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Indeed, if anything is to be inferred from the meaning of the name Adam, it would go to make him the parent, not of the Caucasian, but of the copper-colored or Tartar tribes. — ED. To those who think the language of the Bible contemplates Adam as "the first being who could be ...
The mountains of brass, in Zec 6:1, are understood by Vitringa to denote those firm and immutable decrees by which God governs the world, and it is difficult to affix any other meaning to the phrase (comp. Ps 36:6). SEE METAL; SEE BRAZEN. ...
akin to the chalcedony, valued for its hardness, which, however, did not render it incapable of being cut. The most beautiful specimens come from Arabia (Niebuhr,Beschr.page 142). Josephus(War,5:5, 7) assigns the above. meaning to the word; but elsewhere(Ant.1.c.) he calls it the...
in loc.) considers the color itself to be unmeaning, and that the prophet has added the term strong (A. V. "bay") by way of explanation; Hitzig (Comm. in loc.) explains it, in a peculiar manner, of the complexion of the Egyptians. It remains for us now to notice the various ...
Thus Dido is found to belong to the same root as David, "beloved;" meaning "his love" or "delight:" i.e., the love or delight either of Baal or of her husband: Hasdrubal is the man "whose help Baal is:" Hamilcar the man whom the god "Milcar graciously granted" (comp. Hana...
Whatever be the meaning of chashmal, for which no satisfactory etymology has been proposed, there can be but little, doubt that by ἤλεκτρον the Sept. translators intended, not the fossil resin known by that name to the Greeks and to us as "amber," but the metal so called,...
(as if the figures cut out of amber made by an experienced master) to chat in their southern dialect. Like Diocletian. Celestial body rests in the body of honey and dryness. We hear Caesar’s steps: the sword of gods moves towards the hero, who is invisible behind the smoke from an ...