International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Dabareh

dab'-a-re.SeeDABERATH.

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Dabbesheth

dab'-e-sheth (dabbesheth; Dabasthai; the King James Version Dabbasheth, dab'a-sheth): A town on the western boundary of Zebulun (Jos 19:11). It is probably identical with the mo...

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Daberath

dab'-e-rath (ha-dabherath, "pasture"; Dabeiroth): A city in the territory of Issachar, on the boundary between that tribe and Zebulun (Jos 19:12). It was assigned to the Gershon...

04

Dabria

da'-bri-a: One of the five who wrote down the visions of Esdras, described (2 Esdras 14:24) as "ready to write swiftly."

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Dacubi; Dacobi

da-ku'-bi, da-ko'-bi, King James Version: Head of a family of gate-keepers (1 Esdras 5:28).SeeAKKUB;DAKUBI.

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Daddeus

da-de'-us, the Revised Version (British and American);LODDEUS(Loddaios), which see.

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Dagger

dag'-er.SeeARMOR, ARMS.

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Dagon

da'-gon (daghon; apparently derived from dagh, "fish"): Name of the god of the Philistines (according to Jerome onIsa 46:1of the Philistines generally); in the Bible, Dagon is a...

09

Daily

da'-li: This word, coming as it does from the Hebrew yom "day," and the Greek hemera, suggests either day by day (Ex 5:13), that which is prepared for one daily (Ne 5:18), as e....

10

Daily Offering; Daily Sacrifice

SeeSACRIFICE.

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Dainties; Dainty (Meats)

dan'-tis (maT`ammoth, "things full of taste," man`ammim, ma`adhan; liparos, "fat," "shining"): Jacob is represented as predicting of Asher, "He shall yield royal dainties" (Ge 4...

12

Daisan

da'-san, da'-i-san (Daisan): Head of a family of temple servants (1 Esdras 5:3:1) called Rezin inEzr 2:48;Ne 7:50, the interchange of "D" and "R" in Hebrew being not uncommon.

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Dakubi

da-ku'-bi, da-koo'-bi (Dakoub, Dakoubi; the King James Version Dacobi): Head of a family of gate-keepers (1 Esdras 5:28) called "Akkub" in the canonical lists.

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Dalaiah

da-la'-a, da-la-i'-a.SeeDELAIAH.

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Dalan

da'-lan (Dalan; the King James Version Ladan): Head of a family that returned to Jerusalem, but which "could shew neither their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israe...

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Dale, King's

(dal, `emeq hamelekh):(1) "Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale" (2Sa 18:18). According to Josephus (Ant., VII, x,...

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Daleth

da'-leth (...): The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and as such used inPs 119to designate the 4th section; transliterated in this Encyclopedia with the dagesh as d, and, with...

18

Dally

dal'-i: Occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:26: "But they that would not be reformed by that correction wherein he dallied with them" (paigniois epitimeseos, "child play of corre...

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Dalmanutha

dal-ma-nu'-tha. SeeMAGADAN. CompareMr 8:10;Mt 15:39.

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Dalmatia

dal-ma'-shi-a (Dalmatia, "deceitful"): A district of the Roman empire lying on the eastern shore of the Adriatic. Writing from Rome to Timothy during his second imprisonment (in...

21

Dalphon

dal'-fon (dalphon, "crafty"): The second of the ten sons of Haman, slain by the Jews (Es 9:7).

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Dam

('em, ordinary Hebrew word for "mother"): Hebrew law prohibited the destruction of the "dam" and the young of birds at the same time, commanding that if the young be taken from ...

23

Damage

dam'-aj (chabhala'): This word expresses any inflicted loss of value or permanent injury to persons or things. "Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?" (Ezr 4:22). InP...

24

Damaris

dam'-a-ris (Damaris, possibly a corruption of damalis, "a heifer"): The name of a female Christian of Athens, converted by Paul's preaching (Ac 17:34). The fact that she is ment...

25

Damascenes

dam-a-senz', dam'-a-senz ten polin Damaskenon, ("the city of the Damascenes"): The inhabitants of Damascus under Aretas the Arabian are so called (2Co 11:32).

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Damascus

da-mas'-kus:1. The Name2. Situation and Natural Features3. The City Itself4. Its History(1) The Early Period (to circa 950 BC)(2) The Aramean Kingdom (circa 950-732 BC)(3) The M...

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Dammesek Eliezer

(Ge 15:2the English Revised Version). SeeELIEZER(1).