PHOENICE, PHOENICIA
(land of palm trees) a tract of country, of which Tyre and Sidon were the principal cities, to the north of Palestine, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea bounded by that s...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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PHRYGIA
(dry, barren). Perhaps there is no geographical term in the New Testament which is less capable of an exact definition. In fact there was no Roman province of Phrygia till consi...
PHURAH
(bough), Gideon’s servant, probably his armor-bearer, comp. (1 Samuel 14:1) who accompanied him in his midnight visit to the camp of the Midianites. (Judges 7:10,11)
PHURIM
(Esther 11:1) [PURIM]
PHUT, PUT
(a bow) the third name in the list of the sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) elsewhere applied to an African country or people. The few mentions of Phut in the Bible c...
PHUVAH
(mouth), one of the sons of Issachar, (Genesis 46:13) and founder of the family of the Punites.
PHYGELLUS
(fugitive). [HERMOGENES]
PHYGELUS
Used in the Revised Version in (2 Timothy 1:15) for PHYGELLUS.
PHYLACTERY
[FRONTLETS, OR PHYLACTERIES]
PIBESETH
a town of lower Egypt, mentioned in (Ezekiel 30:17) the same as Bubastis, so named from the goddess Bubastis. It was situated on the west bank of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile...
PICTURE
In two of the three passages in which "picture" is used in the Authorized Version it denotes idolatrous representations, either independent images or more usually stones "portra...
PIECE OF GOLD
The rendering "pieces of gold," as in (2 Kings 5:5) is very doubtful; and "shekels of gold") as designating the value of the whole quantity, not individual pieces is preferable....
PIECE OF SILVER
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in the Hebrew (if we except) (Psalms 68:30) The phrase is always "a thousand," ...
PIETY
This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version: "Let them learn first to show piety at home," better "toward their own household" or family. (1 Timothy 5:4) The choice of t...
PIGEON
[TURTLE-DOVE]
PIHAHIROTH
a place before or at which the Israelites encamped, at the close of the third march from Rameses (the last place before they crossed the Red Sea), when they went out of Egypt. (...
PILATE
(armed with a spear), Pontius. Pontius Pilate was the sixth Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked, suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but...
PILDASH
(flame of fire), one of the eight sons of Nahor, Abraham’s brother by Iris wife and niece, Milcah. (Genesis 22:22) (B.C. 1900.)
PILEHA
(worship), the name of one of the chief of the people, probably a family, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:24) (B.C. 410.)
PILLAR
The notion of a pillar is of a shaft or isolated pile either supporting or not supporting a roof. But perhaps the earliest application of the pillar was the votive or monumental...
PILLAR, PLAIN OF THE
or rather "oak of the pillar" (that being the real signification of the Hebrew word elon), a tree which stood near Shechem and at which the men of Shechem and the house of Millo...
PILLED
(Genesis 30:37,38) "peeled," Isai 18:2; Ezek 29:28 The verb "to pill" appears in old English as identical in meaning with "to peel, to strip."
PILTAI, OR PILTAI
(my deliverances), the representative of the priestly house of Moadiah or Maadiah, in the time of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. (Nehemiah 12:17) (B.C. 445.)
PINE TREE
Heb. tidhar. (Isaiah 41:19; 60:13) What tree is intended is not certain: but the rendering "pine," seems least probable of any.Shemen, (Nehemiah 8:16) is probably the wild olive.
PINNACLE
(of the temple), (Matthew 4:5; Luke 4:9) The Greek word ought to be rendered not a pinnacle, but the pinnacle. The only part of the temple which answered to the modern sense of ...
PINON
(darkness), one of the "dukes" of Edom, --that is, head or founder of a tribe of that nation. (Genesis 38:41; 1 Chronicles 1:52)
PIPE
(Heb. chalil). The Hebrew word so rendered is derived from a root signifying "to bore, perforate" and is represented with sufficient correctness by the English "pipe" or "flute,...