Fox [N] [E](Heb. shual ). Probably the jackal is the animal signified in almost all the passages in the Old Testament where the Hebrew term occurs. T...
Head-dress. The Hebrews do not appear to have regarded a covering for the head as an essential article of dress. Hats were unknown. The earliest noti...
Overview - Psalms 68 1?A prayer at the removing of the ark. 4?An exhortation to praise God for his mercies; 7?for his care of the church; 19?for his...
Overview - Exodus 39 1?The cloths of service and holy garments. 2?The ephod. 8?The breast-plate. 22?The robe of the ephod. 27?The coats, mitre, and ...
METAL met'-al (chashmal; elektron; the King James Version amber; Ezekiel 8:2, the Revised Version margin amber): The substance here intended is a mat...
Frankincense, [N] [E]a vegetable resin, brittle, glittering, and of a bitter taste, used for the purpose of sacrificial fumigation. ( Exodus 30:34-36...
Balm [N] [E](from balsam , Heb. tzori, tezri ) occurs in ( Genesis 37:25 ; 43:11 ; Jeremiah 8:22 ; 46:11 ; 51:8 ; Ezekiel 27:17 ) (It is an arom...
The Book of LeviticusChapter 13Chapter Overview:Rules whereby the priest was to judge of the leprosy, ver. 1 - 44. Directions concerning the leper, ve...
Overview - Ezekiel 10 1?The vision of the coals of fire, to be scattered over the city. 8?The vision of the cherubims. Treasury of Scripture Knowledg...
Engedifountain of the kid, place in the wilderness of Judah ( Joshua 15:62 ), on the western shore of the Dead Sea ( Ezekiel 47:10 ), and nearly equid...
Overview - Ezra 8 1?The companions of Ezra, who returned from Babylon. 15?He sends to Iddo for ministers for the temple. 21?He keeps a fast. 24?He com...
Acts 28:3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks Had picked up some sticks, and put them in a bundle fit for the fire, as everyone was busy to ...
Dove [S]In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated dove-cots are prepared for them (Cant 2:1...
Overview - Revelation 9 1?At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falls from heaven, to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit. 2?He opens th...
Vine of Sodom [E]occurs only in ( 32:32 ) It is generally supposed that this passage alludes to the celebrated apples of Sodom, of which Josephus sp...
Overview - Numbers 24 1?Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesies the happiness of Israel. 10?Balak, in anger, dismisses him. 15?He prophesies of the St...
Isaiah 13:8 And they shall be afraid Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's troops marching up ...
Deuteronomy 28:22 The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption An emaciation of their bodies, either through famine or wasting diseases, whereby the f...
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? &c.] Look into the histories of former times, inquire of those most versed in...
CORMORANT kor'-mo-rant (shalakh; kataraktes; Latin Corvus marinus): A large sea-fowl belonging to the genus Phalacrocorax and well described by the H...