International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Cab

SeeKAB.

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Cabbon

kab'-on (kabbon; Chabra): An unidentified place in the Shephelah of Judah near Eglon (Jos 15:40). It is possibly the same asMACHBENA, which see.

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Cabin

kab'-in (chanuyyoth, "vaults";Jer 37:16the Revised Version (British and American), "cells"): In the East the prison often consisted of a pit (compare "dungeon-house" the Revised...

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Cabul

ka'-bul (kabhul; Codex Vaticanus, Chobamasomel; Codex Alexandrinus, Chabol apo aristeron):(1) A city on the boundary between Asher and Zebulun (Jos 19:27). It corresponds to the...

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Caddis

kad'-is.SeeGADDIS.

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Cades

ka'-dez.SeeKEDESH (Apocrypha).

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Cades-Barne

ka'-dez bar'-ne.SeeKADESH-BARNEA (Apocrypha).

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Caesar

se'-zar (Kaisar): Originally the surname of the Julian gens (thus, Caius Julius Caesar); afterward a name borne by the Roman emperors. In the New Testament the name is definitel...

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Caesar's Household

hous'-hold (hoi ek tes Kaisaros oikias, "they that are of Caesar's household,"Php 4:22): These words occur in the epistle which Paul wrote from Rome near the end of his first im...

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Caesarea

ses-a-re'-a, se-za-re'-a (Kaisareia):(1) Caesarea Palestina (pal-es-ti'na).The ancient name in the Arabic form Qaisariyeh still clings to the ruins on the sea shore, about 30 mi...

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Cage

kaj (kelubh; phulake): The earliest known form of cage made to confine a bird, for the pleasure of its song or the beauty of its coloring, was a crude affair of willows or other...

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Caiaphas

ka'-a-fas, ki'-a-fas (Kaiaphas; Caiaphas = Kephas (compare Dods in Expositor's Greek Test, I, 803), and has also been interpreted as meaning "depression"): Caiaphas was the surn...

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Cain

kan (qayin, "spear" or "smith," resembling in sound the root qanah, "get," "acquire,"Ge 4:1the Revised Version, margin, but not necessarily derived from that root; Septuagint Ka...

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Cainan

ka'-nan, ka-i'-nan (Kainan):(1) Greek form of Kenan (Lu 3:37): also the King James Version form in Old Testament (except1Ch 1:2).(2) A son of Arphaxad (Lu 3:36), omitted inGe 10...

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Cake

SeeBREAD.

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Calah

ka'-la (kalach; Chalach, also Chalak or Kalach; in Assyrian Kalhu, Kalha, Kalhi, Kalah): The name of one of the great cities of Nimrod (Ge 10:11), or rather, Asshur (text), whic...

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Calamity

ka-lam'-i-ti ('edh, "a load" or "burden" under which one is crushed, hence, "misfortune"; hayyah, hawwah, "fall," "ruin," the latter word used only in the plural; ra`, "evil in ...

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Calamolalus

kal-a-mol'-a-lus, -mol-a'-lus (Codex Alexandrinus, Kalamolalos, Codex Vaticanus, Kalamokalos): This name is corrupt (1 Esdras 5:22). It has evidently arisen through combining th...

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Calamus

kal'-a-mus. SeeREED.

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Calcol; Chalkol

kal'-kol, kal'-kol (kalkol): Mentioned in1Ki 4:31as one of the wise men with whom Solomon was compared. The better orthography is Calcol which the King James Version gives for t...

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Caldron

kol'-drun (the rendering of qallachath, cir, dudh 'aghmon): Qallachath is found only in1Sa 2:14;Mic 3:3. It is a pot for cooking, of undefined size and characteristics, in the f...

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Caleb

ka'-leb (kalebh; in the light of the cognate Syriac and Arabic words, the meaning is not "dog," which is kelebh, in Hebrew, but "raging with canine madness"; Chaleb): As a perso...

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Caleb-Ephrathah

ka'-leb ef'-ra-tha, -ef'-ra-ta (the King James Version Caleb-ephratah, kalebh 'ephrathah): The place where Hezron died (1Ch 2:24). Many scholars, however, read with the Septuagi...

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Calendar

kal'-en-dar (Latin calendarium, "an account book," from calendae, "day on which accounts were due"): The Hebrew or Jewish calendar had three stages of development: the preexilic...

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Calf

kaf (`eghel; par, or par, often rendered "bullock"): The etymology of both words is uncertain, but the former has a close parallel in the Arabic `ijl, "calf." Par is generally u...

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Calf Image

SeeIMAGES.

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Calf, Golden

kaf, gol'-d'-n:I. THE NAMEII. ANCIENT CALF WORSHIP1. Narrative of Aaron's Golden Calf2. Jeroboam's Golden CalvesIII. ATTITUDE OF ELIJAH TO THE BULL SYMBOLSIV. ATTITUDE OF AMOS A...