Music
Music. It Seems Probable That Music Is The Oldest Of All The Fine Arts. It Is More Than Any Other An Immediate Work Of Nature. Hence We Find It Among All Nations, Even Those Which Are Totally Ignorant Of Every Other Art. Some Instru Ments Of Music Are In Scripture ...
Myles Coverdale
Coverdale, Myles, Is Supposed To Have Been Born In 1488, In The District Of Coverdale, In The Parish Of Coverham, Near Middleton, In The North Riding Of Yorkshire, And To Have Derived His Name From The District Of His Birth. He Studied In The Monastery Of The Augustines At Cambridge, ...
Mystery
Mystery (p.vcrn'imay). A Sense Is Often Put Upon This Word, As If It Meant Something Absolutely Unintelligible And Incomprehensible ; Whereas, In Every Instance In Which It Occurs In The Sept. Or N. T., It Is Applied To Something Which Is Revealed, Declared, Explained, Spoken, Or Which May Be Known ...
Myth
Myth. The Philosophical Conception Of A Myth Being Only Possible To An Advanced Reflective Age, We Are Not Surprised To Find That No Word Cor Responding To Myth' Occurs In The O. T., And That Iii.vor Is Therefore Not To Be Found In The Lxx. Even In The Apocrypha The ...
Naaman
Naaman (pill, Pleasantness). I. (sept. Noe Adv.) One Of The Descendants Of Benjamin Who Came Down With Jacob To Egypt (gen. Xlvi. 21). In Num. Xxvi. 40, And I Chron. Viii. 3, 4, He Is Repre Sented As The Son Of Bela [becher]. From The Statement In I Chron. Viii. ...
Nabcdilpqt X
Nabcdilpqt X Z Present An Older Form Of The Text Than E F G H K M S U V R. Among The Former, Ti B Z Have A Text More Ancient And Correct Than That Of The Others. Matthaei Repudiated The Whole System Of Recen Sions As Useless And ...
Naboth
Naboth (t1in), Fruit, Produce; Sept. Nago Oat), An Inhabitant Of Jezreel, Who Was The Pos Sessor Of A Patrimonial Vineyard Adjoining The Garden Of The Palace Which The Kings Of Israel Had There. King Ahab Had Conceived A Desire To Add This Vineyard To His Ground, To Make Of It ...
Nachman B Shalmon Krochmal
Krochmal, Nachman B. Shalmon, Born In Brody, Feb. 18, 178o, And Died In Tarnopol, July 31, 184o. This Erudite Critic And Eminent Hebraist Was The First Among The Jews Who, With A Rare Sagacity And Independency Of Mind, Investi Gated The Hebrew Scriptures, In Order To Ascertain The Origin, Unity, ...
Nachon
Nachon ; Sept. Naxoip ; Alex. Naxi.fa, ; Vulg. 'vachon) Occurs In 2 Sam. Vi. 6 As The Name Of The Threshing-floor Which In The Parallel Passage, In R Chron. Xiii. 9, Is Called By The Appellation Of Chidon [ch1004 The Targum Of Jonathan Explains The Word Nachon By Jprn ...
Nahaliel
Nahaliel Valley Of God ;' Nact Xl91; Nahaliel), A Station Of The Israelites Men Tioned Only In Num. Xxi. 19. The Difficulties Connected With The Passage In Which This Word Occurs Have Been Already Pointed Out In The Article Mattaneh. It Seems Probable, As There Stated, And As Is Maintained ...
Nail
Nail ; Chald. The Horny Covering Of The Extremities Of The Fingers Or Toes Of Certain Animals. The Former Of These Names (which Occurs Deut. Xxi. 12) Is Derived From The Use Of The Nail In Scraping Or Scratching (from My="du) ; With The Same Underlying Idea The Word Is ...
