LAADAH
(order), the son of Shelah and grandson of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:21)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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LAADAN
(put in order).An Ephraimite, ancestor of Joshua the son of Nun. (1 Chronicles 7:26)The son of Gershom, elsewhere called LIBNI. (1 Chronicles 23:7,8,9; 26:21)
LABAN
(white).Son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel. (B.C. about 1860-1740.) The elder branch of the family remained at Haran, Mesopotamia, when Abraham rem...
LACEDAEMONIANS
in Greece the inhabitants of Sparta or Lacedaemon, with whom the Jews claimed kindred. 1 Macc. 12:2,5,6,20,21; 14:20,23; 15:23; 2 Macc. 5:9.
LACHET
the thong or fastening by which the sandal was attached to the foot. It occurs int he proverbial expression in (Genesis 14:23) and is there used to denote something trivial or w...
LACHISH
(invincible), a city lying south of Jerusalem, on the borders of Simeon, and belonging to the Amorites, the king of which joined with four others, at the invitation of Adonizede...
LAEL
(of God), the father of Eliasaph. (Numbers 3:24)
LAHAD
(oppression), son of Jahath, one of the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:2)
LAHAIROI
(well of the living God), The well. In this form is given in the Authorized Version of (Genesis 24:62) and Genesis25:11 The name of the famous well of Hagar’s relief, in the oas...
LAHMAM
(provisions), a town in the lowland district of Judah. (Joshua 15:40)
LAHMI
(warrior), the brother of Goliath the Gittite, slain by Elhanan the son of Zair or Zaor. (1 Chronicles 20:5) (B.C. 1020.)
LAISH
(lion), father of Phaltiel, to whom Saul had given Michal, David’s wife. (1 Samuel 25:44; 2 Samuel 3:15)
LAKES
[PALESTINA AND PALESTINE]
LAKUM
(fortification), properly formed the landmarks of the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:33)
LAMBS
are the young of sheep, but originally included also the young of goats. They formed an important part of almost every sacrifice. (Exodus 29:38-41; Numbers 28:9,11; 29:2,13-40) ...
LAMECH
(powerful), properly Lemech.The fifth lineal descendant from Cain. (Genesis 4:18-24) He is the only one except Enoch, of the posterity of Cain, whose history is related with som...
LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
Title. --The Hebrew title of this book, Ecah, is taken, like the titles of the five books of Moses, from the Hebrew word with which it opens. Author. --The poems included in thi...
LAMP
That part of the golden candlestick belonging to the tabernacle which bore the light; also of each of the ten candlesticks placed by Solomon in the temple before the holy of hol...
LANCET
This word is found in (1 Kings 18:28) only. The Hebrew term is romach, which is elsewhere rendered, and appears to mean a javelin or light spear. In the original edition of the ...
LANGUAGE
[TONGUES, CONFUSION OF, CONFUSION OF]
LANTERN
(so called of its shining) occurs only in (John 18:3) (It there probably denotes any kind of covered light, in distinction from a simple taper or common house-light, as well as ...
LAODICEA
(justice of the people), a town in the Roman province of Asia situated in the valley of the Maeander, on a small river called the Lycus, with Colossae and Hierapolis a few miles...
LAODICEANS
the inhabitants of Laodicea. (Colossians 4:16; Revelation 3:14)
LAPIDOTH
(torches), the inhabitants of Laodicea. (Colossians 4:16; Revelation 3:14)
LAPWING
(Heb. duciphath) occurs only in (Leviticus 11:19) and in the parallel passage of (14:18) amongst the list of those birds which were forbidden by the law of Moses to be eaten by ...
LASEA
(Acts 27:8) a city of Crete, the ruins of which were discovered in 1856, a few miles to the eastward of Fair Havens.
LASHA
(fissure), a place noticed in (Genesis 10:19) as marking the limit of the country of the Canaanites. It lay somewhere in the southeast of Palestine. Jerome and other writers ide...