IBHAR
(whom God chooses), one of the sons of David, (2 Samuel 5:15; 1 Chronicles 3:6; 14:6) (born in Jerusalem. B.C. after 1044.)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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IBLEAM
(devouring the people), a city of Manasseh, with villages or towns dependent on it. (Judges 1:27) It appears to have been situated in the territory of either Issachar or Asher. ...
IBNEIAH
(whom Jehovah will build up), son of Jehoram, a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
IBNIJAH
(whom Jehovah will build up), a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
IBRI
(Hebrew), a Merarite Levite of the family of Jaaziah, (1 Chronicles 24:27) in the time of David. (B.C. 1014.)
IBZAN
(illustrious), a native of Bethlehem of Zebulun, who judged Israel for seven years after Jephthah. (Judges 12:8,10) (B.C. 1137.)
ICHABOD
(inglorious), the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. (1 Samuel 4:21) (B.C. about 1100.)
ICONIUM
(little image), the modern Konieh, was the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor. It was a large and rich city, 120 miles north from the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Tauru...
IDALAH
(memorial of God), one of the cities of the tribe of Zebulun, named between Shimron and Bethlehem. (Joshua 19:15)
IDBASH
(stout), one of the three sons of Abi-Etam, among the families of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3)
IDDO
(timely or lovely).The father of Abinadab. (1 Kings 4:14)A descendant of Gershom, son of Levi. (1 Chronicles 6:21)Son of Zechariah, ruler of the tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan...
IDOL
An image or anything used as an object of worship in place of the true God. Among the earliest objects of worship, regarded as symbols of deity, were the meteoric stones,which t...
IDOLATRY
strictly speaking denotes the worship of deity in a visible form, whether the images to which homage is paid are symbolical representations of the true God or of the false divin...
IDUMEA
(red). [EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA]
IGAL
(whom God will avenge).One of the spies, son of Joseph, of the tribe of Issachar. (Numbers 13:7) (B.C. 1490.)One of the heroes of David’s guard, son of Nathan of Zobah. (2 Samue...
IGDALIAH
(whom Jehovah makes great), a prophet or holy man --"the man of God" --named once only, (Jeremiah 36:4) as the father of Hanan. (B.C. before 406.)
IGEAL
(whom God will avenge), a son of Nehemiah; a descendant of the royal house of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:22) (B.C. 406.)
IIM
(ruins).The partial or contracted form of the name IJE-ABARIM. (Numbers 33:45)A town in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 16:29)
IJEABARIM
(ruin of Abarim), one of the later halting-places of the children of Israel. (Numbers 21:11; 33:44) It was on the boundary --the southeast boundary-- of the territory of Moab; i...
IJON
(a ruin), a town in the north of Palestine, belonging to the tribe of Naphtali. It was taken and plundered by the captains of Ben-hadad, (1 Kings 15:20; 2 Chronicles 16:4) and a...
IKKESH
(perverse), the father of Ira the Tekoite. (2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 27:9) (B.C. before 1046.)
ILAI
(exalted), an Ahohite, one of the heroes of David’s guard (1 Chronicles 11:29) (B.C. 1046.)
ILLYRICUM
an extensive district lying along the eastern coast of the Adriatic, from the boundary of Italy on the north of Epirus on the south, and contiguous to Moessia and Macedonia on t...
IMAGE
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IMLA
(whom God will fill up), father or progenitor of Micaiah the prophet. (2 Chronicles 18:7,8) The form IMLAH is employed in the parallel narrative. (1 Kings 12:8,9) (B.C. before 8...
IMMANUEL
that is, God with us, the title applied by the apostle Matthew to the Messiah, born of the Virgin, (Matthew 1:23; Isaiah 7:14) because Jesus was God united with man, and showed ...
IMMER
(talkative).The founder of an important family of priests. (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:13) This family had charge of, and gave its name to, the sixteenth course of the servi...