Officer
Officer. This Is The Rendering In The A. V. Of Several Hebrew And Greek Terms. 1. V10 (gen. Xxxvii. 36 ; Xxxix. I ; Xl. 2). The Word Usually Designates A Eunuch ; And Probably It Ought Always To Be So Understood. It Is No Valid Objec Tion To This ...
Ointment Oil
Oil, Ointment One), From Inv), To Become Fat ; 111r, From Iriv, To Shine ; Ript Nrip,n, From Np-i, To Season, To Perfume; • Ririvn, From Nun, To Anoint, Properly Unction Or Anointing [exod. Xxx. 25, `make Oil Of Holy Anointing'= Holy Anointing Oil] ; Sept. Excuov, Gopou, Xpio-,ua, Xpirns ...
Old Age
Age, Old. The Strong Desire Of A Protracted Life, And The Marked Respect With Which Aged Per Sons Were Treated Among The Jews, Are Very Often Indicated In The Scriptures. The Most Striking In Stance Which Job Can Give Of The Respect In Which He Was Once Held, Is That ...
Old And New Testament
Testament, Old And New. When The Books Written By The Apostles Of Jesus Christ, Or By Apostolic Men, Came To Be Placed Alongside The Sacred Books Of The Hebrews, As Compnsing The Entire Scriptural Canon, It Became Necessary To Dis Tinguish The Two Divisions By Appropriate Designa Tions. A Usage ...
Omega
Omega (f2), The Last Letter Of The Greek Alpha Bet, Proverbially Applied To Express The End, As Alpha (a), The First Letter, The Beginning Of Any Thing. [alpha.] Umr1 ("i1]1.7, Sept. 'ail(zipt), Sixth King Of Israel, Who Began To Reign In B.c. 929, And Reigned Twelve Years. He Was Raised ...
Onesiphorus
Onesiphorus ('omicrictopos, Profit-bringer), A Believer Of Ephesus, Who Came To Rome During The Second Captivity Of St. Paul In That City ; And Having Found Out The Apostle, Who Was In Custody Of A Soldier, To Whose Arm His Own Was Chained, Was Not Ashamed Of His Chain,' But Attended ...
Opher
'opher (thy; Arabic Algophro), In The Song Of Solomon (ch. Iv. 5), Denotes The Calf Or Fawn Of A Stag [ail] ; It Occurs In No Other Book Of Scripture, Is Unknown In The Syriac And Chal Dee, And Appears To Be Only A Poetical Application Of A Term More ...
Ophrah
Ophrah (rntr, A Fawn,' Or 'dust ;' 'eq5paci, Ro0cpd ; Alex. 'arkpci ; Ophra, Aphra). I. A Town Of Benjamin, Situated Among The Mountains, And Apparently Not Far Distant From Bethel And Geba Josh. Xviii. 23). One Of The Bands Of Philistine Spoilers Was Seen By The Israelites To Go ...
Oreb Miv
'oreb (m"i'v; Chald. Nntly ; Trapat ; Also Luke Xii. 24, Only). The Hebrew Word Occurs In Gen. Viii. 7 ; Lev. Xi. 13 ; Deut. Xiv. 14 ; I Kings Xvii. ; Job Xxxviii. 41, Etc., Where It Is Rendered In The A. V. Raven. The Raven Is So ...
Origen
Origen ('opeybnis= Born Of Or, I. E., Hones), Surnamed The Adamantine, The Most Learned And One Of The Most Influential Of The Christian Fathers, Was Born Probably At Alexandria, A. D. 185. His Father, Leonidas,was A Christian, And Suffered Mar Tyrdom For His Attachment To The Cause Of Christ, A. ...
Oroth
Oroth Occurs In Two Passages Of Scripture, Where It Is Translated Herb In The A. V. ; It Is Generally Supposed To Indicate Such Plants As Are Employed For Food. The Most Ancient Transla Tors Seem, However, To Have Been At A Loss For Its Meaning. Thus The Septuagint In ...
Orton
Orton, Jos, S. T. P., A Congregational Of Some Reputation In The Last Century, Was Born At Shrewsbury, Sept. 4, 1717, And Received The Rudiments Of His Education At The Free School Of His Native Town. In May 1733 He Was Placed Under The Care Of Dr. Charles Owen Of ...
Osiander
Osiander [prop. Ilaemann], Andreas, Was Born At Guntzenhausen 19th Dec. 1498. Having Studied At Leipzig, Altenburg, And Ingold Stadt, Where He Made Great Proficiency In The An Cient Languages, Especially The Hebrew, And In Mathematics, He Became Teacher Of Hebrew In The Augustine Monastery At Nuremberg ; And Having Soon ...
