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Anoint in Easton's Bible Dictionary

The practice of anointing with perfumed oil was common among the Hebrews. (1.) The act of anointing was significant of consecration to a holy or sacred use; hence the anointing of the high priest (Ex. 29:29; Lev. 4:3) and of the sacred vessels (Ex. 30:26). The high priest and the king are thus called "the anointed" (Lev. 4:3, 5, 16; 6:20;...

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Anointing Scripture - Leviticus 21:10

And [he that is] the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;...

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Bake in Easton's Bible Dictionary

The duty of preparing bread was usually, in ancient times, committed to the females or the slaves of the family (Gen. 18:6; Lev. 26:26; 1 Sam. 8:13); but at a later period we find a class of public bakers mentioned (Hos. 7:4, 6; Jer. 37:21). The bread was generally in the form of long or round cakes (Ex. 29:23; 1 Sam. 2:36), of a thinness t...

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Banks Scripture - Ezekiel 47:7

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river [were] very many trees on the one side and on the other....

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Banquets in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ban'-kwet. 1. The Ancient Hebrew Customs: (1) "Banquet" and "banqueting" in the King James Version always include and stand for wine-drinking, not simply "feast" or "feasting" in our sense. Thus (Song 2:4), "He brought me to the banqueting-house" is literally, "the house of wine," and Est 7:2 has in the Hebrew "a banquet of wine." In the New T...

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Banquets Scripture - Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther [was]. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face....

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Barrenness in Naves Topical Bible

(Sterility of women) -A reproach Ge 30:22,23; 1Sa 1:6,7; 2:1-11; Isa 4:1; Lu 1:25 -Miraculously removed, instances of Sarai Ge 17:15-21 Rebecca Ge 25:21 Manoah's wife Jud 13 Hannah 1Sa 1:6-20 Elisabeth Lu 1:5-25 -Sent as a judgment Ge 20:17,18...

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Barren Scripture - 1 Samuel 2:5

[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble....

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Anoint in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"To put oil on the head or body"; a practice common in the E. (Rth 3:3). To cease anointing was a mark of mourning (2 Samuel 14:2; Daniel 10:3; Matthew 6:17). A mark of respect to a guest so common that to omit it implied defective hospitality (Luke 7:46; Psalm 23:5); Heb., "Thou hast made fat," or "unctuous" (John 11:2; John 12:3). A body was...

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Anointing Scripture - Numbers 4:16

And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof....

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