Emerod
See HAEMORRHOIDS.
Emerods.
EM'ERODS. 1 Sam 5:6, 1 Sam 5:9. The name of a painful disease sent upon the Philistines: probably it resembled the modern disease of the piles. It was customary with the heathens to offer to their go…
Emims
Terrors, a warlike tribe of giants who were defeated by Chedorlaomer and his allies in the plain of Kiriathaim. In the time of Abraham they occupied the country east of Jordan, afterwards the land of…
Emmanuel.
EMMAN'UEL. See Immanuel.
Emmaus
Hot baths, a village “three-score furlongs” from jerusalem, where our Lord had an interview with two of his disciples on the day of his resurrection (Luke 24:13). This has been identified with the mo…
Emmaus, Or Emmaus
(warm baths), the village to which the two disciples were going when our Lord appeared to them on the way, on the day of his resurrection. (Luke 24:13) Luke makes its distance from Jerusalem sixty st…
Emmor
An ass, Acts 7:16. (See HAMOR.)
En
at the beginning of many Hebrew words, signifies a spring or fountain.
En-dor
EN'-DOR (spring of Dor),a placein Issachar, possessed by Manasseh, Josh 17:11, where Sisera and Jabin were slain, Ps 83:9-10, and where Saul consulted the witch, 1 Sam 28:7. It is now a miserable vil…
En-eglaim
Fountain of two calves, a place mentioned only in Ezek. 47:10. Somewhere near the Dead Sea.
En-eglaim, Or En-eglaim
EN-EG'LAIM, OR EN-EGLA'IM (fountain of two heifers), apparently a place near the Dead Sea, and possibly 'Ain-Ajlah, as suggested by De Sanley. Eze 47:10.
En-gannim
Fountain of gardens. (1.) A town in the plains of Judah (Josh. 15:34), north-west of Jerusalem, between Zanoah and Tappuah. It is the modern Umm Jina. (2.) A city on the border of Machar (Josh. 19:21…
En-gedi
EN-GE'DI (fountain of the kid), a place in Judah. on the west side of the Dead Sea, Josh 15:62; Eze 47:10, about midway between its northern and southern ends. History.-En-gedi was first called Hazez…
En-haddah
EN-HAD'DAH (swift fountain), a place in Issachar. Josh 19:21. Van de Velde and Thomson suggest as its site 'Ain Haud, on the western slope of Mount Carmel, 2 miles from the sea. Grove questions this …
En-hakkore
Fountain of the crier, the name of the spring in Lehi which burst forth in answer to Samson’s prayer when he was exhausted with the slaughter of the Philistines (Judg. 15:19). It has been identified …
En-hazor
EN-HA'ZOR(spring of the village), a city of Naphtali, near Kedesh, Josh 19:37; now, perhaps, Hazireh, a ruin near Dihl.
En-mishpat
EN-MISH'PAT (fountain of judgment). Gen 14:7. See Kadesh.
En-rimmon
EN-RIM'MON (fountain of the pomegranate), perhaps the same as Ain and Rimmon, Josh 15:32, and Ain Remmon, Josh 19:7. and Ain Rimmon. 1 Chr 4:32; Neh 11:29. Van de Velde and Wilton place it at Um er-R…
En-rogel
Fountain of the treaders; i.e., “foot-fountain;” also called the “fullers’ fountain,” because fullers here trod the clothes in water. It has been identified with the “fountain of the virgin” (q.v.), …
En-shemesh
Fountain of the sun a spring which formed one of the landmarks on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin (Josh. 15:7; 18:17). It was between the “ascent of Adummim” and the spring of En-rogel, and h…
En-tappuah
EN-TAP'PUAH (apple, or citron spring), a place in Manasseh. Josh 17:7. See Tappuah.
Enabled
ENA'BLED, in 1 Tim 1:12, means "qualified."
Enajim
ENA'JIM (gate of two eyes), a marginal reading in Gen 38:14, 2 Chr 11:21, which some scholars understand to mean a place identical with Enam. Tayler Lewis regards the idea that it refers to a city as…
Enam
(double spring), one of the cities of Judah int he Shefelah or lowland. (Joshua 15:34)
Enan
(having eyes.). Ahira ben-Enan was “prince” of the tribe of Naphtali at the time of the numbering of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. (Numbers 1:15) (B.C. 1491.)
Encamp
An encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter period of an army or company of travellers (Ex. 13:20; 14:19; Josh. 10:5; 11:5). The manner in which the Israelites encamped during their m…
Encampment.
ENCAMPMENT. See Camp.
Enchantments.
ENCHANT'MENTS. This word is the translation of several Hebrew terms. It comprehends the tricks of the Egyptian magicians, Ex 7:11, Josh 11:22; Neh 8:7; the omens Balaam used. Num 24:1; the charming o…
End
In Heb. 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word ekbasin, meaning “outcome”, i.e., death. It occurs only elsewhere in 1 Cor. 10:13, where it is rendered “escape.”
Endor
Fountain of Dor; i.e., “of the age”, a place in the territory of Issachar (Josh. 17:11) near the scene of the great victory which was gained by Deborah and Barak over Sisera and Jabin (comp. Ps. 83:9…