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Smith's Bible Dictionary
been done to a great extent in the Epistle to the Hebrews. It would also embrace all the moral and
spiritual teaching supposed to be intended by such symbols.
Highways
Though during the sway of the Romans over Palestine they made a few substantial roads for
their carts and chariots, yet for the most of the time, as today, the Jews had nothing such as we call
roads, but only footpaths through which animals walk in single file. These are never cared for, no
repairs are made or obstacles removed. This fact brings into striking prominence the figure of
repairing a highway for the return Of the captives, or the coming of the great King. On special
occasions kings had roads prepared for the progress of their armies, or their own going from place
to place.—ED.
Hilen
(place of caves), the name of city of Judah allotted with its suburbs to the priests. (1 Chronicles
6:58)
Hilkiah
(God is my portion)
•Father of Eliakim. (2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 22:20; 36:22) [Eliakim]
•High priest in the reign of Josiah. (2 Kings 22:4) seq. 2Chr 34:9 Seq.; 1 Esd. 1:8. (B.C. 623.) His
high priesthood was rendered particularly illustrious by the great reformation effected under it by
King Josiah, by the solemn Passover kept at Jerusalem in the 18th year of that king’s reign, and
above all by the discovery which he made of the book of the law of Moses in the temple.
•A Merarite Levite, son of Amzi (1 Chronicles 6:45) hebr. 30.
•Another Merarite Levite, second son of Hosah. (1 Chronicles 26:11)
•One of those who stood on the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people; doubtless
a Levite, and probably a priest. (Nehemiah 8:4) (B.C 410.)
•A priest of Anathoth, father of the prophet Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 1:1) (B.C. before 628.)
•Father of Gemariah, who was one of Zedekiah’s envoys to Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:3) (B.C. long
before 587.)
Hillel
(praise), a native of Pirathon in Mount Ephraim, father of Abdon, one of the judges of Israel.
(Judges 12:13,15)
Hills
From the Hebrew Gibeah, meaning a curved round hill. But our translators have also employed
the same English word for the very different term har, which has a much more extended sense than
gibeah, meaning a whole district. For instance, in (Exodus 24:4) the “hill” is the same which is
elsewhere in the same chapter, vs. (Exodus 24:12,13,18) etc., and book consistently and accurately
rendered “mount” and “mountain.” The “country of the hills,” in (1:7; Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11:16)
is the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim, which is correctly called “the mountain”
in the earliest descriptions of Palestine, (Numbers 13:29) and in many subsequent passages.
Hin
[Weights And Measures AND Measures]
Hind
the female of the common stag or Cervus elaphus . It is frequently noticed in the poetical parts
of Scripture as emblematic of activity, (Genesis 49:21; Psalms 18:33) gentleness, (Proverbs 5:19)
feminine modesty, (Song of Solomon 2:7; 3:5) earnest longing, (Psalms 42:1) and maternal affection.
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