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.

• Taanach

  A sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo.

• Taanath-shiloh

  Approach to Shiloh, a place on the border of Ephraim (Josh.

• Tabbaoth

  Impressions;

• Tabbath

  Famous, a town in the tribe of Ephraim (Judg.

• Tabeal

  Goodness of God, the father of one whom the kings of Syria and Samaria in vain attempted to place on the throne of Ahaz (Isa.

• Tabeel

  A Persian governor of Samaria, who joined others in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:7).

• Taberah

  Burning, a place in the wilderness of Paran, where the "fire of the Lord" consumed the murmuring Israelites (Num.

• Tabering

  Playing on a small drum or tabret.

• Tabernacle

  (1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24;

• Tabernacles, Feast of

  The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev.

• Tabitha

  (in Greek called Dorcas), gazelle, a disciple at Joppa.

• Tables

  (Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals.

• Tablet

  Probably a string of beads worn round the neck (Ex.

• Tabor

  A height.

• Tabret

  (Heb.

• Tabrimon

  Good is Rimmon, the father of Benhadad, king of Syria (1 Kings 15:18).

• Taches

  Hooks or clasps by which the tabernacle curtains were connected (Ex.

• Tachmonite

  =Hach'monite, a name given to Jashobeam (2 Sam.

• Tackling

  (Isa.

• Tadmor

  Palm, a city built by Solomon "in the wilderness" (2 Chr.

• Tahapanes

  =Tahpanhes=Tehaphnehes, (called "Daphne" by the Greeks, now Tell Defenneh), an ancient Egyptian city, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, abo

• Tahpenes

  The wife of Pharaoh, who gave her sister in marriage to Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:19, 20).

• Tahtim-hodshi

  The land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam.

• Tale

  (1.) Heb.

• Talent

  Of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex.

• Talitha cumi

  (Mark 5:41), a Syriac or Aramaic expression, meaning, "Little maid, arise." Peter, who was present when the miracle was wrought, recalled th

• Talmai

  Abounding in furrows.

• Talmon

  Oppressed.

• Tamar

  Palm.

• Tamarisk

  Heb.

• Tammuz

  A corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar.

• Tanhumeth

  Consolation, a Netophathite;

• Tanis

  (Ezek.

• Tappuah

  Apple-region.

• Tarah

  Stopping;

• Tares

  The bearded darnel, mentioned only in Matt.

• Target

  (1 Sam.

• Tarshish

  A Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning "the sea coast." (1.) One of the "sons" of Javan (Gen.

• Tarsus

  The chief city of Cilicia.

• Tartak

  Prince of darkness, one of the gods of the Arvites, who colonized part of Samaria after the deportation of Israel by Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17

• Tartan

  An Assyrian word, meaning "the commander-in-chief." (1.) One of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:17).

• Tatnai

  Gift, a Persian governor (Heb.

• Taverns, The three

  A place on the great "Appian Way," about 11 miles from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates.

• Taxes

  First mentioned in the command (Ex.

• Taxing

  (Luke 2:2;

• Tebeth

  (Esther 2:16), a word probably of Persian origin, denoting the cold time of the year;

• Teil tree

  (an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa.

• Tekel

  Weighed (Dan.

• Tekoa, Tekoah

  Pitching of tents;

• Tel-abib

  Hill of corn, a place on the river Chebar, the residence of Ezekiel (Ezek.

• Telaim

  Young lambs, a place at which Saul gathered his army to fight against Amalek (1 Sam.

• Telassar

  Or Thelasar, (Isa.

• Telem

  Oppression.

• Tel-haresha

  Hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some captive Jews returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:59;

• Tel-melah

  Hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.).

• Tema

  South;

• Teman

  Id.

• Temanite

  A man of Teman, the designation of Eliphaz, one of Job's three friends (Job 2:11;

• Temeni

  One of the sons of Ashur, the father of Tekoa (1 Chr.

• Temple

  First used of the tabernacle, which is called "the temple of the Lord" (1 Sam.

• Temple, Herod's

  The temple erected by the exiles on their return from Babylon had stood for about five hundred years, when Herod the Great became king of Ju

• Temple, Solomon's

  Before his death David had "with all his might" provided materials in great abundance for the building of the temple on the summit of Mount

• Temple, the Second

  After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements were almost immediately made to reorganize

• Temptation

  (1.) Trial;

• Tent

  (1.) Heb.

