WINDS
That the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly speaking, from the four cardinal points, north, south, east and west, may be inferred from...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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WINE
The manufacture of wine is carried back in the Bible to the age of Noah, (Genesis 9:20,21) to whom the discovery of the process is apparently, though not explicitly, attributed....
WINEPRESS
From the scanty notices contained in the Bible we gather that, the wine-presses of the Jews consisted of two receptacles of vats placed at different elevations, in the upper one...
WINNOWING
[AGRICULTURE]
WISDOM OF JESUS, SON OF SIRACH
[ECCLESIASTICUS]
WISDOM, THE, OF SOLOMON
a, book of the Apocrypha, may be divided into two parts, the first, chs. 1-9, containing the doctrine of wisdom in its moral and intellectual aspects: the second, the doctrine o...
WISE MEN
[MAGI]
WITCH, WITCHCRAFTS
[DIVINATION; MAGIC, MAGICIANS]
WITNESS
Among people with whom writing is not common the evidence of a transaction is given by some tangible memorial or significant ceremony: Abraham gave seven ewe-lambs to Abimelech ...
WIZARD
[DIVINATION; MAGIC, MAGICIANS]
WOLF
There can be little doubt that the wolf of Palestine is the common Canis lupus, and that this is the animal so frequently mentioned in the Bible. (The wolf is a fierce animal of...
WOMEN
The position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts favorably with that which in the present day is assigned to them generally in eastern countries. The most salient poin...
WOOD
[FOREST]
WOOL
was an article of the highest value among the Jews, as the staple material for the manufacture of clothing. (Leviticus 13:47; 22:11; Job 31:20; Proverbs 31:13; Ezekiel 34:3; Hos...
WORM
the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in (Isaiah 51:18) probably denotes some particular species of moth, whose larva is injuri...
WORMWOOD
Four kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine-- Artemisia nilotica, A. Judaica, A. fructicosa and A. cinerea. The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metapho...
WORSHIPPER
a translation of the Greek word neocoros, used once only, (Acts 19:35) in the margin, "temple-keeper." The neocoros was originally an attendant in a temple probably intrusted wi...
WRESTLING
[GAMES]
WRITING
There is no account in the Bible of the origin of writing. That the Egyptians in the time of Joseph were acquainted with writing of a certain kind there is evidence to prove, bu...