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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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AARAT
(high or holy ground), a mountainous district of Asia mentioned in the Bible in connection with the following events:-- (1) As the resting-place of the ark after the deluge. (Ge...
AARON
(a teacher, or lofty), the son of Amram and Jochebed, and the older brother of Moses and Miriam. (Numbers 26:59; 33:39) (B.C. 1573.) He was a Levite, and is first mentioned in (...
AARONITES
(1 Chronicles 12:27) priests of the family of Aaron.
AB
See MONTH.
AB
(father), an element in the composition of many proper names, of which Abba is a Chaldaic form, having the sense of "endowed with," "possessed of."
ABADDON
See APOLLYON.
ABAGTHA
(God-given), one of the seven eunuchs in the Persian court of Ahasuerus. (Esther 1:10)
ABANA
(perennial, stony), one of the "rivers of Damascus." (2 Kings 5:12) The Barada and the Awaj are now the chief streams of Damascus, the former representing the Abana and the latt...
ABARIM
(regions beyond), a mountain or range of highlands on the east of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, facing Jericho, and forming the eastern wall of the Jordan valley at that part...
ABBA
See AB.
ABDA
Father of Adoniram. (1 Kings 4:6)Son of Shammua, (Nehemiah 11:17) called Obadiah in (1 Chronicles 9:16)
ABDEEL
father of Shelemiah. (Jeremiah 36:26)
ABDI
(my servant).A Merarite, and ancestor of Ethan the singer. (1 Chronicles 6:44) (B.C. before 1015.)The father of Kish, a Merarite, in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) ...
ABDIEL
(the servant of God), son of Guni and father of Ahi, one of the Gadites who were settled in the land of Bashan, (1 Chronicles 5:15), in the days of Jotham king of Judah. (B.C. 7...
ABDON
(servile).A judge of Israel, (Judges 12:13,15) perhaps the same person as Bedan, in (1 Samuel 12:11) (B.C. 1233-1225).Son of Shashak. (1 Chronicles 8:23)First-born son of Jehiel...
ABEDNEGO
(i.e. servant of Nego, perhaps the same as Nebo), the Chaldean name given to Azariah, one of the three friends of Daniel, miraculously save from the fiery furnace. Dan. 3. (B.C....
ABEL
the name of several places in Palestine, probably signifies a meadow.
ABEL
(i.e., breath, vapor, transitoriness, probably so called from the shortness of his life), the second son of Adam, murdered by his brother Cain, (Genesis 4:1-16) he was a keeper ...
ABEL, STONE OF
(the great abel), the place where the ark rested in the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 6:18)
ABELBETHMAACHAH
(meadow of the house of oppression), a town of some importance, (2 Samuel 20:15) in the extreme north of Palestine, which fell an early prey to the invading kings of Syria, (1 K...
ABELMAIM
(Abel on the waters), also called simply Abel, (2 Samuel 20:14,18) another name for Abel-bethmaachah. (2 Chronicles 16:4)
ABELMEHOLAH
(meadow of the dance), in the northern pat of the Jordan valley, (1 Kings 4:12) to which the routed Bedouin host fled from Gideon, (Judges 7:22) Here Elisha was found at his plo...
ABELMIZRAIM
(meadow of Egypt), the name given by the Canaanites to the floor of Atad, at which Joseph, his brothers and the Egyptians made their mourning for Jacob. (Genesis 50:11) It was b...
ABELSHITTIM
(the meadow of the acacias), in the "plains" of Moab, on the low level of the Jordan valley, opposite Jericho. The last resting-place of Israel before crossing the Jordan. (Numb...
ABEZ
(lofty), a town in the possession of Issachar, named between Kishion and Remeth in (Joshua 19:20) only.
ABI
mother of King Hezekiah, (2 Kings 18:2) written ABIA, ABIAH, OR ABIJAH, ABIJAH OR ABIJAM in (2 Chronicles 29:1)