Piece of gold. The rendering pieces of gold, as in ( 2?Kings 5:5 ) is very doubtful; and shekels of gold) as designating the value of the whole quant...
GEOLOGY OF PALESTINE je-ol'-o-ji, The geology of Palestine cannot be discussed intelligently without taking into consideration the surrounding regions...
1 Chronicles 7:21 And Zabad his son Not the son of Tahath the second last mentioned, but the son of Ephraim, a second son of his: and Shuthelah; his ...
Dothan [E] [H] [S]A district and town in Palestine Genesis 37:17 Syrian army made blind at 2?Kings 6:13-19 [E] indicates this entry was also found...
Akrabbim [E] [H] [S]A chain of hills in the south of Palestine Numbers 34:4 ; Joshua 15:3 ; Judges 1:36 [E] indicates this entry was also found in...
Calamus [E] [S]A sweet cane of Palestine Solomon 4:14 ; Ezekiel 27:19 An ingredient of the holy ointment Exodus 30:23 ; Isaiah 43:24 Commerce in...
Havena harbour ( Psalms 107:30 ; Acts 27: : 12 ). The most famous on the coast of Palestine was that of Tyre ( Ezekiel 27:3 ). That of Crete, called...
Cotton. [N]Cotton is now both grown and manufactured in various parts of Syria and Palestine; but there is no proof that, till they came in contact w...
Canaan, The land of (lit. lowland ), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those waters and the Mediterranean;...
Weasel [N] [E](choled ) occurs only in ( Leviticus 11:29 ) in the list of unclean animals; but the Hebrew word ought more probably to be translated m...
Turpentine tree occurs only once, via. in the Apocrypha. Ecclus. 24:16. It is the Pistacia terebinthus , terebinth tree, common in Palestine and the ...
Beth-maachah (house of oppression ), a place named only in ( 2 Samuel 20:14 2 Samuel 20:15 ) In the absence of more information we can only conclude...
RAIN ran (maTar, Arabic (?), maTar, rain geshem, heavy rain moreh, early rain, yoreh, former rain, malqosh, latter rain; brecho, huetos): 1. Water-Su...
Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith the Lord, behold, waters rise up out of the north, &c.] Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with ...
CAPERBERRY ka'-per-ber-i ('abhiyonah; kapparis; Ecclesiastes 12:5 the Revised Version, margin): The translation the caperberry shall fail (the Revise...
Hivites [N] [T] [H] [S]one of the original tribes scattered over Palestine, from Hermon to Gibeon in the south. The name is interpreted as midlanders ...
MulberryHeb. bakah, to weep; rendered Baca (RSV, weeping) in Psalms 84:6 . The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered mulberry trees in 2Sam 5:...
Cistern [N] [S]the rendering of a Hebrew word bor , which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it; distinguished from beer , which denotes a pla...
MINT mint (heduosmon): Mentioned (Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42) as one of the small things which were tithed. The cultivated variety (Mentha piperita), ...
CHUSI ku'-si, (Chous): A place only named in Judith 7:18, as near Ekrebel on the brook Mochmur. It was in central Palestine, and has with some probab...