In the Bible, the Israelite judge and powerful warrior who was betrayed to the Philistines by Delilah. Sam·son2 (săm′sən) n. A man of great physical strength. Sam·so′ni·an(săm-sō′nē-ən)adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyri...
Shiloh: An ancient village of central Palestine northwest of the Dead Sea. In the Bible, it was a meeting place and sanctuary for the Israelites and the site of a tabernacle where the Ark of the Covenant was kept until its capture by the Philistines.
1. religious writings of disputed origin, regarded by many author-ities as uncanonical. 2.(capitalized)a group of 15 books, not part of the canonical Hebrew Bible, but present in the Septuagint and Vulgate and hence accepted by some as biblical. —apocryphal,adj. ...
The scepter shall not depart from Judah - until Shiloh come. Gen. 49. 4. To the point or place of. In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth seems join'd unto the sky. 5. To the degree that. Thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed. 2Chron. 18. ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Oct 27, 2024 • Article History Hebrew: Har Ha-Bayit Also called: Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharīf (Arabic: “The Noble Sanctuary”) Key People: Benjamin Mazar Related Topics: Temple of Jerusalem Related Places: Jerusalem See all related conte...
In a few minutes he had Shiloh enraptured at the wood-lore he told her,—even Bull Run and Seven Days, Atlanta and Appomattox were listening in amazement, so interesting becomes nature's story ...— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood ...
Shiloh (1 Kings 14:3). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to (Joshua 9:5Joshua 9:12). They described their bread as "mouldy;" but the Hebrew wordnikuddim, here used, ought rather to be rendered "hard as biscuit." It is rendered "cracknels" in1 Kings ...
Yiddish- a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script adult female,woman- an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" ...
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