Hands, Laying On Of.
HANDS, LAYING ON OF. See Hand.
Handstaves
HAND'STAVES, darts or javelins. Eze 39:9.
Handwriting
(Col. 2:14). The “blotting out the handwriting” is the removal by the grace of the gospel of the condemnation of the law which we had broken.
Hanes,
HA'NES, a city of Egypt, Isa 30:4, and generally identified with Heracleopolis, "Hercules' city," in middle Egypt, on the west of the Nile; but the Chaldee paraphrast reads Tahpanhes, thus identifyin…
Hanging, Hangings.
HANGING, HANGINGS. The words are not the singular and plural of the same word in the Hebrew, but are translations of quite different words. The "hanging" — literally, "a cover" — is the word for the …
Hanging.
HANG'ING. According to Jewish law, the criminal was first strangled and then hanged. Num 25:4; Deut 21:22. The body was to be taken down before sunset. It was a special mark of infamy and a curse, De…
Haniel
(grace of God), one of the sons of Ulla of the tribe of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:39)
Hannah
Favour, grace, one of the wives of Elkanah the Levite, and the mother of Samuel (1 Sam. 1; 2). Her home was at Ramathaim-zophim, whence she was wont every year to go to Shiloh, where the tabernacle h…
Hannathon
(gracious), one of the cities of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:14)
Hanniel
Grace of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh (Num. 34:23). (2.) A chief of the tribe of Asher (1 Chr. 7:39).
Hanoch
(dedicated).
Hanochites
HANOCHITES, THE, the descendants of Hanoch, Num 26:5.
Hanochites, The
HANOCHITES, THE, the descendants of Hanoch, Num 26:5.
Hanun
Graciously given. (1.) The son and successor of Nahash, king of Moab. David’s messengers, sent on an embassy of condolence to him to Rabbah Ammon, his capital, were so grossly insulted that he procla…
Hapharaim
searching; digging
Haphraim
(two pits), a city of Issachar, mentioned next to Shunem. (Joshua 19:19) About 6 miles northeast of Lejjun, and two miles west of Solam (the ancient Shunem), stands the village of el’ Afuleh, which m…
Har Sha
HAR' SHA (deaf), ancestor of some who returned with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:52; Neh 7:54.
Hara
Mountainous land, a province of Assyria (1 Chr. 5:26), between the Tigris and the Euphrates, along the banks of the Khabur, to which some of the Israelite captives were carried. It has not been ident…
Haradah
Fright; fear, the twenty-fifth station of the Israelites in their wanderings (Num. 33:24).
Haran
(1.) Heb. haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees. (2.) …
Hararite
(the mountaineer), The. The destination of three of David’s guard.
Hararite, The
HA'RARITE, THE (the mountaineer), the designation of three persons in connection with David's guard. Agee, 2 Sam 23:11. Shammah, 2 Sam 23:33. Sharar, 2 Sam 23:33; called Sacar, 1 Chr 11:35.
Harbona
(a Persian word meaning “ass-driver”), one of the seven eunuchs or chamberlains of king Ahasuerus (Esther 1:10; 7:9).
Harbonah,
HARBO'NAH, the same person as above, Esth 7:9.
Hardness
HARDNESS, 1 Kgs 20:11. In this passage and some others the word denotes armor. The phrase "made ready his chariot," Ex 14:6, literally means, in modern phraseology, "tackled," or "put to, his horses.…
Hare,
HARE, Deut 14:7. Of the hare, which resembles the rabbit, five species or varieties are found in Palestine. This animal was declared unclean by the Jewish law, Lev 11:6, "because he cheweth the cud, …
Harem
[House]
Hareph
(a plucking off), a name occurring in the genealogies of Judah as a son of Caleb and as “father of Bethgader.” (1 Chronicles 2:51) only.
Hareth
Thicket, a wood in the mountains of Judah where David hid when pursued by Saul (1 Sam. 22:5). It was possibly while he was here that the memorable incident narrated in 2 Sam. 23:14-17, 1 Chr. 11:16-1…
Harhaiah
Zeal of Jehovah, (Neh. 3:8) “of the goldsmiths,” one whose son helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem.