Reference

Bible dictionary

3,964 entries on the people, places and words of the Bible, each linked to the passages it cites.

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.

• A

  Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last.

• Aaron

  The eldest son of Amram and Jochebed, a daughter of Levi (Ex.

• Aaronites

  The descendants of Aaron, and therefore priests.

• Abaddon

  Destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon, i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev.

• Abagtha

  One of the seven eunuchs in Ahasuerus's court (Esther 1:10;

• Abana

  Stony (Heb.

• Abarim

  Regions beyond;

• Abba

  This Syriac or Chaldee word is found three times in the New Testament (Mark 14:36;

• Abda

  Servant.

• Abdeel

  Servant of God, (Jer.

• Abdi

  My servant.

• Abdiel

  Servant of God, (1 Chr.

• Abdon

  Servile.

• Abednego

  Servant of Nego=Nebo, the Chaldee name given to Azariah, one of Daniel's three companions (Dan.

• Abel

  (Heb.

• Abel-beth-maachah

  Meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali.

• Abel-cheramim

  (Judg.

• Abel-meholah

  Meadow of dancing, or the dancing-meadow, the birth-place and residence of the prophet Elisha, not far from Beth-shean (1 Kings 4:12), in th

• Abel-mizraim

  Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place "beyond," i.e., on the west of Jordan, at the "threshing-floor of Atad." Here the Egyptians m

• Abel-shittim

  Meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply "Shittim" (Num.

• Abez

  Tin, or white, a town in the tribe of Issachar (Josh.

• Abia

  My father is the Lord, the Greek form of Abijah, or Abijam (Matt.

• Abi-albon

  Father of strength;

• Abiasaph

  Father of gathering;

• Abiathar

  Father of abundance, or my father excels, the son of Ahimelech the high priest.

• Abib

  An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex.

• Abida

  Or Abi'dah, father of knowledge;

• Abidan

  Father of judgment;

• Abieezer

  Father of help;

• Abiel

  Father (i.e., "possessor") of God = "pious." (1.) The son of Zeror and father of Ner, who was the grandfather of Saul (1 Sam.

• Abiezrite

  Father of help, a descendant of Abiezer (Judg.

• Abigail

  Father (i.e., "leader") of the dance, or "of joy." (1.) The sister of David, and wife of Jether an Ishmaelite (1 Chr.

• Abihail

  Father of might.

• Abihu

  Father of Him;

• Abihud

  Father (i.e., "possessor") of renown.

• Abijah

  Father (i.e., "possessor or worshipper") of Jehovah.

• Abijam

  Father of the sea;

• Abilene

  A plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti-Lebanon range;

• Abimael

  Father of Mael, one of the sons or descendants of Joktan, in Northern Arabia (Gen.

• Abimelech

  My father a king, or father of a king, a common name of the Philistine kings, as "Pharaoh" was of the Egyptian kings.

• Abinadab

  Father of nobleness;

• Abinoam

  Father of kindness, the father of Barak (Judg.

• Abiram

  Father of height;

• Abishag

  Father of (i.e., "given to") error, a young woman of Shunem, distinguished for her beauty.

• Abishai

  Father of (i.e., "desirous of") a gift, the eldest son of Zeruiah, David's sister.

• Abishua

  Father of welfare;

• Abishur

  Father of the wall;

• Abital

  Father of dew;

• Abitub

  Father of goodness, a Benjamite (1 Chr.

• Abjects

  (Ps.

• Ablution

  Or washing, was practised, (1.) When a person was initiated into a higher state: e.g., when Aaron and his sons were set apart to the priest'

• Abner

  Father of light;

• Abomination

  This word is used, (1.) To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Gen.

• Abraham

  Father of a multitude, son of Terah, named (Gen.

• Abraham's bosom

  (Luke 16:22, 23) refers to the custom of reclining on couches at table, which was prevalent among the Jews, an arrangement which brought the

• Abram

  Exalted father.

• Abronah

  R.V., one of Israel's halting-places in the desert (Num.

• Absalom

  Father of peace;

• Acacia

  (Heb.

• Accad

  The high land or mountains, a city in the land of Shinar.

• Accho

  Sultry or sandy, a town and harbour of Phoenicia, in the tribe of Asher, but never acquired by them (Judg.

• Accuser

  Satan is styled the "accuser of the brethren" (Rev.

• Aceldama

  The name which the Jews gave in their proper tongue, i.e., in Aramaic, to the field which was purchased with the money which had been given

• Achaia

  The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the Peloponnesus.

