Smith's Bible Dictionary

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EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA

(red). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright to the latter for a meal of lentil pottage. The countr...

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EDOMITES

[EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA]

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EDREI

(stronghold).One of the two capital cities of Bashan, in the territory of Manasseh east of the Jordan. (Numbers 21:33; 1:4; 3:10; Joshua 12:4) In Scripture it is only mentioned ...

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EDUCATION

There is little trace among the Hebrews in earlier times of education in any other subjects than the law. The wisdom therefore and instruction, of which so much is said in the b...

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EGLAH

(a heifer), one of David’s wives during his reign in Hebron. (2 Samuel 3:5; 1 Chronicles 3:3) (B.C. 1055.)

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EGLAIM

(two ponds), a place named only in (Isaiah 15:8) probably the same as EN-EGLAIM.

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EGLON

(calf-like).A king of the Moabites, (Judges 3:12) ff., who, aided by the Ammonites and the Amelekites, crossed the Joran and took "the city of palm trees." (B.C. 1359.) here, ac...

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EGYPT

(land of the Copts), a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa. Its limits appear always to have been very nearly the same. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterrane...

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EGYPTIAN, EGYPTIANS

the native or natives of Egypt.

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EHI

(my brother), head of one of the Benjamite houses according to the list in (Genesis 46:21) He seems to be the same as Ahiram in the list in (Numbers 26:38) In (1 Chronicles 8:1)...

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EHUD

(union).Ehud son of Bilhah, and great-grandson of Benjamin the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 7:10; 8:6)Ehud son of Gera, of the tribe of Benjamin, (Judges 3:15) the second judge of t...

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EKER

(a rooting up), a descendant of Judah. (1 Chronicles 2:27)

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EKRON

(torn up by the roots; emigration), one of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, and the most northerly of the five. (Joshua 13:3) Like the other Philistine ...

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ELADA

(whom God has put on), a descendant of Ephraim through Shuthelah. (1 Chronicles 7:20)

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ELAH

One of the dukes of Edom. (Genesis 36:41; 1 Chronicles 1:52)Shimei ben-Elah was Solomon’s commissariat officer in Benjamin. (1 Kings 4:18) (B.C. 1013.)A son of Caleb the son of ...

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ELAH

(an oak, strength).The son and successor of Baasha king of Israel. (1 Kings 16:8-10) His reign laster for little more than a year; comp. ver. 8 with 10. (B.C. 928-7.) He was kil...

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ELAH, THE VALLEY OF

(valley of the terebinth), the valley in which David killed Goliath. (1 Samuel 17:2,19) It lay somewhere near Socoh of Judah and Azekah, and was nearer Ekron than any other Phil...

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ELAM

(eternity).This seems to have been originally the name of a man, the son of Shem. (Genesis 10:22; 1 Chronicles 1:17) Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a countr...

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ELAMITES

This word is found only in (Ezra 4:9) The Elamites were the original inhabitants of the country called Elam; they were descendants of Shem, and perhaps drew their name from an a...

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ELASAH

(whom God made).A priest in the time of Ezra who had married a Gentile wife. (Ezra 10:22) (B.C. 458).Son of Shaphan, one of the two men who were sent on a mission by King Zedeki...

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ELATH, ELOTH

(a grove), the name of a town of the land of Edom, commonly mentioned with Ezion-geber, and situated at the head of the Arabian Gulf, which was thence called the Elanitic Gulf. ...

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ELBETHEL

(the God of Bethel), the name which Jacob is said to have bestowed on the place at which God appeared to him when he was flying from Esau. (Genesis 35:7)

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ELDAAH

(Genesis 25:4; 1 Chronicles 1:3) the last in order of the sons of Midian.

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ELDAD

(favored of God) and Me’dad (love), two of the seventy elders to whom was communicated the prophetic power of Moses. (Numbers 11:16,26) (B.C. 1490.) Although their names were up...

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ELDER

The term elder, or old man as the Hebrew literally imports, was one of extensive use, as an official title, among the Hebrews and the surrounding nations, because the heads of t...

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ELEAD

(praised by God), a descendant of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:21)

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ELEALEH

(the ascending of God), a place on the east of Jordan, taken possession of and rebuilt by the tribe of Reuben. (Numbers 32:3,37) By Isaiah and Jeremiah it is mentioned as a Moab...