gil'-e-ad-its:
⇒See a list of verses on GILEAD in the Bible.
(1) A branch of the tribe of Manasseh (Nu 26:29).
(2) Natives of the district of Gilead (Jg 10:3; 11:1, etc.).
⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
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gil'-e-ad (ha-gil`adh, "the Gilead"): The name is explained in Ge 31:46 ff,51, as derived from Hebrew gal, "a cairn," and `edh, "witness," agreeing in meaning with the Aramaic yegharsahadhutha'. The Arabic jilead means "rough," "rugged."
(1) A city named in Ho 6:8; 12:11, possibly to be identified w...
(gil`adh):
⇒See a list of verses on GILEAD in the Bible.
(1) A son of Machir, grandson of Manasseh (Nu 26:29-30).
(2) The father of Jephthah (Jg 11:1-2).
⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
(3) A Gadite, the son of Michael (1Ch 5:14).
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ja'-besh-gil'-e-ad (yabhesh gil`adh; or simply yabhish, "dry"): A city East of the Jordan, in the deliverance of which from Nahash the Ammonite Saul's military prowess was first displayed (1Sa 11:1 ff). At an earlier time the inhabitants failed to share with their brethren in taking vengeance upon B...
ra'-moth-gil'-e-ad (ramoth gil'adh; Codex Vaticanus Rhemmath Galadd; Codex Alexandrinus Rhammoth, and other forms): A great and strong city East of the Jordan in the territory of Gad, which played an important part in the wars of Israel. It is first mentioned in connection with the appointment of th...
The people of Jericho today prepare for the benefit of pilgrims a "Balm of Gilead" from the zaqqum (Balanites Aegyptiaca), but this has no serious claims to be the balm of antiquity. If we are to look beyond the borders of modern Palestine we may credit the tradition which claims that Mecca balsam, ...
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Why should we value life?
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The subject of Biblical archaeology is a vast one, so it will be necessary to confine comments here to only a few of the multitude of cases in which archaeological discoveries have vindicated Biblical claims.
At many times in the past, scholars have assumed the Bible to be inaccurate until new archa...
Jdt.1
[1] In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana --[2] he is the king who built walls about Ecbatana with hewn stones three cubits thick and six cubits long; he made ...
From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old TestamentR.H. CharlesOxford: Clarendon Press, 1913
[Chapter 1]
1. And it came to pass in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah that he
2. called Manasseh his son. Now he was his only one. And he called him into the presence of I...
Judah
Kings of Israel & Judah
Statistics of the Kings
Rehoboam
Shishak's Inscription
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Introduction
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Elijah
Name
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Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia
12:1 When this agreement had been reached, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming.
2 But some of the governors in various places, Timothy and Apollonius son of Gennaeus, as well as Hieronymus and Demophon, and in addition to these Nicanor the...
