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2701 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Hothan.2 (William Smith)
Ho’than ( signet ring ), a man of Aroer, father of Shama and Jehiel. 1 Chronicles 11:44. (b.c. 1046.)
2702 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Lamp.4 (William Smith)
… wire rings, and a top and bottom of perforated copper. This would, in form at least, answer to the lamps within pitchers of Gideon.
2703 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Marriage.5 (William Smith)
… a ring on the bride’s finger. The ring was regarded among the Hebrews as a token of fidelity, Genesis 41:42, and of adoption into a family. Luke 15:22. Between the …
2704 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Metals.2 (William Smith)
… “ear-rings”) alone were taken by Gideon’s army from the slaughtered Midianites. Judges 8:26. But the amount of treasure accumulated by David from spoils taken …
2705 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Money.3 (William Smith)
… of rings. We have no evidence of the use of coined money before the return from the Babylonian captivity; but silver was used for money, in quantities determined …
2706 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Musical instruments of the Hebrews.7 (William Smith)
… movable rings and bars. It was shaken with the hand, and the rings and bars made a piercing metallic sound by striking against the bronze frame. 6. The triangle …
2707 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nave.2 (William Smith)
… twice “rings,” and margin “strakes,” an old word apparently used for the nave (hub) of a wheel and also more probably for the felloe or the tire, as making the streak …
2708 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nose-jewel.2 (William Smith)
… ,” a ring of metal, sometimes of gold or silver, passed usually through the right nostril, and worn by way of ornament by women in the East. Upon it are strung beads …
2709 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ornaments Personal.2 (William Smith)
… with rings, earrings of very great size, anklets, armlets, bracelets of the most varied forms, richly-ornamented necklaces, and chains of various kinds. There …
2710 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Partridge.2 (William Smith)
… its ringing call-note in early morning echoes from cliff to cliff alike amid the barrenness of the hills of Judea and in the glens of the forest of Carmel.— Tristram’s …
2712 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ring.2 (William Smith)
… :10. Rings were worn not only by men, but by women. Isaiah 3:21. We may conclude from Exodus 28:11 that the rings contained a stone engraven with a device or with the …
2713 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ring.3 (William Smith)
Egyptian Weighing Rings for Money. (See Money.)
2714 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ring.4 (William Smith)
Rings and Signets.
2715 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sardonyx.2 (William Smith)
… signet-rings.
2716 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Seal.2 (William Smith)
… signet-ring was an ordinary part of a man’s equipment. Genesis 38:18. The ring or the seal as an emblem of authority in Egypt, Persia and elsewhere is mentioned …
2717 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tabbaoth.2 (William Smith)
Tab’baoth ( rings ). The children of Tabbaoth were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:43; Nehemiah 7:46. (b.c. before 536.)
2718 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tabernacle.6 (William Smith)
… with rings. They were furnished with golden rings, through which passed bars of shittim wood, overlaid with gold, five to each side, and the middle bar passing …
2719 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tache.2 (William Smith)
… the rings from which it hangs, or connected vertically, as in the case of the veil of the holy of holies, with the loops of another curtain.
2720 Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary (KJV), p. GAB.2 (James Strong)
… , nave, ring.