Search for: Horses
7721 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Horse-leech.2 (William Smith)
Horse-leech, Heb. ˒alûkâh, occurs once only, viz., Proverbs 30:15. There is little doubt that ˒alûkâh denotes some species of leech, or rather is the generic term for any blood-sucking annelid.
7722 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Jerusalem.22 (William Smith)
… . 6. Horse gate. Nehemiah 3:28; 2 Chronicles 23:15; Jeremiah 31:40. 7. Ravine gate ( i.e., opening on ravine of Hinnom). 2 Chronicles 26:9; Nehemiah 2:13, Nehemiah 2:15; Nehemiah …
7723 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Jezebel.2 (William Smith)
… chariot-horses trampled out her life. The body was left in that open space called in modern eastern language “the mounds,” where offal is thrown from the city …
7724 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mint.2 (William Smith)
Mint. This name occurs only in Matthew 23:23 and Luke 11:42, as one of those herbs and tithe of which the Jews were most scrupulously exact in paying. The horse mint, M. Sylvestris, and several other species of mint are common in Syria.
7725 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mule.2 (William Smith)
… a horse and an ass. “The mule is smaller than the horse, and is a remarkably hardy, patient, obstinate, sure-footed animal, living, ordinarily, twice as long as a horse …
7726 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mustard.2 (William Smith)
… the horse and the rider. If, then, the wild plant on the rich plain of Akkar grows as high as a man on horseback, it might attain to the same or a greater height when …
7727 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Palestina.12 (William Smith)
… the horse, all of which are in general use. The buffalo ( Bubalus buffalo ) is common. The ox of the country is small and unsightly in the neighborhood of Jerusalem …
7728 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Philip.2 (William Smith)
… of horses ) the apostle was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter, John 1:44, and apparently was among the Galilean peasants of that district who flocked …
7729 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Ptolemæus.2 (William Smith)
… his horse in the battle and died within a few days. 1 Macc. 11:18. Ptolemy Philometor is the last king of Egypt who is noticed in sacred history, and his reign was …
7730 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Raamah.2 (William Smith)
Ra’amah ( horse’s mane ), a son of Cush and father of the Cushite Sheba and Dedan. Genesis 10:7. (b.c. after 2513.) The tribe of Raamah became afterward renowned as traders. Ezekiel 27:22. They were settled on the Persian Gulf.
7731 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sheep.2 (William Smith)
… , as horses, asses, and camels.) Sheep-shearing is alluded to Genesis 31:19. Sheep-dogs were employed in biblical times. Job 30:1. Shepherds in Palestine and the East …
7732 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Solomon.8 (William Smith)
… of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, made up the measure of his magnificence. 1 Kings 4:26. As the treasury became empty, taxes multiplied …
7733 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Straw.2 (William Smith)
… the horses, cattle, and camels. Genesis 24:25; 1 Kings 4:28; Isaiah 11:7; Isaiah 65:25. There is no intimation that straw was used for litter. It was employed by the Egyptians …
7734 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sun.3 (William Smith)
… the horses sacred to the sun were stalled within the precints of the temple. 2 Kings 23:11. In the metaphorical language of Scripture the sun is emblematic …
7735 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Thebes.2 (William Smith)
… with horses and chariots.” In the first century before Christ, Diodorus visited Thebes, and he devotes several sections of his general work to its history …
7736 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Togarmah.2 (William Smith)
… , breeding horses and mules to be sold in Tyre. Ezekiel 27:14. They were also a military people, well skilled in the use of arms. Togarmah was probably the ancient …
7737 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Transfiguration The.2 (William Smith)
… and horses of fire. 2 Kings 2:11. Both were associated in men’s minds with the glory of the kingdom of the Christ. The Jerusalem Targum on Exodus 12 connects the …
7738 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Whale.2 (William Smith)
… whole horse has been found in a shark, and Captain Basil Hall reports the taking of one in which, besides other things, he found the whole skin of a buffalo which …
7739 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Yarn.2 (William Smith)
… the horses: “A band of the king’s merchants bought a drove (of horses) at a price.”
7740 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Zerah.7 (William Smith)
… with horses made unmanageable by flights of arrows, must have been forced back upon the cumbrous host behind. So complete was the overthrow that the Hebrews …