American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Chaldee

SeeLANGUAGE.

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Chamberlain

2Ki 23:11, An officer who had charge of a king’s lodgings and wardrobe. In eastern courts eunuchs were generally employed in this office, Es 1:1-22,10,12,15. This title in Ro 16...

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Chameleon

Le 11:30, a kind of lizard. Its body is about six inches long: its feet have five toes each, arranged like two thumbs opposite to three fingers: its eyes turn backwards or forwa...

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Chamois

Not the well-known mountain goat of southern Europe, but probably a variety of wild sheep, resembling a goat, and still found in Arabia Petraea, De 14:5.

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Chapmen

Merchants, 2Ch 9:14.

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Chapter

SeeBIBLE.

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Charger

A large, shallow dish, Nu 7:13; Mt 14:8.

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Chariots

Scripture speaks of two sorts of these: one for princes and generals to ride in, Ge 41:43; the other to break the enemy’s battalions, by rushing in among them, being "chariots o...

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Charmers

Ps 58:4,5; Ec 10:11; Jer 8:17, persons very common throughout India and Egypt, who claim to have the faculty of catching, taming, and controlling serpents, even the most venomous.

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Chebar

A river which rises in the northern part of Mesopotamia, and flows first southeast, then south and southwest, into the Euphrates. It was called Chaboras by the Greeks; now Khabo...

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Chedorlaomer

King of Elam, in Persia, in the time of Abraham. He made the cities in the region of the Dead Sea his tributaries; and on their rebelling, he came with four allied kings and ove...

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Cheese

Several times alluded to in Scripture, and still an important article of food in the East, 1Sa 17:18; 2Sa 17:29. It is usually white and very salt; soft, when hew, but soon beco...

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Chemarim

Occurring once only in the English version, Zep 1:4, but frequently in the Hebrew, translated "idolatrous priests," 2Ki 23:5Ho 10:5. The word is supposed to be derived from a ro...

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Chemosh

The national god of the Moabites, and of the Ammonites, worshipped also under Solomon at Jerusalem, Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 23:13; Jer 48:7. Some erroneously identify...

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Cherethites Or Cherethim

1. A portion of the Philistines, supposed by many to have originated in Crete, 1Sa 30:14Eze 25:16Zep 2:52. A portion of David’s bodyguard, always mentioned with the Pelethites, ...

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Cherith

A small brook flowing into the Jordan, to which Elijah once withdrew, and where ravens brought him supplies of bread and flesh, 1Ki 17:3-5. Robinson suggests that it may be the ...

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Cherub

PluralCHERUBIM, an order of celestial beings or symbolical representations often referred to in the Old Testament and in the book of Revelation. The cherubim are variously repre...

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Chestnut-Tree

Ge 30:37, called by the Septuagint and Vulgate the plane tree, with which most modern expositors agree. The plane tree has a tall and stately trunk, with smooth bark, and branch...

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Chesulloth

OrCHISLOTH-TABOR, a town on the border of Zebulun and Issachar, about four miles west of mount marks its site, together with numerous excavated tombs, Jos 19:12,18,221Ch 6:62.

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Children

A numerous offspring was regarded as a signal blessing, Ps 127:3-5, and childless wives sought various means to escape the reproach of barrenness, which was deprecated in the bl...

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Chimham

Probably a son a Barzillai, 2Sa 19:36; 1Ki 2:7. He may have received from David the place near Bethlehem called Chimham, Jer 41:17.

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Chinnereth

Or CINNEROTH, a town on the west shore of the sea of Galilee, Nu 34:11De 3:17Jos 11:2 19:35 1Ki 15:20. It was a "fenced city" of Naphtali, and gave its name to the lake on which...

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Chios

An island in the Archipelago, between Lesbos and Samos, on the coast of Asia Minor, now called Scio. It is thirty miles long and ten wide. Paul passed this way as he sailed sout...

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Chisleu

The ninth month of the Hebrews, beginning with the new moon of December, Ne 1:1; Zec 7:1.

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Chittim

OrKITTIM, descendants of Javan, son of Japheth; and the land settled by them, Ge 10:4. Chittim seems to denote primarily the island Cyprus, and also to be employed, in a wider s...

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Chiun

The name of an idol worshipped by the Israelites in the desert, Am 5:26Ac 7:43. It was most probably the planet Saturn, worshipped by eastern nations as an evil spirit to be pro...

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Chorazin

A town in Galilee, near to Capernaum and Bethsaida, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jerome says it was two miles from Capernaum. No traces of its name remain; but ...