Smith’s dictionary

The classic Victorian Bible dictionary: 4,600 short entries, especially strong on names and places.

• Dabareh(pasture), (Joshua 21:28) or DABERATH, a town on the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua...
• Dabbasheth(a hill-place), a town on the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:11)
• Daberath[See DABAREH]
• Dagon(a fish), apparently the masculine, (1 Samuel 5:3,4) correlative of Atargatis, was the...
• Dalaiah(freed by Jehovah) a descendant of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:24)
• Dalmanuthaa town on the west side of the Sea of Galilee, near Magdala. (Matthew 15:39) and Mark...
• Dalmatiaa mountainous district on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. St. Paul sent Titus...
• Dalphon(swift), the second of the ten sons of Hamam (Esther 9:7) (B.C. 610.)
• Damaris(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul’s preaching. (Acts...
• Damascusone of the most ancient and most important of the cities of Syria. It is situated 130...
• Dan(a judge). The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid. (Genesis...
• Dancea musical instrument of percussion, supposed to have been used by the Hebrews at an...
• DanceThe dance is spoken of in Holy Scripture universally as symbolical of some rejoicing,...
• Daniel(judgment of God). The second son of David, by Abigail the Carmelitess. (1 Chronicles...
• Daniel, Apocryphal Additions toThe Greek translations of Daniel contain several pieces which are not found int he...
• Daniel, the Book ofstands at the head of a series of writings in which the deepest thoughts of the Jewish...
• Danites, theThe descendants of Dan and the members of his tribe. (Judges 13:2; 18:1,11; 1 Chronicles 12:35)
• Danjaan(Danian , i.e. belonging to Dan). (2 Samuel 24:6) Probably the same as DAN.
• Dannaha city in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:49) and probably south or southwest of...
• Dara(1 Chronicles 2:6) [DARDA]
• Daric(from dara , a king), Authorized Version "dram," (1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27;...
• Darius(lord), the name of several kings of Media and Persia. DARIUS THE MEDE, (Daniel 6:1;...
• Darknessis spoken of as encompassing the actual presence of God, as that out of which he...
• Darkon(scatterer). Children of Darkon were among the "servants of Solomon" who returned from...
• Dates(2 Chronicles 31:5) marg. [PALM TREE TREE]
• Dathan(belonging to a fountain) a Reubenite chieftain, son of Eliab, who joined the...
• DaughterThe word is used in Scripture not only for daughter, but for granddaughter or other...
• David(well-beloved), the son of Jesse. His life may be divided into three portions: His...
• David, City of[JERUSALEM]
• DayThe variable length of the natural day at different seasons led in the very earliest...
• Daysmanan old English term meaning umpire or arbitrator . (Job 9:33)
• DeaconThe office described by this title appears in the New Testament as the correlative of...
• DeaconessThe word diakonos is found in (Romans 16:1) (Authorized Version "servant") associated...
• Dead SeaThis name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the...
• Dearth[FAMINE]
• Debirking of Eglon; one of the five kings hanged by Joshua. (Joshua 10:3,23) (B.C. 1440.)
• Debir(a sanctuary), the name of three places of Palestine. A town in the mountains of...
• Deborah(a bee). (B.C. 1857.) The nurse of Rebekah. (Genesis 35:8) Deborah accompanied Rebekah...
• Debtor[LOAN]
• Dedan(low country). The name of a son of Raamah, son of Cush. (Genesis 10:7; 1 Chronicles...
• Dedanimdescendants of Dedan I. (Isaiah 21:13) [DEDAN]
• Dedication, Feast of thethe festival instituted to commemorate the purging of the temple and the rebuilding of...
• Deer[FALLOW-DEER]
• Degrees, Songs ofa title given to fifteen Psalms, from 120 to 134 inclusive. Four of them are...
• Dehavitesmentioned only once in Scripture, (Ezra 4:9) among the colonists planted in Samaria...
• Dekar(a lancer). The son of Dekar, i.e. Ben Dekar, was Solomon’s commissariat officer in...
• Delaiah(freed by Jehovah). A priest in the time of David, leader of the twenty-third course...
• Delilah, or Delilah(languishing) a woman who dwelt in the valley Of Sorek, beloved by Samson. (Judges...
• Deluge[NOAH]
• Demas(governor of the people), most probably a contraction from Demetrius or perhaps from...
• Demetrius(belonging to Ceres). A maker of silver shrines of Artemis at Ephesus. (Acts 19:24)...
• DemonIn the Gospels generally, in (James 2:19) and in Reve 16:14 The demons are spoken of...
• DemoniacsThis word is frequently used in the New Testament, and applied to persons suffering...
• Denarius(containing ten), Authorized Version "penny," (Matthew 18:28; 20:2,9,13) a Roman...
• Deputy(Acts 13:7,8,12; 19:38) The Greek word signifies proconsul, the title of the Roman...
• Derbe(Acts 14:20,21; 16:1; 20:4) The exact position of this town has not yet been...
• DesertNot a stretch of sand, an utterly barren waste, but a wild, uninhabited region. The...
• Deuel, or Deuel(invocation of God), father of Eliasaph, the "captain" of the tribe of Gad at the time...
• Deuteronomy--which means "the repetition of the law" --consists chiefly of three discourses...
