Easton’s dictionary

Nearly 4,000 clear, readable entries on the people, places, words and ideas of the Bible, by a Scottish minister. A good first place to look.

• Eagle(Herb. nesher; properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its...
• EarUsed frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). To “uncover the ear” is to show...
• EaringAn Old English word (from the Latin aro, I plough), meaning “ploughing.” It is used in...
• EarnestThe Spirit is the earnest of the believer’s destined inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5;...
• EarringsRings properly for the ear (Gen. 35:4; Num. 31:50; Ezek. 16:12). In Gen. 24:47 the...
• Earth(1.) In the sense of soil or ground, the translation of the word adamah’. In Gen. 9:20...
• EarthquakeMentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine (Ps. 18:7; comp. Hab. 3:6;...
• East(1.) The orient (mizrah); the rising of the sun. Thus “the east country” is the...
• East Gate(Jer. 19:2), properly the Potter’s gate, the gate which led to the potter’s field, in...
• East Sea(Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18), the Dead Sea, which lay on the east side of the Holy Land....
• East WindThe wind coming from the east (Job 27:21; Isa. 27:8, etc.). Blight caused by this...
• East, Children of theThe Arabs as a whole, known as the Nabateans or Kedarenes, nomad tribes (Judg. 6:3,33;...
• EasterOriginally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom...
• EatingThe ancient Hebrews would not eat with the Egyptians (Gen. 43:32). In the time of our...
• EbalStony. (1.) A mountain 3,076 feet above the level of the sea, and 1,200 feet above the...
• EbedSlave, the father of Gaal, in whom the men of Shechem “put confidence” in their...
• Ebed-MelechA servant of the king; probably an official title, an Ethiopian, “one of the eunuchs...
• Eben-EzerStone of help, the memorial stone set up by Samuel to commemorate the divine...
• EberBeyond. (1.). The third post-duluvian patriach after Shem (Gen. 10:24; 11:14). He is...
• EbonyA black, hard wood, brought by the merchants from India to Tyre (Ezek. 27:15). It is...
• EbronahPassage, one of the stations of the Israelites in their wanderings (Num. 33:34, 35)....
• Ecbatana(Ezra 6:2 marg.). (See ACHMETHA.)
• EcclesiastesThe Greek rendering of the Hebrew Koheleth, which means “Preacher.” The old and...
• EclipseOf the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were...
• EdWitness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but...
• EdarTower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebron, near which Jacob first...
• EdenDelight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No...
• EderFlock. (1.) A city in the south of Judah, on the border of Idumea (Josh. 15:21). (2.)...
• Edom(1.) The name of Esau (q.v.), Gen. 25:30, “Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red...
• EdreiMighty; strength. (1.) One of the chief towns of the kingdom of Bashan (Josh. 12:4,...
• Effectual CallSee CALL.
• Effectual PrayerOccurs in Authorized Version, James 5:16. The Revised Version renders appropriately:...
• Egg(Heb. beytsah, “whiteness”). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an...
• EglahA heifer, one of David’s wives, and mother of Ithream (2 Sam. 3:5; 1 Chr. 3:3)....
• EglaimTwo ponds, (Isa. 15:8), probably En-eglaim of Ezek. 47:10.
• EglonThe bullock; place of heifers. (1.) Chieftain or king of one of the Moabite tribes...
• EgyptThe land of the Nile and the pyramids, the oldest kingdom of which we have any record,...
• EhudUnion. (1.) A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:10), his great-grandson. (2.) The son...
• EkronFirm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the...
• El-BethelGod of Bethel, the name of the place where Jacob had the vision of the ladder, and...
• El-Elohe-IsrealMighty one; God of Israel, the name which Jacob gave to the alter which he erected on...
• ElahTerebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed...
• ElamHighland, the son of Shem (Gen. 10:22), and the name of the country inhabited by his...
• ElasahGod made. (1.) One of the descendants of Judah, of the family of Hezron (1 Chr. 2:39,...
• ElathGrove; trees, (Deut. 2:8), also in plural form Eloth (1 Kings 9:26, etc.); called by...
• EldadWhom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to...
• ElderA name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with...
• ElealehGod has ascended, a place in the pastoral country east of Jordan, in the tribe of...
• EleazarGod has helped. (1.) The third son of Aaron (Ex. 6:23). His wife, a daughter of...
• Elect LadyTo whom the Second Epistle of John is addressed (2 John 1:1). Some think that the word...
• Election of GraceThe Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and...
• ElementsIn its primary sense, as denoting the first principles or constituents of things, it...
