BEERSHEBA be-er-she'-ba (be'er shebha`; Bersabee): Allotted originally to Simeon (Joshua 19:2), one of the uttermost cities of the tribe of the child...
GEBA ge'-ba (gebha`, hill): (1) A town on the Northeast boundary of the territory of Benjamin (Joshua 18:24), given to the Levites (Joshua 21:17; 1?C...
Valley Heb. bik'ah, a cleft of the mountains ( Deuteronomy 8:7 ; 11:11 ; Psalms 104:8 ; Isaiah 41:18 ); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as t...
GESHUR ge'-shur (geshur, bridge): An Aramean kingdom (2?Samuel 15:8) of no great size which lay probably to the South of Maacah, and formed with it t...
Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones The Medes and Persians, so called, not because sanctified by the Spirit of God, or made holy persons, ...
Chapter?18 The tabernacle set up at Shiloh. (1) The remainder of the land described and divided. (2-10) The boundaries of Benjamin. (11-28) Verse ...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
WARD word: Ward and guard are two different spellings of the same word, and in consequence no clear line can be drawn between them. English Versions ...
Matthew 20:18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem This is the last time of our going thither; observe, and take notice of what I am about to say; some extra...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 34\\ \\\\. The author of this psalm is expressed by name; and the time and occasion of it are plainly intimated: it was comp...
ETHIOPIC VERSIONS e-thi-op'-ik vur'-shuns: Christianity was introduced into Abyssinia by Tyrian missionaries, who probably spoke Greek, about the tim...
Hinnom [N] [E] [H](lamentation ), Valley of, otherwise called the valley of the son or children of Hinnom, a deep and narrow ravine, with steep, rock...
CUSH (1) kush (kush): 1. The Ancestor of Many Nations: (1) The first of the sons of Ham, from whom sprang Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabtecah...
Excursus on the Words Gennhqe/ta Ou0 Poihqe/ntaExcursus on the Words Gennhqe/ta Ou0 Poihqe/nta(J. B. Lightfoot. The Apostolic Fathers-Part II. Vol. ii...
Job 27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable Having finished his discourse concerning the worlds and ways of God, and the display of his majesty, power...
Chapter?10 David's messengers ill-treated by Hanun. (1-5) The Ammonites defeated. (6-14) The Syrians defeated. (15-19) Verses 1-5 Nahash had ...
WOLF woolf (1) ze'ebh (Ge 49:27; 11:6; 65:25; Jer 5:6; Eze 22:27; Hab 1:8; Zec 3:3; also as proper name, Zeeb, prince of Midian, Judges 7:25; 8:3; P...
Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden Before man was created, as Aben Ezra observes, this river went out of Eden and watered i...
SERAIAH se-ra'-ya, se-ri'-a (serayahu, Yah hath prevailed; Septuagint Saraias, or Saraia): (1) Secretary of David (2?Samuel 8:17); in 2?Samuel 20:25 ...
Luke 13:1 There were present at that season Among the innumerable multitude of people, ( Luke 12:1 ) that were then hearing the above discourses and s...