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.

• Cab

  Hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25;

• Cabins

  Only in Jer.

• Cabul

  How little! as nothing.

• Caesar

  The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar.

• Caesara Philippi

  A city on the northeast of the marshy plain of el-Huleh, 120 miles north of Jerusalem, and 20 miles north of the Sea of Galilee, at the "upp

• Caesarea

  (Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the

• Cage

  (Heb.

• Caiaphas

  The Jewish high priest (A.D.

• Cain

  A possession;

• Cainan

  Possession;

• Cake

  Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple.

• Calah

  One of the most ancient cities of Assyria.

• Calamus

  The Latin for cane, Hebrew Kaneh, mentioned (Ex.

• Calcol

  (1 Chr.

• Caleb

  A dog.

• Calf

  Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture.

• Calkers

  Workmen skilled in stopping the seams of the deck or sides of vessels.

• Call

  (1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen.

• Calling

  A profession, or as we usually say, a vocation (1 Cor.

• Calneh

  Fort, one of the four cities founded by Nimrod (Gen.

• Calvary

  Only in Luke 23:33, the Latin name Calvaria, which was used as a translation of the Greek word Kranion, by which the Hebrew word Gulgoleth w

• Camel

  From the Hebrew gamal, "to repay" or "requite," as the camel does the care of its master.

• Camon

  Full of stalks, a place (Judg.

• Camp

  During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Ex.

• Camphire

  (Heb.

• Cana

  Reedy, a town of Galilee, near Capernaum.

• Canaan

  (1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen.

• Canaanite

  A name given to the apostle Simon (Matt.

• Canaanites

  The descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham.

• Canaan, the language of

  Mentioned in Isa.

• Candace

  The queen of the Ethiopians whose "eunuch" or chamberlain was converted to Christianity by the instrumentality of Philip the evangelist (Act

• Candle

  Heb.

• Candlestick

  The lamp-stand, "candelabrum," which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him.

• Cane

  A tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places.

• Canker

  A gangrene or mortification which gradually spreads over the whole body (2 Tim.

• Cankerworm

  (Heb.

• Canneh

  Mentioned only in Ezek.

• Canon

  This word is derived from a Hebrew and Greek word denoting a reed or cane.

• Capernaum

  Nahum's town, a Galilean city frequently mentioned in the history of our Lord.

• Caphtor

  A chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deut.

• Cappadocia

  The easternmost and the largest province of Asia Minor.

• Captain

  (1.) Heb.

• Captive

  One taken in war.

• Captivity

  (1.) Of Israel.

• Carbuncle

  (Ex.

• Carcase

  Contact with a, made an Israelite ceremonially unclean, and made whatever he touched also unclean, according to the Mosaic law (Hag.

• Carchemish

  Fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jer.

• Carmel

  A park;

• Carmi

  Vine-dresser.

• Carnal

  Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor.

• Carpenter

  An artificer in stone, iron, and copper, as well as in wood (2 Sam.

• Carriage

  In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words.

• Cart

  A vehicle moving on wheels, and usually drawn by oxen (2 Sam.

• Carve

  The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the Jews.

• Casement

  A barrier of open-work placed before windows (Prov.

• Casiphia

  Silver, a place between Babylon and Jerusalem, where Iddo resided (Ezra 8:17);

• Casluhim

  Fortified, a people descended from Mizraim (Gen.

• Cassia

  (1.) Hebrew kiddah', i.e., "split." One of the principal spices of the holy anointing oil (Ex.

• Castaway

  Gr.

• Castle

  A military fortress (1 Chr.

• Castor and Pollux

  The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology.

• Caterpillar

  The consumer.

• Catholic epistles

  The epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude;

• Cattle

  Abounded in the Holy Land.

• Caul

  (Heb.

• Cauls

  In Isa.

• Causeway

  A raised way, an ascent by steps, or a raised slope between Zion and the temple (1 Chr.

• Cave

  There are numerous natural caves among the limestone rocks of Syria, many of which have been artificially enlarged for various purposes.

• Cedar

  (Heb.

• Cedron

  The black torrent, the brook flowing through the ravine below the eastern wall of Jerusalem (John 18:1).

• Ceiling

  The covering (1 Kings 7:3, 7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr.

• Cellar

  A subterranean vault (1 Chr.

• Cenchrea

  Millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its trade with the Asiatic shores o

• Censer

  The vessel in which incense was presented on "the golden altar" before the Lord in the temple (Ex.

