Balancings
bal'-ans-ins: "The balancings of the clouds" (Job 37:16), the manner in which they are poised and supported in the air, alike with their mysterious spreadings and motions, chall...
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Balasamus
ba-las'-a-mus.SeeBAALSAMUS.
Bald Locust
bold lo'kust.SeeLOCUST.
Baldness
bald'-ness qorchah: The reference in the Bible to baldness is not to the natural loss of hair, but to baldness produced by shaving the head. This was practiced as a mark of mour...
Ball
bol (dur): A rare Hebrew word used in this sense only inIsa 22:18, and correctly rendered in the American Standard Revised Version "He will surely wind thee round and round, and...
Balm
bam (tseri, tsori; Septuagint rhetine): The name of an odoriferous resin said to be brought from Gilead by Ishmaelite Arabs on their way to Egypt (Ge 37:25). It is translated "b...
Balm Of Gilead
The people of Jericho today prepare for the benefit of pilgrims a "Balm of Gilead" from the zaqqum (Balanites Aegyptiaca), but this has no serious claims to be the balm of antiq...
Balnuus
bal-nu'-us (Codex Alexandrinus, Balnouos; Codex Vaticanus, Balnous = Binnui (Ezr 10:30)): Balnuus put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:31).
Balsam
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Baltasar
bal-ta'-sar (Baltasar; the King James Version Balthasar):(1) The Greek of Hebrew, belTesha'tstsar, or belTe'shatstsar, perhaps corresponding to BalaT-sar-ucur, "protect the life...
Bamah
ba'-ma, ba'-ma (bamah, "high place"): The word appears inEze 20:29where reference is made to former "high-place worship," the prophet speaking with contempt of such manner of wo...
Bamoth; Bamoth-Baal
ba'-moth, ba'-moth-ba'-al (bamoth-ba'al, "high places of Baal"): Bamoth is referred to inNu 21:19,20, as a station in the journeyings of Israel North of the Arnon. It is probabl...
Ban
(A, Ban; B, Bainan; 1 Esdras 5:37 = Tobiah (Ezr 2:60;Ne 7:62); some manuscripts of the Septuagint read Boua): The descendants of Ban were not able to trace their ancestry to sho...
Banaias
ban-a-i'-as (Banaias; 1 Esdras 9:35 = Benaiah (Ezr 10:43)): Banaias put away his "strange wife."
Band
The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings:(1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: a bond;(2) a company of men. The se...
Bands Of Rudder
SeeRUDDER.
Bands, Beauty And
SeeBEAUTY AND BANDS.
Bani
ba'-ni (bani, "posterity"):(1) A Gadite, one of David's mighty men (2Sa 23:36).(2) A Levite whose son was appointed for service in the tabernacle at David's time (1Ch 6:46).(3) ...
Banias (1)
ba-ni'-as (B, Banias; A, Bani; the King James Version Banid (1 Esdras 8:36)): An ancestor of Salimoth. The descendants of Banias returned with Ezra to Jerusalem. The name is omi...
Banias (2)
SeeCAESAREA, PHILIPPI.
Banid
ba'-nid (1 Esdras 8:36): In the Revised Version (British and American)BANIAS, which see.
Banishment
ban'-ish-ment.SeePUNISHMENTS.
Bank
bank:(1) (saphah, "lip," "edge"): "By the bank of the Jordan" (2Ki 2:13); "Upon the bank of the river were very many trees" (Eze 47:7,12).(2) (gadhah, "cuttings"): Always of ban...
Bank; Banking
1. Introductory:"Banking" in the full modern sense, of taking money on deposit and lending it out on interest, is of comparatively recent origin. A few "banks of deposit" were f...
Bannaia
ba-na'-ya.SeeSABANNEUS.
Bannas
ban'-as (Bannos; the King James Version, Banuas): A name occurring in the list of those who returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:26). Bannas and Sudias are re...
Banneas
ban-e'-as (Bannaias; the King James Version Baanias (1 Esdras 9:26) = Benaiah (Ezr 10:25)): Banneas put away his "strange wife."