HOTHIR
(fullness),the thirteenth son of Heman, "the king’s seer," (1 Chronicles 25:4,28) and therefore a Kohathite Levite. (B.C. 1014.)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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HOUR
The ancient Hebrews were probably unacquainted with the division of the natural day into twenty-four parts; but they afterwards parcelled out the period between sunrise and suns...
HOUSE
The houses of the rural poor in Egypt, as well as in most parts of Syria, Arabia and Persia, are generally mere huts of mud or sunburnt bricks. In some parts of Palestine and Ar...
HOW THE PROPHETIC GIFT WAS RECEIVED
--We learn from Holy Scripture that it was by the agency of the Spirit of God that the prophets received the divine communication; but the means by which the divine Spirit commu...
HUKKOK
(incised), a place on the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:34) It has been recovered in Yakuk, a village in the mountains of Naphtali west of the upper end of the Sea of Galilee.
HUKOK
a name which in (1 Chronicles 6:75) is erroneously used for HELKATH, which see.
HUL
(circle), the second son of Aram, and grandson of Shem. (Genesis 10:23) The strongest evidence is in favor of the district about the roots of Lebanon.
HULDAH
(weasel), a prophetess, whose husband, Shallum, was keeper of the wardrobe in the time of King Josiah. It was to her that Josiah had recourse, when Hilkiah found a book of the l...
HUMTAH
(place of lizards), a city of Judah one of those in the mountain districts the next to Hebron. (Joshua 15:54)
HUNTING
Hunting, as a matter of necessity, whether for the exterminatiOn of dangerous beasts or for procuring sustenance betokens a rude and semi-civilized state; as an amusement, it be...
HUPHAM
(coast-man), a son of Benjamin, founder of the family of the Huphamites. (Numbers 26:39) (B.C. 1688.)
HUPHAMITES, THE
descendants of Hupham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Numbers 26:39)
HUPPAH
(protected), a priest in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 24:13)
HUPPIM
(protected), head of a Benjamite family (Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:12) Hur (hole).A man who is mentioned with Moses and Aaron on the occasion of the battle with Amalek at Ra...
HURAI, OR HURAI
(linon-weaver), one of David’s guard --Hurai of the torrents of Gaash, according to the list of (1 Chronicles 11:32) [HIDDAI]
HURAM
(noble born).A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5)The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon --and...
HURHAI
(very poor), an ancestor of Shallum the husband of Huldah. (2 Kings 22:14) (B.C. before 623.)
HURI
(linen-weaver), a Gadite; father of Abihail- (1 Chronicles 5:14)
HUSBAND
[MARRIAGE]
HUSHAH
(haste), a name which occurs in the genealogies of the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:4)
HUSHAI, OR HUSHAI
(hasting) an Archite i.e. possibly an inhabitant of a place called Erec. (2 Samuel 15:32) ff.; (2 Samuel 16:16) ff. He is called the "friend" of David. (2 Samuel 15:37) comp. 1C...
HUSHATHITE
(inhabitant of Hushah), The, the designation of two of the heroes of David’s guard.SIBBECHAI. (2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicles 11:29; 20:4; 27:11) Josephus, however, called him a H...
HUSHIM
(who makes haste).In (Genesis 46:23) "the children of Dan" are said to have been Hushim. The name is plural, as if of a tribe rather than an individual. In (Numbers 26:42) the n...
HUSKS
This word in (Luke 16:16) describes really the fruit of a particular kind of tree, viz. the carob or Ceratonia siliqua of botanists. It belongs to the locust family. This tree i...
HUZ
(light, sandy soil), the eldest son of Nahor and Milcah. (Genesis 22:21) (B.C. about 1900).
HUZZAB
(fixed), according to the general opinion of the Jews, was the queen of Nineveh at the time when Nahum delivered his prophecy. (Nahum 2:7) (B.C. about 700.) The moderns follow t...
HYACINTH
used in the Revised Version for jacinth in (Revelation 9:17) It is simply another English spelling of the same Greek word.