Nain
Nain ; Nairn), A Town (vats) Mentionedonly In Luke Vii. Ii ; The Scene Of One Of Our Lord's Greatest Miracles—the Raising Of The Widow's Son To Life. Nothing Is There Said Of The Situation Of Nain. It Could Not Have Been Far Distant From Capernaum, For, After Spending The ...
Name V
Name (v.::,! ; Sept. And N. T., Timn.la.). As The Name By Which An Object Is Designated Becomes That By Which It Is Known,* And So Gradually Comes To Represent Or Stand For The Object, The Word Name In Scripture Is Often Used, Where Not A Mere Designation Is Intended, ...
Nanea
Nanea (nava/a) Occurs 2 Maccab. I. R3 As The Name Of The Goddess To Whom The Temple In Elymais, Which Antiochus Epiphanes Attempted To Plunder, Was Dedicated. Antiochus Having Heard That This Temple Was Greatly Enriched With Golden Shields, And Breastplates, And Weapons, Which ' Alexander, The Son Of Philip,' ...
Naomi
Naomi Oily], From ?1/), To Be Pleasant; Sept. • 7:7 •• 7 Ncoraciv ; Alex. Wife Of Elimelech Of Bethlehem, And Mother-in-law Of Ruth, In Whose History Hers Is Involved [runt]. ; Refreshment ;' Naols ; Na ; Nap His), A Son Of Ishmael, And The Name Of The Tribe ...
Naphtali
Naphtali Nota-axet ; Ney59axi; And ; Nephea/i), A Son Of Jacob By Bilhah, Rachel's Maid. The Origin Of The Name Is Thus Explained, And Rachel Said, With Wrestlings Of God Have I Wrestled With My Sister; And I Have Prevailed ; She His Name Naphtali' (` My Wrestling'). Both The ...
Naphtuhim
Naphtuhim Neg9ane1i.4; Neph Tram), One Of The Sons The Second Son Of Ham (gen. X. 13 ; I Chron. I. I I). The Name Is Only Mentioned In The Two Great Genealogi Cal Tables Of Ancient Nations Given In The Bible. Mizraim Was Unquestionably The Founder Of The Egyptian Nation, ...
Napkin Handkerchief
Handkerchief, Napkin (0-oveciptov ; Vulg. Sudarizenz), Occurs In Luke Xix. 20 ; John Xi. 44 ; Xx. 7 ; Acts Xix. 12. The Greek Word Is Adopted From The Latin (like Kijpo-as, Net.tpiniva, And Many Others), And Probably, At First, Had The Sante Meaning With It, And Which, Being Derived ...
Nathan
Nathan ((r.y, Given ; Sept. Natdv). 1. A Prophet Of The Time Of David. When That Monarch Conceived The Idea Of Building A Temple To Jehovah, The Design And Motives Seemed To Nathan So Good That He Ventured To Approve Of It Without The Di Vine Authority ; But The ...
Nathan B Jechiel B
Nathan B. Jechiel B. Abraham, Also Called Aruch (1111)) Or Baal Ha-aruch , From The Fact That He Is The Author Of The Celebrated Lexicon Denominated Aruch. This Tinguished Lexicographer Was Born In Rome About 1030, Where, Like His Ancestors Before Him And His Descendants After Him, He Was Held ...
Nathanael
Nathanael (t:911), Given Of God; N. T. Naliam7)x), A Person Of Cana In Galilee, Who When Informed By Philip That The Messiah Had Ap Peared In The Person Of Jesus Of Nazareth, Asked, ' Can Any Good Thing Come Out Of Nazareth ?' But He Nevertheless Accepted Philip's Laconic In ...
Nazareth
Nazareth (in The T. R. Narapft, And In Mss. Sometimes Narapa-, Narapd, And ; Nazareth), A Town Of Galilee (arats Rair Raxactitts) Chiefly Celebrated As The Residence Of Our Lord's Parents, And The Home Of His Youth (matt. Ii. 23 ; Luke I. 26 ; Ii. 39, 51). It Is ...
