Ashtoreth
ash'-to-reth, ash-to reth (`ashtoreth; plural `ashtaroth; Astarte):1. Name and Origin2. Attributes of the Goddess3. Ashtoreth as a Moon-Goddess4. The Local Ashtaroth1. Name and ...
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Ashur
ash'-ur. SeeASHHUR.
Ashurbanipal
a-shoor-ba'-ne-pal (Ashur-bani-apal, "Ashur creates a son"): Before setting out on his last campaign to Egypt, Esarhaddon king of Assyria doubtless having had some premonition t...
Ashurites
ash'-ur-its (ha-'ashuri): According to the Massoretic Text of2Sa 2:9, a tribe included in the short-lived kingdom of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son. A slight textual correction gives "...
Ashvath
ash'-vath (`ashwath): A man of Asher, of the house of Japhlet (1Ch 7:33).
Asia
a'-shi-a (Asia): A Roman province embracing the greater part of western Asia Minor, including the older countries of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and a part of Phrygia, also several of ...
Asia Minor
a'-shi-a mi'ner:IntroductoryI. THE COUNTRY1. Position and Boundaries2. General Description3. Mountains4. Rivers, Lakes and Plains5. Roads6. Climate and ProductsII. HISTORY1. The...
Asia Minor, Archaeology Of
a'-shi-a mi'-ner, ar'-ke-ol'-o-ji ov: At the present stage of our information it is difficult to write with acceptance on the archaeology of Asia Minor. Views unquestioned only ...
Asiarch
a'-shi-ark (Asiarches; the English Revised Version "the chief officers of Asia," the King James Version "the chief of Asia"): The title given to certain men of high honorary ran...
Asibias
as-i-bi'-as (Asibias and Asebias): Asibias put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:26). Compare Malchijah (Ezr 10:25).
Aside
a-sid': "Distinct from others," "privately," such is the sense of the word in2Ki 4:4;Mr 7:33. Also "to withdraw" (Lu 9:10the King James Version;Ac 23:19: hupochoreo, also anacho...
Asiel
a'-si-el, as'-i-el (Asiel; the King James Version Asael (Tobit 1:1)):(1) Grandfather of Jehu, one of the Simeonite "princes" mentioned in1Ch 4:35as sharing Judah's inheritance (...
Asipha
as'-i-fa (Codex Alexandrinus, Aseipha; Codex Vaticanus, Taseipha) = Hasupha (Ezr 2:43;Ne 7:46). The sons of Asipha (temple- servants) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Es...
Ask
ask (sha'al "to inquire," "to seek for counsel," "to demand"): It is the word commonly used in the Old Testament and is equivalent to eperotao, "to request," used in the New Tes...
Askelon
as'-ke-lon: the King James Version form inJud 1:18;1Sa 6:17;2Sa 1:20, forASHKELON(which see).
Asleep
a-slep' (yashen, "sleeping," radham, "deep sleep"; katheudo, "to fall asleep," aphupnoo, "to fall asleep"): A state of repose in sleep, Nature's release from weariness of body a...
Asmodaeus
az-mo-de'-us ('ashmedhai; Asmodaios): An evil spirit first mentioned in Tobit 3:8. Older etymologists derived the name from the Hebrew verb shamadh, "destroy"; but it is now gen...
Asmoneans
as-mo-ne'-ans: A remarkable priestly family of Modin, in Judea, also called Hasmoneans or Maccabees. They belonged to that portion of the Jewish nation which under all trials an...
Asnah
as'-na ('acnah, "thornbush"): One of the Nethinim, who returned with Zerubbabel from the exile (Ezr 2:50).
Asnapper
as-nap'-er. SeeOSNAPPAR.
Asochis, Plain Of
a-so'-kis. SeeCANA, OF GALILEE.
Asom
a'-som (H, Asom) = Hashum (Ezr 10:33): The sons of Asom put away their "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:33).
Asp
(pethen (De 32:33;Job 20:14,16;Isa 11:8); aspis (Ro 3:13)); Any poisonous snake, or even poisonous snakes in general, would satisfy the context in all the passages cited. Pethen...
Aspalathus
as-pal'-a-thus (aspalathos): An aromatic plant mentioned in Ecclesiasticus 24:15 the King James Version, where "wisdom" says, "I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus,...
Aspatha
as-pa'-tha ('acpatha'): One of the ten sons of Haman (Es 9:7) (Pers aspadata, "given by a sacred horse," according to Thesaurus, Add. 71, after Pott and Benfey).
Asphalt
as'-falt. SeeSLIME.
Asphar, The Pool
as'-far, (lakkos Asphar): When Jonathan and Simon fled from Bacchides they encamped by this pool in the wilderness of Tekoa (1 Macc 9:33; Ant, XIII, i, 2). It is probably identi...