DABAREH
(pasture), (Joshua 21:28) or DABERATH, a town on the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:12) Under the name of Debarieh it still lies at the western foot of Tabor.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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DABBASHETH
(a hill-place), a town on the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:11)
DABERATH
[See DABAREH]
DAGON
(a fish), apparently the masculine, (1 Samuel 5:3,4) correlative of Atargatis, was the national god of the Philistines. The most famous temples of Dagon were at Gaza, (Judges 16...
DALAIAH
(freed by Jehovah) a descendant of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:24)
DALMANUTHA
a town on the west side of the Sea of Galilee, near Magdala. (Matthew 15:39) and Mark 8:10 [MAGDALA] Dalmnnutha probably stood at the place called ’Ain-el-Barideh, "the cold fou...
DALMATIA
a mountainous district on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. St. Paul sent Titus there. (2 Timothy 4:10)
DALPHON
(swift), the second of the ten sons of Hamam (Esther 9:7) (B.C. 610.)
DAMARIS
(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul’s preaching. (Acts 17:34) (A.D 48.) Chrysostom and others held her to have been the wife of Dionysius the Are...
DAMASCUS
one of the most ancient and most important of the cities of Syria. It is situated 130 miles northeast of Jerusalem, in a plain of vast size and of extreme fertility, which lies ...
DAN
(a judge).The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid. (Genesis 30:6) (B.C. after 1753.) The origin of the name is given in the exclamation of Rachel. The rec...
DANCE
a musical instrument of percussion, supposed to have been used by the Hebrews at an early period of their history.
DANCE
The dance is spoken of in Holy Scripture universally as symbolical of some rejoicing, and is often coupled for the sake of contrast with mourning, as in (Ecclesiastes 3:4) comp....
DANIEL
(judgment of God).The second son of David, by Abigail the Carmelitess. (1 Chronicles 3:1) In (2 Samuel 3:3) he is called Chileab. (B.C. about 1051.)The fourth of ’the greater pr...
DANIEL, APOCRYPHAL ADDITIONS TO
The Greek translations of Daniel contain several pieces which are not found int he original text. The most important are contained in the Apocrypha of the English Bible under th...
DANIEL, THE BOOK OF
stands at the head of a series of writings in which the deepest thoughts of the Jewish people found expression after their close of the prophetic era. Daniel is composed partly ...
DANITES, THE
The descendants of Dan and the members of his tribe. (Judges 13:2; 18:1,11; 1 Chronicles 12:35)
DANJAAN
(Danian, i.e. belonging to Dan). (2 Samuel 24:6) Probably the same as DAN.
DANNAH
a city in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:49) and probably south or southwest of Hebron. No trace of its name has been discovered.
DARA
(1 Chronicles 2:6) [DARDA]
DARIC
(from dara, a king), Authorized Version "dram," (1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Nehemiah 7:70,71,72) a gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return from Ba...
DARIUS
(lord), the name of several kings of Media and Persia.DARIUS THE MEDE, (Daniel 6:1; 11:1) "the son of Ahasuerus," (Daniel 9:1) who succeeded to the Babylonian kingdom ont he dea...
DARKNESS
is spoken of as encompassing the actual presence of God, as that out of which he speaks, --the envelope, as it were, of divine glory. (Exodus 20:21; 1 Kings 8:12) The plague of ...
DARKON
(scatterer). Children of Darkon were among the "servants of Solomon" who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:56; Nehemiah 7:58) (B.C. before 536).
DATES
(2 Chronicles 31:5) marg. [PALM TREE TREE]
DATHAN
(belonging to a fountain) a Reubenite chieftain, son of Eliab, who joined the conspiracy of Korah the Levite. (Numbers 16:1; 26:9; 11:6; Psalms 106:17) (B.C. 1490-1452).
DAUGHTER
The word is used in Scripture not only for daughter, but for granddaughter or other female descendant. (Genesis 24:48) It is used of the female inhabitants of a place or country...