LINUS
(a net), a Christian at Rome, known to St. Paul and to Timothy, (2 Timothy 4:21) who was the first bishop of Rome after the apostles. (A.D. 64.)
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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LION
"The most powerful, daring and impressive of all carnivorous animals, the most magnificent in aspect and awful in voice." At present lions do not exist in Palestine; but they mu...
LISH
(lion), the city which was taken by the Danites, and under its new name of Dan became famous as the northern limit of the nation. (Judges 18:7,14,27,29) [DAN] It was near the so...
LIZARD
(that which clings to the ground) (Heb. letaah. (Leviticus 11:30) Lizards of various kinds abound in Egypt, Palestine and Arabia. The lizard denoted by the Hebrew word is probab...
LMRI
(eloquent).A man of Judah, of the great family of Pharez. (1 Chronicles 9:4) (B.C. much before 536.)Father or progenitor of Zaccur. (Nehemiah 3:2) (B.C. before 446.)
LOAMMI
(not my people), the figurative name given by the prophet Hosea to his second son by Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, (Hosea 1:9) to denote the rejection of the kingdom of Israel ...
LOAN
The law strictly forbade any interest to be taken for a loan to any poor person, and at first, as it seems, even in the case of a foreigner; but this prohibition was afterward l...
LOAVES
[BREAD]
LOCK
Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and consist of a partly hollow bolt from fourteen inches to two feet long for ext...
LOCUST
a well-known insect, of the grasshopper family, which commits terrible ravages on vegetation in the countries which it visits. "The common brown locust is about three inches in ...
LOD
[LYDDA]
LODEBAR
(without pasture), a place named with Mahanaim, Rogelim and other transjordanic towns, (2 Samuel 17:27) and therefore no doubt on the east side of the Jordan. It was the native ...
LODGE, TO
This word, with one exception only, has, at least in the narrative portions of the Bible, almost invariably the force of "passing the night."
LOG
[WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND MEASURES]
LOIS
(agreeable), the grandmother of Timothy, and doubtless the mother of his mother, Eunice. (2 Timothy 1:5) It seems likely that Lois had resided long at Lystra; and almost certain...
LOOKINGGLASSES
[MIRRORS]
LORD
[GOD]
LORDS DAY, THE
(Kuriake Hemera), (Revelation 1:10) (only), the weekly festival of our Lord’s resurrection, and identified with "the first day of the week," or "Sunday," of every age of the Chu...
LORDS PRAYER
the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples. (Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4) "In this prayer our Lord shows his disciples how an infinite variety of wants and requests can be comp...
LORDS SUPPER
The words which thus describe the great central act of the worship of the Christian Church occur but in a single passage of the New Testament -- (1 Corinthians 11:20)Its institu...
LORUHAMAH
(the uncompassionated), the name of the daughter of Hosea the prophet, given to denote the utterly ruined condition of the kingdom of Israel. (Hosea 1:6)
LOT
(literally a pebble). The custom of deciding doubtful questions by lot is one of great extent and high antiquity. Among the Jews lots were used with the expectation that God wou...
LOT
(veil or covering), the son of Haran, and therefore the nephew of Abraham. (Genesis 11:27,31) (B.C. before 1926-1898.) His sisters were Milcah the wife of Nahor, and Iscah, by s...
LOTAN
(covering), the eldest son of Seir the Horite. (Genesis 36:20,22,29; 1 Chronicles 1:38,39)
LOTS, FEATS OF
[PURIM]
LOVE FEASTS
(Agape), (2 Peter 2:13; Jude 1:12) an entertainment in which the poorer members of the church partook, furnished from the contributions of Christians resorting to the eucharisti...
LUBIM
(dwellers in a thirsty land),a nation mentioned as contributing, together with Cushites and Sukkiim, to Shishak’s army, (2 Chronicles 12:3) and apparently as forming with Cushit...