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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... word pile , to signify this quantity ( not meaning to attempt to determine accurately , even if it were possible ) , it will lead us to the idea that Jesse sent to Saul a pile of bread ; that a person ate three piles of bread in a day ...
... word pile , to signify this quantity ( not meaning to attempt to determine accurately , even if it were possible ) , it will lead us to the idea that Jesse sent to Saul a pile of bread ; that a person ate three piles of bread in a day ...
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... word DD with the Chaldee prefix 7 ; and in the Latin version it is taxonum , " of badgers ; in every other place where it occurs in the Pentateuch ( except Numb . iv . 10 ) the Chaldee word is without the prefix , and the Latin ...
... word DD with the Chaldee prefix 7 ; and in the Latin version it is taxonum , " of badgers ; in every other place where it occurs in the Pentateuch ( except Numb . iv . 10 ) the Chaldee word is without the prefix , and the Latin ...
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... word n nahal , Jonathan and the Jerusalem Talmud read NILUS . The word is used for that river also , Josh . xv . 4 , 47 ; 1 Kings , viii . 65 ; 2 Kings , xxiv . 7 . 2 Chron . vii . 8 ; Isai . xxvii . 12 . Mr. Good observes , that " the ...
... word n nahal , Jonathan and the Jerusalem Talmud read NILUS . The word is used for that river also , Josh . xv . 4 , 47 ; 1 Kings , viii . 65 ; 2 Kings , xxiv . 7 . 2 Chron . vii . 8 ; Isai . xxvii . 12 . Mr. Good observes , that " the ...
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... word variously ; an owl , an osprey , a tortoise , a porcupine , and even an otter . " How unhappy , " says Mr. Harmer , " that a word which occurs but three times in the Hebrew Bible should be translated by three different words , and ...
... word variously ; an owl , an osprey , a tortoise , a porcupine , and even an otter . " How unhappy , " says Mr. Harmer , " that a word which occurs but three times in the Hebrew Bible should be translated by three different words , and ...
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... word л THECHELETH , Exod . xxv . 4 , and thirty times more in this single book has been variously understood by interpreters . Josephus , Antiq . 1. iii . c . 8 , § 1 . Philo , in Vit . Mos . 1. iii . p . 148. Origen , Greg . Nysen ...
... word л THECHELETH , Exod . xxv . 4 , and thirty times more in this single book has been variously understood by interpreters . Josephus , Antiq . 1. iii . c . 8 , § 1 . Philo , in Vit . Mos . 1. iii . p . 148. Origen , Greg . Nysen ...
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