• Census

  There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having been taken.

• Centurion

  A Roman officer in command of a hundred men (Mark 15:39, 44, 45).

• Cephas

  A Syriac surname given by Christ to Simon (John 1:42), meaning "rock." The Greeks translated it by Petros, and the Latins by Petrus.

• Cesarea

  See [108]CAESAREA.

• Chaff

  The refuse of winnowed corn.

• Chain

  (1.) A part of the insignia of office.

• Chalcedony

  Mentioned only in Rev.

• Chaldea

  The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of th

• Chaldee language

  Employed by the sacred writers in certain portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan.

• Chaldees

  Or Chaldeans, the inhabitants of the country of which Babylon was the capital.

• Chamber

  "on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper chamber over the porch through the hall tow

• Chambering

  (Rom.

• Chamberlain

  A confidential servant of the king (Gen.

• Chameleon

  A species of lizard which has the faculty of changing the colour of its skin.

• Chamois

  Only in Deut.

• Champion

  (1 Sam.

• Chance

  (Luke 10:31).

• Chancellor

  One who has judicial authority, literally, a "lord of judgement;" a title given to the Persian governor of Samaria (Ezra 4:8, 9, 17).

• Changes of raiment

  Were reckoned among the treasures of rich men (Gen.

• Channel

  (1.) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps.

• Chapel

  A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel."

• Chapiter

  The ornamental head or capital of a pillar.

• Chapter

  The several books of the Old and New Testaments were from an early time divided into chapters.

• Charashim

  Craftsmen, a valley named in 1 Chr.

• Charger

  A bowl or deep dish.

• Chariot

  A vehicle generally used for warlike purposes.

• Charity

  (1 Cor.

• Charmer

  One who practises serpent-charming (Ps.

• Charran

  Another form (Acts 7:2, 4) of Haran (q.v.).

• Chebar

  Length, a river in the "land of the Chaldeans" (Ezek.

• Chedorlaomer

  (= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam.

• Cheek

  Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10;

• Cheese

  (A.S.

• Chemarim

  Black, (Zeph.

• Chemosh

  The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num.

• Chenaanah

  Merchant.

• Chenaiah

  Whom Jehovah hath made.

• Chephirah

  Village, one of the four cities of the Gibeonitish Hivites with whom Joshua made a league (9:17).

• Cherethim

  (Ezek.

• Cherith

  A cutting;

• Cherub

  Plural cherubim, the name of certain symbolical figures frequently mentioned in Scripture.

• Chesalon

  Strength;

• Chesed

  Gain, the son of Nahor (Gen.

• Chesil

  Ungodly, a town in the south of Judah (Josh.

• Chest

  (Heb.

• Chestnut tree

  (Heb.

• Chesulloth

  Fertile places;

• Chezib

  Deceitful, a town where Shelah, the son of Judah, was born (Gen.

• Chidon

  Dart, the name of the threshing-floor at which the death of Uzzah took place (1 Chr.

• Chief of the three

  A title given to Adino the Eznite, one of David's greatest heroes (2 Sam.

• Chief priest

  See [113]PRIEST.

• Chiefs of Asia

  "Asiarchs," the title given to certain wealthy persons annually appointed to preside over the religious festivals and games in the various c

• Child

  This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture.

• Chileab

  Protected by the father, David's second son by Abigail (2 Sam.

• Chilion

  The pining one, the younger son of Elimelech and Naomi, and husband of Orpah, Ruth's sister (Ruth 1:2;

• Chilmad

  A place or country unknown which, along with Sheba and Asshur, traded with Tyre (Ezek.

• Chimham

  Pining, probably the youngest son of Barzillai the Gileadite (2 Sam.

• Chinnereth

  Lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut.

• Chios

  Mentioned in Acts 20:15, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 5 miles distant from the mainland, having a roadstead, in the shelter of which P

• Chisleu

  The name adopted from the Babylonians by the Jews after the Captivity for the third civil, or ninth ecclesiastical, month (Neh.

• Chittim

  Or Kittim, a plural form (Gen.

• Chiun

  Occurs only in Amos 5:26 (R.V.

• Chloe

  Verdure, a female Christian (1 Cor.

• Chor-ashan

  Smoking furnace, one of the places where "David himself and his men were wont to haunt" (1 Sam.

