Me). The Incident Which Gave This Well Its Name Is One Of Those Graphic Episodes In The History Of The Early Patriarchs Which Serve At Once To Throw ...
Laisii
Laisii (t,„"34.; R Strong,' Or A Lion,' As In Is. Xxx. 6 ; Aacaci, Also In Alex. Amis. Or Aais ; Lais). 1. An Ancient Phoenician City, Occupied By A Colony Of Sidonians, Situated In The Rich Valley Between Hermon And Lebanon, And At One Of The Great Fountains Of ...
Lake Or Sea Iv
Iv. Gennesareth, Lake Or Sea Of.—this Is Only Another Name Of The Preceding ; Which Is Called Besides, In The N. T., The Sea Of Galilee' (matt. Iv. Is), The Sea Of Tiberias' (john Xxi. 1), And The Sea' Or Lake Of Gennesareth' (matt. Xiv. 34 ; Mark Vi. 53 ...
Lamech
Lamech ; Sept. Aatax). 1. The Son Of Methusael, Fifth In Descent From Cain (gen. Iv. 1s-24). He Is Recorded As Having Married Two Wives, A Dah And Zillah, And In This We Have Probably A Note Of The Origin Of Polygamy. In His Family The Arts Flourished ; For, ...
Lamy
Lamy Or Lami (bernard), A Learned Roman Catholic Divine, Born At Mans In 1640, Commenced His Education At The College Of His Native Place, And Completed It Under The Fathers Of The Oratory In Paris. He Speedily Gained A Considerable Reputa Tion, And Became Successively Professor Of Seller Lettres At ...
Land Ok Canaan
Canaan, Land Ok —the Ancient Name Of The Country Lying Between The Jordan Valley And The Mediterranean (gen. Xii. 5 ; Xvi. ; Judg. I). Different Opinions Are Held Regarding The Origin And Meaning Of The Name. Gesenius States That It Is From The Root In, One Meaning Of Which ...
Language Canaan
Canaan, Language Or, Op P Ntv, Zip Of Canaan). This Expression Occurs Is. Xix. 18, Where It Undoubtedly Designates The Language Spoken By The Jews Dwelling In Palestine. The Use Of Such An Expression, However, Suggests The Ques Tion As To The Relation Of The Hebrew To The Lan Guage ...
Languages I
Languages. I. Semitic Family. (as Hebrew.) Ii. Iranian Family. (greek.) Iii. Barbaric Class. Families. R. Egyptian. 2. Nigritian. 3. Tatar. In The Table Which Follows, The First Column Gives Those Names From Gen. X. Far Which There Are Highly-probable Geographical Identifications ; The Second Column States These Identifications ; The ...
Laodicea
Laodicea (aaosiketa). There Were Several Places Of This Name, Four Of Which It May Be Well To Distinguish, In Order To Prevent Them From Being Confounded With One Another. Tbe First Was In The Western Part Of Phrygia, On The Borders Of Lydia ; The Second, In The Eastern Part ...
Lasea
Lasea (aacrata ; Aacrcrata ; A, 'axcta-ca ; B, Aacrea ; Thalassa). When The Apostle Paul, On His Eventful Voyage To Rome, 'was Passing Under Crete, Over Against Salmone,' The Historian Tells Us That, Hardly Passing It (the Vessel) Came Into A Place Which Is Called The Fair Havens, Nigh ...
Latinisms
Latinisms. This Word, Which Properly Sig Nifies Idioms Or Phraseology Peculiar To The Latin Tongue, Is Extended By Biblical Critics So As To In Clude Also The Latin Words Occurring In The Grcek Testament. It Is But Reasonable To Ex Pect The Existence Of Lath:isms In The Language Of Every ...
Law Of Imoses
Moses, Law Of. ( I.) The Legislative System Of The Hebrew Nation Is Frequently Called, Both In 0. T. And N. T., After The Name Of The Great Human Legislator. In The Most Ancient Book Of Scripture, Next To The Pentateuch Itself, `the Law Of Moses' (ren 11171; Lxx. 6 ...
Lazarus
Lazarus (acitapoz; Lazarus), The Greek Con Tracted Form Of The Hebrew Proper Name 111bn, Tt: V Eleazar, God Aids.' It Is Applied To Two Persons In The N. T.—lazarus Of Bethany, And Lazarus The Beggar. T. Lazarus Of Bethany.—the Story Of Lazarus Is A Fragment—one Of Those Wonderful Episodes We ...