Smith's Bible Dictionary

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EXCOMMUNICATION

(expulsion from communion).Jewish excommunication. --The Jewish system of excommunication was threefold. The twenty-four offences for which it was inflicted are various, and ran...

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EXECUTIONER

The post of executioner was one of high dignity. Potiphar was "captain of the executioners." (Genesis 37:36) see margin. That the "captain of the guard" himself occasionally per...

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EXODUS

(that is, going out [of Egypt]), the second book of the law or Pentateuch. Its author was Moses. It was written probably during the forty-years wanderings int he wilderness, bet...

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EXODUS, THE

of the Israelites from Egypt. the common chronology places the date of this event at B.C. 1491, deriving it in this way: --In (1 Kings 6:1) it is stated that the building of the...

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EXORCIST

one who pretends to expel evil spirits by conjuration, prayers and ceremonies. Exorcism was frequently practiced among the Jews. (Matthew 12:27; Acts 19:13) David, by playing sk...

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EXPIATION

[SACRIFICE]

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EYE

(The practice of painting the eyelids to make the eyes look large, lustrous and languishing is often alluded to in the Old Testament, and still extensively prevails among the wo...

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EZBAI

(shining), father of Naarai, who was one of David’s thirty mighty men. (1 Chronicles 11:37) (B.C. 1046.)

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EZBON

(working).Son of Gad, and founder of one of the Gadite families. (Genesis 46:16; Numbers 26:16)Son of Bela, the son of Benjamin according to (1 Chronicles 7:7)

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EZEKIAS

(Matthew 1:9,10) [HEZEKIAH]

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EZEKIEL

(the strength of God), one of the four greater prophets, was the son of a priest named Buzi, and was taken captive in the captivity of Jehoiachin, eleven years before the destru...

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EZEL

(departure), The stone, a well-known stone in the neighborhood of Saul’s residence, the scene of the parting of David and Jonathan. (1 Samuel 20:19)

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EZEM

(bone), one of the towns of Simeon. (1 Chronicles 4:29)

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EZER

(treasure).A son of Ephraim, who was slain by the aboriginal inhabitants of Gath while engaged in a foray on their cattle. (1 Chronicles 7:21) (B.C. before 1491.)A priest who as...

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EZIONGABER, OR EZIONGEBER

(giant’s backbone), (Numbers 33:35; 2:8; 1 Kings 9:26; 22:48; 2 Chronicles 8:17) the last station named for the encampment of the Israelites before they came to the wilderness o...

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EZNITE, THE

According to the statement of (2 Samuel 23:8) Adino the Eznite was another name for Jashobeam, a Tachmonite. (1 Chronicles 11:11) (Probably the words are a corruption for the He...

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EZRA

(help), called ESDRAS in the Apocrypha, the famous scribe and priest. He was a learned and pious priest residing at Babylon in the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus. The origin of h...

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EZRA, BOOK OF

is a continuation of the books of Chronicles. The period covered by the book is eighty years, from the first of Cyrus, B.C. 536, to the beginning of the eighth of Artaxerxes, B....

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EZRAHITE, THE

(son of Zerah), a title attached to two persons --Ethan, (1 Kings 4:31; Psalms 89:1) title, and Heman, Psal 88:1 title.

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EZRI

(help of Jehovah), son of Chelub, superintendent of King David’s farm-laborers. (1 Chronicles 27:26) (B.C. 1014.).