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a'-bel-ma'-im ('abhel mayim, "meadow of water"). ⇒See a list of verses on ABEL-MIZRAIM in the Bible. See ABEL-BETH-MAACAH. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia....

a'-bel (hebhel; Abel; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Habel; etymology uncertain. Some translation "a breath," "vapor," "transitoriness," which are suggestive of his brief existence and tragic end; others take it to be a variant of Jabal, yabhal, "shepherd" or "herdman," Ge 4:20. Compa...

a'-bel ('abhel, "meadow"): A word used in several compound names of places. It appears by itself as the name of a city concerned in the rebellion of Sheba (2Sa 20:14; compare 1Sa 6:18), though it is there probably an abridgment of the name Abel-beth-maacah. In 1 Sam 6:18, where the Hebrew has "the g...

a'-bel-ker'-a-mim ('abhel keramim, "meadow of vineyards"): A city mentioned in the Revised Version (British and American) in Jg 11:33, along with Aroer, Minnith, and "twenty cities," in summarizing Jephthah's campaign against the Ammonites. The King James Version translates "the plain of the vineyar...

a'-bel-me-ho'-lah ('abhel meholah, "meadow of dancing"): The residence of Elisha the prophet (1Ki 19:16). When Gideon and his 300 broke their pitchers in the camp of Midian, the Midianites in their first panic fled down the valley of Jezreel and the Jordan "toward Zererah" (Jg 7:22). Zererah (Zereda...

a'-bel-miz'-ra-im ('abhel mitsrayim, "meadow of Egypt"): A name given to "the threshing floor of Atad," East of the Jordan and North of the Dead Sea, because Joseph and his funeral party from Egypt there held their mourning over Jacob (Ge 50:11). The name is a pun. The Canaanite residents saw the 'e...

a'-bel-shit'-tim ('abhel ha-shiTTim, "the meadow of the Acacias"): The name appears only in Nu 33:49; but the name Shittim is used to denote the same locality (Nu 25:1; Jos 2:1; 3:1; Mic 6:5). The name always has the article, and the best expression of it in English would be "the Acacias." `The vall...

a'-bel-beth-ma'-a-ka ('abhel beth ma`akhah, "the meadow of the house of Maacah"): The name appears in this form in 1Ki 15:20 and 2Ki 15:29. In 2 Sam 20:15 (Hebrew) it is Abel-beth-hammaacah (Maacah with the article). In 20:14 it appears as Beth-maacah, and in 20:14 and 18 as Abel. ⇒See a list of ver...

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(Jg 11:33). See ABEL-CHERAMIM; MEADOW. ...

The American Civil War, Frederick Douglass Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 A General Survey of the Slave Plantation by Frederick Douglass It was generally supposed that slavery in the State of Maryland existed in its mildest form, and that it was totally divested of those harsh and terrible peculiari...

A History Christianity Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Antipapal Movement: Arnold Of Brescia Author: Neander, Johann A. W. St. Bernard And The Second Crusade, A.D. 1145-1155 During the first half of the twelfth century - a period marked by conflicting spiritual tendencies - in Italy began a work of ...

Ancient Carthage Part Three Section II. The Passage Over The Alps The sight of these mountains, whose tops seem to touch the skies, and were covered with snow, and where nothing appeared to the eye but a few pitiful cottages, scattered here and there, on the sharp tops of inaccessible rocks; nothi ...

A History Of France The emergence of France History Of Europe During The Middle AgesAuthor: Hallam, Henry While this page contains a general overview of the beginnings of France, the selections on the left provide a more detailed accountA General Overview From the 9th to the 11th century the peoples...

The Dynamic Culture of the Middle Ages The European High Middle Ages, which lasted from about 1050 to 1300, evoke for many people romantic images of knights in shining armor, magnificent castles, and glorious cathedrals. And to many people, the word medieval (Latin medium aevum; "middle age") wrong...

Nathan Bedford Forrest(1821-1877) With no formal military training, Nathan Bedford Forrest became one of the leading cavalry figures of the Civil War. The native Tennesseean had amassed a fortune, which he estimated at $1,500,000, as a slave trader and plantation owner before enlisting in the Confed...

PHILOSOPHY Edited By; Robert Guisepi An analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs PhilosophersThere was a time when many of the subjects now taught in school were all part of a very broad area called philosophy. Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, sociology, governme...

Beginning And Progress Of The RenaissanceAuthor: Symonds, John AddingtonFourteenth To Sixteenth CenturyThe new birth of resurrection known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the fourteenth century, though some writers would date its origin from the reign of Frederic...

The Renaissance Beginning And Progress Of The Renaissance Edited By: R. A. Guisepi Fourteenth To Sixteenth Century Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and...

Is the Bible an original document or is it just a story based on other documents? Can we even know the answer? Among the present attacks on the Bible's originality, there are two common ones used by anxious atheists and agnostics that doubt the Word of God. If you are unaware of these attacks, then ...

Adler, W. 1989 Time Immemorial: Archaic History and Its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 26. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks.Alexandre, M. 1988 Le commencement du Livre Genèse I-V: La version grecque de la Septante et sa réception. Paris...

From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old TestamentR.H. CharlesOxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913 i 1 This is the story of Adam and Eve after they had gone out of Paradise. And Adam knew his wife2 Eve and went upwards to the sun-rising and abode there eighteen years and two months. And3 Eve c...

I. Abraham lived the measure of his life, nine hundred and ninety-five years, and having lived all the years of his life in quietness, gentleness, and righteousness, the righteous one was exceeding hospitable; for, pitching his tent in the cross-ways at the oak of Mamre, he received every one, both ...

THE GOSPEL OF PSEUDO-MATTHEW HERE beginneth the book of the Birth of the Blessed Mary and the Infancy of the Saviour. Written in Hebrew by the Blessed Evangelist Matthew, and translated into Latin by the Blessed Presbyter Jerome. To their well-beloved brother Jerome the Presbyter, Bishops Cromatius ...

Year AD33Day of Pentecost48Council of Jerusalem64Persecution of church by Nero / Peter marytred.68Paul martyred70Fall of Jerusalem100Death of John100-165Justin Martyr, Philosopher turned Christian. (martyred)d. 110Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop in Antioch who Stressed the Eucherist and the diety of Jes...

Background The practice of performing sacrifices was not a new idea introduced at Mt. Sinai. We find it with Cain and Abel as they offer the Minhah or meal offering. Genesis 4:3 In Abraham's day God requested that he take his son Isaac up to a mountain and sacrifice him. Abraham learned that 'God wi...

Elijah Name Elijahs name means 'My God is Yahweh'. In biblical times a mans name revealed some part of his personality or character. 1 Samuel 25:25 His name was both the explanation of his character and the declaration of his ministry. He is said to be a Tishbite from Tishbe in Gilead. 1 Kings 17:1...

There are many books today that claim to be the Word of God. The Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Mormon, and other religious works all claim to be divinely inspired. The Bible claims to be the only book that is divinely inspired and that all other claims of inspiration from other works should ...

"I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith," &c.-Rev. 2:13. 1. This passage given by John is so graphic of the situation and circumstances of the NOVATIAN and PATERINE churches, that we are constrained to al...

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