Smith's Bible Dictionary

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DAVID

(well-beloved), the son of Jesse. His life may be divided into three portions:His youth before his introduction to the court of Saul;His relations with Saul;His reign.The early ...

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DAVID, CITY OF

[JERUSALEM]

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DAY

The variable length of the natural day at different seasons led in the very earliest times to the adoption of the civil day (or one revolution of the sun) as a standard of time....

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DAYSMAN

an old English term meaning umpire or arbitrator. (Job 9:33)

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DEACON

The office described by this title appears in the New Testament as the correlative of bishop. [BISHOP] The two are mentioned together in (Philemon 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:2,8) Its orig...

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DEACONESS

The word diakonos is found in (Romans 16:1) (Authorized Version "servant") associated with a female name, and this has led to the conclusion that there existed in the apostolic ...

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DEAD SEA

This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century after Christ. [See SEA, THE SALT, THE SALT]

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DEARTH

[FAMINE]

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DEBIR

king of Eglon; one of the five kings hanged by Joshua. (Joshua 10:3,23) (B.C. 1440.)

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DEBIR

(a sanctuary), the name of three places of Palestine.A town in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:49) one of a group of eleven cities to the west of Hebron. The earlier name of ...

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DEBORAH

(a bee). (B.C. 1857.)The nurse of Rebekah. (Genesis 35:8) Deborah accompanied Rebekah from the house of Bethuel, (Genesis 24:59) and is only mentioned by name on the occasion of...

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DEBTOR

[LOAN]

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DEDAN

(low country).The name of a son of Raamah, son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles 1:9)A son of Jokshan, son of Keturah. (Genesis 25:3; 1 Chronicles 1:32) (B.C. after 1988.)

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DEDANIM

descendants of Dedan I. (Isaiah 21:13) [DEDAN]

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DEDICATION, FEAST OF THE

the festival instituted to commemorate the purging of the temple and the rebuilding of the altar after Judas Maccabbeus had driven out the Syrians, B.C. 164. 1 Macc. 4:52-59. It...

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DEER

[FALLOW-DEER]

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DEGREES, SONGS OF

a title given to fifteen Psalms, from 120 to 134 inclusive. Four of them are attributed to David, one is ascribed to the pen of Solomon, and the other ten give no indication of ...

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DEHAVITES

mentioned only once in Scripture, (Ezra 4:9) among the colonists planted in Samaria after the completion of the captivity of Israel. They are probably the Dai or Dahi, mentioned...

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DEKAR

(a lancer). The son of Dekar, i.e. Ben Dekar, was Solomon’s commissariat officer in the western part of the hill-country of Judah and Benjamin, Shaalbim and Bethshemesh. (1 King...

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DELAIAH

(freed by Jehovah).A priest in the time of David, leader of the twenty-third course of priests. (1 Chronicles 24:18) (B.C. 1014.)"Children of Delaiah" were among the people of u...

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DELILAH, OR DELILAH

(languishing) a woman who dwelt in the valley Of Sorek, beloved by Samson. (Judges 16:4-18) There seems to be little doubt that she was a Philistine courtesan. [SAMS0N] (B.C. 11...

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DELUGE

[NOAH]

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DEMAS

(governor of the people), most probably a contraction from Demetrius or perhaps from Demarchus, a companion of St. Paul, (Philemon 1:24; Colossians 4:14) during his first impris...

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DEMETRIUS

(belonging to Ceres).A maker of silver shrines of Artemis at Ephesus. (Acts 19:24) (about A.D. 52). These were small models of the great temple of the Ephesian Artemis, with her...

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DEMON

In the Gospels generally, in (James 2:19) and in Reve 16:14 The demons are spoken of as spiritual beings, at enmity with God, and having power to afflict man not only with disea...

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DEMONIACS

This word is frequently used in the New Testament, and applied to persons suffering under the possession of a demon or evil spirit, such possession generally showing itself visi...

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DENARIUS

(containing ten), Authorized Version "penny," (Matthew 18:28; 20:2,9,13) a Roman silver coin in the time of our Saviour and the Apostles, worth about 15 cents. It took its name ...