Smith’s dictionary

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

• Oak(Heb. strong). There is much difficulty in determining the exact meanings of the...
• OathThe principle on which an oath is held to be binding is incidentally laid down in...
• Obadiah(servant of the Lord), A man whose sons are enumerated in the genealogy of the tribe...
• Obal(stripped bare), son of Joktan, and, like the rest of family, apparently the founder...
• Obed(serving). Son of Boaz and Ruth the Moabitess and father of Jesse. (Ruth 4:17) (B.C....
• Obededom(servant of Edom). A Levite, described as a Gittite, (2 Samuel 6:10,11) that is,...
• Obil(chief of the camels), a keeper of the herds of camels in the reign of David. (1...
• Oblation[SACRIFICE]
• Oboth(bottles), one of the encampments of the Israelites, east of Moab. (Numbers 21:10;...
• Ocran(troubled), an Asherite, father of Pagiel. (Numbers 1:13; 2:27; 7:72,77; 10:26) (B.C....
• Oded(restoring). The father of Azariah the prophet, in the reign of Asa. (2 Chronicles...
• Odollam[ADULLAM]
• Offerings[SACRIFICE]
• OfficerIt is obvious that most, if not all, of the Hebrew words rendered "officer" are either...
• Og(giant , literally long-necked), an Amoritish king of Bashan, whose rule extended over...
• OilOf the numerous substances, animal and vegetable, which were known to the ancients as...
• Oil Tree(Heb. ets shemen). The Hebrew words occur in (Nehemiah 8:15) (Authorized Version "pine...
• Ointment(An oily or unctuous substance, usually compounded of oil with various spices and...
• Old TestamentI. TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. -- History of the text. -A history of the text of the...
• OliveThe olive was among the most abundant and characteristic vegetation of Judea. The...
• Olives, Mount of"The Mount of Olives" occurs in the Old Testament in (Zechariah 14:4) only. In (2...
• Olivet(place of olives). (2 Samuel 15:30; Acts 1:12) [OLIVES, MOUNT OF, MOUNT, MOUNT, MOUNTAIN OF]
• Olympas(heavenly), a Christian at Rome. (Romans 16:15) (A.D. 65.)
• Omar(eloquent, talkative), son of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau. (Genesis 36:11,15; 1...
• Omega, or OmegaThe last letter of the Greek alphabet. It is used metephorically to denote the end of...
• Omer[WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND MEASURES.]
• Omri(pupil of Jehovah). Originally "captain of the host" to Elah, was afterward himself...
• On(abode or city of the sun), a town of lower Egypt, called BETH-SHEMESH in (Jeremiah...
• Onthe son of Peleth and one of the chiefs of the tribe of Reuben, who took part with...
• Onam(strong). One of the sons of Shobal the son of Seir. (Genesis 36:23; 1 Chronicles...
• Onan(strong), the second son of Judah by the Canaanitess, "the daughter of Shua." (Genesis...
• Onesimus(profitable, useful), the name of the servant or slave in whose behalf Paul wrote the...
• Onesiphorus(bringing profit) is named twice only in the New Testament, viz. (2 Timothy 1:16-18)...
• Oniasthe name of five high priests in the period between the Old and the New Testament.
• OnionThis product is mentioned only in (Numbers 11:5) as one of the good things of Egypt of...
• Ono(strong), one of the towns of Benjamin, is first found in (1 Chronicles 8:12) A plain...
• Onychaspoken of in (Exodus 30:34) was one of the ingredients of the sacred perfume. It...
• Onyx(a nail) is the translation of the Hebrew shoham ; but there is some doubt as to its...
• Ophel(hill), a part of ancient Jerusalem. Ophel was the swelling declivity by which the...
• Ophir(abundane). The eleventh in order of the sons of Joktan. (Genesis 10:29; 1 Chronicles...
• Ophni(mouldy), a town of Benjamin, mentioned in (Joshua 18:24) the same as the Gophna of...
• Ophrah(fawn). A town in the tribe of Benjamin. (Joshua 18:23; 1 Samuel 13:17) Jerome places...
• OratorThe Authorized Version rendering in (Isaiah 3:3) for what is literally "skillful in...
• Orchard[GARDEN]
• Oreb(raven), one of the chieftains of the Midianite host which invaded Israel, and was...
• Oreb, the Rockthe "raven’s crag," the spot, east of Jordan, at which the Midianite chieftain Oreb...
• Oren(pine tree), one of the sons of Jerahmeel, the first-born of Hezron. (1 Chronicles 2:25)
• Organ(Genesis 4:21; Job 21:12; 30:31; Psalms 150:4) The Hebrew word thus rendered probably...
• Orion(the giant), a large and bright constellation of 80 stars, 17 large ones, crossed by...
• Ornaments, PersonalThe number, variety and weight of the ornaments ordinarily worn upon the person form...
• Ornan(active). (1 Chronicles 21:15; 2 Chronicles 3:1) [ARAUNAH]
• Orpah(a gazelle), a Moabite woman wife of Chilion son of Naomi, and thereby sister-in-law...
• Oshea(salvation). [JOSHUA]
• OspreyThe Hebrew word occurs in (Leviticus 11:13) and Deuteronomy 14:12 So the name of some...
• Ossifrage(the bone-breaker). The Hebrew word occurs, as the name of an unclean bird, in...
• Ostricha large bird, native of African and Arabia, nearly ten feet high, having s long neck...
• Othni(lion of Jehovah), son of Shemaiah, the first-horn of Obed-edom. (1 Chronicles 26:7)...
• Othniel(lion of God), son of Kenaz and younger brother of Caleb. (Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13;...
• OvenThe eastern oven is of two kinds --fixed and portable. The former is found only in...
• OwlA number of species of the owl are mentioned in the Bible, (Leviticus 11:17; 14:16;...
• OxThere was no animal in the rural economy of the Israelites, or indeed in that of the...
• Ozem(power). The sixth son of Jesse, the next eldest above David. (1 Chronicles 2:15)...
• Ozias(strength from the Lord). Uzzi, one of the ancestors of Ezra. 2, Esd. 2:2. Uzziah,...
• Ozni(hearing), one of the sons of Gad (Numbers 26:16) and founder of the family of the...