Pakkuoth
Pakku'oth Onivn), And Pek'aim (nwp It Is Related In 2 Kings Iv. 38-4o, That Elisha Having Come Again To Gilgal, When There Was A Famine In The Land, And Many Sons Of The Prophets Were Assembled There, He Ordered His Servant To Prepare For Them A Dish Of Vegetables. It ...
Palace
Palace, In Scripture, Denotes What Is Con Tained Within The Outer Enclosure Of The Royal Resi Dence, Including All The Buildings, Courts, And Even Gardens (2 Chron. Xxxvi. 19 ; Comp. Ps. Xlviii. 4 ; Cxxii. 7 ; Pray. Ix. 3 ; Xviii. R9 ; Is. Xxiii. 13 ; Xxv. ...
Palestine
Palestine ; Ilanatartvn; Palastina), The Name Now Generally Given To The Country Originally Promised To, And Long Occupied By, The Israelites. The Name Is Not Strictly Accu Rate. Its Use In This Extended Sense Is Compara Tively Modern, But It Has, In Recent Times, Become So Definite And So Universal ...
Pamphylia
Pamphylia (bariouxia), A Province Of Asia Minor Mentioned Several Times In The Acts Of The Apostles. It Lies Upon The Southern Coast, And Bends In The Form Of A Crescent Round A Wide Open Bay, Which Was Hence Called Panzphylius Sinus; And As A Portion Of Cilicia Bordered Upon The ...
Pannag
Pannag Occurs Only Once In Scripture (ezek. Xxvii. 17), But So Much Uncertainty Exists Re Specting The Meaning Of The Word, That In Many Translations, As, For Instance, In The Authorized English Version, The Original Is Retained. From The Context Of The Passage In Which It Occurs, It Is Evident ...
Parable
Parable. The Word Parable Is Derived From Rapar3on7), Which Comes From To Compare, To Collate. In The N. T. It Is Em Ployed By Our Translators As The Rendering Of Zrapapoxh ; In The Old It Answers To Pro Verb. 1. It Denotes An Obscure Or Enigmatical Saying, Ex. Gr., ...
Paracletus
Paracletus (ilapciariros). This Word Is Applied To Christ In R John Ii. 1. Indeed, In That Famous Passage In Which Christ Promises The Holy Spirit As A Paraclete To His Sorrowing Disciples, He Takes The Title Himself : I Will Send You Another Paraclete' (john Xiv. 16), Implying That He ...
Paradise
Paradise, The Term Which By Long And Ex Tensive Use Has Been Employed To Designate The Garden Of Eden, The First Dwelling-place Of Human Beings. Of This Word (rapcisetcros.), The Earliest In Stance That We Have Is In The Cyropedia And Other Writings Of Xenophon, Nearly 400 Years B.c. ; ...
Paran
Paran A Place Of Caves,' From 'in, Arab. To Excavate ;' Cpapav ; Pharan), A Name Given In The Bible To A Wilderness, And To A Mountain. I. The Wilderness Of Paran (rn It Epngos. Ro L Situation And Boundaries Of This Wilderness Are Set Forth With Considerable Exactness By ...
Parbar
Parbar (1re). In Detailing The Stations And Numbers Of The Watchmen And Door-keepers Iir And Around The Temple, The Sacred Historian Eastward Were Six Levites, Northward Four A Day, Southward Fuur A Day, And Toward Asup Pim Two And Two. At Parbar Westward, Four At The Causeway, And Two At ...
Part I Name And
Part I. -name And Iiistory. —this Far Famed And Most Sacred Of All Cities Has A Name Which At Once Suggests Inquiry As To Its Meaning And Origin. The Old Traditions And Natural Pm Possessions Both Of Jews And Christians Connect It With That Salem Of Which Melchizedek, The Priest ...
Or Almug Trees Algum
Algum (ci:2)6n), Or Almug Trees (innn). These Are, No Doubt, Two Forms Of The Same Word, As They Occur In Passages Referring To The Same Events, And Differ Only In The Transposition Of Letters. In I Kings X. Ii, It Is Said, And The Navy Also Of Hiram, That Brought ...
Or Amana Abana
Abana, Or Amana (n=t.; Or R1=n; The For Mer Being The Kethib Or Hebrew Text, And The Latter The Keri Or Marginal Reading ; Sept. ' Alkyd), The Name Of One Of The Rivers Which Are Mentioned By Naaman (a Kings V. 12), Abana And As ' Rivers Of Damascus.' ...
