Smith’s dictionary

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

• Ibhar(whom God chooses), one of the sons of David, (2 Samuel 5:15; 1 Chronicles 3:6; 14:6)...
• Ibleam(devouring the people), a city of Manasseh, with villages or towns dependent on it....
• Ibneiah(whom Jehovah will build up), son of Jehoram, a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
• Ibnijah(whom Jehovah will build up), a Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 9:8)
• Ibri(Hebrew), a Merarite Levite of the family of Jaaziah, (1 Chronicles 24:27) in the time...
• Ibzan(illustrious), a native of Bethlehem of Zebulun, who judged Israel for seven years...
• Ichabod(inglorious), the son of Phinehas and grandson of Eli. (1 Samuel 4:21) (B.C. about 1100.)
• Iconium(little image), the modern Konieh , was the capital of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor. It was...
• Idalah(memorial of God), one of the cities of the tribe of Zebulun, named between Shimron...
• Idbash(stout), one of the three sons of Abi-Etam, among the families of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3)
• Iddo(timely or lovely). The father of Abinadab. (1 Kings 4:14) A descendant of Gershom,...
• IdolAn image or anything used as an object of worship in place of the true God. Among the...
• Idolatrystrictly speaking denotes the worship of deity in a visible form, whether the images...
• Idumea(red). [EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA]
• Igal(whom God will avenge). One of the spies, son of Joseph, of the tribe of Issachar....
• Igdaliah(whom Jehovah makes great), a prophet or holy man --"the man of God" --named once...
• Igeal(whom God will avenge), a son of Nehemiah; a descendant of the royal house of Judah....
• Iim(ruins). The partial or contracted form of the name IJE-ABARIM. (Numbers 33:45) A town...
• Ijeabarim(ruin of Abarim), one of the later halting-places of the children of Israel. (Numbers...
• Ijon(a ruin), a town in the north of Palestine, belonging to the tribe of Naphtali. It was...
• Ikkesh(perverse), the father of Ira the Tekoite. (2 Samuel 23:26; 1 Chronicles 11:28; 27:9)...
• Ilai(exalted), an Ahohite, one of the heroes of David’s guard (1 Chronicles 11:29) (B.C. 1046.)
• Illyricuman extensive district lying along the eastern coast of the Adriatic, from the boundary...
• Image[IDOL]
• Imla(whom God will fill up), father or progenitor of Micaiah the prophet. (2 Chronicles...
• Immanuelthat is, God with us , the title applied by the apostle Matthew to the Messiah, born...
• Immer(talkative). The founder of an important family of priests. (1 Chronicles 9:12;...
• Imna(holding back), a descendant of Asher, son of Helem. (1 Chronicles 7:35) comp. 1Chr...
• Imnah(holding back). The first born of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:30) (B.C. 1706.) Kore...
• Imrah(stubborn), a descendant of Asher, of the family of Zophah (1 Chronicles 7:36) (B.C....
• Incensefrom the Latin "to burn," "a mixture of gums or spices and the like, used for the...
• IndiaThe name of India does not occur in the Bible before the book of Esther where it is...
• Inheritance[HEIR]
• Ink, Inkhorn[WRITING]
• InnThe Hebrew word (malon) thus rendered literally signified "a lodging-place for the...
• InspirationDr. Knapp given as the definition of inspiration, "an extra-ordinary divine agency...
• Instant, Instantlyin the Authorized Version, means urgent, urgently or fervently, as will be seen from...
• Iphedeiah(whom Jehovah frees), a descendant of Benjamin, one of the Bene-Shashak. (1 Chronicles 8:25)
• Ir(city). (1 Chronicles 7:12) [IRI]
• Ira(watchful of a city). "The Jairite," named in the catalogue of David’s great officers....
• Irad(fleet), son of Enoch; grandson of Cain, and father of Mehujael. (Genesis 4:18)
• Iram(belonging to a city), a leader of the Edomites, (Genesis 36:43; 1 Chronicles 1:54)...
• Irior Ir (belonging to a city), a Benjamite, son of Bela. (1 Chronicles 7:7,12)
• Irijah(seen by the Lord), son of Shelemiah, a captain in the ward, who met Jeremiah in the...
• Irnahash(serpent city), a name which, like many other names of places, occurs in the...
• Ironis mentioned with brass as the earliest of known metals. (Genesis 4:22) The natural...
• Iron(pious), one of the cities of Naphtali, (Joshua 19:38) hitherto totally unknown.
• Irpeel(God heals), one of the cities of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:27) No trace has yet been...
• Irshemesh(city of the sun), a city of the Danites (Joshua 19:41) probably identical with Beth-shemesh.
• Iru(watch), the eldest son of the great Caleb son of Jephunneh. (1 Chronicles 4:15) (B.C. 1451.)
• Isaac(laughter), the son whom Sara bore to Abraham, in the hundredth year of his age, at...
• Isaiahthe prophet, son of Amoz. The Hebrew name signifies Salvation of Jahu (a shortened...
• Isaiah, Book ofI. Chapters 1-5 contain Isaiah’s prophecies in the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham,...
• Iscah(one who looks forth), daughter of Haran the brother of Abram, and sister of Milcah...
• Iscariot(man of Kerioth). [JUDAS ISCARIOT ISCARIOT]
• Ishbah(praising), a man in the line of Judah, commemorated as the "father of Eshtemos." (1...
