Dictionary of the Holy Bible: For the Use of Schools and Young Persons (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dictionary of the Holy Bible: For the Use of Schools and Young Persons

In order to bring the work within a small compass, I have, in the first place, omitted the definitions Of words merely English, in the use Of which there is nothing peculiar, and which every body understands, or at least may understand, from a common English dictionary. From this rule I have departed only in a few cases, where such words have a peculiar, or perhaps the ological sense in the Bible. In the next place, I have also omitted all those names Of persons and places which occur but seldom, and Of which nothing more is Known than appears in the passages where they occur. As the reader, in perusing these passages, knows at once all that can be known about such persons and places, it seemed inexpedient to swell the volume by inserting their names.

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