Nazarite
Nazarite, More Properly Nazirite (1n.1 Csr6t..1 Tn, Fern. Mt?), Sept. Paripaibs, Etilabcevor, And Inqao-ttevos, Vulg. Nazaneus), One, Not Of The Aaronic Order, Who Bound Himself Or Herself By A Vow To Priestly Abstinence And Purity, Either Tem Porarily Or For The Whole Life. T. Name And Its Signification.—the Etymology And ...
Neapolis
Neapolis (nzdroxtr, ' New City ;' Neapolis), A City Of Greece, Celebrated As The First Place In Europe Visited By The Apostle Paul. After Tra Versing Asia Minor In His Missionary Tour, ' He Came Down To Troas ;' And Thence, In Obedience To A Heavenly Injunction, He Sailed For ...
Nebaioth
Nebaioth ; Nabajoth), Theeldest Son Of Ishmael (gen. Xxv. 13), And The Founder Of The First Of The Twelve Ishmaelitish Tribes (ver. I6). We Are Told That The Ishmaelites In Habited The Country From Havilah To Shur ;' Which Includes The Whole Peninsula Of Arabia Lying Between The Euphrates And ...
Nebo
Nebo Om; Nepal, Nabo), A City Of The Gadites East Of The Jordan, Grouped With Heshbon, Elealah, And Baal-meon (num. Xxxii. 3, 38), And Therefore Situated On The Mishor, Or Plateau Of Moab. The Other Three Towns Have Been Identified; They Lie Within A Few Miles Of Each Other At ...
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar Kings, Chronicles, And Daniel ; Jer. Xxvii. ; Xxviii. ; Xxxiv. 1 ; Xxxix. 1 ; Ezek. Xxvi. 7 ; And Ezra V. 12 ; Written Also Generally In Jeremiah, And In Ezek. Xxx. 18) Was The Name Of The Chaldunan Monarch Of Babylon By Whom Judah Was Conquered, ...
Nechosheth
Nechosheth (rit/h); Xaxx6s), Frequently Translated In The A. V. Brass, More Properly Means Copper, Usually In A Wrought State, And Sometimes Also In The State Of Bronze. Copper Is Commonly Found In Pyrites, Quartz, Or Spar, In Veins •, Hence Job Says Nechosheth Is Molten [or Fused] Out Of The ...
Nechoth
Nechoth (til•:]). This Word Occurs Twice In The Book Of Genesis, And No Doubt Indicates A Product Of Syria, For In One Case We Find It Carried Into Egypt As An Article Of Commerce, And In Another Sent As A Present Into The Same Country. It Occurs In The Sante ...
Needlework
Needlework. This Is The Rendering Given In The A. V. To The Heb. 1pp"1 (judg. V. 3o ; Ps. Xlv. 15), And Also To Co (exod. Xxvi. 36 ; Xxvii. 16 ; Xxviii. 39 ; Xxxvi. 37 ; Xxxviii. Is), Though This Latter, Being The Participle Of The Verb Npl, ...
Nehemiah
Nehemiah, Whose Genealogy Is Unknown, Ex Cept That He Was The Son Of Hachaliah (neh. And Brother Of Hanani (neh. Vii. 2 ; Comp. Neh. I. 2). Some Think He Was Of Priestly Descent, Be Cause His Name Appears At The Head Of A List Of Priests In Neh. X. ...
Nemalah
Nemalah Sept. Mopi.oi$ ; Vulg. Formica ; Fifth Order Of Insects ; Hymenoptera, Linn. ; Occurs Prov. Vi. 6 ; Xxx. 25). Ants Have Only Latterly Become The Subjects Of Accurate Ob Servation. The Investigations Of Latreille, Gould, Geer, Huber, And Kirby And Spence, Have Dissi Pated Many Erroneous Notions ...
