Chedorlaomer [N] [H](= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic penin...
FINGER (1) fin'-ger (Hebrew and Aramaic 'etsba`; daktulos): The fingers are to the Oriental essential in conversation; their language is frequently v...
Zacharias [S] A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David ( 1?Ch...
Lachish [N] [H] [S]impregnable, a royal Canaanitish city in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Palestine ( Joshua 10:3 Joshua 10:5 ; 12:11 ). It wa...
WRITING, 2 V. Materials. The materials used in writing include almost every imaginable substance, mineral, vegetable, and animal: gold, silver, copp...
REZIN re'-zin (retsin; Rhaasson): The last of the kings of Syria who reigned in Damascus (2?Kings 15:37; 16:5-10; Isaiah 7:1; 8:4-7). Alona with Peka...
PUT put (puT; Phoud, in Genesis and Chronicles, variant for Genesis Phout, for Chronicles, Phouth): 1. Renderings: In consequence of the identificat...
The Passion of the Scillitan MartyrsThe Passion of the Scillitan MartyrsWhen Praesens, for the second time, and Claudianus were the consuls, on the se...
Chapter?8 Exhortations and warnings. (1-8) Comfort for those who fear God. (9-16) Afflictions to idolaters. (17-22) Verses 1-8 The prophet...
LATIN lat'-in: Was the official language of the Roman Empire as Greek was that of commerce. In Palestine Aramaic was the vernacular in the rural dist...
The Book of EzekielChapter 37Chapter Overview: The vision of the resurrection of the dry bones, ver. 1 - 10. The explication of it, ver. 11 - 14 A ...
ARK OF NOAH ark, no'-a: A structure built by Noah at the command of God to preserve from the Flood a remnant of the human race and of the animals ass...
Hymn XI.Hymn XI.(The Virgin Mother to Her Child.)I Shall not be jealous, my Son, that Thou art with me, and also with all men. Be Thou God to him that...
CHAPTER 8 Isaiah 8:1-9:7'. The first seven verses of the ninth chapter belong to this section. The eighth chapter continues the subject of th...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 27. He rained flesh also upon them as dust. First he rained bread and then flesh, when he might have rained fire and brimstone. The w...
TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS tel-el-a-mar'-na, I. INTRODUCTION 1. Name 2. Discovery 3. Physical Character II. EPIGRAPHICAL VALUE 1. Peculiar Cuneifor...
AHAZ a'-haz ('achaz, he has grasped, 2?Kings 16; 2?Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7:10; Achaz). 1. Name: The name is the same as Jehoahaz; hence appears on T...
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B 4. Central Palestine: (1) Jerusalem. See above, III, 1, (2). (2) Samaria. (Harvard Expedition).--Although the ancient ca...
ALPHABET al'-fa-bet. 1. Definition: An alphabet is a list of the elementary sounds used in any language. More strictly speaking it is that particula...
CHAPTER 33 2?Chronicles 33:1-10 . MANASSEH'S WICKED REIGN. 1, 2. Manasseh .?.?. did that which was evil in the sight of the ...