Search for: Joseph

10101 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mary.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph, the angel Gabriel announced to her that she was to be the mother of the promised Messiah ( Luke 1:35 ). After this she went to visit her cousin Elisabeth …

10102 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mary.5 (Matthew G. Easton)

… in Joseph’s tomb. Again, in the earliest dawn of the first day of the week she, with Salome and Mary the mother of James ( Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2 ), came to the sepulchre …

10103 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mattan.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

(2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary ( Matthew 1:15 ).

10104 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mattithiah.5 (Matthew G. Easton)

(4.) The son of Amos, and father of Joseph, in the genealogy of our Lord ( Luke 3:25 ).

10105 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Midianite.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… that Joseph was sold ( Genesis 37:28, Genesis 37:36 ). The next notice of them is in connection with Moses’ flight from Egypt ( Exodus 2:15-21 ). Here in Midian Moses became …

10106 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Money.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph affords evidence of the constant use of money, silver of a fixed weight. This appears also in all the subsequent history of the Jewish people, in all …

10107 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Moses.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… before Joseph, Egypt had been conquered by a pastoral Semitic race from Asia, the Hyksos, who brought into cruel subjection the native Egyptians, who were …

10108 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Moses.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph their position was not so favourable. The Egyptians began to despise them, and the period of their “affliction” ( Genesis 15:13 ) commenced. They were …

10109 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Moses.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… not Joseph” ( Exodus 1:8 ). (See PHARAOH .) The circumstances of the country were such that this king thought it necessary to weaken his Israelite subjects by oppressing …

10110 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Mourn.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… for Joseph ( Genesis 37:34, Genesis 37:35 ); the Egyptians for Jacob ( Genesis 50:3-10 ); Israel for Aaron ( Numbers 20:29 ), for Moses ( Deuteronomy 34:8 ), and for Samuel ( 1 Samuel …

10111 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nativity of Christ.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… :25 ). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to go up to Bethlehem at this period, and there Christ was born ( Matthew 2:1, Matthew 2:6; Luke 2:1, Luke 2:7 ). The exact year …

10112 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nazareth.3 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph and Mary ( Luke 2:39 ), and here the angel announced to the Virgin the birth of the Messiah ( Luke 1:26-28 ). Here Jesus grew up from his infancy to manhood ( Luke …

10113 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nuts.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… conciliating Joseph ( Genesis 43:11 ). This was the fruit of the pistachio tree, which resembles the sumac. It is of the size of an olive. In Song of Solomon 6:11 a different …

10114 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. On.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

“It was at On that Joseph wooed and won the dark-skinned Asenath, the daughter of the high priest of its great temple.” This was a noted university town, and here Moses gained his acquaintance with “all the wisdom of the Egyptians.”

10115 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Pharaoh.4 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph’s kindred at the Egyptian court? Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best …

10116 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Pharaoh.5 (Matthew G. Easton)

(3.) The “new king who knew not Joseph” ( Exodus 1:8-22 ) has been generally supposed to have been Aahmes I., or Amosis, as he is called by Josephus. Recent discoveries, however, have led to the conclusion that Seti was the “new king.”

10117 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Pharaoh.6 (Matthew G. Easton)

… of Joseph. After his death their condition was probably very slowly and gradually changed. The invaders, the Hyksos, who for some five centuries had been masters …

10118 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Pilate, Pontius.7 (Matthew G. Easton)

… to Joseph of Arimathea to be buried. Pilate’s name now disappears from the Gospel history. References to him, however, are found in the Acts of the Apostles …

10119 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Potiphar.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

… against Joseph, Potiphar cast him into prison, where he remained for some years. (See JOSEPH .)

10120 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Potipherah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)

Potipherah — a priest of On, whose daughter Asenath became Joseph’s wife ( Genesis 41:45 ).