Or Azzah Gaza
Gaza, Or Azzah Otv ; Sept. Tai-ci), One Of The Most Ancient Towns Of Palestine, And The Capi Tal And Stronghold Of The Philistines. His Situated In A Sandy Plain Three Miles From The Sea, On The Southern Frontier Of Palestine, In Lat. 31° 29', And Long. 34.* 33' (van ...
Or Cenchree Cenchrea
Cenchrea, Or Cenchre)e (keyxpeal), One Of The Ports Of Corinth, Whence Paul Sailed For Ephesus (acts Xviii. 18). It Was Situated On The Probability Of Some Difference Of Shape Between The Censers Used On These Occasions. The Daily Cen Sers Must Have Had A Base Or Stand To Admit Of ...
Or Children Of Heth
Hittites, Or Children Of Heth, A Na Tion Descended Ftom Heth Lxx. Xer ; Gent. N. ,nn ; Lxx. Xerraios ; Nn Nin; Lxx. Xer, Etryarepcs Tacov Xer), Son Of Canaan. The Meaning Of Heth Is Supposed To Be Fear' Or Terror,' But It Seems More Probable That It Has ...
Or Daquino Aquinas
Aquinas, Or D'aquino, Thomas, Called The Angelic Doctor,' Was Born Sometime Between I224 And 1227. He Died 7th March 1274, Under Fifty Years Of Age, Exhausted By Constant Study And By Labour As A Lecturer On Theology. His Works Fill, In One Edition (ven. 1529), 18 Vols. Folio, And In ...
Or Divination
Divination, Or The Art Of Forecasting The Future And Discovering The Unknown, Has Been Re Sorted To By All Nations, Under All Degrees Of Reli Gious Gift And Civilisation, With Remarkable Per Tinacity. The Curiosity Of Mankind Has Devised Numberless Methods Of Accomplishing The Art. By A Perversion And Exaggeration ...
Or Djanah Jonah Ibn
Ibn Ganach, Or Djanah Jonah, Or Abul Valid Mervan, As He Is Called In Arabic. This Famous Grammarian And Lexicographer, Who Is Alternately Quoted In Jewish Writings By The Names Of Ii.31"1, R. Yonah ; Ri))+-1, R. Yonah The Grammarian ; "i'idid71;1.)11 R. Jonah The Spaniard ; Nm, Yonah The ...
Or Feast Of Trumpets
New Year, Or Feast Of Trumpets (r)m Rivrn Rumn Irv), Though Not One Of The Three Great Festivals On Which The Male Population Appeared Before The Lord In Jerusalem, Is Nevertheless One Of The First Among The Principal Holydays, And As Such Has Been Celebrated By The Israelites Since The ...
Or Fringed Garments Fringes
Fringes, Or Fringed Garments (111n, Xpcialre3a, Sept. And N. T.) The Law Respecting Fringes Is Contained In Num. Xv. 38-41, And Deut. Xxii. 12. Here The Children Of Israel Are Enjoined To Append Fringes Or Tassels (rivt, 1:41;), Sisting Of Several Threads, To The Four Comers (rtmn I/tin) Of Their ...
Or Hashub
Hashub, Or More Correctly Hasshub, Ac Cording To The Hebrew Zijn, Which Always Redu Plicates The Second Letter. The A. V. Has Followed The Vulgate In Its Rendering Of The Form Of This Pro Per Name ; In The First Passage Where It Occurs, The A. V. Has Liasslzub, And ...
Or Helali Codex Hilali
Hilali, Or Helali Codex (t•brl Ltd), One Of The Most Ancient And Most Celebrated Codices Of The Hebrew Scriptures, Which Derived Its Name Front The Fact That It Was Written At Hiha (n9t•bri ; Arab. L.51.,), A Town Built Near The Ruins Of Ancient Babel. Others, However, Main Tain That ...
Or Hinnom
Hinnom, Or Valley Of Ben-hinnom Usually N.trrp ; And Palevva ; Ennom And Geennom, Etc.), A Well-known Valley (n.4) Or ; Sept. Ocipay, And Also Simply Rendered In Greek Letters Tat And 1,7; ; Hence L'aiepua, Gehenna), De Scribed In Josh. Xviii. 16 As On The South Side Of Jebusi, ...
