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\ \ * 8 I it '°- s ^V\^ ,-»*^ * * ^ v^ •V Z Z ,J ° vv Jr> y <\ ^ ° » * «^ <r y S on c <U ** &S ,UI * ^ ,.*> , , - t *<p Y S ^^ A<" ,V« ^ * .0 o THE EGYPTIAN WHEAT, Gen. xli. 5. Bearing seven ears on one stalk, as described : DICTIONARY OF IMPORTANT NAMES, OBJECTS, AND TERMS, FOUND IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. INTENDED PRINCIPALLY FOR YOUTH. BY HOWARD MALCOM, A. M. iJoston PUBLISHED BY LINCOLN & EDMANDS. 1830. : : i*30 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: District ClerWs Office, BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of No- vember, A. D. 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, LINCOLN k EDMANDS, of the said dis- trict, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit " A Dictionary of important Names, Objects, and Terms, found in the Holy Scriptures. Intended principally for Youth. By Howard Malcom, A. M." In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, en- titled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies, of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of " such copies during the times therein mentioned ; and also to an Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and* Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned: and extending the benefits thereof to the arts ot Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. 64 The following errors of the press are discovered Under the word Cyprus, Cicilia for Cilicia. „ „ „ Darius, Cyaxerxes for Cyaxares. „ „ „ Dead Sea, Greece for Canaan. ! ; PREFACE. Productions that are the result of labour, more than of genius, lie under two great disadvantages : —the pleas- ure of composing is incomparably less, and the composi- tion itself is held in far less estimation. The author's only motive in undertaking the drudgery of preparing this volume was, that such a work seemed to him not only eminently needed for youth, but almost indispensa- ble ; while nothing of the kind existed within his knowl- edge. It was chiefly prepared at small intervals of leisure while travelling as General Agent of the American Sun- day School Union, and has now been retained nearly three years, in the hope that some more perfect work of the kind would appear. During this time it has been kept at hand for the purpose of inserting whatever seemed ap- propriate in the current religious periodicals, missionary reports, &c. The chief sources of aid, however, have been the works of Calmet, Whitby, Wells, Carpenter, Brown,* Wood, Paxton, and Harmer. Extracts have in some instances been taken, as well as facts, or thoughts but references seemed unnecessary. In most Dictionaries of the Bible, a large proportion of the matter consists of Scripture narrative, digested under * Gurney's Dictionary, lately issued in London, under the most impos- ing title, was also procured ; but it proves to be Brown's Dictionary of the Bible, reprinted verbatim, except in some very few articles PREFACE. [ v that the read- heads, or verbal definitions. It is believed general among the ing of the Bible itself, is now so intended, as to classes of persons for whom this book is The object make that plan undesirable in this instance. names, to throw light here is, in reference to Scripture thence. on the sacred page, rather than to borrow it from and While therefore a great number of names of persons Scripture, places of which nothing is known except from adapted to youth, is omitted, more Scripture illustration, in any one of the larger will, it is hoped, be found, here than &c. works above named. In regard to doctrinal terms, As some of the usual course was necessarily pursued. to children, the articles may seem hardly comprehensible intentionally grad- it is proper to remark that the work was School teachers; uated to the common level of Sabbath convenient and useful man- who it is hoped will find it a standard, could it ual. Only by bringing the book to this great object. It be made itself a teacher, which was the parents, was hoped by this plan to make it useful to of intelligent also, in answering the numerous questions children who read the Bible. and if the " Father It is now issued to serve a necessity, dissemination of of lights" do but make it useful in the be fully heavenly truth, the desires of the Author will realized. Hayward Place, Boston, Jan. 1, 1830. ; A. AB, the eleventh month of Samuel having trusted them j the Jewish