• Achaichus

  (1 Cor.

• Achan

  Called also Achar, i.e., one who troubles (1 Chr.

• Achbor

  Gnawing = mouse.

• Achish

  Angry, perhaps only a general title of royalty applicable to the Philistine kings.

• Achmetha

  (Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classical writers, the capital of northern Media.

• Achor

  Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel (Josh.

• Achsah

  Anklet, Caleb's only daughter (1 Chr.

• Achshaph

  Fascination, a royal city of the Canaanites, in the north of Palestine (Josh.

• Achzib

  Falsehood.

• Acre

  Is the translation of a word (tse'med), which properly means a yoke, and denotes a space of ground that may be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in

• Acts of the Apostles

  The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament.

• Adah

  Ornament.

• Adam

  Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages.

• Adamah

  Red earth, a fortified city of Naphtali, probably the modern Damieh, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias (Josh.

• Adamant

  (Heb.

• Adam, a type

  The apostle Paul speaks of Adam as "the figure of him who was to come." On this account our Lord is sometimes called the second Adam.

• Adam, the city of

  Is referred to in Josh.

• Adar

  Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13;

• Adbeel

  Miracle of God, the third of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and head of an Arabian tribe (Gen.

• Addar

  Ample, splendid, son of Bela (1 Chr.

• Adder

  (Ps.

• Addi

  Ornament, (Luke 3:28), the son of Cosam, and father of Melchi, one of the progenitors of Christ.

• Addon

  Low, one of the persons named in Neh.

• Adiel

  Ornament of God.

• Adin

  Effeminate.

• Adina

  Slender, one of David's warriors (1 Chr.

• Adino

  The Eznite, one of David's mighty men (2 Sam.

• Adjuration

  A solemn appeal whereby one person imposes on another the obligation of speaking or acting as if under an oath (1 Sam.

• Admah

  Earth, one of the five cities of the vale of Siddim (Gen.

• Adnah

  Delight.

• Adonibezek

  Lord of Bezek, a Canaanitish king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, made an attack against the armies of Judah

• Adonijah

  My Lord is Jehovah.

• Adonikam

  Whom the Lord sets up, one of those "which came with Zerubbabel" (Ezra 2:13).

• Adoniram

  (Adoram, 1 Kings 12:18), the son of Abda, was "over the tribute," i.e., the levy or forced labour.

• Adoni-zedec

  Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh.

• Adoption

  The giving to any one the name and place and privileges of a son who is not a son by birth.

• Adoram

  See [18]ADONIRAM.

• Adore

  To worship;

• Adrammelech

  Adar the king.

• Adramyttium

  A city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called AEolis.

• Adria

  (Acts 27:27;

• Adriel

  Flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom Saul gave in marriage his daughter Merab (1 Sam.

• Adullam

  One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now Aid-el-ma (Josh.

• Adullamite

  An inhabitant of the city of Adullam (Gen.

• Adultery

  Conjugal infidelity.

• Adummim

  The red ones, a place apparently on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem, "on the south side of the torrent" Wady Kelt, looking toward Gil

• Adversary

  (Heb.

• Advocate

  (Gr.

• AEnon

  Springs, a place near Salim where John baptized (John 3:23).

• Affection

  Feeling or emotion.

• Affinity

  Relationship by alliance (2 Chr.

• Afflictions

  Common to all (Job 5:7;

• Agabus

  A "prophet," probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ.

• Agag

  Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as "Pharaoh" was of the Egyptian.

• Agagite

  A name applied to Haman and also to his father (Esther 3:1, 10;

• Agate

  (Heb.

• Age

  Used to denote the period of a man's life (Gen.

• Agee

  Fugitive, the father of Shammah, who was one of David's mighty men (2 Sam.

• Agony

  Contest;

• Agriculture

  Tilling the ground (Gen.

• Agrippa I.

  The grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus and Bernice.

• Agrippa II.

  Son of the foregoing, was born at Rome, A.D.

• Ague

  The translation in Lev.

• Agur

  Gatherer;

• Ah!

  An exclamation of sorrow or regret (Ps.

• Aha!

  An exclamation of ridicule (Ps.

• Ahab

  Father's brother.

• Ahasuerus

  There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture.

• Ahava

  Water, the river (Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the Jewish exiles assembled under Ezra when about to return to Jerusalem from Babylon.

• Ahaz

  Possessor.

