Shiloh Thesaurus Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Shi·loh (shī′lō) 1.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 capt...
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.
Bible (ˈbaɪbəl) n 1.(Bible) a.the Biblethe sacred writings of the Christian religion, comprising the Old and New Testaments and, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Apocrypha b.(as modifier):a Bible reading. 2.(Judaism) the English name forTanach ...
A Levite having charge of the sacred treasury in the temple ( 1 Chronicles 26:20 ). One of Solomon's secretaries ( 1 Kings 4:3 ). A prophet of Shiloh ( 1 Kings 11:29 ; 14:2 ), called the "Shilonite," in the days of Rehoboam. We have on record two of his remarkable prop...
5. The Rise of Official Intercession: (The satisfaction of Micah at securing a priest for his house, and the subsequent story, belong rather to the history of official intercession (Judges 18; see below), as also the inquiry of the people through Phinehas at Shiloh (Judges 20:27), and...
2.oftenbible a.A book considered authoritative in its field:the bible of French cooking. b.A document containing in-depth details about a movie or television series that writers and production staff consult in order to avoid continuity errors. ...
3. In the Bible, a divine promise establishing or modifying God's relationship to humanity or to a particular group. 4. One of the agreements supported by a Covenanter. v. cov·e·nant·ed, cov·e·nant·ing, cov·e·nants v.tr. To promise by a covenant. v.intr. To enter int...
priests at Shiloh, and it says that he was the father and grandfather of priests; but it is silent as to his own exercise of the priestly office. We have no information concerning the office from the time when the Philistines captured the ark till Saul became king. SeeAHIJAH;AHIMELECH;...
"Cracknels," a kind of crisp cakes, were among the things Jeroboam directed his wife to take with her when she went to consult Ahijah the prophet at Shiloh ( 1 Kings 14:3 ). Such hard cakes were carried by the Gibeonites when they came to ( Joshua 9:5 Joshua 9:12 ). They ...
battle of Pittsburgh Landing, battle of Shiloh, Shiloh - the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory siege of Vicksburg, Vicksburg - a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863);...