Guest.
GUEST. See Hospitality.
Guests-chamber
GUESTS-CHAMBER. See Chamber.
Guilty Of Blood
GUIL'TY OF BLOOD, Num 35:27, Num 35:31; GUILTY OF DEATH, Matt 26:66; Mark 14:64. This phrase in the last two passages means "deserving of death ;" in the former it means simply "guilty of blood-shedd…
Guni
(painted).
Gunites, The
the descendants of Guni, son of Naphtali. (Numbers 26:48)
Gur
A whelp, a place near Ibleam where Jehu’s servants overtook and mortally wounded king Ahaziah (2 Kings 9:27); an ascent from the plain of Jezreel.
Gur-baal
Sojourn of Baal, a place in Arabia (2 Chr. 26:7) where there was probably a temple of Baal.
Gurbaal
(abode of Baal), a place or district in which dwelt Arabians, as recorded in (2 Chronicles 26:7) It appears from the context to have been in the country lying between Palestine and the Arabian penins…
Gutter
Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered “waterspouts.” It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course. I…
Haahashtari
(the courier), a man or a family immediately descended from Ashur. “father of Tekoa,” by his second wife Naarah. (1 Chronicles 4:6) (B.C. after 1450.)
Habaiah
HABA'IAH (whom Jehovah hides), a priest, the ancestor of some who returned from exile. Ezr 2:61; Neh 7:3.
Habaiah, Or Habajah
(whom Jehovah hides). Bene-Habaiah were among the sons of the priests who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:61; Nehemiah 7:63) (B.C. before 459).
Habakkuk Or Habakkuk
(embrace), the eighth in order of the minor prophets. Of the facts of the prophet’s life we have no certain information. He probably lived about the twelfth or thirteenth year of Josiah, B.C. 630 or …
Habakkuk,
HAB'AKKUK, or HABBAK'KUK (embrace), one of the twelve minor prophets, of whose birth we know neither the time nor the place. He lived in the reign of Jehoiakim or of Josiah. Prophecy of, relates chie…
Habakkuk, Prophecies Of
Were probably written about B.C. 650-627, or, as some think, a few years later. This book consists of three chapters, the contents of which are thus comprehensively described: “When the prophet in sp…
Habakkuk, Prophecy Of
consists of three chapters, in the first of which he foreshadows the invasion of Judea by the Chaldeans, and in the second he foretells the doom of the Chaldeans. The whole concludes with the magnifi…
Habazinaiah
a hiding of the shield of the Lord
Habaziniah
(light of Jehovah), apparently the head of one of the families of the Rechabites. (Jeremiah 35:3) (B.C. before 589.)
Habergeon.
HABERGEON. See Armor.
Habitation
God is the habitation of his people, who find rest and safety in him (Ps. 71:3; 91:9). Justice and judgment are the habitation of God’s throne (Ps. 89:14, Heb. mekhon, “foundation”), because all his …
Habor
The united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks, the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it flowed (1 Chr. 5:26). There is a river called Khabur which …
Hachaliah
(whom Jehovah enlightens), the father of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 1:1; 10:1)
Hachilah
The darksome hill, one of the peaks of the long ridge of el-Kolah, running out of the Ziph plateau, “on the south of Jeshimon” (i.e., of the “waste”), the district to which one looks down from the pl…
Hachilah, Hill Of
HACH'ILAH, HILL OF (the darksome hill), a place in Judah near Ziph, and where David with his 600 followers hid. 1 Sam 23:19; comp. 1 Sam 23:14-15, 1 Sam 23:18; 1 Sam 26:3. Conder was inclined to loca…
Hachilah, The Hill
a hill apparently situated in a wood in the wilderness or waste land in the neighborhood of Ziph, in Judah, in the fastnesses or passes of which David and his six hundred followers were lurking when …
Hachmoni
(wise) Son of, and The Hach’monite. (1 Chronicles 11:11; 27:32) Hachmon or Hachmoni was no doubt the founder of a family to which these men belonged: the actual father of Jashobeam was Zabdiel, (1 Ch…
Hachmoni, Son Of
HACH'MONI, SON OF. The Hachmonites Jehiel and Jashobeam are so spoken of 1 Chr 27:32; 1 Chr 11:11. Hachmon was their ancestor.
Hadad
Adod, brave(?), the name of a Syrian god. (1.) An Edomite king who defeated the Midianites (Gen. 36:35; 1 Chr. 1:46). (2.) Another Edomite king (1 Chr. 1:50, 51), called also Hadar (Gen. 36:39; 1 Chr…
Hadad - Rimmon
HA'DAD - RIM'MON, a place probably named from two Syrian idols, Hadad, the sun-god, and Rimmon. It was in the valley of Megiddo, Zech 12:11, and the scene of a great lamentation over the death of Jos…
Hadadezer,
HADADE'ZER, or HADARE'ZER (Hadad's help), a king of Zobah. He was twice defeated bv King David's armies. 2 Sam 8:3; 2 Sam 10:16. On the first occasion 20,000 of the enemy were slain and 1000 chariots…