• ElephantNot found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos)...
• ElhananWhom God has graciously bestowed. (1.) A warrior of the time of David famed for his...
• EliAscent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3, 9). He was the first...
• EliabTo whom God is father. (1.) A Reubenite, son of Pallu (Num. 16:1, 12; 26:8, 9; Deut....
• EliadaWhom God cares for. (1.) One of David’s sons born after his establishment in Jerusalem...
• EliakimWhom God will raise up. (1.) The son of Melea (Luke 3:30), and probably grandson of...
• EliamGod’s people. (1.) The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah (2 Sam. 11:3). In 1 Chr....
• EliasThe Greek form of Elijah (Matt. 11:14; 16:14, etc.), which the Revised Version has...
• EliashibWhom God will restore. (1.) A priest, head of one of the courses of the priests of the...
• EliathahTo whom God will come, one of the foureen sons of the Levite Heman, and musician of...
• ElidadWhom God has loved, son of Chislon, and chief of the tribe of Benjamin; one of those...
• ElielTo whom God is might. (1.) A chief of Manasseh, on the east of Jordan (1 Chr. 5:24)....
• EliezerGod his help. (1.) “Of Damascus,” the “steward” (R.V., “possessor”) of Abraham’s house...
• ElihuWhose God is he. (1.) “The son of Barachel, a Buzite” (Job 32:2), one of Job’s...
• ElijahWhose God is Jehovah. (1.) “The Tishbite,” the “Elias” of the New Testament, is...
• ElikaGod is his rejector, one of David’s thirty-seven distinguished heros (2 Sam. 23:25).
• ElimTrees, (Ex. 15:27; Num. 33:9), the name of the second station where the Israelites...
• ElimelechGod his king, a man of the tribe of Judah, of the family of the Hezronites, and...
• ElioenaiToward Jehovah are my eyes, the name of several men mentioned in the Old Testament (1...
• EliphaletGod his deliverance, one of David’s sons (2 Sam. 5:16); called also Eliphelet (1 Chr. 3:8).
• EliphazGod his strength. (1.) One of Job’s “three friends” who visited him in his affliction...
• EliphelehGod will distinguish him, one of the porters appointed to play “on the Sheminith” on...
• ElipheletGod his deliverance. (1.) One of David’s distinguished warriors (2 Sam. 23:34); called...
• ElisabethGod her oath, the mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5). She was a descendant of...
• ElishaGod his salvation, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, who became the attendant and...
• ElishahThe oldest of the four sons of Javan (Gen. 10:4), whose descendants peopled Greece. It...
• ElishamaWhom God hears. (1.) A prince of Benjamin, grandfather of Joshua (Num. 1:10; 1 Chr....
• ElishaphatWhom God has judged, one of the “captains of hundreds” associated with Jehoiada in the...
• ElishebaGod is her oath, the daughter of Amminadab and the wife of Aaron (Ex. 6:23).
• ElishuaGod his salvation, a son of David, 2 Sam. 5:15 = Elishama, 1 Chr. 3:6.
• ElkanahGod-created. (1.) The second son of Korah (Ex. 6:24), or, according to 1 Chr. 6:22,...
• ElkoshGod my bow, the birth-place of Nahum the prophet (Nah. 1:1). It was probably situated...
• EllasarThe oak or heap of Assyria, a territory in Asia of which Arioch was king (Gen. 14:1,...
• ElmHos. 4:13; rendered “terebinth” in the Revised Version. It is the Pistacia terebinthus...
• ElnathanWhom God has given. (1.) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, the father of Nehushta, who was...
• ElonOak. (1.) A city of Dan (Josh. 19:43). (2.) A Hittite, father of Bashemath, Esau’s...
• ElparanOak of Paran, a place on the edge of the wilderness bordering the territory of the...
• EltekehGod is its fear, a city in the tribe of Dan. It was a city of refuge and a Levitical...
• Elul(Neh. 6:15), the name of the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year, and the twelfth...
• ElymasMagician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and...
• EmbalmingThe process of preserving a body by means of aromatics (Gen. 50:2, 3, 26). This art...
• EmbroiderThe art of embroidery was known to the Jews (Ex. 26:36; 35:35; 38:23; Judg. 5:30; Ps....
• EmeraldHeb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the “glowing stone”, probably the carbuncle, a...
• EmerodSee HAEMORRHOIDS.
• EmimsTerrors, a warlike tribe of giants who were defeated by Chedorlaomer and his allies in...
• EmmanuelGod with us, Matt. 1:23). (See IMMANUEL.)
