Coney [N] [E](shaphan ), a gregarious animal of the class Pachydermata, which is found in Palestine, living in the caves and clefts of the rocks, and...
Nain [N] [E] [H](beauty ), a village of Galilee, the gate of which is made illustrious by the raising of the widows son. ( Luke 7:12 ) The modern Nei...
MAKKEDAH ma-ke'-da (maqqedhah; Makeda): A Canaanite royal city which Joshua captured, utterly destroying the inhabitants, and doing to the king as he...
The fountain (h phgh). Old word for spring ( John 4:14 ). Opening (oph). Old word for fissure in the earth, in N.T. only here and Hebrews 11:38 (ca...
The country of the Gadarenes (ten cwran twn Gadarhnwn). This is the correct text in Matthew while in Mark 5:1 and Luke 8:26 it is the country of ...
ICE is (qerach): Ice is almost unknown in Palestine and Syria except on the highest mountains. At moderate heights of less than 4,000 ft. a little ic...
JATTIR jat'-er (yattir, and yattir): A town in the hill country of Judah, mentioned in conjunction with Shamir and Socoh (Joshua 15:48); one of the c...
Carmel [E] [H] [S]A fertile and picturesque mountain in Palestine Solomon 7:5 ; Isaiah 33:9 ; 35:2 ; Jeremiah 46:18 ; 50:19 ; Amos 1:2 Forests ...
Makkedah [N] [E] [H](place of shepherds ), a place memorable in the annals of the conquest of Canaan as the scene of the execution by Joshua of the f...
Overview - Psalms 142 1?David shews that in his trouble all his comfort was in prayer unto God. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgePsalms 142:1??(King Jam...
John 11:38 Jesus therefore groaning in himself Not only through grief, just coming up to the grave, where his dear friend lay, but through an holy ang...
Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth That is, the worshippers of idols, as they are bid to do, (...
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, then shall ye begin to say; the tribulation being so great, as n...
The princes (oi megistane). Late word from the superlative megisto, in LXX, Josephus, papyri, in N.T. only in Mark 6:21 ; Revelation 6:15 ; Revela...
TAANATH-SHILOH ta'-a-nath-shi'-lo (ta'-anath shiloh; Codex Vaticanus Thenasa kai Sellesa, Tenathselo): A town on the border of the territory of Ephra...
BARN barn (meghurah, a granary, fear, Haggai 2:19; acam, a storehouse, Proverbs 3:10; mammeghurah, a repository, Joel 1:17; apotheke, Matthew 6:26; 13...
Cottage A booth in a vineyard ( Isaiah 1:8 ); a temporary shed covered with leaves or straw to shelter the watchman that kept the garden. These were s...
Alabaster, [N] [E]from the Arabic al bastraton , a whitish stone or from Alabastron , the place in Egypt where it is found. It occurs only in ( Matth...
kings of the earth These are the kings which fail to ?kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a litt...
Edom, Idumaea or Idumea (red ). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright t...