HEM OF GARMENT
The importance which the later Jews, especially the Pharisees, (Matthew 23:5) attached to the hem or fringe of their garments was founded upon the regulation in (Numbers 15:38,3...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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HEMAM
(exterminating). Hori and Hemam were sons of Lotan, the eldest son of Seir. (Genesis 36:22)
HEMAN
(faithful)Son of Zerah. (1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31)Son of Joel and grandson of Samuel the prophet, a Kohathite. He is called "the singer," rather the musician, (1 Chronicle...
HEMATH
(heat), a person or place named in the genealogical lists of Judah, as the origin of the Kenites, and the "father" of the house of Rechab. (1 Chronicles 2:55) (B.C. 1445.)
HEMDAN
(pleasant), the eldest son of Dishon, son of Anah the Horite. (Genesis 36:26) [AMRAM, 2] (B.C. about 1500.)
HEMLOCK
the common ground or dwarf hemlock, a bitter, poisonous plant. The Hebrew rosh is rendered "hemlock" in two passages, (Hosea 10:4; Amos 6:12) but elsewhere "gall." [GALL] (It is...
HEN
The hen is nowhere noticed in the Bible except in (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34) That a bird so common in Palestine should receive such slight notice is certainly peculiar.
HEN
(rest), probably a son of Zephaniah, and apparently the same who is called JOSIAH in (Zechariah 6:10)
HENA
(troubling), a city the Assyrian kings had reduced shortly before the time of Sennacherib. (2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 37:13) At no great distance from Sippara (now Mosaib) is an anc...
HENADAD
(grace of Hadad), the head of a family of the Levites who took a prominent part in the rebuilding of the temple. (Ezra 3:9)
HENOCH
Enoch, 2. (1 Chronicles 1:3)Hanoch, 1. (1 Chronicles 1:33)
HEPHER
a place in ancient Canaan which occurs in the lists of conquered kings. (Joshua 12:17) It was on the west of Jordan. Comp. (Joshua 12:7) and 1Kin 4:10
HEPHER
(a well).The youngest of the sons of Gilead, (Numbers 26:32) and head of the family of the Hepherites. (B.C. before 1450.)Son of Ashur, the "father of Tekoa." (1 Chronicles 4:6)...
HEPHERITES, THE
the family of Hepher the son of Gilead. (Numbers 26:32)
HEPHZIBAH
A name signifying "my delight in her," which is to be borne by the restored Jerusalem. (Isaiah 62:4)The queen of King Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh. (2 Kings 21:1) (B.C. 7...
HERALD
one who makes public proclamation. The only notice of this officer in the Old Testament occurs in (Daniel 3:4) The term "herald" might be substituted for "preacher" in (1 Timoth...
HERD
(a collection of cattle), Herdsmen. The herd was greatly regarded in both the patriarchal and the Mosaic period. The ox was the most precious stock next to horse and mule. The h...
HERES
(the sun), (Judges 1:35) a city of Dan, in Mount Ephraim, near Ajalon; possibly identical with Mount Jearim (Ir-shemesh, city of the gun).
HERESH
(artificer), a Levite attached to the tabernacle (1 Chronicles 9:15) (B.C. 536.)
HERMAS
(Mercury), the name of a Christian resident at Rome to whom St. Paul sends greetings in his Epistle to the Romans. (Romans 16:14) (A.D. 55.) Irenaeus, Tertullian and Origen agre...
HERMES
(Mercury), a Christian mentioned in (Romans 16:14) According to tradition he was one of the seventy disciples, and afterward bishop of Dalmatia. (A.D. 55.)
HERMOGENES
a person mentioned by St. Paul in the latest of all his epistles, (2 Timothy 1:15) when all in Asia had turned away from him. (A.D. 64.)
HERMON
(a peak, summit), a mountain on the northeastern border of Palestine, (3:8; Joshua 12:1) over against Lebanon, (Joshua 11:17) adjoining the plateau of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:23...
HERMONITES, THE
Properly "the Hermons," with reference to the three summits of Mount Hermon. (Psalms 42:6) (Psal 42:7).
HEROD
(hero-like). This family though of Idumean origin and thus alien by race, was Jewish in faith. I. HEROD THE GREAT was the second son of Antipater, an Idumean, who was appointed ...
HERODIANS
(from Herod). (Matthew 22:15) ff.; Mark 12:13 ff. Canon Cook describes these persons as "that party among the Jews who were supporters of the Herodian family as the last hope of...
HERODIAS
daughter of Aristobulus, one of the sons of Mariamne and Herod the Great, and consequently sister of Agrippa I. She first married Herod Philip I.; then she eloped from him to ma...