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97501 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ziklag.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 29:11 ), it was destroyed by the Amalekites ( 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:2 ), whom David, however, pursued and utterly routed, returning all the captives ( 1 Samuel 30:26 …
97502 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zimri.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 16:11-20 ). Omri succeeded to the throne only after four years of fierce war with Tibni, another claimant to the throne.
97503 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zion.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Chronicles 11:5 ). In the later books of the Old Testament this name was sometimes used ( Psalm 87:2; Psalm 149:2; Isaiah 33:14; Joel 2:1 ) to denote Jerusalem in general …
97504 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ziza.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
(2.) A son of Rehoboam ( 2 Chronicles 11:20 ).
97505 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zizah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Zizah — a Gershonite Levite ( 1 Chronicles 23:11 ).
97506 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zoan.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 19:11, Isaiah 19:13; Isaiah 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14 ). “The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world.”
97507 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zophar.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… 2:11. The LXX. render here “king of the Mineans” = Ma’in, Maonites, Judges 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place …
97508 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Zorah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Chronicles 11:10 ). It has been identified with Sur’ah, in the Wady Surar, 8 miles west of Jerusalem. It is noticed on monuments in the fifteenth century B.C. as …
97509 Etymology dictionary, p. Abaddon.2
late 14c., used in Revelation ix.11 of "the angel of the bottomless pit," and by Milton of the pit itself, from Hebrew Abhaddon, literally "destruction," from abhadh "he perished." The Greek form was Apollyon .
97510 Etymology dictionary, p. Apollyon.2
… ix.11 (a name also sometimes given to the Devil), late 14c., from present participle of Greek apollyein "to destroy utterly" (from apo "from, away from" (see apo- ) + olluein …
97511 Etymology dictionary, p. armistice (n.).3
… Nov. 11, 1918, and memorialized the dead in that war. In Britain, after World War II, it merged with Remembrance Day. In U.S. (which had already a Memorial Day for the …
97512 Etymology dictionary, p. Barnabas.2
… ), June 11, in the Old Style calendar was reckoned the longest day of the year ( Barnaby the Bright ).
97513 Etymology dictionary, p. Berean.2
from Greek Beroia, name of a town in Macedonia. The name was taken up by Scottish dissenters in reference to Acts xvii.11 where the Christians of that town based faith on Scripture rather than human authority.
97514 Etymology dictionary, p. chameleon (n.).4
It formerly was supposed to live on air (as in "Hamlet" III.ii.98). The constellation was one of the 11 added to Ptolemy's list in the 1610s by Flemish cartographer Petrus Plancius (1552-1622) after Europeans began to explore the Southern Hemisphere.
97515 Etymology dictionary, p. cob (n.).3
… at 11. Some senses are probably from Old English copp "top, head," others probably from Old Norse kubbi or Low German, all the words perhaps trace to a Proto-Germanic …
97516 Etymology dictionary, p. confederacy (n.).4
… , March 11, 1861.
97517 Etymology dictionary, p. cortisone (n.).2
… -hydroxy-11 dehydrocorticosterone, which is ultimately from Latin corticis (genitive of cortex; see cortical ) and so called because it was obtained from …
97518 Etymology dictionary, p. crane (n.).4
… the 11 added to Ptolemy's list in the 1610s by Flemish cartographer Petrus Plancius after Europeans began to explore the Southern Hemisphere.
97519 Etymology dictionary, p. cricket (n.2).2
… of 11 with bats, balls, and wickets, 1590s, apparently from Old French criquet "goal post, stick," perhaps from Middle Dutch/Middle Flemish cricke "stick, staff …
97520 Etymology dictionary, p. ditzy (adj.).2
… , March 11], U.S. slang, of unknown origin; one guess [OED] is that it is a corruption of earlier African-American vernacular dicty (1926) "conceited, snobbish," also …