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.

• Fable

  Applied in the New Testament to the traditions and speculations, "cunningly devised fables", of the Jews on religious questions (1 Tim.

• Face

  Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the "face [R.V., presence'] of the Lord God" (Gen.

• Fair Havens

  A harbour in the south of Crete, some 5 miles to the east of which was the town of Lasea (Acts 27:8).

• Fairs

  (Heb.

• Faith

  Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil.

• Faithful

  As a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Acts 10:45;

• Fall of man

  An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the

• Fallow-deer

  Deut.

• Fallow-ground

  The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos.

• Familiar spirit

  Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a "familiar spirit" (Deut.

• Famine

  The first mentioned in Scripture was so grievous as to compel Abraham to go down to the land of Egypt (Gen.

• Fan

  A winnowing shovel by which grain was thrown up against the wind that it might be cleansed from broken straw and chaff (Isa.

• Farm

  (Matt.

• Farthing

  (1.) Matt.

• Fast

  The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev.

• Fat

  (Heb.

• Father

  A name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut.

• Fathom

  (Old A.S.

• Fatling

  (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam.

• Fear of the Lord the

  Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov.

• Feast

  As a mark of hospitality (Gen.

• Felix

  Happy, the Roman procurator of Judea before whom Paul "reasoned" (Acts 24:25).

• Fellowship

  (1.) With God, consisting in the knowledge of his will (Job 22:21;

• Fence

  (Heb.

• Fenced cities

  There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr.

• Ferret

  Lev.

• Ferry boat

  (2 Sam.

• Festivals, Religious

  There were daily (Lev.

• Festus, Porcius

  The successor of Felix (A.D.

• Fever

  (Deut.

• Field

  (Heb.

• Fig

  First mentioned in Gen.

• Fillets

  Heb.

• Finer

  A worker in silver and gold (Prov.

• Fining pot

  A crucible, melting-pot (Prov.

• Fir

  The uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg.

• Fire

  (1.) For sacred purposes.

• Firebrand

  Isa.

• Firepan

  (Ex.

• Firkin

  Used only in John 2:6;

• Firmament

  From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki'a.

• First-born

  Sons enjoyed certain special privileges (Deut.

• First-born, Redemption of

  From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son.

• First-born, Sanctification of the

  A peculiar sanctity was attached to the first-born both of man and of cattle.

• First-fruits

  The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals.

• Fish

  Called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen.

• Fisher

  Besides its literal sense (Luke 5:2), this word is also applied by our Lord to his disciples in a figurative sense (Matt.

• Fish-hooks

  Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2;

• Fishing, the art of

  Was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Palestine.

• Fish-pools

  (Cant.

• Fitches

  (Isa.

• Flag

  (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen.

• Flagon

  Heb.

• Flame of fire

  Is the chosen symbol of the holiness of God (Ex.

• Flax

  (Heb.

• Flea

  David at the cave of Adullam thus addressed his persecutor Saul (1 Sam.

• Fleece

  The wool of a sheep, whether shorn off or still attached to the skin (Deut.

• Flesh

  In the Old Testament denotes (1) a particular part of the body of man and animals (Gen.

• Flesh-hook

  A many-pronged fork used in the sacrificial services (1 Sam.

• Flint

  Abounds in all the plains and valleys of the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings.

• Flood

  An event recorded in Gen.

• Flour

  Grain reduced to the form of meal is spoken of in the time of Abraham (Gen.

• Flowers

  Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine.

• Flute

  A musical instrument, probably composed of a number of pipes, mentioned Dan.

• Fly

  Heb.

• Foam

  (Hos.

• Fodder

  Heb.

• Fold

  An enclosure for flocks to rest together (Isa.

• Food

  Originally the Creator granted the use of the vegetable world for food to man (Gen.

• Footstool

  Connected with a throne (2 Chr.

• Forces

  Of the Gentiles (Isa.

• Ford

  Mention is frequently made of the fords of the Jordan (Josh.

• Forehead

  The practice common among Oriental nations of colouring the forehead or impressing on it some distinctive mark as a sign of devotion to some

• Foreigner

  A Gentile.

• Foreknowledge of God

  Acts 2:23;

• Forerunner

  John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark 1:2, 3).

• Forest

  Heb.

• Forgiveness of sin

  One of the constituent parts of justification.

• Fornication

  In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev.

• Fortunatus

  Fortunate, a disciple of Corinth who visited Paul at Ephesus, and returned with Stephanas and Achaicus, the bearers of the apostle's first l

• Fountain

  (Heb.

• Fountain of the Virgin

  The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut thr

• Fowler

  The arts of, referred to Ps.

• Fox

  (Heb.

• Frankincense

  (Heb.

• Freedom

  The law of Moses pointed out the cases in which the servants of the Hebrews were to receive their freedom (Ex.

• Free-will offering

  A spontaneous gift (Ex.

• Frog

  (Heb.

• Frontlets

  Occurs only in Ex.

• Frost

  (Heb.

• Fruit

  A word as used in Scripture denoting produce in general, whether vegetable or animal.

• Frying-pan

  (Heb.

• Fuel

  Almost every kind of combustible matter was used for fuel, such as the withered stalks of herbs (Matt.

• Fugitive

  Gen.

• Fuller

  The word "full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning "to whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill.

• Fuller's field

  A spot near Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17;

• Fuller's soap

  (Heb.

• Fulness

  (1.) Of time (Gal.

• Funeral

  Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses (Gen.

• Furlong

  A stadium, a Greek measure of distance equal to 606 feet and 9 inches (Luke 24:13;

• Furnace

  (1.) Chald.

• Furrow

  An opening in the ground made by the plough (Ps.

• Fury

  As attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev.