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Altar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The first of which we have mention was built by Noah after leaving the ark (Genesis 8:20). The English (from the Latin) means an elevation or high place: not the site, but the erections on them which could be built or removed (1 Kings 12:7; 2 Kings 23:15). So the Greek bomos, and Hebrew bamath. But the proper Hebrew name mizbeach is "the sacrificin...

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Agriculture in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ag'-ri-kul-tur, ag'-ri-kul-chur: I. DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE II. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND FERTILITY III. AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS 1. Growing of Grain (1) Plowing and Sowing (2) Reaping (3) Threshing 2. Care of Vineyards 3. Raising of Flocks I. Development of Agriculture. One may witness in Syria and Israel today the various stages of social progress...

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Agriculture Scripture - Genesis 9:20

And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:...

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Animals in Naves Topical Bible

Creations of Ge 1:24; 2:19; Jer 27:5 -Food of Ge 1:30 -Named Ge 2:20 -Ordained as food for man Ge 9:2,3; Le 11:3,9,21,22; De 14:4-6,9,11,20 -God's care of Ge 9:9,10; De 25:4; Job 38:41; Ps 36:6; 104:11,21; 147:9; Jon 4:11; Mt 6:26; 10:29; Lu 12:6,24; 1Co 9:9 -Under the curse Ge 3:14; 6:7,17 -Suffer under divine judgments, sent upon ma...

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Animals Scripture - Deuteronomy 14:5

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois....

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Agriculture Scripture - 1Kings 19:19

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him....

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Animals in Easton's Bible Dictionary

an organized living creature endowed with sensation. The Levitical law divided animals into clean and unclean, although the distinction seems to have existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The clean could be offered in sacrifice and eaten. All animals that had not cloven hoofs and did not chew the cud were unclean. The list of clean and uncl...

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ALTAR in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

I. Classification of Hebrew Altars. Before considering the Biblical texts attention must be drawn to the fact that these texts know of at least two kinds of altars which were so different in appearance that no contemporary could possibly confuse them. The first was an altar consisting of earth or unhewn stones. It had no fixed shape, but varied wit...

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Agriculture in Naves Topical Bible

Divine institution of Ge 2:15; 3:19,23 -Practiced by Cain Ge 4:2 -Practiced by Noah Ge 9:20 -Practiced by Elisha 1Ki 19:19 -Practiced by David 1Ch 27:26-31 -Practiced by Uzziah 2Ch 26:10 -Practiced by Solomon Ec 2:4-6 -God to be acknowledged in Jer 5:24; Ho 2:8 -Requires wisdom Isa 28:26 -Requires diligence Pr 27:23,27; Ec 11:6 ...

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Animals Scripture - Deuteronomy 14:6

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat....

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