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.

• Eagle

  (Herb.

• Ear

  Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps.

• Earing

  An Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning "ploughing." It is used in the Authorized Version in Gen.

• Earnest

  The Spirit is the earnest of the believer's destined inheritance (2 Cor.

• Earrings

  Rings properly for the ear (Gen.

• Earth

  (1.) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah'.

• Earthquake

  Mentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine (Ps.

• East

  (1.) The orient (mizrah);

• East, Children of the

  The Arabs as a whole, known as the Nabateans or Kedarenes, nomad tribes (Judg.

• Easter

  Originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover

• East gate

  (Jer.

• East sea

  (Joel 2:20;

• East wind

  The wind coming from the east (Job 27:21;

• Eating

  The ancient Hebrews would not eat with the Egyptians (Gen.

• Ebal

  Stony.

• Ebed

  Slave, the father of Gaal, in whom the men of Shechem "put confidence" in their conspiracy against Abimelech (Judg.

• Ebed-melech

  A servant of the king;

• Eben-ezer

  Stone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine assistance to Israel in their great battle against the Philisti

• Eber

  Beyond.

• Ebony

  A black, hard wood, brought by the merchants from India to Tyre (Ezek.

• Ebronah

  Passage, one of the stations of the Israelites in their wanderings (Num.

• Ecbatana

  (Ezra 6:2 marg.).

• Ecclesiastes

  The Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means "Preacher." The old and traditional view of the authorship of this book attributes i

• Eclipse

  Of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9;

• Ed

  Witness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX.

• Edar

  Tower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebron, near which Jacob first halted after leaving Bethlehem (Gen.

• Eden

  Delight.

• Eder

  Flock.

• Edom

  (1.) The name of Esau (q.v.), Gen.

• Edrei

  Mighty;

• Effectual call

  See [172]CALL.

• Effectual prayer

  Occurs in Authorized Version, James 5:16.

• Egg

  (Heb.

• Eglah

  A heifer, one of David's wives, and mother of Ithream (2 Sam.

• Eglaim

  Two ponds, (Isa.

• Eglon

  The bullock;

• Egypt

  The land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record, holds a place of great significance in Scripture.

• Ehud

  Union.

• Ekron

  Firm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, about 11 miles north of Gath.

• Elah

  Terebinth or oak.

• Elam

  Highland, the son of Shem (Gen.

• Elasah

  God made.

• Elath

  Grove;

• El-Bethel

  God of Bethel, the name of the place where Jacob had the vision of the ladder, and where he erected an altar (Gen.

• Eldad

  Whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num.

• Elder

  A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen.

• Elealeh

  God has ascended, a place in the pastoral country east of Jordan, in the tribe of Reuben (Num.

• Eleazar

  God has helped.

• Election of Grace

  The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, we

• Elect lady

  To whom the Second Epistle of John is addressed (2 John 1:1).

• El-elohe-Isreal

  Mighty one;

• Elements

  In its primary sense, as denoting the first principles or constituents of things, it is used in 2 Pet.

• Elephant

  Not found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos) translated "of ivory" in Rev.

• Elhanan

  Whom God has graciously bestowed.

• Eli

  Ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam.

• Eliab

  To whom God is father.

• Eliada

  Whom God cares for.

• Eliakim

  Whom God will raise up.

• Eliam

  God's people.

• Elias

  The Greek form of Elijah (Matt.

• Eliashib

  Whom God will restore.

• Eliathah

  To whom God will come, one of the foureen sons of the Levite Heman, and musician of the temple in the time of David (1 Chr.

• Elidad

  Whom God has loved, son of Chislon, and chief of the tribe of Benjamin;

• Eliel

  To whom God is might.

• Eliezer

  God his help.

• Elihu

  Whose God is he.

• Elijah

  Whose God is Jehovah.

• Elika

  God is his rejector, one of David's thirty-seven distinguished heros (2 Sam.

• Elim

  Trees, (Ex.

• Elimelech

  God his king, a man of the tribe of Judah, of the family of the Hezronites, and kinsman of Boaz, who dwelt in Bethlehem in the days of the j

• Elioenai

  Toward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1 Chr.

