Smith's Bible Dictionary

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BAY TREE

A species of laurel. Laurus nobilis. An evergreen, with leaves like our mountain laurel. (Psalms 37:35)

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BAZLITH

(asking). "Children of Bazlith" were among the Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:54) In (Ezra 2:52) the name is given as BAZLUTH. (B.C. 536.)

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BAZLUTH

[BAZLITH]

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BDELLIUM

(bedolach). (Genesis 2:12; Numbers 11:7) It is quite impossible to say whether bedolach denotes a mineral or an animal production or a vegetable exudation. Bdellium is an odorif...

86

BEACON

A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence for direction. (Isaiah 30:17)

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BEALIAH

(Jehovah is lord), a Benjamite who went over to David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:5) (B.C. 1062.)

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BEALOTH

(ladies) a town in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 15:24)

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BEANS

(2 Samuel 17:28; Ezekiel 4:9) Beans are cultivated in Palestine, which produces many of the leguminous order of plants, such, as lentils, kidney-beans, vetches, etc.

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BEAR

(1 Samuel 17:34; 2 Samuel 17:8) The Syrian bear, Ursus syriacus, which is without doubt the animal mentioned in the Bible, is still found on the higher mountains of Palestine. D...

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BEARBEL

(house of God’s court), named only in (Hosea 10:14) as the scene of a sack and massacre by Shalman.

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BEARD

Western Asiatics have always cherished the beard as the badge of the dignity of manhood, and attached to it the importance of a feature. The Egyptians, on the contrary for the m...

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BEBAI

(fatherly)."Sons of Bebai," 623 (Nehe 6:28) in number, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, (2:11; Nehemiah 7:16) (B.C. 536), and at a later period twenty-eight more under Zec...

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BECHER

(young or firstborn)The second son of Benjamin, according to the list in both (Genesis 46:21) and 1Chr 7:6 But omitted in (1 Chronicles 8:1) (B.C. about 1690.)Son of Ephraim, (N...

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BECHORATH

(first-born), son of Aphiah or Abiah, and grandson of Becher according to (1 Samuel 9:1; 1 Chronicles 7:8) (B.C. before 1093.)

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BED

The Jewish bed consisted of the mattress, a mere mat, or one or more quilts; the covering, a finer quilt, or sometimes the outer garment worn by day, (1 Samuel 19:13) which the ...

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BEDAD

(solitary), the father of Hadad king of Edom. (Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46) (B.C. before 1093.)

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BEDAN

(son of judgement).Mentioned in (1 Samuel 12:11) as a judge of Israel between Jerubbaal (Gideon) and Jephthah. The Chaldee Paraphrase reads Samson for Bedan; the LXX., Syriac an...

99

BEDEIAH

one of the sons of Bani, in the time of Ezra, who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:35) (B.C. 458.)

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BEE

(deborah). (1:44; Judges 14:8; Psalms 118:12; Isaiah 7:18) Bees abounded in Palestine, honey being a common article of food (Psalms 81:16) and was often found in the clefts of r...

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BEELIADA

(the Lord knows); one of David’s 9 sons, born in Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 14:7) In the lists in Samuel the name is ELIADA. (B.C. after 1045.)

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BEELZEBUB

[See BEELZEBUL]

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BEELZEBUL

(lord of the house), the title of a heathen deity, to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; Satan, the prince of the devils. (Matthew 10:25; 12:24; Mark 3:...

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BEER

(a well).One of the latest halting-places of the Israelites, lying beyond the Arnon. (Numbers 21:16-18) This is possibly the BEER-ELIM of (Isaiah 15:8)A place to which Jotham, t...

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BEERA

(a well), son of Zophah, of the tribe of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:37) (B.C. after 1450.)

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BEERAH

prince of the Reubenites, carried away by Tiglath-pileser. (1 Chronicles 5:6) (B.C. 738).

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BEERELIM

(well of heroes), a spot named in (Isaiah 15:8) as on the "border of Moab." (Numbers 21:16) comp. Numb 21:13

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BEERI

The father of Judith, one of the wives of Esau. (Genesis 26:34) [ANAH] (B.C. 1797.)Father of the prophet Hosea. (Hosea 1:1) (B.C. before 725.)