ASTARTE
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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ASUPPIM, AND HOUSE OF
(1 Chronicles 26:15,17) literally house of the gatherings. Some understand it as the proper name of chambers on the south of the temple others of certain store-rooms, or of the ...
ASYNCRITUS
(incomparable), a Christian at Rome, saluted by St. Paul. (Romans 16:14)
ATAD
(thorn), The threshing-floor of, called also Abel-mizraim, (Genesis 50:10,11) afterwards called Beth-hogla, and known to have lain between the Jordan and Jericho, therefore on t...
ATARAH
(a crown) a wife of Jerahmeel, and mother of Onam. (1 Chronicles 2:26)
ATAROTH
(crowns).One of the towns in the "land of Jazer and land of Gilead," (Numbers 32:3) east of the Jordan, taken and built by the tribe of Gad. (Numbers 32:34)A place on the (south...
ATER
(shut up).The children of Ater were among the porters or gate-keepers of the temple who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:42; Nehemiah 7:45)The children of ATER OF HEZEKIAH to t...
ATHACH
(lodging place). (1 Samuel 30:30) As the name does not occur elsewhere, it has been suggested that it is an error of the transcriber for Ether, a town in the low country of Juda...
ATHAIAH
(whom Jehovah made), a descendant of Pharez, the son of Judah, who dwelt at Jerusalem after the return from Babylon, (Nehemiah 11:4) called UTHAI in (1 Chronicles 9:4)
ATHALIAH
(afflicted of the Lord) daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, married Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and introduced into that kingdom the worship of Baal. (B.C. 891.) Afte...
ATHENIANS
natives of Athens (Acts 17:21)
ATHENS
(city of Athene), the capital of Attica, and the chief seat of Grecian learning and civilization during the golden period of the history of Greece. Description --Athens is situa...
ATHLAI
(whom Jehovah afflicts), one of the sons of Bebai, who put away his foreign wife at the exhortation of Ezra. (Ezra 10:28)
ATONEMENT, THE DAY OF
I. The great day of national humiliation, and the only one commanded in the Mosaic law. [FASTS] The mode of its observance is described in Levi 16, and the conduct of the people...
ATROTH
(crowns), a city of Gad. (Numbers 32:35)
ATTAI
(opportune).Grandson of Sheshan the Jerahmeelite through his daughter Ahlai, whom he gave in marriage to Jarha, his Egyptian slave. (1 Chronicles 2:35,36) His grandson Zabad was...
ATTALIA
(from Attalus), a coast-town of Pamphylia, mentioned (Acts 14:25) It was built by Attalus Philadelphus, king of Pergamos, and named after the monarch. All its remains are charac...
AUGUSTUS
(venerable) Cae’sar, the first Roman emperor. He was born A.U.C. 691, B.C. 63. His father was Caius Octavius; his mother Atia, daughter of Julia the sister of C. Julius Caesar. ...
AUGUSTUS BAND
(Acts 27:1) [ARMY]
AVA
(ruin), a place in the empire of Assyria, apparently the same as Ivan. (2 Kings 17:24)
AVEN
(nothingness).The "plain of Aven" is mentioned by (Amos 1:5) in his denunciation of Syria and the country to the north of Palestine. This Aven is by some supposed to be the once...
AVIM
(ruins), A’vims or A’vites.A people among the early inhabitants of Palestine, whom we meet with in the southwest corner of the seacoast, whither they may have made their way nor...
AVITH
(ruins), the city of Hadad ben-Bedad, one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel. (Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46)
AWL
a tool of which we do not know the ancient form. The only notice of it is in connection with the custom of boring the ear of the slave. (Exodus 21:6; 15:17)
AZAL
a name only occurring in (Zechariah 14:5) It is mentioned as the limit to which the ravine of the Mount of Olives will extend when "Jehovah shall go forth to fight."
AZALIAH
(whom the Lord reserved), the father of Shaphan the scribe in the reign of Josiah. (2 Kings 22:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8) (B.C. before 641.)
AZANIAH
(whom the Lord hears), the father or immediate ancestor of Jeshua the Levite, in the time of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:9)