• Eliphalet

  God his deliverance, one of David's sons (2 Sam.

• Eliphaz

  God his strength.

• Elipheleh

  God will distinguish him, one of the porters appointed to play "on the Sheminith" on the occasion of the bringing up of the ark to the city

• Eliphelet

  God his deliverance.

• Elisabeth

  God her oath, the mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5).

• Elisha

  God his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who became the attendant and disciple of Elijah (1 Kings 19:16-19).

• Elishah

  The oldest of the four sons of Javan (Gen.

• Elishama

  Whom God hears.

• Elishaphat

  Whom God has judged, one of the "captains of hundreds" associated with Jehoiada in the league to overthrow the usurpation of Athaliah (2 Chr

• Elisheba

  God is her oath, the daughter of Amminadab and the wife of Aaron (Ex.

• Elishua

  God his salvation, a son of David, 2 Sam.

• Elkanah

  God-created.

• Elkosh

  God my bow, the birth-place of Nahum the prophet (Nah.

• Ellasar

  The oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (Gen.

• Elm

  Hos.

• Elnathan

  Whom God has given.

• Elon

  Oak.

• Elparan

  Oak of Paran, a place on the edge of the wilderness bordering the territory of the Horites (Gen.

• Eltekeh

  God is its fear, a city in the tribe of Dan.

• Elul

  (Neh.

• Elymas

  Magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus.

• Embalming

  The process of preserving a body by means of aromatics (Gen.

• Embroider

  The art of embroidery was known to the Jews (Ex.

• Emerald

  Heb.

• Emerod

  See [182]HAEMORRHOIDS.

• Emims

  Terrors, a warlike tribe of giants who were defeated by Chedorlaomer and his allies in the plain of Kiriathaim.

• Emmanuel

  God with us, Matt.

• Emmaus

  Hot baths, a village "three-score furlongs" from jerusalem, where our Lord had an interview with two of his disciples on the day of his resu

• Emmor

  An ass, Acts 7:16.

• Encamp

  An encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter period of an army or company of travellers (Ex.

• Enchantments

  (1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means "something covered," "muffled up;" secret arts, tricks (Ex.

• End

  In Heb.

• Endor

  Fountain of Dor;

• En-eglaim

  Fountain of two calves, a place mentioned only in Ezek.

• En-gannim

  Fountain of gardens.

• Engedi

  Fountain of the kid, place in the wilderness of Judah (Josh.

• Engines

  (1.) Heb.

• Engraver

  Heb.

• En-hakkore

  Fountain of the crier, the name of the spring in Lehi which burst forth in answer to Samson's prayer when he was exhausted with the slaughte

• Enmity

  Deep-rooted hatred.

• Enoch

  Initiated.

• Enos

  Man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen.

• En-rogel

  Fountain of the treaders;

• En-shemesh

  Fountain of the sun a spring which formed one of the landmarks on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin (Josh.

• Ensign

  (1.) Heb.

• Entertain

  Entertainments, "feasts," were sometimes connected with a public festival (Deut.

• Epaenetus

  Commendable, a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent his salutation (Rom.

• Epaphras

  Lovely, spoken of by Paul (Col.

• Epaphroditus

  Fair, graceful;

• Ephah

  Gloom.

• Epher

  A calf.

• Ephes-dammim

  Boundary of blood, a place in the tribe of Judah where the Philistines encamped when David fought with Goliath (1 Sam.

• Ephesians, Epistle to

  Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles.

• Ephesus

  The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor.

• Ephod

  Something girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex.

• Ephphatha

  The Greek form of a Syro-Chaldaic or Aramaic word, meaning "Be opened," uttered by Christ when healing the man who was deaf and dumb (Mark 7

• Ephraim

  Double fruitfulness ("for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction").

• Ephraim, Gate of

  One of the gates of Jerusalem (2 Kings 14:13;

• Ephraim in the wilderness

  (John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against

• Ephraim, Mount

  The central mountainous district of Palestine occupied by the tribe of Ephraim (Josh.

