CIS
the father of Saul, (Acts 13:21) usually called KISH.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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CISTERN
a receptacle for water, either conducted from an external spring or proceeding from rain-fall. The dryness of the summer months and the scarcity of springs in Judea made cistern...
CITIES
The earliest notice in Scripture of city-building is of Enoch by Cain, in the land of his exile. (Genesis 4:17) After the confusion of tongues the descendants of Nimrod founded ...
CITIES OF REFUGE
six Levitical cities specially chosen for refuge to the involuntary homicide until released from banishment by the death of the high priest. (Numbers 35:6,13,15; Joshua 20:2,7,9...
CITIMS
1 Macc. 8:5. [CHITTIM, KITTIM]
CITIZENSHIP
The use of this term in Scripture has exclusive reference to the usages of the Roman empire. The privilege of Roman citizenship was originally acquired in various ways, as by pu...
CITRON
[APPLE TREE, APPLE TREE]
CLAUDA
(lame), (Acts 27:16) a small island nearly due west of Cape Matala on the south coast of Crete, and nearly due south of Phoenice; now Gozzo.
CLAUDIA
(lame), a Christian woman mentioned in (2 Timothy 4:21) as saluting Timotheus.
CLAUDIUS
(lame), fourth Roman emperor, reigned from 41 to 54 A.D. He was nominated to the supreme power mainly through the influence of Herod Agrippa the First. In the reign of Claudius ...
CLAUDIUS LYSIAS
[LYSIAS CLAUDIUS]
CLAY
As the sediment of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word is used frequently in the Old Testament. (Psalms 18:42; Isaiah 57:20; Jeremiah 38:6) and in the New Testament,...
CLEMENT
(mild, merciful), (Philemon 4:3) a fellow laborer of St. Paul when he was at Philippi. (A.D. 57.) It was generally believed in the ancient Church that this Clement was identical...
CLEOPAS
(of a renowned father), one of the two disciples who were going to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection. (Luke 24:18) Some think the same as Cleophas in (John 19:25) But they a...
CLEOPHAS
Revised Version Clo’pas, the husband of Mary the sister of Virgin Mary. (John 19:25) He was probably dead before Jesus’ ministry began, for his wife and children constantly appe...
CLOTHING
[DRESS]
CLOUD
The shelter given, and refreshment of rain promised, by clouds give them their peculiar prominence in Oriental imagery. When a cloud appears rain is ordinarily apprehended, and ...
CLOUD, PILLAR OF
The pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night that God caused to pass before the camp of the children of Israel when in the wilderness. The cloud, which became a pillar when t...
CLOUTED
patched. (Joshua 9:5)
CNIDUS
(nidus), a city of great consequence, situated at the extreme south west of the peninsula of Asia Minor, on a promontory now called Cape Crio, which projects between the islands...
COAL
The first and most frequent use of the word rendered coal is a live ember, burning fuel. (Proverbs 26:21) In (2 Samuel 22:9,13) "coals of fire" are put metaphorically for the li...
COAST
border, with no more reference to lands bordering on the sea than to any other bordering lands.
COAT
[DRESS]
COCK
(Matthew 26:34; Mark 13:35; 14:30) etc. The domestic cock and hen were early known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and as no mention is made in the Old Testament of these bird...
COCKATRICE
[ADDER]
COCKLE
probably signifies bad weeds or fruit. (Job 31:40)
COELESYRIA
(hollow Syria), the remarkable valley or hollow which intervenes between Libanus and Anti-Libanus, stretching a distance of nearly a hundred miles. The only mention of the regio...