• Chorazin

  Named along with Bethsaida and Capernaum as one of the cities in which our Lord's "mighty works" were done, and which was doomed to woe beca

• Chosen

  Spoken of warriors (Ex.

• Chozeba

  (1 Chr.

• Christ

  Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fou

• Christian

  The name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to the followers of Jesus.

• Christs, False

  Our Lord warned his disciples that they would arise (Matt.

• Chronicles

  The words of the days, (1 Kings 14:19;

• Chronicles, Books of

  The two books were originally one.

• Chronicles of king David

  (1 Chr.

• Chronology

  Is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time.

• Chrysoprasus

  Golden leek, a precious stone of the colour of leek's juice, a greenish-golden colour (Rev.

• Chub

  The name of a people in alliance with Egypt in the time of Nebuchadnezzar.

• Chun

  One of the cities of Hadarezer, king of Syria.

• Church

  Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., "the Lord's house"), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship.

• Churl

  In Isa.

• Chushan-rishathaim

  Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately follo

• Cilicia

  A maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor.

• Cinnamon

  Heb.

• Cinnereth

  A harp, one of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali (Josh.

• Circuit

  The apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps.

• Circumcision

  Cutting around.

• Cistern

  The rendering of a Hebrew word bor, which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it;

• Citizenship

  The rights and privileges of a citizen in distinction from a foreigner (Luke 15:15;

• City

  The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen.

• Clauda

  A small island off the southwest coast of Crete, passed by Paul on his voyage to Rome (Acts 27:16).

• Claudia

  A female Christian mentioned in 2 Tim.

• Claudius

  Lame.

• Clay

  This word is used of sediment found in pits or in streets (Isa.

• Clean

  The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev.

• Clement

  Mild, a Christian of Philippi, Paul's "fellow-labourer," whose name he mentions as "in the book of life" (Phil.

• Cleopas

  (abbreviation of Cleopatros), one of the two disciples with whom Jesus conversed on the way to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection (Luke 2

• Cleophas

  (in the spelling of this word h is inserted by mistake from Latin MSS.), rather Cleopas, which is the Greek form of the word, while Clopas i

• Cloak

  An upper garment, "an exterior tunic, wide and long, reaching to the ankles, but without sleeves" (Isa.

• Closet

  As used in the New Testament, signifies properly a storehouse (Luke 12: 24), and hence a place of privacy and retirement (Matt.

• Cloud

  The Hebrew so rendered means "a covering," because clouds cover the sky.

• Cnidus

  A town and harbour on the extreme south-west of the peninsula of Doris in Asia Minor.

• Coal

  It is by no means certain that the Hebrews were acquainted with mineral coal, although it is found in Syria.

• Coat

  The tunic worn like the shirt next the skin (Lev.

• Coat of mail

  The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "glittering" (1 Sam.

• Cockatrice

  The mediaeval name (a corruption of "crocodile") of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock's egg.

• Cock-crowing

  In our Lord's time the Jews had adopted the Greek and Roman division of the night into four watches, each consisting of three hours, the fir

• Cockle

  Occurs only in Job 31:40 (marg., "noisome weeds"), where it is the rendering of a Hebrew word (b'oshah) which means "offensive," "having a b

• Coele-Syria

  Hollow Syria, the name (not found in Scripture) given by the Greeks to the extensive valley, about 100 miles long, between the Lebanon and t

• Coffer

  The receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their tresp

• Coffin

  Used in Gen.

• Cogitations

  (or "thoughts," as the Chaldee word in Dan.

• Coin

  Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money.

• Collar

  (Heb.

• Collection

  The Christians in Palestine, from various causes, suffered from poverty.

• College

  Heb.

• Colony

  The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in s

• Colossae

  Or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander.

• Colossians, Epistle to the

  Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D.

• Colour

  The subject of colours holds an important place in the Scriptures.

• Comforter

  The designation of the Holy Ghost (John 14:16, 26;

• Coming of Christ

  (1) with reference to his first advent "in the fulness of the time" (1 John 5:20;

• Commandments, the Ten

  (Ex.

• Communion

  Fellowship with God (Gen.

• Conaniah

  Whom Jehovah hath set, a Levite placed over the tithes brought into the temple (2 Chr.

• Concision

  (Gr.

• Concubine

  In the Bible denotes a female conjugally united to a man, but in a relation inferior to that of a wife.

• Concupiscence

  Desire, Rom.

• Conduit

  A water-course or channel (Job 38:25).