• EmmausHot baths, a village “three-score furlongs” from jerusalem, where our Lord had an...
• EmmorAn ass, Acts 7:16. (See HAMOR.)
• En-EglaimFountain of two calves, a place mentioned only in Ezek. 47:10. Somewhere near the Dead Sea.
• En-GannimFountain of gardens. (1.) A town in the plains of Judah (Josh. 15:34), north-west of...
• En-HakkoreFountain of the crier, the name of the spring in Lehi which burst forth in answer to...
• En-RogelFountain of the treaders; i.e., “foot-fountain;” also called the “fullers’ fountain,”...
• En-ShemeshFountain of the sun a spring which formed one of the landmarks on the boundary between...
• EncampAn encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter period of an army or...
• Enchantments(1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,”...
• EndIn Heb. 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word ekbasin, meaning “outcome”,...
• EndorFountain of Dor; i.e., “of the age”, a place in the territory of Issachar (Josh....
• EngediFountain of the kid, place in the wilderness of Judah (Josh. 15:62), on the western...
• Engines(1.) Heb. hishalon i.e., “invention” (as in Eccl. 7:29) contrivances indicating...
• EngraverHeb. harash (Ex. 35:35; 38:23) means properly an artificer in wood, stone, or metal....
• EnmityDeep-rooted hatred. “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed...
• EnochInitiated. (1.) The eldest son of Cain (Gen. 4:17), who built a city east of Eden in...
• EnosMan the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine...
• Ensign(1.) Heb. ‘oth, a military standard, especially of a single tribe (Num. 2:2). Each...
• EntertainEntertainments, “feasts,” were sometimes connected with a public festival (Deut....
• EpaenetusCommendable, a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent his salutation (Rom. 16:5). He is...
• EpaphrasLovely, spoken of by Paul (Col. 1:7; 4:12) as “his dear fellow-servant,” and “a...
• EpaphroditusFair, graceful; belonging to Aphrodite or Venus the messenger who came from Phillipi...
• EphahGloom. (1.) One of the five sons of Midian, and grandson of Abraham (Gen. 25:4). The...
• EpherA calf. (1.) One of the sons of Midian, who was Abraham’s son by Keturah (Gen. 25:4)....
• Ephes-DammimBoundary of blood, a place in the tribe of Judah where the Philistines encamped when...
• Ephesians, Epistle toWas written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in...
• EphesusThe capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was...
• EphodSomething girt, a sacred vestment worn originally by the high priest (Ex. 28:4),...
• EphphathaThe Greek form of a Syro-Chaldaic or Aramaic word, meaning “Be opened,” uttered by...
• EphraimDouble fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”)....
• Ephraim in the Wilderness(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised...
• Ephraim, Gate ofOne of the gates of Jerusalem (2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chr. 25:23), on the side of the city...
• Ephraim, MountThe central mountainous district of Palestine occupied by the tribe of Ephraim (Josh....
• Ephraim, the Tribe ofTook precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob’s blessing (Gen. 41:52;...
• Ephraim, Wood ofA forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of...
• EphratahFruitful. (1.) The second wife of Caleb, the son of Hezron, mother of Hur, and...
• EphrathiteA citizen of Ephratah, the old name of Bethlehem (Ruth 1:2; 1 Sam. 17:12), or Bethlehem-Judah.
• EphronFawn-like. (1.) The son of Zohar a Hittite, the owner of the field and cave of...
• EpicureansFollowers of Epicurus (who died at Athens B.C. 270), or adherents of the Epicurean...
• EpistlesThe apostolic letters. The New Testament contains twenty-one in all. They are divided...
• ErastusBeloved. (1.) The “chamberlain” of the city of Corinth (Rom. 16:23), and one of Paul’s...
• Erech(LXX., “Orech”), length, or Moon-town, one of the cities of Nimrod’s kingdom in the...
• EsaiasThe Greek form for Isaiah, constantly used in the Authorized Version of the New...
• EsarhaddonAssur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38). He...
• EsauHairy, Rebekah’s first-born twin son (Gen. 25:25). The name of Edom, “red”, was also...
• EschewFrom old French eschever, “to flee from” (Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 1 Pet. 3:11).
• EsdraelonThe Greek form of the Hebrew “Jezreel,” the name of the great plain (called by the...
• EsekQuarrel, a well which Isaac’s herdsmen dug in the valley of Gerar, and so called...
• EshbaalMan of Baal, the fourth son of king Saul (1 Chr. 8:33; 9:39). He is also called...
