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10121 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prison.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar, “Joseph’s master, took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound” ( Genesis 39:20-23 ). The Heb …
10122 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Rachel.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of Joseph ( Genesis 30:22-24 ). Afterwards, on Jacob’s departure from Mesopotamia, she took with her her father’s teraphim ( Genesis 31:34, Genesis 31:35 ). As they journeyed …
10123 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Reuben.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death ( Genesis 37:21, Genesis 37:22 ). It was he also who pledged his life …
10124 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Shechem.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of Joseph were buried ( Joshua 24:32 ). Rehoboam was appointed king in Shechem ( 1 Kings 12:1, 1 Kings 12:19 ), but Jeroboam afterwards took up his residence here. This …
10125 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Simeon.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… by Joseph in Egypt as a hostage ( Genesis 42:24 ). His father, when dying, pronounced a malediction against him ( Genesis 49:5-7 ). The words in the Authorized Version …
10126 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Simeon.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
(3.) One of the ancestors of Joseph ( Luke 3:30 ).
10127 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Taxing.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of Joseph and Mary’s going up to Bethlehem. It has been argued by some that Cyrenius (q.v.) was governor of Cilicia and Syria both at the time of our Lord’s birth …
10128 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Temptation.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of Joseph ( Genesis 39 ), of David ( 2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21 ), of Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 32:31 ), of Daniel ( Daniel 6 ), etc. So long as we are in this world we are exposed to …
10129 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tombs.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… in Joseph’s new rock-hewn tomb, in a garden near to Calvary. All evidence is in favour of the opinion that this tomb was somewhere near the Damascus gate, and …
10130 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Zaphnath-paaneah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime minister or grand vizier of the kingdom ( Genesis 41:45 ). This is a pure Egyptian word, and has been variously explained …
10131 Etymology dictionary, p. anarchy (n.).3
… Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865).
10132 Etymology dictionary, p. astronaut (n.).3
… writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex, on model of aéronautique, and Astronaut was used in 1880 as the name of a fictional spaceship by English writer Percy Greg …
10133 Etymology dictionary, p. aviation (n.).2
… Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle (1812-1886) in "Aviation ou Navigation aérienne."
10134 Etymology dictionary, p. Barnabas.2
… of Joseph the Levite of Cyprus (Acts iv.36), literally "son of exhortation," from Aramaic (Semitic) bar "son" + nabha "prophecy, exhortation." St. Barnabas' Day (colloquially …
10135 Etymology dictionary, p. big bang (n.).2
… Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître and George Gamow; the phrase is first attested 1950 (said to have been used orally in 1949), used by British astronomer Fred Hoyle …
10136 Etymology dictionary, p. camellia (n.).2
… Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706), Moravian-born Jesuit who described the flora of the island of Luzon, + abstract noun ending -ia .
10137 Etymology dictionary, p. Campbell.2
… merchant Joseph A. Campbell (1817-1900) and Abraham A. Anderson; Campbell bought Anderson out in 1877. Andy Warhol began painting their cans in 1962.
10138 Etymology dictionary, p. capsicum (n.).2
… botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), but he did not explain the word.
10139 Etymology dictionary, p. Catch-22 (n.).2
… of Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, but the phrase became widespread after release of the movie based on the book in 1970. The catch (n.) is that a bomber pilot is insane …
10140 Etymology dictionary, p. chestnut (n.).4
… . actor Joseph Jefferson ("Lippincott's Monthly Magazine," January 1888) as probably abstracted from the 1816 melodrama "The Broken Sword" by William Dimond …