Smith's Bible Dictionary

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BAAL

geographical. This word occurs as the prefix or suffix to the names of several places in Palestine, some of which are as follows:BAAL a town of Simeon, named only in (1 Chronicl...

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BAAL

the supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations, as Ashtoreth was their supreme female divinity. Some suppose Baal to correspond to the sun and Ashtoreth to ...

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BAAL

(lord).A Reubenite (1 Chronicles 5:5)The son of Jehiel, and grandfather of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:30; 9:36)

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BAALAH

[BAAL, NO. 2]

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BAALATH

[BAAL, Nos. 3,4]

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BAALE OF JUDAH

[BAAL, NO. 2, a]

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BAALI

(Hosea 2:16) [BAAL]

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BAALIM

[BAAL]

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BAALIS

king of the Ammonites at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. (Jeremiah 40:14) (B.C. 588.)

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BAANA

The son of Ahilud, Solmon’s commissariat officer in Jezreel and the north of the Jordan valley. (1 Kings 4:12) (B.C.1000.)Father of Zadok, who assisted in rebuilding the wall of...

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BAANAH

Son of Rimmon, a Benjamite, who with his brother Rechab murdered Ishbosheth For this they were killed by David; and their mutilated bodies hung up over the pool at Hebron. (2 Sa...

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BAARA

(brutish) one of the wives of Shaharaim, a descendant of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:8)

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BAASEIAH, OR BASSEIAH

(work of Jehovah), a Gershonite Levite, one of the forefathers of Asaph the singer. (1 Chronicles 6:40), [1Chr 6:25]. (B.C. 1310.)

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BAASHA

(wicked), B.C. 953-931, third sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, and the founder of its second dynasty. He was son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar and conspired aga...

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BABEL

(confusion), Bab’ylon (Greek form of Babel), is properly the capital city of the country which is called in Genesis Shinar, and in the later books Chaldea, or the land of the Ch...

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BABYLON

in the Apocalypse, is the symbolical name by which Rome is denoted. (Revelation 14:8; 17:18) The power of Rome was regarded by the later Jews as was that of Babylon by their for...

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BABYLONIANS

the inhabitants of Babylon, a race of Shemitic origin, who were among the colonists planted in the cities of Samaria by the conquering Assyrian. (Ezra 4:9)

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BABYLONISH GARMENT

literally "robe of Shinar," (Joshua 7:21) an ample robe, probably made of the skin or fur of an animal, comp. (Genesis 25:25) and ornamented with embroidery or perhaps a variega...

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BACA

(weeping), The Valley of, A valley in Palestine, through which the exiled Psalmist sees in vision the pilgrims passing in their march towards the sanctuary of Jehovah at Zion. (...

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BACHRITES, THE

the family of BECHER, son of Ephraim. (Numbers 26:35)

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BADGER SKINS

There is much obscurity as to the meaning of the word tachash, rendered "badger" in the Authorized Version, (Exodus 25:5; 35:7) etc. The ancient versions seem nearly all agreed ...

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BAG

is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments.Charitim, the "bags" in which Naaman bound up the two talents of silver for Gehazi. (2 Kings 5:23) They were long...

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BAHARUMITE, THE

[BAHURIM]

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BAHURIM

(low ground), a village, (2 Samuel 16:6) apparently on or close to the road leading up from the Jordan valley to Jerusalem, and near the south boundary of Benjamin.

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BAJITH

(the horse), referring to the "temple" of the false gods of Moab, as opposed to the "high places" in the same sentence. (Isaiah 15:2) and comp. (Isaiah 16:12)

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BAKBAKKAR

(admirable), a Levite, apparently a descendant of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 9:15) (B.C.588.)

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BAKBUK

(bottle). "Children of Bakkuk" were among the Nethinim who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:51; Nehemiah 7:53) (B.C. before 536).