International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Dross

dros (sigh): The refuse of smelting of precious metal (Pr 25:4;26:23); used figuratively of what is base or worthless (Isa 1:22,25;Eze 22:18,19;Ps 119:119).

Drought

drout. SeeFAMINE.

Drove

drov. SeeCATTLE.

Drowning

droun'-ing. SeePUNISHMENTS.

Drum

drum (tumpanon): This was the Hebrew toph, "tabret" or "timbrel," a hand-drum, consisting of a ring of wood or metal covered with a tightly drawn skin, with small pieces of meta...

Drunkenness

I. Its Prevalance.The Bible affords ample proof that excessive drinking of intoxicants was a common vice among the Hebrews, as among other ancient peoples. This is evident not o...

Drusilla

droo-sil'-a (Drousilla, or Drousilla): Wife of Felix, a Jewess, who along with her husband "heard (Paul) concerning the faith in Christ Jesus" during Paul's detention in Caesare...

Dualism

Due

du. SeeDUTY.

Duke

duk: The rendering in the King James Version inGe 36:15ff;Ex 15:15, and1Ch 1:51ff of 'alluph (the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version, margin "chie...

Dulcimer

dul'-si-mer. SeeMUSICunder Nebhel and Sumphonia.

Dumah

du'-ma (dumah, "silence"): This word occurs in the Old Testament with the following significations:(1) the land of silence or death, the grave (Ps 94:17;115:17);(2) a town in th...

Dumb

dum (alam, 'illem, literally, "tied in the tongue"; kophos): Used either as expressing the physical condition of speechlessness, generally associated with deafness, or figurativ...

Dung; Dung Gate

dung ('ashpoth, domen, peresh; skubalon, etc.): Nine different words occurring in the Hebrew have been translated "dung" in the Old Testament. The word used to designate one of ...

Dungeon

dun'-jun. SeePRISON.

Dunghill

dung'-hil ('ashpoth,1Sa 2:8, madhmenah, etc., with other words; kopria,Lu 14:35): Dung heap, or place of refuse. To sit upon a dunghill (1Sa 2:8;Ps 113:7;La 4:5) is significant ...

Dura

du'-ra (dura'): The name of the plain on which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, set up the great golden image which all his subjects were ordered to worship (Da 3:1). Oppert pla...

Dure

dur (proskairos): Used for "endure" (which see), the King James VersionMt 13:21(the Revised Version (British and American) "endureth").

Dust

dust (`aphar; koniortos, chous): Small particles of earth. The word has several figurative and symbolic meanings:(1) Dust being the material out of which God is said to have for...

Duty

du'-ti (dabhar; opheilo):The word duty occurs only three times in the Old Testament and twice in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it is the translation of dabhar, which, ...

Dwarf

dworf:The rendering in English Versions of the Bible of the Hebrew word dak, "thin," "small," inLe 21:20, where a list is given of physical failings which forbade man of the see...

Dwell

dwel:(1) In the Old Testament "dwell" is a translation of 9 words, of which by far the most frequent is yashabh, "to sit down," translated "dwell" over 400 times (Ge 4:20;Jos 20...

Dye; Dyeing

di, di'-ing (me'oddam, hamuc, tebhul, cebha`):Four different Hebrew words have been translated "dyed": the King James Version(a) me'-oddam, found inEx 25:5;26:14;35:7;36:19;39:3...

Dysentery

dis'-en-ter-i (dusenteria):InAc 28:8the Revised Version (British and American) uses this word in place of the phrase "bloody flux" of the King James Version to describe the dise...