Nerd Or Nard Ci1
Nerd Or Nard Ci1)) Is Mentioned In Three Places In The Song Of Solomon, And By Mark And John In The N. T. , Under The Name Of Vcipaos. Both Are Translated In The A. V. By The Word Spikenard, Which Indicates A Far-famed Perfume Of The East, That Has ...
Nergal
Nergal ()).:; Sept. 'epy€x), A Deity Of The Cuthites In The Assyrian Empire (2 Kings Xvii. 3o), Corresponding To Ares Or Mars In The Hellenic And Latin Mythology. His Astrological Symbol Was The Planet Mars, Which Still Bears Among The Zabians Or Mendaeans The Name Of Vp, Nerig ; And ...
Nesher
Nesher ()ci.)). This Term Is Used In Scrip Ture To Designate Birds Both Of The Eagle And Of The Vulture Genus. It Is Derived From A Root Signifying To Tear With The Beak ; Arab..,,,,), Whence ] Mansir, A Bird Of Prey), And Might There Fore Be Used Of Birds ...
Neter On
Neter On ; Sept. And Symmachus, Virpon ; Vulg. Nitrunt ; English Version Nitre') Occurs In Prov. Xxv. 20; Jer. Ii. 22 ; Where The Substance In Question Is Described As Effervescing With Vinegar, And As Being Used In Washing ; Neither Of Which Particulars Applies To What Is Now, ...
Nethinim
Nethinim Is The Name Given In The Post-exile Books Of The Hebrew Scriptures To The Hereditary Temple-servants Who Were Given To The Levites To Do The Subordinate And Menial Work. I. Name And Its Signification.—the Name Vino, Which Is The Plural Of Inv, Feminine Rirra, Passive Participle Of P13, To ...
Netophah
Netophah (mbl, A Dropping ;' Nercooci ; • ' Tircolxi ; Alex. Necktord, And 'avercbcpa ; Netupha), A Town Mentioned In The Lists Given By Ezra (ii. 22) And Nehemiah (vii. 26) Of Those Who Returned From The Captivity. It Is Grouped Between Bethle Hem And Anathoth, And Apparently It ...
Nets
Nets 0)? Netz; Sept. Ibpa; Vulg. Accipiter, An Unclean Bird ; A. V. Hawk ; Lev. Xi. 16 ; Deut. Xiv. 15 ; Job Xxxix. 26). The English Name Is An Altered Form Of The Old Word Fawk Or Falk, And In Natural History Represents Several Genera Of Raptorial Birds ...
Newcome
Newcome, Wm., D.d., Archbishop Of Armagh, Was The Son Of A Clergyman At Abington, In Berkshire, Where He Was Born In 1729. Edu Cated At The Grammar School Of His Native Town, He Soon Passed Thence To Oxford, Where He Became Fellow And Tutor Of Hertford College, Having C. J. ...
Nibhaz
Nibhaz (trin1), A Deity Of The Avites, Which They Introduced Into Samaria (2 Kings Xvii. 31). In The T. R. Of The Lxx. This Name Is Omitted, And Instead Of It Stands 'epxavp, Which Is Either The Name Of Another Deity Of The Avites Or Another Name For Nibhaz. In ...
Nicanor
Nicanor (nuccipcdp). I. The Son Of Patro Clus' (2 Maccab. Viii. 9), A General Under Antiochus Epiphanes And Demetrius I., Who Took A Pro Minent Part In The Wars Waged By The Syrians Against The Jews, To Whom He 'bore A Deadly Hate.' Under Antiochus, He Had Been Master Of ...
Nicholas De Lyra
Lyra, Nicholas De, Or, When Latinized, Lyranus. This Celebrated Commentator And Fore Runner Of The Reformation, Was Born About 127o, Of Jewish Parents, At Lyre, A Small Town In Nor Mandy, In The Diocese Of Eurecca, From Which Lie Took His Surname. Having Embraced Christianity When Young, Lie Entered The ...
