ERASTUS
(beloved).One of the attendants of St. Paul at Ephesus, who with Timothy was sent forward into Macedonia. (Acts 19:22) (A.D. 51.) He is probably the same with Erastus who is aga...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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ERECH
(length), one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom in the land of Shinar, (Genesis 10:10) doubtless the same as Orchoe, 82 miles south and 43 east of Babylon, the modern designatio...
ERI
(watchful), son of Gad, (Genesis 46:16) and ancestor of the Erites. (Numbers 26:16)
ESAIAS
the Greek form of Isaiah. [ISAIAH]
ESARHADDON
(victor), one of the greatest of the kings of Assyria, was the son of Sennacherib, (2 Kings 19:37) and the grandson of Sargon, who succeeded Shalmaneser. He appears by his monum...
ESAU
(hairy), the eldest son of Isaac, and twin-brother of Jacob. The singular appearance of the child at his birth originated the name. (Genesis 25:25) Esau’s robust frame and "roug...
ESDRAELON
This name is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew word Jezreel. "The great plain of Esdraelon" extends across central Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan, separating t...
ESDRAS
(Greek form of Ezra), The First Book of, the first in order of the apocryphal books in the English Bible. The first chapter is a transcript of the last two chapters of 2 Chron.,...
ESDRAS
the form of the name of Ezra the scribe in 1 and 2 Esdras.
ESDRAS, THE SECOND BOOK OF
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of angelic revelations and visions in which Ezra is instructed in some of the great m...
ESEK
(contention), a well which the herdsmen of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerar. (Genesis 26:20)
ESHBAAL
(Baal’s man), (1 Chronicles 8:33; 9:39) the same as Ish-bosheth.
ESHBAN
(wise man), a Horite; one of the four sons of Dishon. (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41)
ESHCOL
(cluster of grapes), brother of Mamre the Amorite and of Aner, and one of Abraham’s companions in his pursuit of the four kings who had carried off Lot. (Genesis 14:13,24) (B.C....
ESHCOL, THE VALLEY
or The brook of,a wady in the neighborhood of Hebron (Mamre), explored by the spies who were sent by Moses from Kadesh-barnea. (Numbers 13:23,24; 1:24) The name is still attache...
ESHEAN
(slope), one of the cities of Judah. (Joshua 15:52)
ESHEK
(oppression), one of the late descendants of Saul. (1 Chronicles 8:39)
ESHKALONITES, THE
(Joshua 13:3) [ASHKELON, ASKELON]
ESHTAOL
(a pass), a town in the low country --the Shefelah --of Judah, after wards allotted to Dan. (Joshua 15:33; 19:41) Here Samson spent his boyhood, and hither after his last exploi...
ESHTAULITES, THE
with the Zareathites, were among the families of Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
ESHTEMOA
and in shorter form Eshtemoh (obedience), a town of Judah in the mountains, (Joshua 15:50) allotted to the priest. (Joshua 21:14; 1 Chronicles 6:57) It was one of the places fre...
ESHTON
(effeminate), a name which occurs in the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:11,12)
ESLI
son of Nagge or Naggai, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:25)
ESRIL
1 Esd. 9:34. [AZAREEL, OR AZAREEL, or SHARAI]
ESROM
(enclosed). (Matthew 1:3; Luke 3:33) [HESRON, HEZRON, HEZRON]
ESSENES
a Jewish sect, who, according to the description of Josephus, combined the ascetic virtues of the Pythagoreans and Stoics with a spiritual knowledge of the divine law. It seems ...
ESTHER
(a star), the Persian name of HADASSAH (myrtle), daughter of Abihail, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Esther was a beautiful Jewish maiden. She was an orphan, a...