Smith's Bible Dictionary

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CORIANDER

The plant called Coriandrum sativum is found in Egypt, Persia and India, and has a round tall stalk; it bears umbelliferous white or reddish flowers, from which arise globular, ...

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CORINTH

an ancient and celebrated city of Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth, and about 40 miles west of Athens. In consequence of its geographical position it formed the most direct com...

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CORINTHIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE

was written by the apostle St. Paul toward the close of his nearly three-years stay at Ephesus, (Acts 19:10; 20:31) which, we learn from (1 Corinthians 16:8) probably terminated...

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CORINTHIANS, SECOND EPISTLE TO THE

was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year --about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58 --at Macedonia. The epistle was occasioned by the information which the ap...

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CORMORANT

the representative in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew words kaath and shalac. As to the former, see PELICAN. Shalac occurs only as the name of an unclean bird in (Leviticus...

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CORN

The most common kinds were wheat, barley, spelt, Authorized Version, (Exodus 9:32) and Isai 28:25 "Rye;" (Ezekiel 4:9) "fitches" and millet; oats are mentioned only by rabbinica...

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CORNELIUS

(of a horn), a Roman centurion of the Italian cohort stationed in Caesarea, (Acts 10:1) etc., a man full of good works and alms-deeds. With his household he was baptized by St. ...

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CORNER

The "corner" of the field was not allowed, (Leviticus 19:9) to be wholly reaped. It formed a right of the poor to carry off what was so left, and this was a part of the maintena...

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CORNERSTONE

a quoin or cornerstone, of great importance in binding together the sides of a building. The phrase "corner-stone" is sometimes used to denote any principal person, as the princ...

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CORNET

(Heb. shophar), a loud-sounding instrument, made of the horn of a ram or a chamois (sometimes of an ox), and used by the ancient Hebrews for signals, (Leviticus 25:9) and much u...

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COS, OR COOS

(now Stanchio or Stanko). This small island of the Grecian Archipelago has several interesting points of connection with the Jews. Herod the Great conferred many favors on the i...

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COSAM

(a diviner), son of Elmodam, in the line of Joseph the husband of Mary. (Luke 3:28)

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COTTON

Cotton is now both grown and manufactured in various parts of Syria and Palestine; but there is no proof that, till they came in contact with Persia, the Hebrews generally knew ...

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COUCH

[BED]

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COUNCIL

The great council of the Sanhedrin, which sat at Jerusalem. [SANHEDRIN]The lesser courts, (Matthew 10:17; Mark 13:9) of which there were two at Jerusalem and one in each town of...

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COURT

(Heb. chatser), an open enclosure surrounded by buildings, applied in the Authorized Version most commonly to the enclosures of the tabernacle and the temple. (Exodus 27:9; 40:3...

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COVENANT

The Heb. berith means primarily "a cutting," with reference to the custom of cutting or dividing animals in two and passing between the parts in ratifying a covenant. (Genesis 1...

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COW

[BULL, BULLOCK]

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COZ

(thorn), a man among the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:8)

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COZBI

(deceitful), daughter of Zur, a chief of the Midianites. (Numbers 25:15,18)

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CRANE

The crane (Grus cinerea) is a native of Europe and Asia. It stand about four feet high. Its color is ashen gray, with face and neck nearly black. It feeds on seeds, roots, insec...

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CREATE

To create is to cause something to exist which did not exist before, as distinguished from make, to re-form something already in existence.

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CREATION

(The creation of all things is ascribed in the Bible to God, and is the only reasonable account of the origin of the world. The method of creation is not stated in Genesis, and ...

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CREDITOR

[LOAN]

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CRESCENS

(growing), (2 Timothy 4:10) an assistant of St. Paul, said to have been one of the seventy disciples.

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CRETE

the modern Candia. This large island, which closes int he Greek Archipelago on the south, extends through a distance of 140 miles between its extreme points. Though exceedingly ...

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CRETES

(Acts 2:11) Cretans, inhabitants of Crete.