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Harvest Scripture - Genesis 30:14

And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes....

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Headdress in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., "bonnets;" R.V., "head-tires"). It was used especially for purposes of ornament (Job 29:14; Isa. 3:23; 62:3). The Hebrew word here used, _tsaniph_, properly means a turban, folds of linen wound round the head. The Hebrew word _peer_, used in Isa. 61:3, there re...

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Diadem Scripture - Isaiah 62:3

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God....

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Temple in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See JERUSALEM; TABERNACLE.) David cherished the design of superseding the tent and curtains by a permanent building of stone (2 Samuel 7:1-2); God praised him for having the design "in his heart" (1 Kings 8:18); but as he had been so continually in wars (1 Kings 5:3; 1 Kings 5:5), and had "shed blood abundantly" (1 Chronicles 22:8-9; 1 Chroni...

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Herod's Temple Scripture - Matthew 27:51

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;...

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Horse Scripture - Jeremiah 51:21

And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;...

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Horse Scripture - 1 Kings 10:29

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means....

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Harvest in Naves Topical Bible

Sabbath to be observed in Ex 34:21 -Sabbath desecrated in Ne 13:15-22 -Of wheat at Pentecost, in Palestine Ex 34:22; Le 23:15-17 -And of wheat before harvest time Le 26:5 -Of barley, before wheat Ex 9:31,32 -Celebrated with joy Jud 9:27; Isa 9:3; 16:10; Jer 48:33 -Promises of plentiful Ge 8:22; Jer 5:24; Joe 2:23,24 -FIGURATIVE Job 2...

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Harvest Scripture - 1 Samuel 8:12

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots....

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Headdress in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The head was usually uncovered. In Leviticus 10:6 the sense of "uncover (literally, "let loose") not your heads" is "let not your hair fall loosely from your head" as in mourning. When needful the head was covered with the mantle; the radid and tsaiph were so used, the veil also. In Job 29:14, "my judgment (justice) was as ... a diadem," trans...

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