Or I Bloody Offerings
I. Bloody Offerings, Or Sacrifices Proper. These We Shall Notice In The Order Of Their Import Ance, Which Is Also Their Natural, But Not Their His Torical Order. There Were Four Distinct Sorts ; Dis Tinct, Yet Related ; So Related As All To Convey One Idea In Common, And ...
Or I Cesarea Palestina
I. Cesarea Palestina, Or Cmsarea Of Pales Tine, So Called To Distinguish It From The Other Cm Sarea, Or Simply Cmsarea, Without Addition, From Its Eminence As The Roman Metropolis Of Pales Tine, And The Residence Of The Procurator. It Was Built By Herod The Great, With Much Of Beauty ...
Or Jasher
Jasher, Or Rather Jashar, Boox Of, A Work Quoted In Josh. X. 13, And 2 Sam. I. 18. The Former Passage Runs Thus : And The Sun Stood Still, And The Moon Stayed Until The People Had Avenged Themselves Upon Their Enemies. Is Not This Written In The Book Of ...
Or Josabad Jozabad
Jozabad, Or Josabad ; Sept. 'ito Tapd0 ; Alex. 'icei-agci3). 1. The Gederathite, One Of The Mighty Men Who Came To David At Ziklag (1 Chron. Xii. 4). 2, 3. Two Captains Of The Thousands Of Manasseh Who Went Over To David At Ziklag, And Aided Him To Repress The ...
Or Kittim Ch1ttim
Ch1ttim, Or Kittim (n+ri A Branch Of The Descendants Of Javan, The Son Of Japheth (gen. X. 4). The Plural Termination Of Chittim, And Other Names In This Ethnographical Survey (ver. 13, 14), Renders It Probable That The Term Son Must Be Understood (like Its Correlate, Father; V. An) Not ...
Or Massoreth Masorail Masoreth
Masorail Masoreth, Or Massoreth (rrion, Rrion, Rnion), The Name Given To A Gram Matico-critical Commentary On The O. T., The De Sign Of Which Is To Indicate The Correct Reading Of The Text In Respect Of Words, Vowels, Accents, Etc., So As To Preserve It From All Corruption. The Word ...
Or Micaiah My Micah
Micah, Or Micaiah (my*, Or As In I. 1-4, ; 31lxalas ; Mixci ; Michas, Micha. (see , • For Different Forms Of Name, Under Micah The Pro Phet.) Micah Was A Man Of Mount Ephraim,' A Peculiarly Suggestive Episode In Whose Life Has Been Preserved In The 17th And ...
Or Michmash Michmas
Michmas, Or Michmash (onnn, Enonn, Onnn ; Sept. A Town Of Benjamin (ezra Ii. 27 ; Neh. Xi. 31 ; Comp. Vii. 3 T), East Of Beth-aven (i Sam. Xiii. 5), And South From Migron, On The Road To Jerusalem (is. X. 28). The Words Of I Sam. Xiii. 2 ...
Or Mikraoth Gedo Loth
Rabbinic Bibles, Or Mikraoth Gedo Loth (t161) 11)0.1m)=great Bibles, As They Are Called In Hebrew. This Name Is Given To The Fol Lowing Seven Editions Of The Hebrew Scriptures, Because They Contain The Commentaries Of Sundry Jewish Rabbins. I. The Hebrew Bible Rnpc), With Jewish Commentaries, Published By Bomberg, And ...
Or Moloch
Moloch, Or Rather Molech (obri, Always With The Article, Except In 1 Kings Xi. 7). The Septuagint Most Frequently Render It As An Appella Tive, By 6 Dpxwp Or Pacraelis ' • But They Also Write 3iox6x, As Aquila, Symmachus, And Theodotion, Appear To Have Generally Done. \vhatever Reasons There ...
Or Moscholatry
Moscholatry, Or Calf–worship. Prominent Among The Characteristic Sins Of The Jewish People Stands Moscholatry ;' In Spite Of The Divine Prohibition In The Moral Law, A Sensuous Representation Of Deity Was Constantly Resorted To From The Very Beginning Of The Nation To The Time Of The Captivity. Various Forms Of ...
Or Naatzutz Vw Naazuz
Naazuz, Or Naatzutz ('vw)), Occurs Only In Two Passages Of Isaiah, In Both Of Which It Is Translated Thorn' In The A. V. (chap. Vii. 18, 19 ; Lv. 13). Some Have Translated It Generally, As In The English Version, By Thorn, Shrub, Thorny Shrub, Or Small Tree. Others Have ...
