Smith’s dictionary

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

• Ucal(I am strong). According to the received text of (Proverbs 30:1) Ithiel and Ucal must...
• Uel(will of God), one of the family of Bani, who during the captivity had married a...
• UknazIn the margin of (1 Chronicles 4:16) the words "even Kenaz" in the text are rendered...
• Ulai(pure water) is mentioned by Daniel, (Daniel 8:2,16) as a river near to Susa, where he...
• Ulam(porch). A descendant of Gilead, the grandson of Manasseh and father of Bedan. (1...
• Ulla(yoke), an Asherite, head of a family in his tribe. (1 Chronicles 7:30) (B.C. about 1014.)
• Ummah(union), one of the cities of the allotment of Asher. (Joshua 10:30) only. Probably...
• Unclean MeatsThese were things strangled, or dead of themselves or through beasts or birds of prey;...
• UncleannessThe distinctive idea attached to ceremonial uncleanness among the Hebrews was that it...
• Undergirding(Acts 27:17) [SHIP]
• Unicornthe rendering of the Authorized Version of the Hebrew reem , a word which occurs seven...
• Unni(depressed). One of the Levite doorkeepers in the time of David. (1 Chronicles...
• Uphaz(Jeremiah 10:9; Daniel 10:5) [OPHIR]
• Urwas the land of Haran’s nativity, (Genesis 11:28) the place from which Terah and...
• Urbane, or Urbane(of the city; polite), the Greek form of the Latin Urbanus, as it is given in the...
• Urbanusthe form given in the Revised Version for Urbane.
• Uri(fiery). The father of Bezaleel, one of the architects of the tabernacle. (Exodus...
• Uriah(light of Jehovah). One of the thirty commanders of the thirty bands into which the...
• UriasUriah, the husband of Bath-sheba. (Matthew 1:6) URIJAH 1 Esdr. 9:43.
• UrielA Kohathite Levite, son of Tahath. (1 Chronicles 6:24) Chief of the Kohathites in the...
• Uriel(the fire of God), an angel named only in 2 Esdr. 4:1,36; 5:20; 10:28.
• Urijah(light of Jehovah). Urijah the priest in the reign of Ahaz, (2 Kings 16:10) probably...
• Urim and Thummim(light and perfection). When the Jewish exiles were met on their return from Babylon...
• Usury(The word usury has come in modern English to mean excessive interest upon money...
• Ut(wooded). A son of Aram, (Genesis 10:23; 1 Chronicles 1:17) end consequently a grand...
• Uta1 Esdr. 5:30. It appears to be a corruption of AKKUB. (Ezra 2:45)
• Uthai(helpful), The son of Ammihud, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah. (1...
• Uthii1 Esdr. 8:40. [UTHAI,2]
• Uzai(strong), the father of Palal who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding the city wail....
• Uzal(separate), the sixth son of Joktan, (Genesis 10:27; 1 Chronicles 1:21) whose...
• Uzza(strength). A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. (1 Chronicles 8:7) (B.C. 1445.) Elsewhere...
• Uzza, or Uzzah(strength), one of the sons of Abinadab, in whose house at Kirjath-jearim the ark...
• Uzza, the Garden ofthe spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. (2 Kings...
• Uzzensherah(ear (or point) of Sherah) a town founded or rebuilt by Sherah, an Ephraimite woman...
• Uzzi(strong). Son of Bukki and father of Zerahiah, in the line of the high priests. (1...
• Uzzia(strength of Jehovah), one of David’s guard, and apparently a native of Ashtaroth...
• Uzziah(strength of Jehovah). King of Judah B.C. 809-8 to 757-6. In some passages his name...
• Uzziel(my strength is God). Fourth son of Kohath, father of Mishael, Eizaphan or Elizaphan...
• Uzzielites, thethe descendants of Uzziel, and one of the four great families of the Kohathites....