UCAL
(I am strong). According to the received text of (Proverbs 30:1) Ithiel and Ucal must be regarded as proper names; and if so, they must be the names of disciples or sons of Agur...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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UEL
(will of God), one of the family of Bani, who during the captivity had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:34) (B.C. 458.)
UKNAZ
In the margin of (1 Chronicles 4:16) the words "even Kenaz" in the text are rendered "Uknaz," as the proper name.
ULAI
(pure water) is mentioned by Daniel, (Daniel 8:2,16) as a river near to Susa, where he saw his vision of the ram and the he-goat. It has been generally identified with the Eulae...
ULAM
(porch).A descendant of Gilead, the grandson of Manasseh and father of Bedan. (1 Chronicles 7:17) (B.C. 1450.)The first-born of Eshek, a descendant of the house of Saul. (1 Chro...
ULLA
(yoke), an Asherite, head of a family in his tribe. (1 Chronicles 7:30) (B.C. about 1014.)
UMMAH
(union), one of the cities of the allotment of Asher. (Joshua 10:30) only. Probably ’Alma, in the highlands of the coast, about five miles east-northeast of Ras en-Nakhura.
UNCLEAN MEATS
These were things strangled, or dead of themselves or through beasts or birds of prey; whatever beast did not both part the hoof and chew the cud; and certain other smaller anim...
UNCLEANNESS
The distinctive idea attached to ceremonial uncleanness among the Hebrews was that it cut a person off for the time from social privileges, and left his citizenship among God’s ...
UNDERGIRDING
(Acts 27:17) [SHIP]
UNICORN
the rendering of the Authorized Version of the Hebrew reem, a word which occurs seven times in the Old Testament as the name of some large wild animal. The reem of the Hebrew Bi...
UNNI
(depressed).One of the Levite doorkeepers in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 15:18,20) (B.C. 1043.)A second Levite (unless the family of the foregoing be intended) concerned in...
UPHAZ
(Jeremiah 10:9; Daniel 10:5) [OPHIR]
UR
was the land of Haran’s nativity, (Genesis 11:28) the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to go into the land of Canaan." (Genesis 11:31) It is called in Genesis "Ur of ...
URBANE, OR URBANE
(of the city; polite), the Greek form of the Latin Urbanus, as it is given in the Revised Version. He was a Christian disciple who is in the long list of those whom St. Paul sal...
URBANUS
the form given in the Revised Version for Urbane.
URI
(fiery).The father of Bezaleel, one of the architects of the tabernacle. (Exodus 31:2; 35:30; 38:22; 1 Chronicles 2:20; 2 Chronicles 1:5) He was of the tribe of Judah, and grand...
URIAH
(light of Jehovah).One of the thirty commanders of the thirty bands into which the Israelite army of David was divided. (1 Chronicles 11:41; 2 Samuel 23:39) Like others of David...
URIAS
Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba. (Matthew 1:6)URIJAH1 Esdr. 9:43.
URIEL
A Kohathite Levite, son of Tahath. (1 Chronicles 6:24)Chief of the Kohathites in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 15:5,11) (B.C. 1043.)Uriel of Gibeah was the father of Maachah...
URIEL
(the fire of God), an angel named only in 2 Esdr. 4:1,36; 5:20; 10:28.
URIJAH
(light of Jehovah).Urijah the priest in the reign of Ahaz, (2 Kings 16:10) probably the same as URIAH,A priest of the family of Koz or Hakkoz, the same as URIAH,One of the pries...
URIM AND THUMMIM
(light and perfection). When the Jewish exiles were met on their return from Babylon by a question which they had no data for answering, they agreed to postpone the settlement o...
USURY
(The word usury has come in modern English to mean excessive interest upon money loaned, either formally illegal or at least oppressive. In the Scriptures, however the word did ...
UT
(wooded).A son of Aram, (Genesis 10:23; 1 Chronicles 1:17) end consequently a grand son of Shem. (B.C. 2400-2300.)A son of Nahor by Milcah. (Genesis 22:21) Authorized Version, H...
UTA
1 Esdr. 5:30. It appears to be a corruption of AKKUB. (Ezra 2:45)
UTHAI
(helpful),The son of Ammihud, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah. (1 Chronicles 9:4) (B.C. 536.)One of the sons of Bigvai, who returned in the second caravan with Ezra. ...