CHALDEANS, OR CHALDEES
It appears that the Chaldeans (Kaldai or Kaldi) were in the earliest times merely one out of many Cushite tribes inhabiting the great alluvial plain known afterwards as Chaldea ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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CHALDEES, OR CHALDEES
[CHALDEANS, OR CHALDEES]
CHALK STONES
[LIME]
CHAMBER
(Genesis 43:30; 2 Samuel 18:33; Psalms 19:5; Daniel 6:10) The word chamber in these passages has much the same significance as with us, meaning the private rooms of the house --...
CHAMBERLAIN
an officer attached to the court of a king, who formerly had charge of the private apartments or chambers of the palace. He kept the accounts of the public revenues. The office ...
CHAMELEON
a species of lizard. The reference in (Leviticus 11:30) is to some kind of an unclean animal, supposed to be the lizard, known by the name of the "monitor of the Nile," a large,...
CHAMOIS
(pronounced often shame), the translation of the Hebrew zemer in (14:5) But the translation is incorrect; for there is no evidence that the chamois have ever been seen in Palest...
CHANAAN
[CANAAN, CANAAN, THE LAND OF]
CHAPITER
the capital of a pillar; i.e. the upper part, as the term is used in modern architecture.
CHAPMAN
(i.e. cheap man), merchant.
CHARASHIM, THE VALLEY OF
(ravine of craftsmen), a place near Lydda, a few miles east of Joppa. (1 Chronicles 4:14)
CHARCHEMISH
(2 Chronicles 35:20) [CARCHEMISH]
CHARGER
a shallow vessel for receiving water or blood, also for presenting offerings of fine flour with oil. (Numbers 7:79) The daughter of Herodias brought the head of St. John the Bap...
CHARIOT
a vehicle used either for warlike or peaceful purposes, but most commonly the former. The Jewish chariots were patterned after the Egyptian, and consisted of a single pair of wh...
CHARRAN
(Acts 7:2,4) [HARAN]
CHASE
[HUNTING]
CHEANI
(a contraction of Chenaniah), one of the Levites who assisted at the solemn purification of the people under Ezra. (Nehemiah 9:4)
CHEBAR
(length), a river in the "land of the Chaldeans." (Ezekiel 1:3; 3:15,23) etc. It is commonly regarded as identical with the Habor, (2 Kings 17:6) and perhaps the Royal Canal of ...
CHEBEL
(cord), one of the singular topographical terms in which the ancient Hebrew language abounded. We find it always attached to the region of Argob. (3:4,13,14; 1 Kings 4:13)
CHEDORLAOMER, OR CHEDORLAOMER
(handful of sheaves), a king of Elam, in the time of Abraham, who with three other chiefs made war upon the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Zoar, and reduced them to...
CHEESE
is mentioned only three times in the Bible, and on each occasion under a different name in the Hebrew. (1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29; Job 10:10) It is difficult to decide how ...
CHELAL
(perfection), (Ezra 10:30) one who had a strange wife.
CHELLUH
(completed), (Ezra 10:35) another like the above.
CHELUB
A man among the descendants of Judah.Ezri the son of Chelub, one of David’s officers. (1 Chronicles 27:26)
CHELUBAI
(capable), the son of Hezron. Same as Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:9,18,42)
CHEMARIM, THE
(those who go about in black, i.e. ascetics). In the Hebrew applied to the priests of the worship of false gods. (2 Kings 23:5; Hosea 10:5) in margin; (Zephaniah 1:4)
CHEMOSH
(subduer), the national deity of the Moabites. (Numbers 21:29; Jeremiah 48:7,13,46) In (Judges 11:24) he also appears as the god of the Ammonites. Solomon introduced, and Josiah...