International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

487

Birth, Virgin

SeeVIRGIN BIRTH.

488

Birthday

burth'-da:(1) The custom of observing birthdays of great men, especially of kings, was widespread in ancient times (seeGe 40:20f, "the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday," ...

489

Birthright

burth'-rit (bekhorah, from bekhor, "firstborn"; prototokia): Birthright is the right which naturally belonged to the firstborn son. Where there were more wives than one, the fir...

490

Birzaith

bur-za'-ith, bur-za'-vith the King James Version Birzavith, (birzawith or birzayith; Bezaith, or Berzaie): The name of a town in Asher founded by Malchiel (1Ch 7:31). It probabl...

491

Bishlam

bish'-lam (bishlam, "peaceful" (?)): One of three foreign colonists who wrote a letter of complaint against the Jews to Artaxerxes (Ezr 4:7= 1 Esdras 2:16). In 1 Esdras the read...

492

Bishop

bish'-up: The word is evidently an abbreviation of the Greek episkopos; Latin, episcopus.GENERAL1. Use in the Septuagint and Classic Greek:The Septuagint gives it the generic me...

493

Bishoprick

bish'-up-rik (episkope;Ac 1:20the King James Version, quoted fromPs 109:8): the Revised Version (British and American) "office," margin, "overseership."SeeBISHOP.

494

Bishops' Bible

SeeENGLISH VERSIONS.

495

Bit And Bridle

bri'-d'-l (methegh wa-recen): The two words occur in conjunction (Ps 32:9the King James Version, "Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mout...

496

Bithiah

bi-thi'-a (bithyah; Beththia; Codex Vaticanus, Gelia, "daughter of Yah"): The daughter of a Pharaoh who married Mered, a descendant of Judah (1Ch 4:18). Whether this Pharaoh was...

497

Bithron

bith'-ron (ha-bithron; holen ten parateinousan, literally "the entire (land) extending";2Sa 2:29, "the Bithron," i.e. the gorge or groove): Does not seem to be a proper name; ra...

498

Bithynia

bi-thin'-i-a (Bithunia): A coast province in northwestern Asia Minor on the Propontis and the Euxine. Its narrowest compass included the districts on both sides of the Sangarius...

499

Bitter Herbs

hurbs, or urbs (merorim): Originally in the primitive Passover (Ex 12:8;Nu 9:11) these were probably merely salads, the simplest and quickest prepared form of vegetable accompan...

500

Bitter Water

SeeADULTERY (2);MARAH.

501

Bitter; Bitterness

bit'-er, bit'-er-nes (mar, or marah = "bitter" (literally or figuratively); also (noun) "bitterness" or (adverb) "bitterly"; "angry," "chafed," "discontented," "heavy" (Ge 27:34...

502

Bittern

bit'-ern (qippodh; Latin Botaurus stellaris; Greek echinos): A nocturnal member of the heron family, frequenting swamps and marshy places. Its Hebrew name means a creature of wa...

503

Bitterness

bit'-er-ness.SeeBITTER.

504

Bitterness, Water Of

SeeADULTERY (2).

505

Bitumen

bi-tu'-men.SeeSLIME.

506

Biziothiah

biz-yo-thi'-a, biz-joth'-ja (bizyotheyah; Septuagint hai komai auton, literally "their villages"; the King James Version Bizjothjah, "place of Jah's olives" (Young), or "contemp...

507

Biztha

biz'-tha (Septuagint Mazan; also Bazan and Bazea): One of the seven eunuchs or chamberlains of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes). It is possible that the name is derived from the Persian ...

508

Black

SeeCOLORS.

509

Blackness

(kimririm, "obscurations"; qadhruth, "darkness"; gnophos, "darkness" zophos "blackness"): Terms rarely used but of special significance in picturing the fearful gloom and blackn...

510

Blains

blanz (abha`bu`ah: only inEx 9:9,10): Pustules containing fluid around a boil or inflamed sore. It is an Old English word "bleyen," used sometimes as a synonym for boil. Wyclif ...

511

Blasphemy

blas'-fe-mi (blasphemia): In classical Greek meant primarily "defamation" or "evil-speaking" in general; "a word of evil omen," hence, "impious, and irreverent speech against Go...

512

Blast

(neshamah, ruach):(1) The blowing of the breath of Yahweh, expressive of the manifestation of God's power in Nature and Providence. "With the blast of thy nostrils the waters we...

513

Blast; Blasting

blast'-ing (shiddaphon--root, shadhaph, literally "scorching"): This is the effect produced upon grain or other plants by the hot east winds which blow from the desert of Arabia...