Emerods
That is, hemorrhoids, the name of a painful disease occasioned by tumors, probably the piles, De 28:271Sa 5:12.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Emim
A gigantic and warlike race, who in the time of Abraham occupied the country beyond the Jordan, afterwards possessed by the Moabites, Ge 14:5De 2:10.
Emmanuel
A compound Hebrew word or name, signifying God with us. It is applied to the Messiah, our Savior, who, as having united the divine with the human nature, and having come to dwel...
Emmaus
The village where our Lord revealed himself to two of his disciples, on the afternoon of his resurrection-day. It lay about seven and a half miles, sixty furlongs, northwest fro...
En
A fountain compounded with many names of towns and places; as En- dor, En-gedi, En-eglaim, En-shemesh, that is, the fountain of Dor, etc.
Enchantments
Deceptive arts and charms practiced by designing men, and classed in the Bible with sorcery, magic, divination, witchcraft, and necromancy, or professed communication with depar...
Endor
A city of Manasseh, Jos 17:11, four miles south of mount Tabor, near Nain, in the way to Scythopolis, Ps 83:9,10. Here the witch lived whom Saul consulted, 1Sa 28:1-25. The pret...
Eneglaim
Eze 47:10, a town on the Dead Sea, west of the Jordan’s mouth.
Engannim
1. A town of Judah, probably near Bethel, Jos 15:34.2. A city of the priests, in Issachar, now Jenin, fifteen miles south of mount Tabor, Jos 19:21; 21:29.
Engedi
Fountain of the kid, 1Sa 24:1,3; called also Hazezon-Tamar, that is, the city of palm-trees, there being great numbers of palm-trees around it, Ge 14:72Ch 20:1,2. It stood near ...
Enoch
1. A son of Cain, in honor of whom the first city named in the Bible was called Enoch, Ge 4:17.2. "The seventh from Adam," and the father of Methuselah; eminent as a patriarch w...
Enon
The place where John baptized, was near Salim, on the west side of the Jordan, Joh 1:28; 3:26. It is supposed to have been eight or ten miles south of Beth-shean, and near the J...
Enos
The grandson of Adam. He lived nine hundred and five years. Adam, Seth, and Enoch died before him; and Noah was contemporary with him eighty-four years, Ge 4:26; 5:6-11; Lu 3:38...
Enrogel
Fuller’s fountain, so named because here the fullers were wont to cleanse their cloths by treading them with their feet. This is believed to be the "well of Nehemiah," now calle...
Epaphras
Supposed to have founded the church at Colosse, and denominated by Paul his "dear fellow-servant" and "a faithful minister of Jesus Christ." Col 1:7 4:12. He was for a time an i...
Epaphroditus
A member of the church at Philipi, charged with the supplies which that church contributed for the relief of Paul while imprisoned at Rome, Php 2:25 4:18. This labor of love bro...
Epenetus
Saluted by Paul in his epistle to Rome, Ro 16:5, and called "the firstfruits of Achaia," that is, one of his first converts there. Many manuscripts and versions read Asia instea...
Ephah
1. A measure of capacity used among the Hebrews, containing three pecks and three pints. The Ephah was a dry measure, as of barley, Ru 2:17; and meal, Nu 5:15Jud 6:19; and was o...
Epher
A son of Midian, Ge 25:4, located beyond the Jordan, 1Ki 4:10.
Ephesians, Epistle To The
This epistle was written by Paul, at Rome, probably A. D. 62. The ablest modern critics are not agreed as to the church to whom it was addressed, whether to that in Ephesus, tha...
Ephesus
The capital of Ionia, a celebrated city of Asia Minor, situated near the mouth of the Cayster, about forty miles southeast of Smyrna. It was chiefly celebrated for the worship a...
Ephod
An ornamental part of the dress worn by the Hebrew priests. It was worn above the tunic and the robe, was without sleeves, and open below the arms on each side, consisting of tw...
Ephphatha
Be opened, a Syro-chaldaic word, which our Savior pronounced when he cured one deaf and dumb, Mr 7:34.
Ephraim
The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt, Ge 41:52. Although the youngest, he yet had the chief blessing of his grandfather Jacob, and the tribe was always more distinguished tha...
Ephrath
Or EPHRATAH1. The second wife of Caleb, and mother of Hur, 1Ch 2:19; supposed by some to have given her name to the city of Ephrath or Beth-lehem, 1Ch 2:50,51 4:4. Compare Ge 35...
Ephron
A Hittite, dwelling at Hebron in the time of Abraham, Ge 23:1- 20. The charming account of his transaction with Abraham, and the frequent subsequent mention of his name, point h...
Epicureans
A celebrated sect of ancient philosophers. They were materialists, and virtually atheists-believing that the atoms of nature existed from eternity, and that from their incidenta...