• Tenth deal

  I.e., the tenth part of an ephah (as in the R.V.), equal to an omer or six pints.

• Terah

  The wanderer;

• Teraphim

  Givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by the Romans.

• Terebinth

  (R.V.

• Teresh

  Severe, a eunuch or chamberlain in the palace of Ahasuerus, who conspired with another to murder him.

• Tertius

  The third, a Roman Christian whom Paul employed as his amanuensis in writing his epistle to the Romans (16:22).

• Tertullus

  A modification of "Tertius;" a Roman advocate, whom the Jews employed to state their case against Paul in the presence of Felix (Acts 24:1-9

• Testament

  Occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Heb.

• Testimony

  (1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thess.

• Testimony, Tabernacle of

  The tabernacle, the great glory of which was that it contained "the testimony", i.e., the "two tables" (Ex.

• Tetrarch

  Strictly the ruler over the fourth part of a province;

• Thaddaeus

  Breast, the name of one of the apostles (Mark 3:18), called "Lebbaeus" in Matt.

• Thahash

  A badger, a son of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Gen.

• Tharshish

  (1 Kings 10:22;

• Theatre

  Only mentioned in Acts 19:29, 31.

• Thebez

  Brightness, a place some 11 miles north-east of Shechem, on the road to Scythopolis, the modern Tabas.

• Theft

  Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2 Sam.

• Theocracy

  A word first used by Josephus to denote that the Jews were under the direct government of God himself.

• Theophilus

  Lover of God, a Christian, probably a Roman, to whom Luke dedicated both his Gospel (Luke 1:3) and the Acts of the Apostles (1:1).

• Thessalonians, Epistles to the

  The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles.

• Thessalonica

  A large and populous city on the Thermaic bay.

• Theudas

  Thanksgiving, referred to by Gamaliel in his speech before the council at Jerusalem (Acts 5:36).

• Thick clay

  (Hab.

• Thieves, The two

  (Luke 23:32, 39-43), robbers, rather brigands, probably followers of Barabbas.

• Thistle

  (1.) Heb.

• Thomas

  Twin, one of the twelve (Matt.

• Thorn

  (1.) Heb.

• Thorn in the flesh

  (2 Cor.

• Thousands

  (Micah 5:2), another name for "families" or "clans" (see Num.

• Threshing

  See [633]AGRICULTURE.

• Threshold

  (1.) Heb.

• Throne

  (Heb.

• Thummim

  Perfection (LXX., "truth;" Vulg., "veritas"), Ex.

• Thunder

  Often referred to in Scripture (Job 40:9;

• Thyatira

  A city of Asia Minor, on the borders of Lydia and Mysia.

• Thyine wood

  Mentioned only in Rev.

• Tiberias

  A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

• Tiberias, Sea of

  Called also the Sea of Galilee (q.v.) and of Gennesaret.

• Tiberius Caesar

  I.e., as known in Roman history, Tiberius Claudius Nero, only mentioned in Luke 3:1.

• Tibni

  Building of Jehovah, the son of Ginath, a man of some position, whom a considerable number of the people chose as monarch.

• Tidal

  (in the LXX.

• Tiglath-Pileser I.

  (not mentioned in Scripture) was the most famous of the monarchs of the first Assyrian empire (about B.C.

• Tiglath-Pileser III.

  Or Tilgath-Pil-neser, the Assyrian throne-name of Pul (q.v.).

• Timaeus

  Defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46).

• Timbrel

  (Heb.

• Timnah

  A portion.

• Timnath

  Gen.

• Timnath-heres

  Portion of the sun, where Joshua was buried (Judg.

• Timnath-serah

  Remaining portion, the city of Joshua in the hill country of Ephraim, the same as Timnath-heres (Josh.

• Timnite

  A man of Timnah.

• Timon

  Honouring, one of the seven deacons at Jerusalem (Acts 6:5).

• Timotheus

  The Greek form of the name of Timothy (Acts 16:1, etc.;

• Timothy

  Honouring God, a young disciple who was Paul's companion in many of his journeyings.

• Timothy, First Epistle to

  Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription;

• Timothy, Second Epistle to

  Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by th

• Tin

  Heb.

• Tinkling ornaments

  (Isa.

• Tiphsah

  Passing over;

• Tiras

  The youngest of the sons of Japheth (Gen.

