Smith’s dictionary

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

• WagesThe earliest mention of wages is of a recompense, not in money, but in kind, to Jacob...
• WagonThe Oriental wagon, or arabah , is a vehicle composed of two or three planks fixed on...
• WallsOnly a few points need be noticed. The practice common in Palestine of carrying...
• Wandering in the Wilderness[WILDERNESS OF THE WANDERING OF THE WANDERING]
• WarThe most important topic in connection with war is the formation of the army which is...
• Washing the Hands and FeetAs knives and forks were not used in the East, in Scripture times, in eating, it was...
• Watches of NightThe Jews, like the Greeks and Romans, divided the night into military watches instead...
• Water of Jealousy(Numbers 5:11-31) The ritual prescribed consisted in the husband’s bringing before the...
• Water of Separation[PURIFICATION]
• Wave OfferingThis rite, together with that of "heaving" or "raising" the offering was an...
• Weapons[ARMS, ARMOR]
• Weasel(choled) occurs only in (Leviticus 11:29) in the list of unclean animals; but the...
• WeavingThe art of weaving appears to be coeval with the first dawning of civilization. We...
• Wedding[MARRIAGE]
• WeekThere can be no doubt about the great antiquity of measuring time by a period of seven...
• Weights and MeasuresA. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of...
• WellWells in Palestine are usually excavated from the solid limestone rock, sometimes with...
• WhaleAs to the signification of the Hebrew terms tan and tannin , variously rendered in the...
• Wheatthe well-known valuable cereal, cultivated from the earliest times, is first mentioned...
• WidowUnder the Mosaic dispensation no legal provision was made for the maintenance of...
• Wife[MARRIAGE]
• Wilderness of the Wandering(The region in which the Israelites spent nearly 38 years of their existence after...
• Willowsare mentioned in (Leviticus 23:40; Job 40:22; Psalms 137:2; Isaiah 44:4) With respect...
• Willows, the Brook of thea wady mentioned by Isaiah, (Isaiah 15:7) in his dirge over Moab. It is situated on...
• WillsUnder a system of close inheritance like that of the Jews, the scope forbid bequest in...
• Wimplean old English word for hood or veil, used in the Authorized Version of (Isaiah 3:22)...
• WindowThe window of an Oriental house consists generally of an aperture closed in with...
• WindsThat the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly...
• WineThe manufacture of wine is carried back in the Bible to the age of Noah, (Genesis...
• WinepressFrom the scanty notices contained in the Bible we gather that, the wine-presses of the...
• Winnowing[AGRICULTURE]
• Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach[ECCLESIASTICUS]
• Wisdom, The, of Solomona, book of the Apocrypha, may be divided into two parts, the first, chs. 1-9,...
• Wise Men[MAGI]
• Witch, Witchcrafts[DIVINATION; MAGIC, MAGICIANS]
• WitnessAmong people with whom writing is not common the evidence of a transaction is given by...
• Wizard[DIVINATION; MAGIC, MAGICIANS]
• WolfThere can be little doubt that the wolf of Palestine is the common Canis lupus , and...
• WomenThe position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts favorably with that which...
• Wood[FOREST]
• Woolwas an article of the highest value among the Jews, as the staple material for the...
• Wormthe representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas , which...
• WormwoodFour kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine-- Artemisia nilotica , A. Judaica , A....
• Worshippera translation of the Greek word neocoros , used once only, (Acts 19:35) in the margin,...
• Wrestling[GAMES]
• WritingThere is no account in the Bible of the origin of writing. That the Egyptians in the...