• Ahaziah

  Held by Jehovah.

• Ahiam

  Mother's brother, one of David's thirty heroes (2 Sam.

• Ahiezer

  Brother of help;

• Ahihud

  Brother (i.e., "friend") of union.

• Ahijah

  Brother (i.e., "friend") of Jehovah.

• Ahikam

  Brother of support = helper, one of the five whom Josiah sent to consult the prophetess Huldah in connection with the discovery of the book

• Ahimaaz

  Brother of anger = irascible.

• Ahiman

  Brother of a gift = liberal.

• Ahimelech

  Brother of the king, the son of Ahitub and father of Abiathar (1 Sam.

• Ahinadab

  Brother of liberality = liberal, one of the twelve commissariat officers appointed by Solomon in so many districts of his kingdom to raise s

• Ahinoam

  Brother of pleasantness = pleasant.

• Ahio

  Brotherly.

• Ahira

  Brother of evil = unlucky, or my brother is friend, chief of the tribe of Naphtali at the Exodus (Num.

• Ahishar

  Brother of song = singer, the officer who was "over the household" of Solomon (1 Kings 4:6).

• Ahithophel

  Brother of insipidity or impiety, a man greatly renowned for his sagacity among the Jews.

• Ahitub

  Brother of goodness = good.

• Ahlab

  Fatness, a town of Asher lying within the unconquered Phoenician border (Judg.

• Ahoah

  Brotherly, one of the sons of Bela, the son of Benjamin (1 Chr.

• Ahohite

  An epithet applied to Dodo, one of Solomon's captains (1 Chr.

• Aholah

  She has her own tent, a name used by Ezekiel (23:4, 5, 36, 44) as a symbol of the idolatry of the kingdom of Israel.

• Aholiab

  Tent of the father, an artist of the tribe of Dan, appointed to the work of preparing materials for the tabernacle (Ex.

• Aholibah

  My tent is in her, the name of an imaginary harlot, applied symbolically to Jerusalem, because she had abandoned the worship of the true God

• Aholibamah

  Tent of the height, the name given to Judith, the daughter of Beeri = Anah (Gen.

• Ai

  Ruins.

• Aijeleth Shahar

  Hind of the dawn, a name found in the title of Ps.

• Air

  The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess.

• Ajalon

  And Aij'alon, place of deer.

• Akkub

  (another form of Jacob).

• Akrabbim

  Scorpions, probably the general name given to the ridge containing the pass between the south of the Dead Sea and Zin, es-Sufah, by which th

• Alabaster

  Occurs only in the New Testament in connection with the box of "ointment of spikenard very precious," with the contents of which a woman ano

• Alamoth

  Virgins, a musical term (1 Chr.

• Alarm

  A particular quivering sound of the silver trumpets to give warning to the Hebrews on their journey through the wilderness (Num.

• Alemeth

  Covering.

• Alexander

  Man-defender.

• Alexander the Great

  The king of Macedonia, the great conqueror;

• Alexandria

  The ancient metropolis of Lower Egypt, so called from its founder, Alexander the Great (about B.C.

• Algum

  (2 Chr.

• Alien

  A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides.

• Allegory

  Used only in Gal.

• Alleluia

  The Greek form (Rev.

• Alliance

  A treaty between nations, or between individuals, for their mutual advantage.

• Allon

  Oak.

• Allon-bachuth

  Oak of weeping, a tree near Bethel, at the spot where Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried (Gen.

• Almodad

  Immeasurable, the first named of the sons of Joktan (Gen.

• Almon

  Hidden, one of the sacerdotal cities of Benjamin (Josh.

• Almond

  A native of Syria and Palestine.

• Alms

  Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New.

• Almug

  (1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr.

• Aloes

  (Heb.

• Alphaeus

  (1.) The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matt.

• Altar

  (Heb.

• Altaschith

  Destroy not, the title of Ps.

• Alush

  One of the places, the last before Rephidim, at which the Hebrews rested on their way to Sinai (Num.

• Amalek

  Dweller in a valley, the son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau (Gen.

• Amalekite

  A tribe that dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea.

• Amana

  Perennial.

• Amariah

  Said by Jehovah.

• Amasa

  Burden.

• Amasai

  Burdensome.

• Amashai

  The son of Azareel, appointed by Nehemiah to reside at Jerusalem and do the work of the temple (Neh.

• Amasiah

  Burden of (i.e., "sustained by") Jehovah, the "son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the Lord," a captain over thousands under J

• Amaziah

  Strengthened by Jehovah.