Or Naciimani Ben Nachman
Nachmanides, Or Naciimani= Ben Nachman, Moses, Also Called By The Jews Ramban, Pon, From The Initial Letters T3 Ivo Inn), R. Moses B. Nachman, And By Christian Writers Moses Gerundensis, Was Born At Gerona, In Catalonia, About 1195. So Extraordinary Was His Proficiency In The Biblical And Talmudical Writ Ings, ...
Or Painting The Eyes
Painting The Eyes,' Or Rather The Eyelids, Is More Than Once Alluded To In Scripture, Although This Scarcely Appears In The A. V., As Our Trans. Lators, Unaware Of The Custom, Usually Render Eye' By `face,' Although Eye' Is Still Preserved In The Margin, So Jezebel Painted Her Eyes,' Literally, ...
Or Paulus Of Burgos
Paulus Of Burgos, Or De Burgos, Also Called De Sancta Maria, Bishop Of Carthagena, Was Born Of Jewish Parents 1351 Or 1352, His Jewish Name Being (v111121 Ilthv '11) Rabbi Solo Mon Ha-levi Of .burgos. His Parents Gave Him The Best Jewish Education, And Solomon Became Remarkably Proficient In His ...
Or Penuel Peniei
Peniei, Or Penuel In Gen. Xxxii. 31 ; Ye Mos Ta Co0; In Ver. 3o, 5,1100 ; Maas Sea ; Elsewhere ; Phonic/j. The Origin Of This Name, And The Position Of The Place, Are Given In The Remarkable Narrative Of Gen. Xxxii. 24, Seq. The Interview Between Laban And ...
Or Reitian Rempiian
Rempiian, Or Reitian ('rep.ocip, A Name Quoted In Acts Vii. 43, From Amos V. 26, Where The Septuagint Has For The He Brew D'z, Chain. It Is Clear That, Although Thus Changing The Letter N Into 1, The Sept. Held The Original To Be A Proper Name, In Which Interpreta ...
Or Sakkuto Saccuto
Saccuto, Or Sakkuto (xrn.z), Also Called Saccut (n):?), Abraham B. Samuel, A Celebrated Astronomer, Mathematician, Historian, And Lexico Grapher, Was Born In Salamanca About A.d. I450. His Distinguished Talents Secured For Him The Pro Fessorial Chair Of Astronomy At Saragossa ; And When He, Together With 3oo,000 Of His Jewish ...
Or Selah
Selah, Or Rather Sela' (sbp, 'rock,' With The Article In 2 Kings Xiv. 7, Y9ort The Rock ;' Gr. 47 Ilirpa, Petra, Which Has The Same Signification As Selah ; Sometimes Plural, Al Ii&pac), The Metro Polis Of The Edomites In Mount Seir. In The Jewish History It Is Recorded ...
Or Shemitic
Shemitic, Or Rather Semitic Lan Guages,* A Term Commonly Applied To A Certain Number Of Cognate Idioms Supposed To Have Been Spoken By The Shemites—i. E. The Descendants Of ; Shem. Considering, However, That The Canaan Ites And The Phcenicians, The Cushites And A Num Ber Of Arabic Tribes, All ...
Or Shibmah
Shibmah, Or More Properly Sibmah (r17.#,/ J Eepaltci ; Sebanza), A City Occupied And Rebuilt By The Reubenites (num. Xxxii. 38). It Was Situated On The Plateau East Of The Dead Sea. It Originally Belonged To That Section Of The Terri Tory Of Moab Which Was Captured By The Amorites ...
Or Sons Of Levi
Levites, Or Sons Of Levi 0:14; Aearat, V101 Levitce, Jilii Levi), Besides Denoting All The Descendants Of The Tribe Of Levi (exod. Vi. 25 ; Levit. Xxv. 32, Etc. ; Num. Xxxv. 2 ; Josh. Xxi. 3, 41), Is The Distinctive Title Of That Portion Of It Which Was Set ...
Or Sopherim Scribes
Scribes, Or Sopherim Wail/acmes, Scribe), The Doctors Of The Law And Interpreters Of The Scriptures In, Before, And After The Time Of Christ. 1. Name And Its Signigication.—in The Earlier Records Of The O. T. The Name Sopher (10, Ticiple Of "ito, To Write, To Count) Is Given To Officers ...
Or The Last Doctors
V. The Gaonim (04=), Or The Last Doctors Of The Law In The Chain Of Rabbinic Suc Cession. Name And Date.—lt Is Now Difficult To Ascer Tain The Etymology Of I1w, The Title Of The Chief Doc Tors Of The Law Who Succeeded The Saborainz. One Thing, However, Is Certain—namely, ...