Brass [N] [S]which is an alloy of copper and zinc, was not known till the thirteenth century. What is designated by this word in Scripture is properly...
DwellingsThe materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones ( Leviticus 14:40 Leviticus 14:42 ), which were held together by...
Jabesh-Gilead [N]a town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in...
Gaza [N] [H] [S]called also Azzah, which is its Hebrew name ( Deuteronomy 2:23 ; 1?Kings 4:24 ; Jeremiah 25:20 ), strong, a city on the Mediterranea...
Teraphim [N] [H] [S]givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by the Romans....
Congregation [N] [S](Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community ( Numbers 15:15 ). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old...
Moab [N] [H] [S]the seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot ( Genesis 19:37 ), of incestuous birth. ...
Esdraelon [S]the Greek form of the Hebrew Jezreel, the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer; i.e., the meadow of the son of Am...
Debir [N] [H] [S]oracle town; sanctuary. One of the eleven cities to the west of Hebron, in the highlands of Judah ( Joshua 15:49 ; Judg. 1:11-15 )....
Moabitethe designation of a tribe descended from Moab, the son of Lot ( Genesis 19:37 ). From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the south-eastern bor...
Scribes [T] [S]anciently held various important offices in the public affairs of the nation. The Hebrew word so rendered (sopher) is first used to des...
fiery red ?????? [pyrros] : ?As a color fiery red, red (as fire).?1 The same color as the dragon in Revelation Rev. 12:3+. was granted Ultimate powe...
1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, [who] was of the inhabitants of Gilead Which belonged partly to the Reubenites and Gadites, and partly to the ha...
Acts 28:10 Who also honoured us with many honours Not with divine honours, with religious adorations, as if they had been so many deities; for these t...
Poetry [N] [B]has been well defined as the measured language of emotion. Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man's relat...
Vengeance [N]An injured party's desire for retribution or repayment from those who harmed him or to demonstrate his innocence against false accusation...
Chapter 5151:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet a came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me...
Circumcision [N] [T] [B] [S]cutting around. This rite, practised before, as some think, by divers races, was appointed by God to be the special badge ...
Isaiah [N] [H] [S](Heb. Yesh'yahu, i.e., the salvation of Jehovah). The son of Amoz ( Isaiah 1:1 ; 2:1 ), who was apparently a man of humble rank. H...
Appear, Appearance The Old Testament. The Hebrew word most commonly used for appearance in the Old Testament is raa [h'a'r]. The seeing of God leads t...