• Coney

  (Heb.

• Confection

  (Ex.

• Confectionaries

  Only in 1 Sam.

• Confession

  (1) An open profession of faith (Luke 12:8).

• Congregation

  (Heb.

• Congregation, mount of the

  (Isa.

• Conscience

  That faculty of the mind, or inborn sense of right and wrong, by which we judge of the moral character of human conduct.

• Consecration

  The devoting or setting apart of anything to the worship or service of God.

• Consolation of Israel

  A name for the Messiah in common use among the Jews, probably suggested by Isa.

• Constellation

  A cluster of stars, or stars which appear to be near each other in the heavens, and which astronomers have reduced to certain figures (as th

• Contentment

  A state of mind in which one's desires are confined to his lot whatever it may be (1 Tim.

• Conversation

  Generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph.

• Conversion

  The turning of a sinner to God (Acts 15:3).

• Convocation

  A meeting of a religious character as distinguished from congregation, which was more general, dealing with political and legal matters.

• Cook

  A person employed to perform culinary service.

• Coos

  (written Cos in the R.V.), a small island, one of the Sporades in the Aegean Sea, in the north-west of Rhodes, off the coast of Caria.

• Copper

  Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called "Cyprian brass," occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27.

• Cor

  This Hebrew word, untranslated, denotes a round vessel used as a measure both for liquids and solids.

• Coral

  Heb.

• Corban

  A Hebrew word adopted into the Greek of the New Testament and left untranslated.

• Cord

  Frequently used in its proper sense, for fastening a tent (Ex.

• Coriander

  Heb.

• Corinth

  A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece.

• Corinthians, First Epistle to the

  Was written from Ephesus (1 Cor.

• Corinthians, Second Epistle to the

  Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evi

• Cormorant

  (Lev.

• Corn

  The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen.

• Cornelius

  A centurion whose history is narrated in Acts 10.

• Corner

  The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov.

• Cornet

  Heb.

• Cotes

  Pens or enclosures for flocks (2 Chr.

• Cottage

  (1.) A booth in a vineyard (Isa.

• Couch

  (Gen.

• Coulter

  (1 Sam.

• Council

  Spoken of counsellors who sat in public trials with the governor of a province (Acts 25:12).

• Counsellor

  An adviser (Prov.

• Courses

  When David was not permitted to build the temple, he proceeded, among the last acts of his life, with the assistance of Zadok and Ahimelech,

• Court

  The enclosure of the tabernacle (Ex.

• Covenant

  A contract or agreement between two parties.

• Covering of the eyes

  Occurs only in Gen.

• Covetousness

  A strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col.

• Cow

  A cow and her calf were not to be killed on the same day (Lev.

• Crane

  (Isa.

• Creation

  "In the beginning" God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing.

• Creature

  Denotes the whole creation in Rom.

• Crescens

  Increasing, probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ.

• Crete

  Now called Candia, one of the largest islands in the Meditterranean, about 140 miles long and 35 broad.

• Crimson

  See [133]COLOUR.

• Crisping-pin

  (Isa.

• Crispus

  Curled, the chief of the synagogue at Corinth (Acts 18:8).

• Cross

  In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph.

• Crown

  (1.) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Ex.

• Crown of thorns

  Our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Matt.

• Crucifixion

  A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times.

• Cruse

  A utensil;

• Crystal

  (Ezek.

• Cubit

  Heb.

• Cuckoo

  (Heb.

• Cucumbers

  (Heb.

• Cummin

  (Heb.

• Cup

  A wine-cup (Gen.

• Cup-bearer

  An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs.

• Curious arts

  (Acts 19:19), magical arts;

• Curse

  Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen.

• Curtain

  (1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle

• Cush

  Black.

• Cushan

  Probably a poetic or prolonged name of the land of Cush, the Arabian Cush (Hab.

• Cushite

  (1.) The messenger sent by Joab to David to announce his victory over Absalom (2 Sam.

• Custom

  A tax imposed by the Romans.

• Cuthah

  One of the Babylonian cities or districts from which Shalmaneser transplanted certain colonists to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24).

• Cutting

  The flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (Deut.

• Cymbals

  (Heb.

• Cypress

  (Heb.

• Cyprus

  One of the largest islands of the Mediterranean, about 148 miles long and 40 broad.

• Cyrene

  A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C.

• Cyrenius

  The Grecized form of Quirinus.

• Cyrus

  (Heb.