civil year, and with the administration of the fifth of their sacred. It public justice, and admitted answereth to the moon that them to a share of the gov- begins in July, and consists ernment, they acquitted of thirty days. themselves so illy, that they ABADDON, signifies de- obliged the people to re- struction; andJlpoltyonthQ quire a king of him. When destroyer, is the name of the the priests were divided in- devil, who goes about seek- to twenty-four courses, (I ing whom he may devour. Chron. xxiv.) one was called Others consider it to mean from him, or one of his de- the Pope of Rome. scendants. Luke i. v. ABANA and Pharpar, ABIB,or«Msan,thename two rivers of Syria, which of the first sacred, and sev- Naaman the leper thought enth civil month of the Jew- more fit to cure him than all ish year. It contained thirty the rivers of Israel. Abana days ; and answered to our is probably the same with the moon of March. This word Barraddy, which springing signifies ripe fruit ; and was from mount Lebanon, glides given to this month, because pleasantly towards the south. in the middle thereof, the Perhaps the Pharpar is the Jews began their harvest. same with Orontes, the most The year, among the Jews, noted river of Syria, which, commenced in September rising a little to the north- and therefore their jubilees, east of Damascus, passes and their other civil matters, Antioch, and running about were regulated in that way, 200 miles to the north-west, see Levit. xxv. 8, 9, 10 ; but loses itself in the Mediterra- their sacred year commenced nean Sea. 2 Kings v. 12. in Abib. This change took ABIA, second son to Sam- place at the redemption of uel, and brother to Joel. Israel from Egypt, Exod. xii. B ABY 6 ACR 2. "This shall be to you ACELDAMA, a field lay- the beginning of months." ing a little south of Jerusa- ABILENE, the Father's lem, which was used by pot- Mansion, a small canton in ters, to dig clay from thence. Syria, between Lebanon and The money which Judas Antilibanus. It took its name threw back to the Jewish ru- from Abila, which probably lers, being the price of blood, was the same with Abel- as they called it, they would maim. Lysanius was gov- not put into the Lord's treas- ernor here in the fifteenth ury, but with it purchased year of Tiberias. Luke this field, wherefore it was i ii. 1. called Aceldama, or the ABOMINATION, a thing field of blood. It was then hateful. Sin is called an appropriated as a place to abomination because detesta- bury strangers, from which ble to God and good beings. the burial ground for this False doctrines are so called. purpose is, in some cities, Rev. xvii. 4. Idols and their called Potter's-field. Matt, worship, and proud persons xxvii. 8. are often called abominations. AC H A I A , a part of Greece, Deut. vii. 26. Prov. xvi. 5. the capital of which was The sacrifices of the wicked, Corinth. It is now called that is, hypocritical services, Livadia. are an abomination. Prov. ACHOR, this word signi- xv, 8. In Matt. xxiv. 15, fies trouble, and was the the allusion is to Roman ar- name of a valley near Jericho. mies, which as heathen were ACRE. The English acre h ate fu 1 to th e Jews. is 4840 square yards, the ABRAHAM, a wander- Roman. 3200, and the Egyp- ing shepherd of vast wealth tian 3698; but the Hebrew and preeminent piety. Be- acre, appears to mean what ing the progenitor of all the one yoke of oxen ploughed Jews he was called the Fa- in a day. Ten acres of vine- ther of the faithful. His yard yielding one bath, and history is one of deep inter- the seed of an homer pro- est, and is given in Genesis ducing an ephah, Isa. v. 10. at great length. means that the land should ABYSS, a word used in be afflicted with dreadful Scripture sometimes to mean sterility, for such a crop is hell, and sometimes the scarcely a tenth part of the depths of ocean, and the wa- seed sown. ters which flow under the ADAMANT, a beautiful earth. stone of the Viardest kind* ADO AGR generally called diamond. taking one into the family Diamonds are chiefly ob- for a son. Pharaoh's daugh- tained in India, from the ter adopted the young child mines in Golconda, Visapoor, Moses. Mordecai also re- and Borneo. Some are now ceived Esther. True believ- obtained from Brazil. Its ers in Christ, who rely upon great hardness makes it re- the efficacious atonement of sist the most intense fire, cut his precious blood, and the glass, &c.

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