It should be "harlots" — "and the harlots washed themselves there" (early in the morning, as was their custom, adds Procopius of Gaza). The Sept. has rendered this correctly. The "strange women" of Pr 2:16, etc., were foreigners, zaroth. SEE HARLOT. ...
⇒Definition of marriage (5) the subordination of the wife to the husband, consequent upon her subsequent formation (1Co 11:8-9; 1Ti 2:13); and (6) the respective duties of man and wife, as implied in the words "help meet for him." ⇒See also the International Standard Bible...
We have seen that the parents who sacrificed their children to Molech were in such agony over the requirement to sacrifice their child that measures were taken to drown out the screams of the burning child. We all know of those among us who refused a simple procedure to remove a small skin...
With a zeal that, though mixed with baser elements, foreshadows the zeal of Phinehas, they glory in their deed, and meet all remonstrance with the question, "Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?" Of other facts in the life of Levi, there are none in which he takes, as...
liberality), signifies the prodigal wages of a harlot (Eze 16:35). 5. In Greek the usual terms are some derivative from δίδωμι, to give, namely δόμα, a gift, simply, it is the thing given (Mt 7:11; Lu 11:13; Eph 4:8; Php 4:17), δόσις, the act ...
The notices of it are few; and in each instance it seems to have been used as a meretricious art, unworthy of a woman of high character. Thus Jezebel "put her eyes in painting" (2Ki 9:30, margin); Jeremiah says of the harlot city, "Though thou rentest thy eyes with painting" (...
⇒Definition of nine Calcined sculptured alabaster, charcoal and charred wood buried in masses of brick and earth, slabs and statues split with heat, were objects continually encountered by Mr. Layard and his fellow-laborers at Khorsabad, Nimrud, and Kuyunjik. From a comparison of these dat...