Smith’s dictionary

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

• QuailsThere can be no doubt that the Hebrew word in the Pentateuch (Exodus 16:13; Numbers...
• Quartus(fourth), a Christian of Corinth, (Romans 16:23) said to have been one of the seventy...
• Quaterniona military term signifying a guard of four soldiers, two of whom were attached to the...
• QueenThis title is properly applied to the queen-mother, since in an Oriental household it...
• Queen of Heaven(Jeremiah 7:18; 45:17,18,19,25) is the moon Ashtaroth or Astarte to whom worshiped as...
• Quicksands, themore properly THE SYRTIS, THE, (Acts 27:17) the broad a deep bight on the north...
• Quivera box made for the purpose of holding arrows. (Genesis 27:3) There is nothing in the...