• Ephraim, The tribe of

  Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob's blessing (Gen.

• Ephraim, Wood of

  A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there (2 Sam.

• Ephratah

  Fruitful.

• Ephrathite

  A citizen of Ephratah, the old name of Bethlehem (Ruth 1:2;

• Ephron

  Fawn-like.

• Epicureans

  Followers of Epicurus (who died at Athens B.C.

• Epistles

  The apostolic letters.

• Erastus

  Beloved.

• Erech

  (LXX., "Orech"), length, or Moon-town, one of the cities of Nimrod's kingdom in the plain of Shinar (Gen.

• Esaias

  The Greek form for Isaiah, constantly used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament (Matt.

• Esarhaddon

  Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37;

• Esau

  Hairy, Rebekah's first-born twin son (Gen.

• Eschew

  From old French eschever, "to flee from" (Job 1:1, 8;

• Esdraelon

  The Greek form of the Hebrew "Jezreel," the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj Ibn Amer;

• Esek

  Quarrel, a well which Isaac's herdsmen dug in the valley of Gerar, and so called because the herdsmen of Gerar quarrelled with them for its

• Eshbaal

  Man of Baal, the fourth son of king Saul (1 Chr.

• Eshcol

  Bunch;

• Eshean

  A place in the mountains of Judah (Josh.

• Eshtaol

  Narrow pass or recess, a town (Josh.

• Eshtemoa

  Obedience, a town in the mountains of Judah (Josh.

• Espouse

  (2 Sam.

• Essenes

  A Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees.

• Esther

  The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name.

• Esther, Book of

  The authorship of this book is unknown.

• Etam

  Eyrie.

• Eternal death

  The miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt.

• Eternal life

  This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan.

• Etham

  Perhaps another name for Khetam, or "fortress," on the Shur or great wall of Egypt, which extended from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Sue

• Ethan

  Firm.

• Ethanim

  The month of gifts, i.e., of vintage offerings;

• Eth-baal

  With Baal, a king of Sidon (B.C.

• Ethiopia

  Country of burnt faces;

• Ethiopian eunuch

  The chief officer or prime minister of state of Candace (q.v.), queen of Ethiopia.

• Ethiopian woman

  The wife of Moses (Num.

• Eunice

  Happily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1).

• Eunuch

  Literally bed-keeper or chamberlain, and not necessarily in all cases one who was mutilated, although the practice of employing such mutilat

• Euodias

  A good journey, a female member of the church at Philippi.

• Euphrates

  Hebrew, Perath;

• Euroclydon

  South-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was wrecked on the coast of

• Eutychus

  Fortunate, (Acts 20:9-12), a young man of Troas who fell through drowsiness from the open window of the third floor of the house where Paul

• Evangelist

  A "publisher of glad tidings;" a missionary preacher of the gospel (Eph.

• Eve

  Life;

• Evening

  The period following sunset with which the Jewish day began (Gen.

• Everlasting

  Eternal, applied to God (Gen.

• Evil eye

  (Prov.

• Evil-merodach

  Merodach's man, the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings 25:27;

• Evil-speaking

  Is expressly forbidden (Titus 3:2;

• Example

  Of Christ (1 Pet.

• Executioner

  (Mark 6:27).

• Exercise, bodily

  (1 Tim.

• Exile

  (1.) Of the kingdom of Israel.

• Exodus

  The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with "a mighty hand and with an out

• Exodus, Book of

  Exodus is the name given in the LXX.

• Exorcist

  (Acts 19:13).

• Expiation

  Guilt is said to be expiated when it is visited with punishment falling on a substitute.

• Eye

  (Heb.

• Ezekias

  Grecized form of Hezekiah (Matt.

• Ezekiel

  God will strengthen.

• Ezekiel, Book of

  Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies.

• Ezel

  A separation, (1 Sam.

• Ezer

  Treasure.

• Ezion-geber

  The giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end

• Ezra

  Help.

• Ezra, Book of

  This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile.

• Ezrahite

  A title given to Ethan (1 Kings 4:31;

• Ezri

  Help of Jehovah, the son of Chelub.