• Tires

  "To tire" the head is to adorn it (2 Kings 9:30).

• Tirhakah

  The last king of Egypt of the Ethiopian (the fifteenth) dynasty.

• Tirshatha

  A word probably of Persian origin, meaning "severity," denoting a high civil dignity.

• Tirza

  Pleasantness.

• Tishbite

  Elijah the prophet was thus named (1 Kings 17:1;

• Tisri

  The first month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year.

• Tithe

  A tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart for special purposes.

• Tittle

  A point, (Matt.

• Titus

  Honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal.

• Titus, Epistle to

  Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities.

• Tob-adonijah

  Good is Jehovah, my Lord, a Levite sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people of Judah in the law (2 Chr.

• Tobiah

  Pleasing to Jehovah, the "servant," the "Ammonite," who joined with those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Exile (Neh.

• Tobijah

  Id., a Levite sent out through Judah by Jehoshaphat to teach the people (2 Chr.

• Tob, The land of

  A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah fled from his brethren (Judg.

• Tochen

  Measured, a town of Simeon (1 Chr.

• Togarmah

  (1.) A son of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth (Gen.

• Tohu

  One of Samuel's ancestors (1 Sam.

• Toi

  A king of Hamath, who sent "Joram his son unto King David to salute him," when he "heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer" (

• Tola

  A scarlet worm.

• Tolad

  Productive, a town of Simeon, in the south of Judah (1 Chr.

• Tolaites

  Descendants of Tola (Num.

• Toll

  One of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13;

• Tombs

  Of the Hebrews were generally excavated in the solid rock, or were natural caves.

• Tongues, Confusion of

  At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations.

• Tongues, Gift of

  Granted on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4), in fulfilment of a promise Christ had made to his disciples (Mark 16:17).

• Tooth

  One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex.

• Topaz

  Heb.

• Tophel

  Lime, a place in the wilderness of Sinai (Deut.

• Tophet

  =Topheth, from Heb.

• Torches

  On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, "having received a band of men and officers from the chi

• Torment

  Gr.

• Tortoise

  (Heb.

• Tow

  (Judg.

• Tower of the furnaces

  (Neh.

• Towers

  Of Babel (Gen.

• Trachonitis

  A rugged region, corresponds to the Heb.

• Tradition

  Any kind of teaching, written or spoken, handed down from generation to generation.

• Trance

  (Gr.

• Transfiguration, the

  Of our Lord on a "high mountain apart," is described by each of the three evangelists (Matt.

• Treasure cities

  Store cities which the Israelites built for the Egyptians (Ex.

• Treasure houses

  The houses or magazines built for the safe keeping of treasure and valuable articles of any kind (Ezra 5:17;

• Treasury

  (Matt.

• Tree of life

  Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen.

• Tree of the knowledge of good and evil

  Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen.

• Trespass offering

  (Heb.

• Tribe

  A collection of families descending from one ancestor.

• Tribulation

  Trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut.

• Tribute

  A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam.

• Trinity

  A word not found in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting in three distinct Persons.

• Troas

  A city on the coast of Mysia, in the north-west of Asia Minor, named after ancient Troy, which was at some little distance from it (about 4

• Trogyllium

  A town on the western coast of Asia Minor, where Paul "tarried" when on his way from Assos to Miletus, on his third missionary journey (Acts

• Trophimus

  A foster-child, an Ephesian who accompanied Paul during a part of his third missionary journey (Acts 20:4;

• Trumpets

  Were of a great variety of forms, and were made of divers materials.

• Trumpets, Feast of

  Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year.

• Truth

  Used in various senses in Scripture.

• Tryphena and Tryphosa

  Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).

• Tubal

  (1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen.

• Tubal-cain

  The son of Lamech and Zillah, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron" (Gen.

• Turtle, Turtle-dove

  Its peculiar peaceful and gentle habit its often referred to in Scripture.

• Tychicus

  Chance, an Asiatic Christian, a "faithful minister in the Lord" (Eph.

• Type

  Occurs only once in Scripture (1 Cor.

• Tyrannus

  Prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at Ephesus Paul disputed daily for the space of two years with those who came to him (Acts 19

• Tyre

  A rock, now es-Sur;

• Tyropoeon Valley

  (i.e., "Valley of the Cheesemongers"), the name given by Josephus the historian to the valley or rugged ravine which in ancient times separa