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.

• Quails

  The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness of Sin (Ex.

• Quarantania

  A mountain some 1,200 feet high, about 7 miles north-west of Jericho, the traditional scene of our Lord's temptation (Matt.

• Quarries

  (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezeth

• Quartus

  Fourth, a Corinthian Christian who sent by Paul his salutations to friends at Rome (Rom.

• Quaternion

  A band of four soldiers.

• Queen

  No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated.

• Queen of heaven

  (Jer.

• Quicksands

  Found only in Acts 27:17, the rendering of the Greek Syrtis.

• Quiver

  The sheath for arrows.

• Quotations

  From the Old Testament in the New, which are very numerous, are not made according to any uniform method.