Nicholas Fuller
Fuller, Nicholas, Was Born In 1557 At Southampton ; And Was Educated First At The Grammar. School Of That Town, And Afterwards At Iiart Hall, Oxford. To Ripe Scholarship In The Ordinary Learning Of The Time, He,added The Unusual Acquirement Of A Thorough Knowledge Of Hebrew And Its Cog-nate Lang-uages. ...
Nicodemus
Nicodemus (nckbanaos.), A Pharisee And Mem Ber Of The Sanhedrim, Who Was Impressed By What He Had Heard Concerning Jesus ; But Being Unwilling, On Account Of His Station, To Commit Him Self Without Greater Surety Than He Possessed, Re Paired By Night To-the House In Which Christ Dwelt, And ...
Nicolaitans
Nicolaitans (nnccaafra1). This Word Oc Curs Twice In The N. T. (rev. Ii. 6, 15). In The Former Passage The Conduct Of The Nicolaitans, Ra Tpya Nirconsar'cliv, Is Condemned ; In The Latter, The Angel Of The Church In Pergamus Is Cen Sured Because Certain Members Of His Church Held ...
Nicopolis
Nicopolis (nucbroxts, 'city Of Victory ; ' A City Only Mentioned Once By The Sacred Writers. In The Epistle To Titus, Iii. 12, The Apostle Paul Says, When I Shall Send Artemas Unto Thee,. Or Tychicus, Be Diligent To Come Unto Me To Nico Polls ; For I Have Determined ...
Nimrah
Nimrah (rinn), Pure Water ; ' Natspd Arevtra). After The Israelites Had Conquered The Country East Of The Jordan, The Tribes Of Reuben And Gad Asked Permission From Moses To Settle There, Because They `had A Very Great Multitude Of Cattle, And They Saw The Land Of Jazer, Arc! The ...
Nimrod
Nimrod (tlf) ; Sept. Nctip(455 ; Josephus, Ne(3pthans), A Son Of Cush, The Eldest Son Of Ham (gen. X. 8-ro). Five Sons Of Cush Are Enumerated In Verse 7 In The More Usual Manner Of This Chapter ; But A Change Of Phrase Introduces Nimrod. This Difference May Indicate That ...
Nineveh
Nineveh, Heb. ; Arab. ; As Syr. Or Rft • Till Within About Twenty Years Ago, All That Was Known Of Ancient Nineveh Was Comprised In The Scattered Allusions And Prophecies Alluding To It In The Bible, And The Casual And Fragmentary Notices Of Assyrian History In Diodorus Siculus, Eusebius, ...
Nitre Neter No
Nitre. [neter.] No (g). The Manner In Which This Ancient City Is Mentioned In The Several Passages Of The Bible Is Deserving Of The Notice Of The Student Of Scripture Geography. The First Passage In Which It Occurs Is Jer. Xlvi. 25, 'i Will Punish The Multi Tude Of No ...
Noah
Noah, The Second Father Of The Human Race, Was The Son Of The Second Lamech, The Grandson Of Methuselah, And The Tenth In Descent From Adam Through Seth. The Father Of Noah Must Not Be Confounded With The Lamech Who Was The Fourth In Descent From Cain. There Is Another ...
Noahs Ark
Ark, Noah's (i41:1; Sept. Icepcor6s; Vulg. Area). The Hebrew Word Used To Designate Noah's Ark Appears To Be Foreign, Since It Has No Native Ety Mology. (comp. Gesen. Thes. S. V.) Probably It Is Hebraicized From The Egyptian Tab Or Tba, A `chest Or Sarcophagus' (bunsen, Egypt's Place, I. 482), ...
Nodab
Nodab Nobility Kti Naceot ; Nodab). We Read In / Chron. V. 19 That The Reubenites, Gadites, And Manassites, Made War With The Hagarites, With Jetur, And Nephish, And Nodab,' Conquered Them, Captured Immense Booty, And The Children Of The Half Tribe Of Manasseh Dwelt In The Land' (ver. 23). ...