• Ambassador

  In the Old Testament the Hebrew word tsir, meaning "one who goes on an errand," is rendered thus (Josh.

• Amber

  (Ezek.

• Ambush

  Joshua at the capture of Ai lay in ambush, and so deceived the inhabitants that he gained an easy victory (Josh.

• Amen

  This Hebrew word means firm, and hence also faithful (Rev.

• Amethyst

  One of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex.

• Amittai

  True, the father of Jonah the prophet, a native of Gath-hepher (2 Kings 14:25;

• Ammah

  A cubit, the name of a hill which Joab and Abishai reached as the sun went down, when they were in pursuit of Abner (2 Sam.

• Ammi

  My people, a name given by Jehovah to the people of Israel (Hos.

• Ammiel

  People of God.

• Ammihud

  People of glory;

• Amminadab

  Kindred of the prince.

• Amminadib

  A person mentioned in Cant.

• Ammishaddai

  People of the Almighty, the father of Ahiezer, who was chief of the Danites at the time of the Exodus (Num.

• Ammizabad

  People of the giver, the son of Benaiah, who was the third and chief captain of the host under David (1 Chr.

• Ammon

  Another form of the name Ben-ammi, the son of Lot (Gen.

• Ammonite

  The usual name of the descendants of Ammon, the son of Lot (Gen.

• Amnon

  Faithful.

• Amon

  Builder.

• Amorites

  Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen.

• Amos

  Borne;

• Amoz

  Strong, the father of the prophet Isaiah (2 Kings 19:2, 20;

• Amphipolis

  City on both sides, a Macedonian city, a great Roman military station, through which Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to The

• Amplias

  A Roman Christian saluted by Paul (Rom.

• Amram

  Kindred of the High;

• Amraphel

  King of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, in a war against Sodom and cities of the plain (Gen

• Anab

  Grape-town, one of the cities in the mountains of Judah, from which Joshua expelled the Anakim (Josh.

• Anah

  Speech.

• Anak

  Long-necked, the son of Arba, father of the Anakim (Josh.

• Anakim

  The descendants of Anak (Josh.

• Anamim

  The name of an Egyptian tribe descended from Mizraim (Gen.

• Anammelech

  One of the gods worshipped by the people of Sepharvaim, who colonized Samaria (2 Kings 17:31).

• Anan

  Cloud, one of the Israelites who sealed the covenant after the return from Babylon (Neh.

• Ananiah

  Protected by Jehovah, the name of a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor (Neh.

• Ananias

  A common Jewish name, the same as Hananiah.

• Anath

  An answer;

• Anathema

  Anything laid up or suspended;

• Anathoth

  The name of one of the cities of refuge, in the tribe of Benjamin (Josh.

• Anchor

  From Acts 27:29, 30, 40, it would appear that the Roman vessels carried several anchors, which were attached to the stern as well as to the

• Ancient of Days

  An expression applied to Jehovah three times in the vision of Daniel (7:9, 13, 22) in the sense of eternal.

• Andrew

  Manliness, a Greek name;

• Andronicus

  Man-conquering, a Jewish Christian, the kinsman and fellowprisoner of Paul (Rom.

• Anem

  Two fountains, a Levitical city in the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr.

• Aner

  A boy.

• Angel

  A word signifying, both in the Hebrew and Greek, a "messenger," and hence employed to denote any agent God sends forth to execute his purpos

• Anger

  The emotion of instant displeasure on account of something evil that presents itself to our view.

• Anim

  Fountains, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh.

• Animal

  An organized living creature endowed with sensation.

• Anise

  This word is found only in Matt.

• Anna

  Grace, an aged widow, the daughter of Phanuel.

• Annas

  Was high priest A.D.

• Anoint

  The practice of anointing with perfumed oil was common among the Hebrews.

• Ant

  (Heb.

• Antichrist

  Against Christ, or an opposition Christ, a rival Christ.

• Antioch

  (1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem.

• Antiochus

  The name of several Syrian kings from B.C.

• Antipas

  (1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan wife Malthace.

• Antipatris

  A city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in honour of his father, Antipater.

• Antonia

  A fortress in Jerusalem, at the north-west corner of the temple area.

• Antothite

  An inhabitant of Anathoth, found only in 1 Chr.

• Anvil

  The rendering of the Hebrew word , "beaten," found only in Isa.

