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.

• Daberath

  Pasture, a Levitical town of Issachar (Josh.

• Daemon

  The Greek form, rendered "devil" in the Authorized Version of the New Testament.

• Daemoniac

  One "possessed with a devil." In the days of our Lord and his apostles, evil spirits, "daemons," were mysteriously permitted by God to exerc

• Dagon

  Little fish;

• Dagon's house

  (1 Sam.

• Daily sacrifice

  (Dan.

• Dale, the king's

  The name of a valley, the alternative for "the valley of Shaveh" (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met Abraham (Gen.

• Dalmanutha

  A place on the west of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned only in Mark 8:10.

• Dalmatia

  A mountainous country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic, a part of the Roman province of Illyricum.

• Damaris

  A heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34).

• Damascus

  Activity, the most ancient of Oriental cities;

• Damnation

  In Rom.

• Dan

  A judge.

• Dance

  Found in Judg.

• Daniel

  God is my judge, or judge of God.

• Daniel, Book of

  Is ranked by the Jews in that division of their Bible called the Hagiographa (Heb.

• Dan-jaan

  Woodland Dan, a place probably somewhere in the direction of Dan, near the sources of the Jordan (2 Sam.

• Dannah

  Murmuring, a city (Josh.

• Darda

  Pearl of wisdom, one of the four who were noted for their wisdom, but whom Solomon excelled (1 Kings 4:31).

• Daric

  In the Revised Version of 1 Chr.

• Darius

  The holder or supporter, the name of several Persian kings.

• Darkness

  The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex.

• Darling

  Ps.

• Dart

  An instrument of war;

• Date

  The fruit of a species of palm (q.v.), the Phoenix dactilifera.

• Dathan

  Welled;

• Daughter

  This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen.

• David

  Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem.

• David, City of

  (1.) David took from the Jebusites the fortress of Mount Zion.

• Day

  The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev.

• Day's journey

  The usual length of a day's journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles.

• Daysman

  An umpire or arbiter or judge (Job 9:33).

• Dayspring

  (Job 38:12;

• Daystar

  Which precedes and accompanies the sun-rising.

• Deacon

  Anglicized form of the Greek word diaconos, meaning a "runner," "messenger," "servant." For a long period a feeling of mutual jealousy had e

• Deaconess

  Rom.

• Dead Sea

  The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the "salt sea" (Gen.

• Deal, Tenth

  See [149]OMER.

• Dearth

  A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17).

• Death

  May be simply defined as the termination of life.

• Debir

  Oracle town;

• Deborah

  A bee.

• Debt

  The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (Deut.

• Debtor

  Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.

• Decalogue

  The name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments;

• Decapolis

  Ten cities=deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing "ten cities," which were chi

• Decision, Valley of

  A name given to the valley of Jehoshaphat (q.v.) as the vale of the sentence.

• Decrees of God

  "The decrees of God are his eternal, unchangeable, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or wil

• Dedan

  Low ground.

• Dedanim

  The descendants of Dedan, the son of Raamah.

• Dedication, Feast of the

  (John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing.

• Deep

  Used to denote (1) the grave or the abyss (Rom.

• Degrees, Song of

  Song of steps, a title given to each of these fifteen psalms, 120-134 inclusive.

• Dehavites

  Villagers, one of the Assyrian tribes which Asnapper sent to repopulate Samaria (Ezra 4:9).

• Delaiah

  Freed by Jehovah.

• Delilah

  Languishing, a Philistine woman who dwelt in the valley of Sorek (Judg.

• Deluge

  The name given to Noah's flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen.

• Demas

  A companion and fellow-labourer of Paul during his first imprisonment at Rome (Philemon 1:24;

• Demetrius

  (1.) A silversmith at Ephesus, whose chief occupation was to make "silver shrines for Diana" (q.v.), Acts 19:24, i.e., models either of the

• Demon

  See [156]DAEMON.

• Den

  A lair of wild beasts (Ps.

• Deputy

  In 1 Kings 22:47, means a prefect;

• Derbe

  A small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra.

• Desert

  (1.) Heb.

• Desire of all nations

  (Hag.

• Desolation, Abomination of

  (Matt.

• Destroyer

  (Ex.

• Destruction

  In Job 26:6, 28:22 (Heb.

• Destruction, City of

  (Isa.

• Deuteronomy

  In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and

• Devil

  (Gr.

• Dew

  "There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldnes

• Diadem

  The tiara of a king (Ezek.

