Apollonia
A city of Macedonia, situated between Amphipolis and Thessalonica, about a day’s journey on foot from the former place, Ac 17:1.
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Apollos
A Jew of Alexandria, a learned and eloquent man, who through the Scriptures and the ministry of John the Baptist became a Christian. He visited Ephesus about A. D. 54, and publi...
Apollyon
SeeABADDON, or Apollyon.
Apostle
A messenger or envoy. The term is applied to Jesus Christ, who was God’s envoy to save the world, Heb 3:1; though, more commonly, the title is given to persons who were envoys c...
Apphia
Phm 1:2, supposed by some to have been the wife of Philemon.
Appii-Forum
Market place of Appius, a village or market town, founded by Appius Claudius on the great road (via Appia) which he constructed from Rome to Capua. It is most probably to be fou...
Apple-Trees
Mentioned in So 2:3 8:5 Joe 1:12. Many suppose the citron- tree to be here meant. The rich color, fragrant odor and handsome appearance of this tree, both in flower and in fruit...
Aquila
A Jew born in Pontus, a tent-maker by occupation, who with his wife Priscilla joined the Christian church at Rome. When the Jews were banished from that city by the emperor Clau...
Ar
Called also Rabbah and Rabbath-Moab, Nu 21:28De 2:1-37Isa 15:1. Its site, still called Rabbah, is found upon a hill some fifteen miles east of the Dead Sea, and south of the Arn...
Arabia
Is a country of Western Asia, lying south and east of Judea. It extends 1,500 miles from north to south, and 1,200 from east to west. On the north it is bounded by part of Syria...
Arabia Deserta
The desert, a vast steppe, or elevated expanse of sand, with occasional hills and a sparse vegetation. It has the mountains of Gilead on the west, and the river Euphrates on the...
Arabia Felix
The happy, lies still farther south and east, being bounded east by the Persian Gulf, south by the ocean between Africa and India, and west by the Red Sea. As this region did no...
Arabia Petraea
Lies south of the Holy Land, and had Petra for its capital. SeeSELA. This region contained the southern Edomites, the Amalekites, the Hivites, etc., people at present known unde...
Arad
A Canaanitish city on the extreme south of Judea, the inhabitants of which drove back the Hebrews as they attempted to enter the promised land from Kadesh, Nu 21:1; it was after...
Aram
1. The name of three men in the Bible: a son of Shem, Ge 10:22, a grandson of Nahor, Ge 22:21, and an ancestor of our Lord, Ru 4:191Ch 2:10Mt 1:3Lu 3:33 2. Nearly synonymous wit...
Ararat
The name of a province in the center of Armenia, between the river Araxes and the lakes Van and Ooroomiah. 2Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38, and sometimes used to denote the whole country, ...
Araunah
A Jebusite, residing on Mount Moriah after the Jebusites were dispossessed by David, 2Sa 5:6 24:18. In 1Co 16:24, he is calledORNAN. The divine choice of his land for the temple...
Arba
An ancestor of the Anakim, and founder of Hebron, to which he gave its ancient name, Jos 15:13.
Archangel
This world is only twice used in the Bible, 1Th 4:16Jude 1:9. In this last passage it is applied to Michael, who, in Da 10:13,21 12:1, is described as having a special charge of...
Archelatus
A son of Herod the Great, by his Samaritan wife Malthace. He was educated with his brother Antipas at Rome, and after his father’s death was placed over Judea, Idumea, and Samar...
Archippus
Saluted by Paul, the Bear’s Tail, and denotes a star in the tail of the Great Bear, or constellation Ursa Major. The "sons" of Arcturus are probably the smaller stars adjacent, ...
Areopagus
The hill of Mars, the seat of the ancient and venerable supreme court of Athens, called the Areopagites, Ac 17:19-34. It was composed entirely of ex-archons, of grave and blamel...
Aretas
The name of several kings of northwestern Arabia. The only one mentioned in Scripture gave his daughter in marriage to Herod Antipas; but she being repudiated by Herod, Aretas m...
Argob
A city in Bashan and Manasseh east of the Jordan; also the region around it. This was very fertile, and contained at one time sixty walled towns, which were taken by Jair the so...
Ariel
The lion of God, one of Ezra’s chief men, Ezr 8:16. This word is used, in 2Sa 24:25; 1Ch 11:22, as a descriptive or perhaps a family name of two lion-like men of Moab. In anothe...
Arimathea, Or Ramah
(Dual, Ramathaim,) A city whence came Joseph the counselor, in whose new tomb the body of Jesus laid, Mt 27:57Joh 19:38. We learn from Eusebius and Jerome that this city was nea...
Arioch
1. King of Ellasar, and ally of Chedorlaomer, Ge 14:1.2. A captain of Nebuchadnezzar’s guard, Da 2:14.