Chedorlaomer
(= Khudur-Lagamar of the inscriptions), king of Elam. Many centuries before the age of Abraham, Canaan and even the Sinaitic peninsula had been conquered by Babylonian kings, and in the time of Abrah…
Chedorlaomer, Or Chedorlaomer
(handful of sheaves), a king of Elam, in the time of Abraham, who with three other chiefs made war upon the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Zoar, and reduced them to servitude. (Genesis 1…
Cheek
Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10; Lam. 3:30; Micah 5:1). The admonition (Luke 6:29), “Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other,” mean…
Cheese
(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.) 1 Sam. 17:18, “ten cheeses;” i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2 Sam. 17:29…
Chelal
(perfection), (Ezra 10:30) one who had a strange wife.
Chelluh
(completed), (Ezra 10:35) another like the above.
Chelub
CHE'LUB (fruit-basket, or birdcage). One of Judah's posterity. 1 Chr 4:11. The father of one of David's officers. 1 Chr 27:26.
Chelubai
(capable), the son of Hezron. Same as Caleb. (1 Chronicles 2:9,18,42)
Chemarim
Black, (Zeph. 1:4; rendered “idolatrous priests” in 2 Kings 23:5, and “priests” in Hos. 10:5). Some derive this word from the Assyrian Kamaru, meaning “to throw down,” and interpret it as describing …
Chemarim, The
(those who go about in black, i.e. ascetics). In the Hebrew applied to the priests of the worship of false gods. (2 Kings 23:5; Hosea 10:5) in margin; (Zephaniah 1:4)
Chemarims
CHEM'ARIMS (those who go about in black ;i.e. ascetics), priests of false gods. Zeph 1:4; 2 Kgs 23:5, margin; Hos 10:5, margin.
Chemosh
The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites (Num. 21:29; Jer. 48:7, 13, 46). The worship of this god, “the abomination of Moab,” was introduced at Jerusalem by Solomon (1 Kings 11:7)…
Chenaanah
Merchant. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 7:10). (2.) The father of Zedekiah (1 Kings 22:11, 24).
Chenaiah
Whom Jehovah hath made. “Chief of the Levites,” probably a Kohathite (1 Chr. 15:22), and therefore not the same as mentioned in 26:29.
Chenani
CHEN'ANI (contracted from next name), a Levite who took part in the purification of the people under Ezra. Neh 9:4.
Chenaniah
(established by the Lord), chief of the Levites when David carried the ark to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 15:22; 26:29)
Chenanv Ah
CHENANV AH (whom Jehovah hath made), a Levite chief in David's reign. 1 Chr 15:22, Gen 1:27; 1 Chr 26:29.
Chephar-haammonai
CHE'PHAR-HAAM'MONAI (village of Ammonites), a village of Benjamin. Josh 18:24.
Chepharhaammonai
(hamlet of the Ammonites), a place mentioned among the town of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:24)
Chephirah
Village, one of the four cities of the Gibeonitish Hivites with whom Joshua made a league (9:17). It belonged to Benjamin. It has been identified with the modern Kefireh, on the west confines of Benj…
Cheran
(lyre), one of the sons of Dishon the Horite “duke.” (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41)
Cherethim
(Ezek. 25:16), more frequently Cherethites, the inhabitants of Southern Philistia, the Philistines (Zeph. 2:5). The Cherethites and the Pelethites were David’s life-guards (1 Sam. 30:14; 2 Sam. 8:18;…
Cherethims
Cherethites, who cut or tear away
Cherethites
(executioners) and of King David. (2 Samuel 8:18; 15:18; 20:7,23; 1 Kings 1:38,44; 1 Chronicles 18:17) It is plain that these royal guards were employed as executioners., (2 Kings 11:4) and as courie…
Cherith
A cutting; separation; a gorge, a torrent-bed or winter-stream, a “brook,” in whose banks the prophet Elijah hid himself during the early part of the three years’ drought (1 Kings 17:3, 5). It has by…
Cherith, The Brook
(cutting, ravine), the torrent-bed or wady in which Elijah hid himself during the early part of the three-years drought. (1 Kings 17:3,5) The position of the Cherith has been much disputed. The argum…
Cherub
Plural cherubim, the name of certain symbolical figures frequently mentioned in Scripture. They are first mentioned in connection with the expulsion of our first parents from Eden (Gen. 3:24). There …
Cherub, Cherubim
The symbolical figure so called was a composite creature-form which finds a parallel in the religious insignia of Assyria, Egypt and Persia, e.g. the sphinx, the winged bulls and lions of Nineveh, et…
Chesalon
Strength; confidence, a place on the border of Judah, on the side of Mount Jearim (Josh. 15:10); probably identified with the modern village of Kesla, on the western mountains of Judah.
Chesed
Gain, the son of Nahor (Gen. 22:22).