• Devil(slanderer). The name describes Satan as slandering God to man and man to God. The...
• DewThis in the summer is so copious in Palestine that it supplies to some extent the...
• DiademWhat the "diadem" of the Jews was we know not. That of other nations of antiquity was...
• Dial"An instrument for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a...
• Diamond(Heb. yahalom), a gem crystallized carbon, the most valued and brilliant of precious...
• DianaThis Latin word, properly denoting a Roman divinity, is the representative of the...
• Diblaim(double cake), mother of Hosea’s wife Gomer. (Hosea 1:3) (B.C. before 725.)
• Diblath(accurately DIBLAH), a place named only in (Ezekiel 6:14) Probably only another form of RIBLAH.
• Dibon(wasting). A town on the east side of Jordan, in the rich pastoral country, which was...
• Dibongan[DIBON]
• Dibria Danite, father of Shelomith. (Leviticus 24:11)
• Didrachmon[MONEY; SHEKEL]
• Didymus(the twin), a surname of the apostle Thomas. (John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2) [THOMAS]
• Diklah(palm grove). (Genesis 10:27; 1 Chronicles 1:21) a son of Joktan, whose settlements,...
• Dilean(gourd), one of the cities in the lowlands of Judah. (Joshua 15:38) It has not been...
• Dimnah(dung), a city int he tribe of Zebulun, given to the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:35)
• Dimon(river bed), The waters of, some streams on the east of the Dead Sea, in the land of...
• Dimonaha city in the south of Judah, (Joshua 15:22) perhaps the same as DIBON in (Nehemiah 11:25)
• Dinah(judged, acquitted), the daughter of Jacob by Leah. (Genesis 30:21) (B.C. about 1751.)...
• Dinaites(Ezra 4:9) the name of some of the Cuthaean colonists who were placed in the cities of...
• Dinhabah(Genesis 36:32; 1 Chronicles 1:43) the capital city, and probably the birthplace, of...
• Dionysius(devoted to Dionysus , i.e., Bacchus) the Areop’agite, (Acts 17:34) an eminent...
• Diotrephes(nourished by Jove), a Christian mentioned in (3 John 1:9) but of whom nothing is known.
• Disciple[APOSTLES]
• Diseases[MEDICINE]
• Dishan(antelope), the youngest son of Seir the Horite. (Genesis 36:21,28,30; 1 Chronicles 1:38,42)
• Dishon(antelope) The fifth son of Seir. (Genesis 36:21,26,30; 1 Chronicles 1:38)
• Dispersion, the Jews of theor simply THE DISPERSION, was the general title applied to those Jews who remained...
• Divinationis a "foretelling future events, or discovering things secret by the aid of superior...
• Divorce"a legal dissolution of the marriage relation." The law regulating this subject is...
• Dizahab(region of gold), a place in the Arabian desert, mentioned (1:1) is identified with...
• Dodai(loving, amorous), an Ahohite who commanded the course of the second month. (1...
• Dodanim(leaders), (Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7) a family or race descended from Javan, the...
• Dodavah(love of the Lord), a man of Maresha in Judah; father of Eliezer, who denounced...
• Dodo(loving). A man of Bethlehem, father of Elhanan, who was one of David’s thirty...
• Doeg(fearful), an Idumean, chief of Saul’s herdmen. (B.C. 1062.) He was at Nob when...
• Dogan animal frequently mentioned in Scripture. It was used by the hebrews as a watch for...
• Doors[GATE]
• Dophkah(cattle-driving), a place mentioned (Numbers 33:12) as a station in the desert where...
• Dor(dwelling), (Joshua 17:11; 1 Kings 4:11) an ancient royal city of the Canaanites,...
• Dorcas(gazelle). [TABITHA]
• Dositheusa "priest and Levite" who carried the translation of Esther to Egypt. (Esther 11:1,2)
• Dothaim[DOTHAN]
• Dothan(two wells), a place first mentioned (Genesis 37:17) in connection with the history of...
• DoveThe first menton of this bird occurs in Gen. 8. The dove’s rapidity of flight is...
• Doves DungVarious explanations have been given of the passage in (2 Kings 6:25) Bochart has...
• Dowry[MARRIAGE]
• Drachm(Luke 15:8,9) 2 Macc 4:19; 10:20; 12:43, a Greek silver coin, varying in weight on...
• DragonThe translators of the Authorized Version, apparently following the Vulgate, have...
• Dram[DARIC]
• DreamsThe Scripture declares that the influence of the Spirit of God upon the soul extends...
• DressThis subject includes the following particulars: Materials; Color and decoration;...
• Drink, StrongThe Hebrew term shecar , in its etymological sense, applies to any beverage that had...
• Dromedary[Camel]
• Drusilla(watered by the dew), daughter of herod Agrippa *., (Acts 24:24) ff., and Cypros. Born...
• Dulcimer(Heb. sumphoniah) a musical instrument, mentioned in (Daniel 3:5,15) probably the...
• Dumah(silence). A son of Ishmael, most probably the founder of the Ishmaelite tribe of...
• DungThe uses of dung were two-fold --as manure and as fuel. The manure consisted either of...
• Dungeon[PRISON]
• Dura(a circle), the plain where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, (Daniel 3:1) has...
• Dust[MOURNING]