Dictionary of the Bible (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...Saxon, and is properly to make holy; hence hallowed persons, things, places, rites, &c.; hence, also, the name, power, dignity of God, is hallowed; that is, reverenced as holy. HALT, to go lame on the feet or legs. Many persons who were halt were cured by our Lord. To halt between two opinions, (1 Kings xviii. 21.') should, perhaps, be to stagger from one to the other, repeatedly; but some say, it is an allusion to birds, who hop from spray to spray, forwards and backwards: --as the contrary influence of supposed convictions, vibrated the mind in alternate affirmation and doubtfulness. HAM, or Cham, burnt, nearthy, black; the youngest son of Noah. One day when Noah had drank wine, Ham perceived his parent lying in his tent with his person exposed, which he ridiculed. Noah, when he awoke and was informed of his sin, said, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren." Ham was father of dish, Misraim, Phut, and Canaan. It is believed that he had Africa for his inheritance; and that he peopled it; but he dwelt in Egypt (See Egypt.) Africa is called "the land of Ham" in several places of the Psalms. Many writers have been of opinion, that the posterity of Ham suggested the design, and formed the presumptuous project, of building the tower of Babel. But this is without proofs. 'In the Ho/it ul Suffa it is written, that God besttiwrd on Ham nine sons--Hind, Silld, Zenj, Nuba, "nnaan, Rush, Kopt, Berber, and Hebesh; and their children having increased to an immense mnl titude, God caused each tribe to speak a different language; wherefore they separated, and each of them applied to the cultivation of their own lands." (Asiatic Miscel. p. 148. 4to.) Most of these nations may be traced with tolerable certainty...