• EshcolBunch; brave. (1.) A young Amoritish chief who joined Abraham in the recovery of Lot...
• EsheanA place in the mountains of Judah (Josh.15:52), supposed to be the ruin es-Simia, near...
• EshtaolNarrow pass or recess, a town (Josh. 15:33) in the low country, the She-phelah of...
• EshtemoaObedience, a town in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 21:14; 1 Chr. 6:57), which was...
• Espouse(2 Sam. 3:14), to betroth. The espousal was a ceremony of betrothing, a formal...
• EssenesA Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees. They affected great purity....
• EstherThe queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess...
• Esther, Book ofThe authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the...
• EtamEyrie. (1.) A village of the tribe of Simeon (1 Chr. 4:32). Into some cleft (“top,”...
• Eternal DeathThe miserable fate of the wicked in hell (Matt. 25:46; Mark 3:29; Heb. 6:2; 2 Thess....
• Eternal LifeThis expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R.V., “everlasting...
• Eth-BaalWith Baal, a king of Sidon (B.C. 940-908), father of Jezebel, who was the wife of Ahab...
• EthamPerhaps another name for Khetam, or “fortress,” on the Shur or great wall of Egypt,...
• EthanFirm. (1.) “The Ezrahite,” distinguished for his wisdom (1 Kings 4:31). He is named as...
• EthanimThe month of gifts, i.e., of vintage offerings; called Tisri after the Exile;...
• EthiopiaCountry of burnt faces; the Greek word by which the Hebrew Cush is rendered (Gen....
• Ethiopian EunuchThe chief officer or prime minister of state of Candace (q.v.), queen of Ethiopia. He...
• Ethiopian WomanThe wife of Moses (Num. 12:1). It is supposed that Zipporah, Moses’ first wife (Ex....
• EuniceHappily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek...
• EunuchLiterally bed-keeper or chamberlain, and not necessarily in all cases one who was...
• EuodiasA good journey, a female member of the church at Philippi. She was one who laboured...
• EuphratesHebrew, Perath; Assyrian, Purat; Persian cuneiform, Ufratush, whence Greek Euphrates,...
• EuroclydonSouth-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the Adriatic Gulf, and which...
• EutychusFortunate, (Acts 20:9-12), a young man of Troas who fell through drowsiness from the...
• EvangelistA “publisher of glad tidings;” a missionary preacher of the gospel (Eph. 4:11). This...
• EveLife; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her...
• EveningThe period following sunset with which the Jewish day began (Gen. 1:5; Mark 13:35)....
• EverlastingEternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps. 41:13; 90:2). We also read of...
• Evil Eye(Prov. 23:6), figuratively, the envious or covetous. (Comp. Deut. 15:9; Matt. 20:15.)
• Evil-MerodachMerodach’s man, the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings...
• Evil-SpeakingIs expressly forbidden (Titus 3:2; James 4:11), and severe punishments are denounced...
• ExampleOf Christ (1 Pet. 2:21; John 13:15); of pastors to their flocks (Phil. 3:17; 2 Thess....
• Executioner(Mark 6:27). Instead of the Greek word, Mark here uses a Latin word, speculator, which...
• Exercise, Bodily(1 Tim. 4:8). An ascetic mortification of the flesh and denial of personal...
• Exile(1.) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away...
• ExodusThe great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of...
• Exodus, Book ofExodus is the name given in the LXX. to the second book of the Pentateuch (q.v.). It...
• Exorcist(Acts 19:13). “In that sceptical and therefore superstitious age professional exorcist...
• ExpiationGuilt is said to be expiated when it is visited with punishment falling on a...
• Eye(Heb. ‘ain, meaning “flowing”), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour...
• EzekiasGrecized form of Hezekiah (Matt. 1:9, 10).
• EzekielGod will strengthen. (1.) 1 Chr. 24:16, “Jehezekel.” (2.) One of the great prophets,...
• Ezekiel, Book ofConsists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the...
• EzelA separation, (1 Sam. 20:19), a stone, or heap of stones, in the neighbourhood of...
• EzerTreasure. (1.) One of the sons of Seir, the native princes, “dukes,” of Mount Hor...
• Ezion-GeberThe giant’s backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the...
• EzraHelp. (1.) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel (Neh....
• Ezra, Book ofThis book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It...
• EzrahiteA title given to Ethan (1 Kings 4:31; Ps. 89, title) and Heman (Ps. 88, title). They...
• EzriHelp of Jehovah, the son of Chelub. He superintended, under David, those who “did the...