• Dial

  For the measurement of time, only once mentioned in the Bible, erected by Ahaz (2 Kings 20:11;

• Diamond

  (1.) A precious gem (Heb.

• Diana

  So called by the Romans;

• Diblaim

  Doubled cakes, the mother of Gomer, who was Hosea's wife (Hos.

• Diblathaim

  Two cakes, a city of Moab, on the east of the Dead Sea (Num.

• Dibon

  Pining;

• Didymus

  (Gr.

• Dimnah

  Dunghill, a city of Zebulun given to the Merarite Levites (Josh.

• Dinah

  Judged;

• Dine

  (Gen.

• Dinhabah

  Robbers' den, an Edomitish city, the capital of king Bela (Gen.

• Dionysius

  The Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).

• Diotrephes

  Jove-nourished, rebuked by John for his pride (3 John 1:9).

• Disciple

  A scholar, sometimes applied to the followers of John the Baptist (Matt.

• Dish

  For eating from (2 Kings 21:13).

• Dishan

  Antelope, the youngest son of Seir the Horite, head of one of the tribes of Idumaea (Gen.

• Dispensation

  (Gr.

• Dispersion

  (Gr.

• Distaff

  (Heb.

• Divination

  Of false prophets (Deut.

• Divorce

  The dissolution of the marriage tie was regulated by the Mosaic law (Deut.

• Dizahab

  Region of gold, a place in the desert of Sinai, on the western shore of the Elanitic gulf (Deut.

• Doctor

  (Luke 2:46;

• Dodai

  Loving, one of David's captains (1 Chr.

• Dodanim

  Leaders, a race descended from Javan (Gen.

• Dodo

  Amatory;

• Doeg

  Fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam.

• Dog

  Frequently mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments.

• Doleful creatures

  (occurring only Isa.

• Door-keeper

  This word is used in Ps.

• Door-posts

  The Jews were commanded to write the divine name on the posts (mezuzoth') of their doors (Deut.

• Doors

  Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov.

• Dophkah

  Knocking, an encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num.

• Dor

  Dwelling, the Dora of the Romans, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites (Josh.

• Dorcas

  A female antelope, or gazelle, a pious Christian widow at Joppa whom Peter restored to life (Acts 9:36-41).

• Dothan

  Two wells, a famous pasture-ground where Joseph found his brethren watching their flocks.

• Dough

  (batsek, meaning "swelling," i.e., in fermentation).

• Dove

  In their wild state doves generally build their nests in the clefts of rocks, but when domesticated "dove-cots" are prepared for them (Cant.

• Dove's dung

  (2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally.

• Dowry

  (mohar;

• Dragon

  (1.) Heb.

• Dragon well

  (Neh.

• Dram

  The Authorized Version understood the word adarkonim (1 Chr.

• Draught-house

  (2 Kings 10:27).

• Drawer of water

  (Deut.

• Dream

  God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men.

• Dredge

  (Job 24:6).

• Dregs

  (Ps.

• Dress

  (1.) Materials used.

• Drink

  The drinks of the Hebrews were water, wine, "strong drink," and vinegar.

• Drink-offering

  Consisted of wine (Num.

• Drink, strong

  (Heb.

• Dromedary

  (Isa.

• Dropsy

  Mentioned only in Luke 14:2.

• Dross

  The impurities of silver separated from the one in the process of melting (Prov.

• Drought

  From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry.

• Drown

  (Ex.

• Drunk

  The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Gen.

• Drusilla

  Third and youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I.

• Duke

  Derived from the Latin dux, meaning "a leader;" Arabic, "a sheik." This word is used to denote the phylarch or chief of a tribe (Gen.

• Dulcimer

  (Heb.

• Dumah

  Silence, (comp.

• Dumb

  From natural infirmity (Ex.

• Dung

  (1.) Used as manure (Luke 13:8);

• Dungeon

  Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment.

• Dung-gate

  (Neh.

• Dung-hill

  To sit on a, was a sign of the deepest dejection (1 Sam.

• Dura

  The circle, the plain near Babylon in which Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, mentioned in Dan.

• Dust

  Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers.

• Dwarf

  A lean or emaciated person (Lev.

• Dwell

  Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men.

• Dwellings

  The materials used in buildings were commonly bricks, sometimes also stones (Lev.

• Dye

  The art of dyeing is one of great antiquity, although no special mention is made of it in the Old Testament.