Hemlock, [N] [E]the common ground or dwarf hemlock, a bitter, poisonous plant. The Hebrew rosh is rendered hemlock in two passages, ( Hosea 10:4 ; A...
Gall [N] [S](1) Heb. mererah, meaning bitterness ( Job 16:13 ); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps ( 2...
Poison Heb. hemah, heat, the poison of certain venomous reptiles ( Deuteronomy 32:24 Deuteronomy 32:33 ; Job 6:4 ; Psalms 58:4 ), causing inflammat...
Hemlock [N] [S] Heb. rosh ( Hosea 10:4 ; rendered gall in Deuteronomy 29:18 ; 32:32 ; Psalms 69:21 ; Jeremiah 9:15 ; 23:15 ; poison, Job 20:16 ;...
GALL gol: (1) ro'sh, or rosh (Deuteronomy 32:32 only, grapes of gall): Some very bitter plant, the bitterness as in (2) being associated with the id...
MEDICINE med'-i-sin, med'-i-s'-n (gehah, teruphah, rephu'ah): These words are used in the sense of a remedy or remedies for disease. In Proverbs 17:2...
POISON poi'-z'-n (chemah, ro'-sh; thumos, ios): Residents in Palestine must, from the first, have been acquainted with venomous serpents. Six species...
Song of Solomon 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons As the apple tree, in a garden or orchard, excels...
CHAPTER 8 Jeremiah 8:1-22 . THE JEW'S COMING PUNISHMENT; THEIR UNIVERSAL AND INCURABLE IMPENITENCE. 1. The victorious Babylonians were about ...
CHAPTER 10 Hosea 10:1-15 . ISRAEL'S IDOLATRY, THE SOURCE OF PERJURIES AND UNLAWFUL LEAGUES, SOON DESTINED TO BE THE RUIN OF THE STATE, THEIR ...
The PhoenixThe PhoenixBy an Uncertain Author. Attributed to Lactantius.(1) There is a happy spot, retired(2) in the first East, where the great gate o...
POEMS. HOLY SONNETS. I. La Cohona. Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise, Weaved in my low devout melancholy, Thou which of good, ha...
1. THERE were peculiar garments appointed for the priests, and for all the rest, which they call Cohanoeoe [-priestly] garments, as also for the hi...
That ye... may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth ami the length and the depth and height; and Co know the love of Christ, whi...
Palestina and Palestine (land of strangers ). These two forms occur in the Authorized Version but four times in all, always in poetical passages; the...
MONEY mun'-i: Various terms are used for money in the Bible, but the most common are the Hebrew keceph, and Greek argurion, both meaning silver. We f...
Homily V.-The Germination of the Earth.Homily V.-The Germination of the Earth.1. And God said Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,...
CHAPTER XI. RECIPROCAL RELATIONS OF PREACHER AND HEARER. The orator is not an isolated person, but one who stands in living sensitive rapport with a...
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF STYLE. The fundamental properties of good discourse are as distinct, and distinguishable, as those of matter....
RALPH WALDO EMERSON N1ne years after Bryant, Emerson was born. Our second American poet began his life in 1803, half-way between the war of the Revol...