ELUL e'-lul, e-lool' ('elul, Nehemiah 6:15; Eloul, 1?Maccabees 14:27): The 6th month of the Hebrew year, corresponding to August-September. The deriv...
EXTREME; EXTREMITY eks-trem', eks-trem'-i-ti We have the adjective extreme in 2?Esdras 5:14, extreme fear, the Revised Version (British and American) ...
GALGALA gal'-gal-a (Gallgala): Greek equivalent for Gilgal. The word occurs in 1?Maccabees 9:2 in connection with Arbela, in Galilee--The way to Galg...
Daniel 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many, &c.] Such as had a better understanding of divine things than others, had ...
Psalms 79:5 How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? for ever? &c.] That is, how long wilt thou be angry? shall it be for ever? see ( Psalms 85:4 Psalms 8...
GAZERA ga-ze'-ra (Gazera): (1) A fortress of Judea (1?Maccabees 4:15; 7:45); in the Revised Version (British and American) always GAZARA (which see)....
ELEPHANT el'-e-fant (Job 40:15 the King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin hippopotamus, the Revised Version (British and Ame...
ACCOS ak'-os (Hakchos): The grandfather of Eupolemus, whom Judas Maccabeus sent with others to Rome in 161 BC, to negotiate a league of amity and co...
Hebrews 11:38 Of whom the world was not worthy These words are inserted in a parenthesis, to remove or prevent such objections as these; that they wer...
Joshua 15:39 Lachish Lachish and Eglon were royal cities, of which see ( Joshua 10:3 ) ; and Bozkath, is called Boscath, of which place was the mothe...
SALU sa'-lu (calu'; Septuagint: Codex Vaticanus Salmon; Codex Alexandrinus Salo; the King James Version has Salom in 1 Macc 2:26): A prince and the h...
Psalms 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob The posterity of Jacob, the people of the Jews, typical of the church of God, made havoc of by the Romish ant...
ELEAZAR el-e-a'-zar, e-le-a'-zar ('el-`azar; Eleazar, God is helper): (1) The 3rd son of Aaron by Elisheba (Exodus 6:23; Numbers 3:2). He married on...
Daniel 11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches That is, Antiochus, with the spoils of Egypt, and the gifts and presents he had rece...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 83\\ \\\\. This is the last of the psalms that bear the name of Asaph, and some think it was written by him on occasion of D...
HAVOC hav'-ok: Devastation, to make havoc of is the translation of lumainomai, to stain, to disgrace; in the New Testament to injure, destroy (Acts 8...
EXHORTATION ek-sor-ta'-shun (paraklesis): The Greek word translated exhortation (paraklesis) signifies, originally, a calling near or for (as an advo...
Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part Powerful armies sent by him into Judea; garrisons of soldiers placed in Jerusalem; mighty generals and c...
TIMOTHEUS ti-mo'-the-us (Timotheos): (1) A leader of the children of Ammon who was on several occasions severely defeated by Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc ...
In the days of Jonathan the Asmonean, They came together to build the city, and he approached to the wall of the brook, which is on the east; and they...