Smith's Bible Dictionary

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PARBAR

(open apartment), a word occurring in Hebrew and Authorized Version only in (1 Chronicles 26:18) It would seem that Parbar was some place on the west side of the temple enclosur...

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PARCHMENT

[WRITING]

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PARLOR

a word in English usage meaning the common room of the family, and hence probably in Authorized Version denoting the king’s audience-chamber, so used in reference to Eglon. (Jud...

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PARMASHTA

(superior), one of the ten sons of Haman slain by the Jews in Shushan. (Esther 9:9) (B.C. 473.)

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PARMENAS

(abiding), one of the seven deacons, "men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom." (Acts 8:5) There is a tradition that he suffered martyrdom at Philippi in the rei...

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PARNAEH

(delicate), father or ancestor of Elizaphan prince of the tribe of Zebulun. (Numbers 34:25) (B.C. before 1452.)

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PARSHANDATHA

(given by prayer), the eldest of Haman’s ten sons who were slain by the Jews in Shushan. (Esther 9:7) (B.C. 473.)

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PARTHIANS

This name occurs only in (Acts 2:9) where it designates Jews settled in Parthia. Parthia proper was the region stretching along the southern flank of the mountains which separat...

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PARTRIDGE

(Heb. kore) occurs only (1 Samuel 26:20) and Jere 17:11 The "hunting this bird upon the mountains," (1 Samuel 26:20) entirely agrees with the habits of two well-known species of...

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PARUAH

(flourishing), the father of Jehoshaphat, Solomon’s commissariat officer in Issachar. (1 Kings 4:17) (B.C. about 1017.)

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PARVAIM

(Oriental regions), the name of an unknown place or country whence the gold was procured for the decoration of Solomon’s temple. (2 Chronicles 3:6) We may notice the conjecture ...

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PASACH

(cut off), son of Japhlet, of the tribe of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:33)

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PASDAMMIM

(boundary of blood). [EPHES-DAMMIM]

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PASEAH

(lame).Son of Eshton, in an obscure fragment of the genealogies of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:12)The "sons of Paseah" were among the Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:49)

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PASHUR

(freedom).One of the families of priests of the chief house of Malchijah. (1 Chronicles 9:12; 24:9; Nehemiah 11:12; Jeremiah 21:1; 38:1) In the time of Nehemiah this family appe...

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PASSAGE

Used in the plural, (Jeremiah 22:20) probably to denote the mountain region of Abarim on the east side of Jordan. It also denotes a river ford or mountain gorge or pass.

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PASSOVER

the first of the three great annual festivals of the Israelites celebrated in the month Nisan (March-April, from the 14th to the 21st. (Strictly speaking the Passover only appli...

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PATARA

(city of Patarus), a Lycian city situated on the southwestern shore of Lycia, not far from the left bank of the river Xanthus. The coast here is very mountainous and bold. Immed...

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PATHROS

(region of the south), a part of Egypt, and a Mizraite tribe whose people were called Pathrusim. In the list of the Mizraites the Pathrusim occur after the Naphtuhim and before ...

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PATHRUSIM

people of Pathros. [PATHROS]

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PATMOS

(Revelation 1:9) a rugged and bare island in the AEgean Sea, 20 miles south of Samos and 24 west of Asia Minor. It was the scene of the banishment of St. John in the reign of Do...

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PATRIARCH

(father of a tribe), the name given to the head of a family or tribe in Old Testament times. In common usage the title of patriarch is assigned especially to those whose lives a...

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PATROBAS

(paternal),a Christian at Rome to whom St. Paul sends his salutation. (Romans 16:14) Like many other names mentioned in Roma 16 this was borne by at least one member of the empe...

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PAU

(bleating) (but in (1 Chronicles 1:50) PAI), the capital of Hadar king of Edom. (Genesis 36:39) Its position is unknown.

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PAUL

(small, little). Nearly all the original materials for the life St. Paul are contained in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Pauline epistles. Paul was born in Tarsus, a city o...

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PAVEMENT

[GABBATHA]

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PAVILION

a temporary movable tent or habitation.Soc, properly an enclosed place, also rendered "tabernacle," "covert" and "den;" once only "pavilion." (Psalms 27:5) (Among the Egyptians ...