• Ape

  An animal of the monkey tribe (1 Kings 10:22;

• Apelles

  A Christian at Rome whom Paul salutes (Rom.

• Apharsachites

  A company of the colonists whom the Assyrian king planted in Samaria (Ezra 5:6;

• Apharsites

  Another of the tribes removed to Samaria (Ezra 4:9), or perhaps the same as the preceding.

• Aphik

  (Judg.

• Apocalypse

  The Greek name of the Book of Revelation (q.v.).

• Apocrypha

  Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX.

• Apollonia

  A city of Macedonia between Amphipolis and Thessalonica, from which it was distant about 36 miles.

• Apollos

  A Jew "born at Alexandria," a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24;

• Apollyon

  Destroyer, the name given to the king of the hosts represented by the locusts (Rev.

• Apostle

  A person sent by another;

• Apothecary

  Rendered in the margin and the Revised Version "perfumer," in Ex.

• Apparel

  In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked.

• Appeal

  A reference of any case from an inferior to a superior court.

• Apphia

  Increasing, a female Christian at Colosse (Philemon 1:2), supposed by some to have been the wife of Philemon.

• Appii Forum

  I.e., "the market of Appius" (Acts 28:15, R.V.), a town on the road, the "Appian Way," from Rome to Brundusium.

• Apple

  (Heb.

• Apron

  Found in the Authorized Version in Gen.

• Aquila

  Eagle, a native of Pontus, by occupation a tent-maker, whom Paul met on his first visit to Corinth (Acts 18:2).

• Arab

  Ambush, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh.

• Arabah

  Plain, in the Revised Version of 2 Kings 14:25;

• Arabia

  Arid, an extensive region in the south-west of Asia.

• Arad

  (1.) Now Tell Arad, a Canaanite city, about 20 miles south of Hebron.

• Aram

  The son of Shem (Gen.

• Aram-naharaim

  Aram of the two rivers, is Mesopotamia (as it is rendered in Gen.

• Aram-zobah

  (Ps.

• Aran

  Wild goat, a descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen.

• Ararat

  Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen.

• Araunah

  Agile;

• Arba

  Four, a giant, father of Anak.

• Arbathite

  A name given to Abi-albon, or, as elsewhere called, Abiel, one of David's warriors (2 Sam.

• Arch

  An architectural term found only in Ezek.

• Archangel

  (1Thess.

• Archelaus

  Ruler of the people, son of Herod the Great, by Malthace, a Samaritan woman.

• Archer

  A shooter with the bow (1 Chr.

• Archevite

  One of the nations planted by the Assyrians in Samaria (Ezra 4:9);

• Archi

  A city on the boundary of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh.

• Archippus

  Master of the horse, a "fellow-soldier" of Paul's (Philemon 1:2), whom he exhorts to renewed activity (Col.

• Archite

  The usual designation of Hushai (2 Sam.

• Arcturus

  Bear-keeper, the name given by the ancients to the brightest star in the constellation Bootes.

• Ard

  Descent, a grandson of Benjamin (Num.

• Ardon

  Descendant, the last of the three sons of Caleb by his first wife Azubah (1 Chr.

• Areopagite

  A member of the court of Areopagus (Acts 17:34).

• Areopagus

  The Latin form of the Greek word rendered "Mars' hill." But it denotes also the council or court of justice which met in the open air on the

• Aretas

  The father-in-law of Herod Antipas, and king of Arabia Petraea.

• Argob

  Stony heap, an "island," as it has been called, of rock about 30 miles by 20, rising 20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan;

• Arieh

  The lion, the name of one of the body-guard slain with Pekahiah at Samaria (2 Kings 15:25) by the conspirator Pekah.

• Ariel

  The lion of God.

• Arimathea

  A "city of the Jews" (Luke 23:51), the birth-place of Joseph in whose sepulchre our Lord was laid (Matt.

• Arioch

  Lion-like, venerable.

• Aristarchus

  Best ruler, native of Thessalonica (Acts 20:4), a companion of Paul (Acts 19:29;

• Aristobulus

  A Roman mentioned in Paul's Epistle to the Romans (16:10), whose "household" is saluated.

• Ark

  Noah's ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad, and 30 cubits high (Gen.

• Arkite

  (Gen.

• Arm

  Used to denote power (Ps.

• Armageddon

  Occurs only in Rev.

• Armenia

  High land, occurs only in Authorized Version, 2 Kings 19:37;

• Armoni

  Inhabitant of a fortress, the first-named of the two sons of Saul and Rizpah.