Nophah
Nophah (ma Blast ;' In The Sept. This Word Is Rendered Arporreelicavoao, They Kindled, As If Pointed Rip; ; But The Vulg. Rightly Makes It A Proper Name, Nofila). In Sketching The History Of The Conquest Of Moab By The Amorites, Moses Quotes A Fragment Of A Triumphal Ode, Apparently ...
Nordheimer
Nordheimer, Isaac, Was Born Of Jewish Parents, In 1809, At Memelsdorf, A Village Not Far From Erlangen. He Received The Rudiments Of His Education At A Jewish School Of His Native Place, And Having Acquired That Proficiency In Jewish Learning Which Fitted Him To Become A Rabbi, He, In 1828, ...
North
North (fley ; Sept. ; Vulg. Sep Tent, Io, Etc.) The Shemite, In Speaking Of The Quarters Of The Heavens And Of The Earth, Supposes His Face Turned Towards The East, So That The East Is Before Him, The West Behind, The South On The Right Hand, And The North ...
Number
Number. How Far The Ancient Hebrews Were Acquainted With Arithmetic Or The Science Of Number, We Possess No Authentic Information. Neither Do We Know, With Certainty, What Sort Of Numerical Characters They Used, Or If Any, In The Earlier Period Of Their History. We May, However, Form A Probable Conjecture. ...
Numbers
Numbers Is The Appellation Given To The Fourth Book Of Moses, Which In The Septuagint Is Called 'aplogoi, And In The Hebrew Canon 1111d3 Be-midbar, 'in The Desert.' Contents.—this Book Embraces More Espe Cially The Continuation Of The Sinaitic The March Through The Wilderness, The Rejection Of A Whole Generation, ...
Oath
Oath, An Appeal To God Or To Authorities Re Cognised By The Respective Adjurers, Or To Anything Esteemed Sacred, In Attestation Of An Assertion Or In Confirmation Of A Given Promise Or A Duty Under Taken. 1. Signification Of The Name, And Classification Of Oaths.—the Two Words N5n And Used ...
Obadiah
Obadiah (1r:i:11y And Ni* Servant Of Ye Hovah), The Name Of Several Peisons Mentioned In Scripture. I. (sept. 'o)4sico.) One Of The Minor Prophets. Of His History Nothing Certain Is Known. Some Have Inferred, From Ver. Loth Of His Prophecy, That He Lived And Wrote While Jerusalem Was Under The ...
Od Cush
Cush, Od, As The Name Of An Individual, Is Mentioned Among The Sons Of Ham, Together With Mizraim, Phut, And Canaan (gen. X. 6, And Chron. I. 8). Being The First-named, Be May Be Presumed To Have Been The Eldest Son. The Sons Of Cush Are Called Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, ...
Of Desolation
Of Desolation.] The Grove Of Daphne Was Not Far From Antioch (ackbvn I7 Os 'avrt6x€cav, 2 Maccab. Iv. 33 ; Joseph. Bell. Yied. I. 12. 15), And At This City Anti Ochus Epiphanes Erected A Temple For The Worship Of Jupiter Capitolinus [daphne]. It Is Described By Livy As Having ...
Offering
Offering. This Word, As Well As The Ger Man Opfer, Like The Hebrew Korban, Comprehends Every Sort Of Gift Or Sacrifice Presented Unto God. I. Before Entering Minutely Into The Subject Of This Article, There Are Several Words Of General Ho. Port And Common Use In The Bible Relating To ...
Offerings
Offerings Or Sin-offerings ; And /ast/y, The Time, Place, And Manner In Which They Should Be Made. Then Follows A Description Of The Manner In Which Aaron And His Sons Were Consecrated As Priests, And How, By The Manifestation Of The Divine Glory, They Were Ordained To Be Mediators Between ...