DEPUTY
(Acts 13:7,8,12; 19:38) The Greek word signifies proconsul, the title of the Roman governors who were appointed by the senate.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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DERBE
(Acts 14:20,21; 16:1; 20:4) The exact position of this town has not yet been ascertained, but its general situation is undoubted. It was in the eastern part of the great upland ...
DESERT
Not a stretch of sand, an utterly barren waste, but a wild, uninhabited region. The words rendered in the Authorized Version by "desert," when used in the historical books denot...
DEUEL, OR DEUEL
(invocation of God), father of Eliasaph, the "captain" of the tribe of Gad at the time of the numbering of the people at Sinai. (Numbers 1:14; 7:42,47; 10:20) (B.C. 1491.) The s...
DEUTERONOMY
--which means "the repetition of the law" --consists chiefly of three discourses delivered by Moses shortly before his death. Subjoined to these discourses are the Song of Moses...
DEVIL
(slanderer). The name describes Satan as slandering God to man and man to God. The former work is of course, a part of his great work of temptation to evil and is not only exemp...
DEW
This in the summer is so copious in Palestine that it supplies to some extent the absence of rain and becomes important to the agriculturist. Thus it is coupled in the divine bl...
DIADEM
What the "diadem" of the Jews was we know not. That of other nations of antiquity was a fillet of silk, two inches broad, bound round the head and tied behind. Its invention is ...
DIAL
"An instrument for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; "rendered" steps" in Authorized Version, (Exodus 20:26; 2 Kings 10...
DIAMOND
(Heb. yahalom), a gem crystallized carbon, the most valued and brilliant of precious stones, remarkable for its hardness, the third precious stone in the second row on the breas...
DIANA
This Latin word, properly denoting a Roman divinity, is the representative of the Greek Artemus, the tutelary goddess of the Ephesians, who plays so important a part in the narr...
DIBLAIM
(double cake), mother of Hosea’s wife Gomer. (Hosea 1:3) (B.C. before 725.)
DIBLATH
(accurately DIBLAH), a place named only in (Ezekiel 6:14) Probably only another form of RIBLAH.
DIBON
(wasting).A town on the east side of Jordan, in the rich pastoral country, which was taken possession of and rebuilt by the children of Gad. (Numbers 32:3,34) From this circumst...
DIBONGAN
[DIBON]
DIBRI
a Danite, father of Shelomith. (Leviticus 24:11)
DIDRACHMON
[MONEY; SHEKEL]
DIDYMUS
(the twin), a surname of the apostle Thomas. (John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2) [THOMAS]
DIKLAH
(palm grove). (Genesis 10:27; 1 Chronicles 1:21) a son of Joktan, whose settlements, in common with those of the other sons of Joktan, must be looked for in Arabia. It is though...
DILEAN
(gourd), one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah. (Joshua 15:38) It has not been identified with certainty.
DIMNAH
(dung), a city int he tribe of Zebulun, given to the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:35)
DIMON
(river bed), The waters of, some streams on the east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab, against which Isaiah uttered denunciation. (Isaiah 15:9) Gesenius conjectures that the...
DIMONAH
a city in the south of Judah, (Joshua 15:22) perhaps the same as DIBON in (Nehemiah 11:25)
DINAH
(judged, acquitted), the daughter of Jacob by Leah. (Genesis 30:21) (B.C. about 1751.) She accompanied her father from Mesopotamia to Canaan, and, having ventured among the inha...
DINAITES
(Ezra 4:9) the name of some of the Cuthaean colonists who were placed in the cities of Samaria after the captivity of the ten tribes.
DINHABAH
(Genesis 36:32; 1 Chronicles 1:43) the capital city, and probably the birthplace, of Bela, son of Beor king of Edom.
DIONYSIUS
(devoted to Dionysus, i.e., Bacchus) the Areop’agite, (Acts 17:34) an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52.) He is said to have bee...