• Ishbak(left behind), a son of Abraham and Keturah, (Genesis 25:2; 1 Chronicles 1:32) and the...
• Ishbibenob(he that dwells at Nobl), son of Rapha, one of the race of Philistine giants, who...
• Ishbosheth(man of shame) the youngest of Saul’s four sons, and his legitimate successor. (B.C....
• Ishi(my husband). This word occurs in (Hosea 2:16) It is the Israelite term, in opposition...
• Ishi(salutary). A man of the descendants of Judah, son of Appaim, (1 Chronicles 2:31) one...
• Ishiah(whom Jehovah lends), the fifth of the five sons of Izrahiah, one of the heads of the...
• Ishijah(whom Jehovah lends), a lay Israelite of the Bene-Harim who had married a foreign...
• Ishma(desolation), a name in the genealogy of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:3)
• Ishmael(whom God hears). The son of Abraham by Hagar the Egyptian his concubine; born when...
• Ishmaelite(decendant of Ishmael). [ISHMAEL]
• Ishmaiah(Jehovah hears), son of Obadiah; the ruler of the tribe of Zebulun in the time of King...
• Ishmeelite(1 Chronicles 2:17) and Ish’me-elites (descendants of Ishmael), (Genesis 37:25,27,28;...
• Ishmerai(whom Jehovah keeps), a Benjamite, one of the family of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:18)...
• Ishod(man of glory), one of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan, son of...
• Ishpan(bald), a Benjamite, one of the family of Shashak. (1 Chronicles 8:22) (B.C. before 588.)
• Ishtob(men of Tob), apparently one of the small kingdoms or states which formed part of the...
• Ishuah(quiet), the second son of Asher. (Genesis 46:17) (B.C. 1706.)
• Ishuai(quiet), the third son of Asher, (1 Chronicles 7:30) founder of a family bearing his...
• Ishui(quiet), the second son of Saul by his wife Ahinoam (1 Samuel 14:4) comp. 1Sam 14:50...
• IsleThe radical sense of the Hebrew word seems to be "habitable places," as opposed to...
• Ismachiah(Jehovah hears), a Gibeonite, one of the chiefs of those warriors, who joined David at...
• Ismachiah(whom Jehovah upholds), a Levite who was one of the overseers of offerings during the...
• Ispah(bald), a Benjamite of the family of Beriah; one of the heads of his tribe. (1...
• Israel(the prince that prevails with God). The name given, (Genesis 32:28) to Jacob after...
• Israel, Kingdom ofI. the kingdom. --The prophet Ahijah of Shiloh, who was commissioned in the latter...
• Israelite(descendant of Israel). In (2 Samuel 17:25) Ithra, the father of Amasa, is called "an...
• Issachar(reward). I. The ninth son of Jacob and the fifth of Leah. (Genesis 30:17,18) (B.C....
• Isshiab(whom Jehovah lends). A descendant of Moses by his younger son Eliezer. (1 Chronicles...
• Issue, Running(Leviticus 15:2,3; 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29) In (Leviticus 15:3) a distinction...
• Isuah(quiet), second son of Asher. (1 Chronicles 7:30) (B.C. 1706.)
• Isui(quiet), third son of Asher, (Genesis 46:17) founder of a family called after him,...
• Italian Band[ARMY]
• ItalyThis word is used in the New Testament, (Acts 18:2; 27:1; Hebrews 13:24) in the usual...
• Ithai(with the Lord), a Benjamite, son of Ribai of Gibeah, one of the heroes of David’s...
• Ithamar(land of palms), the youngest son of Aaron. (Exodus 6:23) (B.C. 1491.) After the death...
• Ithiel(God is with me). A Benjamite, son of Jesaiah. (Nehemiah 11:7) One of two persons...
• Ithmah(bereavedness), a Moabite, one of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46)
• Ithnan(given), one of the towns in the extreme south of Judah. (Joshua 15:23) No trace of...
• Ithra(excellence), an Israelite, (2 Samuel 17:25) or Ishmaelite, (1 Chronicles 2:17) the...
• Ithran(excellence). A son of Dishon, a Horite, (Genesis 36:26; 1 Chronicles 1:41) and...
• Ithream(abundance of people), son of David, born to him in Hebron, and distinctly specified...
• Ithrite(belonging to Jether), The, the designation of two of the members of David’s guard,...
• Ittahkazin(time of the judge), one of the landmarks of the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:13)...
• Ittai(with the Lord). "Ittai the Gittite," i.e. the native of Gath, a Philistine in the...
• Ituraea(land of Jether), a small province on the northwestern border of Palestine, lying...
• Ivah(ruined), or A’va , which is mentioned in Scripture twice, (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13)...
• IvoryThe word translated "ivory" literally signifies the "tooth" of any animal, and hence...
• Izehar(oil), the form in which the name Izhar is given in the Authorized Version of (Numbers...
• Izeharites(descendant of Izhar), The. A family of Kohathite Levites, descended from Izhar the...
• Izhar(oil), son of Kohath grandson of Levi, uncle of Aaron and Moses and father of Korah....
• Izrahiah(whom Jehovah causes to sparkle), a chieftain of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3)
• Izrahite(descendant of Zerah), The, the designation of Shamhuth (1 Chronicles 27:8) Its real...
• Izri(creator), a Levite leader of the fourth course or ward in the service of the house of...