BASSAI bas'-a-i, bas'-i (Bassai, Bassa; the King James Version Bassa; 1 Esdras 5:16; Bezai (Ezra 2:17; Nehemiah 7:23)): The sons of Bassai returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASSAI'". "International Standard Bible Ency

BASSA bas'-a. See BASSAI. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASSA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BASON ba'-s'-n. See BASIN. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASON'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BASMATH bas'-math. See BASEMATH. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASMATH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BASKET bas'-ket: Four kinds of "baskets" come to view in the Old Testament under the Hebrew names, dudh, Tene', cal and kelubh. There is little, however, in these names, or in the narratives where they are found, to indicate definitely what the differences of size and shape and use were. The Mishna renders us some help in our uncertainty, giving n

BASIN; BASON ba'-s'-n. 1. The Terms Used and Their Meaning: The American Standard Revised Version has "basin," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "bason," the preferred spelling of the English revisers. In the Appendix to the Revised Old Testament the American Revisers (section viii) say, "The modern spelling is

BASILISK baz'-i-lisk (tsepha`, tsiph`oni, from obsolete root tsapha`, "to hiss": Isaiah 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jeremiah 8:17; Proverbs 23:32 m. In Proverbs 23:32, the King James Version has "adder," margin "cockatrice"; in the other passages cited the King James Version has "cockatrice," margin "adder" (except Jeremiah 8:17, no margin)): The word is

BASHEMATH bash'-e-math. See BASEMATH. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASHEMATH'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BASHAN-HAVVOTH-JAIR ba'-shan-hav'-oth-ja'-ir (bashan chawwoth ya'ir). See HAVVOTH-JAIR. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASHAN-HAVVOTH-JAIR'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BASHAN ba'-shan (ha-bashan, "the Bashan"; Basan): This name is probably the same in meaning as the cognate Arabic bathneh, "soft, fertile land," or bathaniyeh (batanaea), "this land sown with wheat" ("wheatland"). 1. Boundaries: It often occurs with the article, "the Bashan," to describe the kingdom of Og, the most northerly part of the land Eas

BASE bas: (1) Substantive from Latin basis, Greek basis, a foundation. (a) (mekhonah): the fixed resting-place on which the lavers in Solomon's temple were set (1 Kings 7:27-43; 2 Kings 16:17; 25:13,16; 2 Chronicles 4:14; Jeremiah 27:19; 52:17,20; compare Ezra 3:3; Zechariah 5:11 the American Revised Version, margin). (b) (ken): pedestal in the

BASEMATH; BASHEMATH; BASMATH bas'-e-math, bash'-e-math, bas'-math (basemath, "fragrant"): (1) Basemath, one of the wives of Esau, a daughter of Elon, the Hittite (Genesis 26:34; the King James Version Bashemath), probably identical with or a sister of Adah whom he also married (Genesis 36:2). Compare \ADAH\. (2) Basemath (the King James Version B

BASCAMA bas'-ka-ma (Baskama (1 Macc 13:23)): A town located in the country of Gilead, where Tryphon slew Jonathan, the son of Absalom. Compare JONATHAN (Apocrypha). Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASCAMA'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1

BASALOTH bas'-a-loth (A, Baaloth; B, Basalem; 1 Esdras 5:31 = Bazluth (Ezra 2:52) and Bazlith (Nehemiah 7:54)): The descendants of Basaloth (temple-servants) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BASALOTH'". "Internationa

BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A. D.) after these two books. I. Name. See under \BARUCH\ for the meaning of the word and for the history of the best-known Biblical. personage bearing the name. Though J

BARZILLAI bar-zil'-a-i, bar-zil'-i (barzillay; Berzelli, "man of iron" (BDB, but compare Cheyne, Encyclopedia Biblica)): (1) A Gileadite of Rogelim who brought provisions to David and his army to Mahanaim, in their flight from Absalom (2 Samuel 17:27-29). When David was returning to Jerusalem after Absalom's defeat, Barzillai conducted him over Jo

BARUCH, APOCALYPSE OF See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BARUCH, APOCALYPSE OF'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.

BARUCH ba'-ruk, bar'-uk (baruk; Barouch, "blessed"): (1) Son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah, King Zedekiah's chamberlain (Jeremiah 51:59). He was the devoted friend (Jeremiah 32:12), the amanuensis (36:4,32) and faithful attendant (36:10; Josephus, Ant, X, vi, 2) of the prophet Jeremiah. He seems to have been of noble family (see Ant, X, ix, 1;

BARTIMAEUS bar-ti-me'-us (Bartimaios): A hybrid word from Aramaic bar = "son," and Greek timaios = "honorable." For the improbability of the derivation from bar-tim'ai = "son of the unclean," and of the allegorical meaning = the Gentiles or spiritually blind, see Schmiedel in Encyclopedia Biblica. In Mr (Mark 10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the na

BARTHOLOMEW, GOSPEL OF See APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS; BARTHOLOMEW. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BARTHOLOMEW, GOSPEL OF'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.