Shibboleth [N] [H] [S]river, or an ear of corn. The tribes living on the east of Jordan, separated from their brethren on the west by the deep ravines...
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...
Fenced cities [S]There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers ( 1?Chronicles 27:25 ). Cities, so...
Amalekitea tribe that dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. They were not the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz, for ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Milk [N] [T] [S] Hebrew halabh, new milk, milk in its fresh state (Judg. 4:19 ). It is frequently mentioned in connection with honey ( Exodus 3:8 ; ...
Women. [N]The position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts favorably with that which in the present day is assigned to them generally in ea...
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....
Deborah [N] [H] [S]a bee. Rebekah's nurse. She accompanied her mistress when she left her father's house in Padan-aram to become the wife of Isaac ( ...
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...
Congregation [N] [S](Heb. kahal), the Hebrew people collectively as a holy community ( Numbers 15:15 ). Every circumcised Hebrew from twenty years old...
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 ...
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...
Prayer [N] [T] [B] [S]is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Pr...
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 )....
Leviticus 13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising In the place where the boil was, a white swelling appears: or a bright spot, whit...