• Armour

  Is employed in the English Bible to denote military equipment, both offensive and defensive.

• Armour-bearer

  An officer selected by kings and generals because of his bravery, not only to bear their armour, but also to stand by them in the time of da

• Armoury

  The place in which armour was deposited when not used (Neh.

• Army

  The Israelites marched out of Egypt in military order (Ex.

• Arnon

  Swift, the southern boundary of the territory of Israel beyond Jordan, separating it from the land of Moab (Deut.

• Aroer

  Ruins.

• Arpad

  (Isa.

• Arphaxad

  Son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge.

• Arrows

  At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron.

• Artaxerxes

  The Greek form of the name of several Persian kings.

• Artificer

  A person engaged in any kind of manual occupation (Gen.

• Artillery

  1 Sam.

• Arvad

  Wandering, (Ezek.

• Asa

  Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah.

• Asahel

  Made by God, the youngest son of Zeruiah, David's sister.

• Asaph

  Convener, or collector.

• Ascension

  See [31]CHRIST.

• Asenath

  An Egyptian name, meaning "gift of the sun-god", daughter of Potipherah, priest of On or Heliopolis, wife of Joseph (Gen.

• Ash

  (Heb.

• Ashdod

  Stronghold, a Philistine city (Josh.

• Ashdoth-pisgah

  (Deut.

• Asher

  Happy, Jacob's eigth son;

• Asherah

  And pl.

• Ashes

  The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num.

• Ashkelon

  =Askelon=Ascalon, was one of the five cities of the Philistines (Josh.

• Ashkenaz

  One of the three sons of Gomer (Gen.

• Ashpenaz

  The master of the eunuchs of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan.

• Ashtaroth

  A city of Bashan, in the kingdom of Og (Deut.

• Ashteroth Karnaim

  Ashteroth of the two horns, the abode of the Rephaim (Gen.

• Ashtoreth

  The moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature, their principal female deity;

• Ashurites

  Mentioned among those over whom Ish-bosheth was made king (2 Sam.

• Asia

  Is used to denote Proconsular Asia, a Roman province which embraced the western parts of Asia Minor, and of which Ephesus was the capital, i

• Asnapper

  Probably the same as Assur-bani-pal (Sardanapalos of the Greeks), styled the "great and noble" (Ezra 4:10), was the son and successor (B.C.

• Asp

  (Heb.

• Ass

  Frequently mentioned throughout Scripture.

• Asshur

  Second son of Shem (Gen.

• Assos

  A sea-port town of Proconsular Asia, in the district of Mysia, on the north shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium.

• Assurance

  The resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17:31) is the "assurance" (Gr.

• Assyria

  The name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ru

• Astrologer

  (Dan.

• Astronomy

  The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8;

• Asuppim

  (1 Chr.

• Atad

  Buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob, made for se

• Ataroth

  Crowns.

• Ater

  Shut;

• Athaliah

  Whom God afflicts.

• Athens

  The capital of Attica, the most celebrated city of the ancient world, the seat of Greek literature and art during the golden period of Greci

• Atonement

  This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom.

• Atonement, Day of

  The great annual day of humiliation and expiation for the sins of the nation, "the fast" (Acts 27:9), and the only one commanded in the law

• Augustus

  The cognomen of the first Roman emperor, C.

• Augustus band

  (Acts 27:1.: literally, of Sebaste, the Greek form of Augusta, the name given to Caesarea in honour of Augustus Caesar).

• Ava

  A place in Assyria from which colonies were brought to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24).

• Aven

  Nothingness;

• Avenger of blood

  (Heb.

• Avim

  A people dwelling in Hazerim, or "the villages" or "encampments" on the south-west corner of the sea-coast (Deut.

• Awl

  An instrument only referred to in connection with the custom of boring the ear of a slave (Ex.

• Axe

  Used in the Authorized Version of Deut.

• Azal

  (Zech.

• Azariah

  Whom Jehovah helps.

• Azazel

  (Lev.

• Azaziah

  Whom Jehovah strengthened.

• Azekah

  Dug over, a town in the Shephelah or low hills of Judah (Josh.

• Azel

  Noble, a descendant of king Saul (1 Chr.

• Azmaveth

  Strong as death.

• Azotus

  The Grecized form (Acts 8:40, etc.) of Ashdod (q.v.).

• Azubah

  Deserted.

• Azur and Azzur

  Helper.