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Smith's Bible Dictionary
beyond the immediate offender. (24:16; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Chronicles 25:4; Jeremiah 31:29,30; Ezekiel
18:20)
Boanerges
a name signifying sons of thunder, given by our Lord to the two sons of Zebedee, James and
John, probably on account of their fiery earnestly. (Mark 3:17) See (Luke 9:54; Mark 9:38) comp.
Matt 20:20 etc.
Boar
[Swine]
Boaz
(fleetness).
•A wealthy Bethlehemite kinsman to Elimelech the husband of Naomi. He married Ruth, and
redeemed the estates of her deceased husband Mahlon. (Ruth 4:1) Boaz is mentioned in the
genealogy of Christ, (Matthew 1:5) (B.C. 1250, but there is great difficulty in assigning his date.)
•The name of one of Solomon’s brazen pillars erected in the temple porch. [Jachin] It stood on the
left, and was eighteen cubits high. (1 Kings 7:15; 21; 2 Chronicles 3:15; Jeremiah 52:21)
Bocheru
(youth), son of Azel, according to the present Hebrew text of (1 Chronicles 8:38)
Bochim
(the weepers) a place on the west of Jordan, above Gilgal; so named from the weeping of Israel.
(Judges 2:1,6)
Bohan
(thumb), a Reubenite. (Joshua 15:6; 18:17)
Bohan, Stone Of
a stone erected in honor of Bohan on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin, in the valley
of Achor, along the eastern side of the present Wady Dahr, running into the Dead Sea.
Boil
[Medicine]
Bondage
[Slave]
Book
[Writing]
Booths
[Succoth; Tabernacles, The Feast Of, FEAST OF]
Booty
consisted of captives of both sexes, cattle, and whatever a captured city might contain, especially
metallic treasures. Within the limits of Canaan no captives were to be made, (20:14,16) beyond
these limits, in case of warlike resistance, all the women and children were to be made captives,
and the men put to death. The law of booty is given in (Numbers 31:26-47) As regarded the army,
David added a regulation that the baggage guard should share equally with the troops engaged. (1
Samuel 30:24; 25)
Booz
(Matthew 1:5; Luke 3:32) [Boaz]
Boscath
(2 Kings 22:1) [Bozkath]
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