Smith's Bible Dictionary

109

DRAM

[DARIC]

110

DREAMS

The Scripture declares that the influence of the Spirit of God upon the soul extends to its sleeping as well as its waking thoughts. But, in accordance with the principle enunci...

111

DRESS

This subject includes the following particulars:Materials;Color and decoration;Name, form, and mode of wearing the various articles;Special usages relating thereto.Materials.--A...

112

DRINK, STRONG

The Hebrew term shecar, in its etymological sense, applies to any beverage that had intoxicating qualities. With regard to the application of the term in later times we have the...

113

DROMEDARY

[Camel]

114

DRUSILLA

(watered by the dew), daughter of herod Agrippa *., (Acts 24:24) ff., and Cypros. Born A.D. 38. She was at first betrothed to Antiochus Epiphanes, prince of Commagene, but was m...

115

DULCIMER

(Heb. sumphoniah) a musical instrument, mentioned in (Daniel 3:5,15) probably the bagpipe. The same instrument is still in use amongst peasants in the northwest of Asia and in s...

116

DUMAH

(silence).A son of Ishmael, most probably the founder of the Ishmaelite tribe of Arabia, and thence the name of the principal place of district inhabited by that tribe. (Genesis...

117

DUNG

The uses of dung were two-fold --as manure and as fuel. The manure consisted either of straw steeped in liquid manure, (Isaiah 25:10) or the sweepings, (Isaiah 5:25) of the stre...

118

DUNGEON

[PRISON]

119

DURA

(a circle), the plain where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, (Daniel 3:1) has been sometimes identified with a tract a little below Tekrit, on the left bank of the Tigris...

120

DUST

[MOURNING]