Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Vol. 1 of 3: Containing an Historical Account of the Personal; A Geographical Account of the Places; And Literal, Critical, and Systematical Descriptions of Other Objects, Whether Natural or Artificial, Civil, Religious, or Military, Mentioned in the Writings of the O The fignifications of Appellatives, or common words, have been generally extracted from concordances, particularly that of Cruden and in all quotations from the Bible, the Englilh verfion has been lite rally copied, and all the references adjufied thereby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.