Padan-Aram
The plains of Aram or Syria, Ge 25:20 28:2 31:18, or simply PADAN, Ge 48:7, the plain, in distinction from the "mountains" of Aram Nu 23:7. See MESOPOTAMIA, and SYRIA.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Palestine
Denotes, in the Old Testament, the country of the Philistines, which was that part of the land of promise extending along the Mediterranean Sea on the varying western border of ...
Palm-Tree
Ex 15:27. This tree is called in Hebrew tamar, from its straight upright, branchless growth, for which it seems more remarkable than any other tree; it sometimes rises to the he...
Palmer-Worm
This old English term, meaning pilgrim-worm, is used in Jer 1:4 2:25 Am 4:9, like "canker-worm" and "caterpillar," for the locust in one of another of its various species or tra...
Palsy
Or paralysis, strikes sometimes one side or portion of the body, and sometimes the whole; affecting the power of motion, or the power of sensation, or both. It is one of the lea...
Pamphylia
A province of Asia Minor, having Cilicia east. Lycia west, Pisidia north, and the Mediterranean south. It is opposite to Cyprus, and the sea between the coast and the island is ...
Pannag
In Eze 27:17, is the Hebrew word for some unknown product of Palestine, which the Jews sold to the Tyrians. It is variously understood to mean millet, sweetmeats, a delicate spi...
Paper, Papyrus
See BOOK.
Paphos
A maritime city on the western extremity of the isle of Cyprus. It had a tolerable harbor, and was the station of a Roman proconsul.About sixty furlongs from the city was the ce...
Parable
Derived from a Greek word, which signifies, to compare things together, to form a parallel or similitude of them with other things.What we call the Proverbs of Solomon, which ar...
Paradise
A Greek word signifying a park, or garden with trees. The Hebrew word GAN, garden, issued in a similar way, Ne 2:8Ec 2:5So 4:13.The Septuagint uses the word Paradise when speaki...
Paran, Or El-Paran
Ge 14:6, a large tract of desert country lying south of Palestine, and west of the valley El Arabah, which runs from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba. It was in and near this d...
Parched Ground
In Isa 35:7, translated by Lowth "the glowing sand," by Henderson "the vapory illusion," and in German sand-mer and wasserschein, sand-sea and water-show, is understood to refer...
Parchment
See BOOK.
Parmenas
One of the first seven deacons, Ac 6:5.
Parthia
Is supposed to have been originally a province of Media, on its eastern side, which was raised into a distinct kingdom by Arsaces, B. C. 250. It soon extended itself over a grea...
Partition
Eph 2:14. See the various courts under TEMPLE.
Partridge
A well-known bird, three varieties of which are found in Palestine. Saul’s hunting of David like a partridge upon the mountain, 1Sa 26:20, may be illustrated by an occasional pr...
Parvaim
2Ch 3:6, the region of fine gold; probably Ophir; according to Gesenius, the East.
Pashur
1. The son of Immer, a priest and a chief officer in the temple; he violently opposed the prophet Jeremiah, and persecuted him even with blows and confinement in the stocks; but...
Passion
Ac 1:3, suffering; the last sufferings and death of Christ. In Ac 14:15Jas 5:17, "like passions" is nearly equivalent to "the same human nature."
Passover
Hebrew PESACH, Greek PASCHA, a passing over, a name given to the festival established and to the victim offered in commemoration of he coming forth out of Egypt, Ex 12:1-51; bec...
Pastor
Shepherd, one whose office it is to feed and guard the flock of Christ, Eph 4:111Pe 5:2. See SHEPHERD.
Pasturage
See SHEPHERD.
Patara
A maritime city of Lycia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Xanthus, celebrated for an oracle of Apollo, who was supposed to reside here during the six winter months, and ...
Pate
Ps 7:16, an obsolete word for head, or top of the head.
Pathros
Isa 11:11Jer 44:1,15Eze 29:14 30:14, one of the three ancient divisions of Egypt, namely, Upper or Southern Egypt, which Ezekiel speaks of as distinct from Egypt, and the origin...