Basin; Bason
ba'-s'-n.1. The Terms Used and Their Meaning:The American Standard Revised Version has "basin," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "bason," th...
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Basket
bas'-ket: Four kinds of "baskets" come to view in the Old Testament under the Hebrew names, dudh, Tene', cal and kelubh. There is little, however, in these names, or in the narr...
Basmath
bas'-math.SeeBASEMATH.
Bason
ba'-s'-n.SeeBASIN.
Bassa
bas'-a.SeeBASSAI.
Bassai
bas'-a-i, bas'-i (Bassai, Bassa; the King James Version Bassa; 1 Esdras 5:16; Bezai (Ezr 2:17;Ne 7:23)): The sons of Bassai returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem.
Bastai
bas'-ta-i.SeeBASTHAI.
Bastard
bas'-tard (mamzer; nothos): InDe 23:2probably the offspring of an incestuous union, or of a marriage within the prohibited degrees of affinity (Le 18:6-20;20:10-21). He and his ...
Basthai
bas'-tha-i, bas'-thi (Basthai; the King James Version Bastai; 1 Esdras 5:31 = Besai (Ezr 2:49;Ne 7:52)): The descendants of Basthai (temple-servants) returned with Zerubbabel to...
Bat
(`aTaleph;Le 11:19;De 14:18;Isa 2:20): Bats are the most widely distributed of mammals, reaching even the oceanic islands, and modern science has revealed the existence of an as...
Batanaea
bat-a-ne'-a: The name used in Greek times forBASHAN(which see), Josephus, Life, II; Ant, XV, x, 1; XVII, ii, 1, "toparchy of Butanea."
Bath
(bath): A liquid measure equal to about 9 gallons, English measure. It seems to have been regarded as a standard for liquid measures (Eze 45:10), as in the case of the molten se...
Bath Kol
bath'-kol, bath kol (bath qol, "the daughter of the voice"): Originally signifying no more than "sound," "tone," "call" (e.g. water in pouring gives forth a "sound," bath qol, w...
Bath-Rabbim, The Gate Of
W. Ewing
Bath-Sheba
bath-she'-ba, bath'-she-ba (bath-shebha`, "the seventh daughter," or "the daughter of an oath," also called Bathshua bath- shua`, "the daughter of opulence" (1Ch 3:5); the Septu...
Bath-Zacharias
bath-zak-a-ri'-as.SeeBETH-ZACHARIAS.
Bath; Bathing
bath, bath'-ing.1. Ordinary Bathing:Bathing in the ordinary, non-religious sense, public or private, is rarely met with in the Scriptures. We find, however, three exceptional an...
Bathshua
bath'-shu-a (bath-shua`, "the daughter of opulence" or "the daughter of Shua"; compareBATH-SHEBA; for derivation see HPN, 67, 69, note 3):(1) InGe 38:2and1Ch 2:3, where the name...
Battering-Ram
bat'-er-ing-ram.SeeSIEGE.
Battle
SeeWAR.
Battle-Axe
bat'-'-l-ax.SeeARMOR,ARMS, III, 1;AX(AXE).
Battle-Bow
bat'-'-l-bo: Found in the striking Messianic prophecy: "The battle bow shall be cut off" (Zec 9:10). The prophet is predicting the peace that shall prevail when Zion's king come...
Battlement
bat'-'-l-ment.SeeFORTIFICATION;HOUSE.
Bavai
bav'-a-i.SeeBAVVAI.
Bavvai
bav'-a-i (bawway; Septuagint Codex Alexandrinus, Benei; Codex Vaticanus, Bedei; the King James Version Bavai, "wisher" (?) (Ne 3:18)): Perhaps identical with or a brother of Bin...
Bay (1)
ba.SeeCOLORS.
Bay (2)
ba (lashon, literally "tongue"; kolpos): The word occurs in the sense of inlet of the sea in the Old Testament only inJos 15:2,5;18:19, and in New Testament only inAc 27:39(of M...