Hoar; Hoary
hor, hor'-i.See COLOR (8); HAIR.
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Hobab
ho'-bab (chobhabh, "beloved"; Septuagint Obab): This name occurs only twice (Nu 10:29;Jud 4:11). It is not certain whether it denotes the father-in-law or the brother-in-law of ...
Hobah
ho'-ba (chobhah): A place "on the left hand," i.e. to the North of "Damascus," to which Abraham pursued the defeated army of Chedorlaomer (Ge 14:15). It is probably identical wi...
Hobaiah
ho-ba'-ya (chobhayah, "whom Yahweh hides," i.e. "protects"): The head of a priestly family that returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Because they could not trace their genealo...
Hock
(`aqar, "to root out"): To hamstring, i.e. to render useless by cutting the tendons of the hock (in the King James Version and the English Revised Version "hough"). "In their se...
Hod
hod (hodh, "majesty," "splendor"; the Septuagint's Codex Alexadrinus, Hod; Codex Vaticanus, Oa): One of the sons of Zophah, a descendant of Asher (1Ch 7:37).
Hodaiah
ho-da'-ya.SeeHODAVIAH.
Hodaviah
hod-a-vi'-a (hodhawyah, or hodhawyahu; the Septuagint's Codex Alexandrinus, Hodouia):(1) One of the heads of the half-tribe of Manasseh on the East of the Jordan (1Ch 5:24).(2) ...
Hodesh
ho'-desh (chodhesh, "new moon"): One of the wives of Shaharaim, a Benjamite (1Ch 8:9).
Hodevah
ho-de'-va, ho'-de-va (hodhewah, hodheyah, "splendor of Yah"): A Levite and founder of a Levite family, seventy-four of whom returned from exile with Zerubbabel, 538 BC (Ne 7:43)...
Hodiah; Hodijah
ho-di'-a, ho-di'-ja (hodhiyah, "splendor of Yah"):(1) A brother-in-law of Naham (1Ch 4:19), and possibly for that reason reckoned a member of the tribe of Judah. the King James ...
Hoglah
hog'-la (choghlah, "partridge"): The third of five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh (Nu 26:33). Zelophehad leaving no male heir, it was made a statute that the i...
Hoham
ho'-ham (hoham, "whom Yahweh impels(?)" Gesenius): An Amorite king of Hebron and one of the five kings of the Amorites who leagued for war on Gibeon because of its treaty of pea...
Hoise
hoiz: The older form of "hoist" (Old English, hoise), to raise, to lift, and is the translation of epairo, "to lift up": "they.... hoised up the mainsail to the wind" (Ac 27:40)...
Hold
hold: In the American Standard Revised Version frequently "stronghold" (Jud 9:49;1Sa 22:4;24:22;2Sa 5:17;23:14;1Ch 11:16;12:16). SeeFORTIFICATION. InRe 18:2for the King James Ve...
Holding
hol'-ding: Occurs with various shades of meaning:(1) as the translation of tamakh, "to acquire," it has the sense of taking, obtaining (Isa 33:15, the Revised Version (British a...
Holiness
ho'-li-nes (qadhosh, "holy," qodhesh, "holiness"; hagios, "holy"):I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT MEANING OF THE TERM1. The Holiness of God(1) Absoluteness and Majesty(2) Ethical Holine...
Hollow
hol'-o (kaph, nabhabh): "Hollow" is the translation of kaph, "hollow" (Ge 32:25,32, "the hollow of his thigh," the hip-pan or socket, over the sciatic nerve); of nabhabh, "to be...
Holm-Tree
hom'-tre:(1) tirzah (Isa 44:14, the King James Version "cypress"): The name, from the root meaning (compare Arabic taraza) "to be hard," implies some very hard wood. Vulgate (Je...
Holofernes
hol-o-fur'-nez (Olophernes): According to the Book of Judith, chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians (Judith 2:4), who was commissioned to make war upon the West...
Holon
ho'-lon (cholon or chowlon):(1) One of the towns in the hill country of Judah (Jos 15:51) assigned to the Levites 21:15). In1Ch 6:58(Hebrew 43), it isHILEN(which see). The site ...
Holy Ghost
ho'-li gost.SeeHOLY SPIRIT.
Holy Ghost (Spirit), Sin Against The
See BLASPHEMY; HOLY SPIRIT, III, 1, (4).
Holy Of Holies
ho'-liz (qodhesh ha-qodhashim,Ex 26:33, debhir,1Ki 6:16, etc.; in the New Testament, hagia hagion,Heb 9:3): The name given to the innermost shrine, or adytum of the sanctuary of...
Holy One
See GOD, NAMES OF.
Holy Place
(ha-qodhesh,Ex 26:33, ha-hekhal,1Ki 6:17, etc.; he prote skene,Heb 9:6f):1. The Terms:The tabernacle consisted of two divisions to which a graduated scale of holiness is attache...
Holy Spirit
ho'-li spir'-it:I. OLD TESTAMENT TEACHINGS AS TO THE SPIRIT1. Meaning of the Word2. The Spirit in Relation to the Godhead3. The Spirit in External Nature4. The Spirit of God In ...