Quails
The oriental quail is a bird of passage, about the size of a turtledove, and nearly resembling the American partridge. Hasselquist states that it is plentiful near the shores of...
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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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Quartus
A Christian residing at Corinth, but according to his name of Roman origin, whose salutation Paul sends to the brethren at Rome, Ro 16:23.
Quaternion Of Soldiers
A detachment or division consisting of four men, Ac 12:4. The Romans detached a quarternion of four men for a night guard and divided the night into four watches, so that each s...
Queen Of Heaven
A name given by the Hebrew idolaters to the moon, Jer 7:18 44:17-18. SeeASHITORETH.
Quick
In the old English sense, means alive, or living. Nu 16:302Ti 4:1; and quicken, to make alive. God bestows spiritual life on men dead in trespasses and sins, Eph 2:5, through Ch...
Quicksands
Ac 27:17, probably the dangerous sandbanks and whirlpools in two gulfs on the African coast south of Malta; they were called the Greater and the Lesser Syritis, and were much dr...