The Natural History of the Bible ; Or, A Description of All the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures: Collected from the Best Authorities, and Alphabetically Arranged |
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... derived from the country whence the Jews imported it ; for the merchants of Sheba brought to the market of Tyre all kinds of precious stones and gold . Ezek . xxvii . 22 . The translators of the Bible have in Isa . liv . 12. and Ezek ...
... derived from the country whence the Jews imported it ; for the merchants of Sheba brought to the market of Tyre all kinds of precious stones and gold . Ezek . xxvii . 22 . The translators of the Bible have in Isa . liv . 12. and Ezek ...
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... derived from w ( copper ) dropping the initial a , and Chald . 2 ( gold as it comes from the mine ) ; and so denote either a metal mixed of copper and gold , as the as pyropum mentioned in the ancient Greek and Roman writers , and thus ...
... derived from w ( copper ) dropping the initial a , and Chald . 2 ( gold as it comes from the mine ) ; and so denote either a metal mixed of copper and gold , as the as pyropum mentioned in the ancient Greek and Roman writers , and thus ...
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... derived from the verb 3 NAMAL , which signifies to cut off , and is used for cutting off ears of corn , Job , xxiv . 24 . To the authorities above quoted we may add the following tes- timony from a letter on this curious subject ...
... derived from the verb 3 NAMAL , which signifies to cut off , and is used for cutting off ears of corn , Job , xxiv . 24 . To the authorities above quoted we may add the following tes- timony from a letter on this curious subject ...
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... Hierophyt , 1. lxv . p . 127 . From the Hebrew phul is derived pulse , the common name for leguminous plants . ney - bean , " phaseolus minimus , fructu viridi OF THE BIBLE . " 37 The third day comes a frost, a killing frost...
... Hierophyt , 1. lxv . p . 127 . From the Hebrew phul is derived pulse , the common name for leguminous plants . ney - bean , " phaseolus minimus , fructu viridi OF THE BIBLE . " 37 The third day comes a frost, a killing frost...
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... derived from an original , alluding to the vast num- ber of their swarms . Golius explains it of the locust without wings . There is a story of this locust , that it fights against ser- pents ; and such is the import of its name in ...
... derived from an original , alluding to the vast num- ber of their swarms . Golius explains it of the locust without wings . There is a story of this locust , that it fights against ser- pents ; and such is the import of its name in ...
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