Dictionaries :: DinaitesInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDinaites: di'-na-its (dinaye'): A people mentioned in Ezr 4:9, as settled in the city of Samaria by Osnappar (Assurbanipal). The identification is uncertain. Smith's Bible DictionaryDinaites: (Ezra 4:9) the name of some of the Cuthaean colonists who were placed in the cities of

Dictionaries :: EdomEaston's Bible DictionaryEdom: (1.) The name of Esau (q.v.), Gen 25:30, "Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage [Heb. haadom, haadom, i.e., 'the red pottage, the red pottage']...Therefore was his name called Edom", i.e., Red. (2.) Idumea (Isa 34:5,6; Eze 35:15). "The field of Edom" (Gen 32:3), "the land of Edom"

Dictionaries :: Elah, the Valley OfSmith's Bible DictionaryElah, the Valley Of: (valley of the terebinth) the valley in which David killed Goliath (1 Samuel 17:2; 17:19). It lay somewhere near Socoh of Judah and Azekah, and was nearer Ekron than any other Philistine town (1 Samuel 17).

Dictionaries :: EffeminateVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g3120Greek: malakosEffeminate:"soft, soft to the touch" (Lat., mollis, Eng., "mollify," "emollient," etc.), is used (a) of raiment, Mat 11:8 (twice); Luk 7:25; (b) metaphorically, in a bad sense, 1Cr 6:9, "effeminate," not simply of a male who prac

Dictionaries :: Drachma; DramInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDrachma; Dram: drak'-ma, (drachme): The word is used in the Septuagint as the rendering of beqa‘, "half-shekel," which must refer to the light standard for the shekel, as its weight was about 62 grains. In the New Testament the word occurs only in Lu 15:8,9, where it is

Dictionaries :: DropsyEaston's Bible DictionaryDropsy: mentioned only in Luk 14:2. The man afflicted with it was cured by Christ on the Sabbath.International Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDropsy: drop'-si (hudropikos, "a man afflicted with hudrops or dropsy"): Both forms of this disease occur in Palestine, that in which the limbs and body are d

Dictionaries :: DietInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDiet: di'-et ('aruchah, "prescribed"): A daily allowance or portion of food, as that given by King Evil-merodach to Jehoiachin, king of Judah (Jer 52:34 the King James Version; compare 2Ki 25:30).

Dictionaries :: EberEaston's Bible DictionaryEber: beyond. (1.). The third post-duluvian patriach after Shem (Gen 10:24; 11:14). He is regarded as the founder of the Hebrew race (10:21; Num 24:24). In Luk 3:35 he is called Heber. (2.) One of the seven heads of the families of the Gadites (1Ch 5:13). (3.) The oldest of the three sons of Elp

Dictionaries :: Dominion (Have ... Over)Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament WordsA-1NounStrong's Number: g2904Greek: kratosDominion (Have ... Over):"force, strength, might," more especially "manifested power," is derived from a root kra--, "to perfect, to complete:" "creator" is probably connected. It also signifies "dominion," and is so

Dictionaries :: Duration of the Sojourn in EgyptCondensed Biblical CyclopediaDuration of the Sojourn in Egypt: Moses says the "sojourning" of the children in Israel was four hundred thirty years (Exodus 12:40-41), but he does not say they sojourned in Egypt all this time. Paul says that the law was four hundred thirty years after the promise (Ga

Dictionaries :: DialEaston's Bible DictionaryDial: for the measurement of time, only once mentioned in the Bible, erected by Ahaz (2Ki 20:11; Isa 38:8). The Hebrew word (ma'aloth) is rendered "steps" in Exd 20:26, 1Ki 10:19, and "degrees" in 2Ki 20:9, 10, 11. The ma'aloth was probably stairs on which the shadow of a column or obelisk placed on t

Dictionaries :: DoubtInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDoubt: dout: This word, found only a score of times in the Bible, translates nevertheless about half as many different Hebrew and Greek originals with a corresponding variety of meanings. In Ge 37:33 "without doubt" is to be taken in the common sense of "certainly"; in Job 12:2 in

Dictionaries :: DivinityVine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words1Strong's Number: g2305Greek: theiotesDivinity:"divinity," the RV rendering in Rom 1:20 (AV, "Godhead"), is derived from theios (see DIVINE, A), and is to be distinguished from theotes, in Col 2:9, "Godhead." In Rom 1:20 the Apostle "is declaring how much of God may be known

Dictionaries :: DigInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDig: (qur, "to dig", chathar; diorusso, "to dig through"): "I have digged (dug) and drunk strange waters" (2Ki 19:24). In his campaigns on foreign soil, where the enemy had stopped up the watersprings, Sennacherib would at once dig fresh wells for his armies. "They dig through houses"

Dictionaries :: DioscorinthiusInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaDioscorinthius: di-os-ko-rin'-thi-us: A certain (unidentified) month (2 Macc 11:21).

Dictionaries :: Elect LadyEaston's Bible DictionaryElect Lady: to whom the Second Epistle of John is addressed (2Jo 1:1). Some think that the word rendered "lady" is a proper name, and thus that the expression should be "elect Kyria."International Standard Bible EncyclopaediaElect Lady: e-lekt' la'-di (eklekte kuria; 2 Joh 1:1): In accorda

Dictionaries :: Ebal; ObalInternational Standard Bible EncyclopaediaEbal; Obal: e'-bal (‘ebhal, "bare") or (‘obhal): (1) A people and region of Joktanite, Arabia. See Dillmann, Genesis, and Glaser, Skizze, II, 426. The latter form of the name is that given in Ge 10:28, the former in 1Ch 1:22 and in the Sam text of Ge 10:28. (2) A

Dictionaries :: EliezarSmith's Bible DictionaryEliezar: (God is his help). (1.) Abraham's chief servant, called by him "Eliezer of Damascus." (Genesis 15:2). (B.C. 1857) (2.) Second son of Moses and Zipporah (B.C. 1523) to whom his father gave this name because "the God of my father was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh

Dictionaries :: EclipseEaston's Bible DictionaryEclipse: of the sun alluded to in Amo 8:9; Mic 3:6; Zec 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God's anger (Joe 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclipse (Mat 27:45); but on the other hand it is argued that the great intensity of darkness caused b

Dictionaries :: Egyptian Kings (Later)International Standard Bible EncyclopaediaEgyptian Kings (Later):  ← Egypt, Brook (River, Stream) OfEgyptian Versions →