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Smith's Bible Dictionary
that this tree, once so abundant in Judea, is now comparatively rare, except in the Philistine plain
and in the old Phoenicia about Beyrout .
Palmerworm
(Heb. gazam) occurs (Joel 1:4; 2:25; Amos 4:9) It is maintained by many that gazam denotes
some species of locust. but it is more probably a caterpillar.
Palsy
(contracted from paralysis). The loss of sensation or the power of motion, or both, in any part
of the body. The infirmities included under this name in the New Testament were various:—
•The paralytic shock affecting the whole body, or apoplexy.
•That affecting only one side.
•Affecting the whole system below the neck.
•Catalepsy, caused by the contraction of the muscles in the whole or a part of the body. This was
very dangerous and often fatal. The part affected remains immovable and diminishes in size and
dries up. A hand thus affected was called “a withered hand.” (Matthew 12:10-13)
•Cramp. This was a most dreadful disease caused by the chills of the nights. The limbs remain
immovably fixed in the same position as when seized as it, and the person seems like one suffering
torture. It is frequently followed in a few days by death. Several paralytics were cured by Jesus.
(Matthew 4:24; 8:13) etc.
Palti
(whom Jehovah delivers), the Benjamite spy, son of Raphu. (Numbers 13:9) (B.C.1490.)
Paltiel
(whom God delivers), the son of Azzan and prince of the tribe of Issachar. (Numbers 34:26)
He was one of the twelve appointed to divide the land of Canaan among the tribes west of Jordan.
(B.C. 1450.)
Pamphylia
(of every tribe), one of the coast-regions in the south of Asia Minor, having Cilicia on the east
and Lycia on the west. In St. Paul’s time it was not only a regular province, but the emperor Claudius
had united Lycia with it, and probably also a good part of Pisidia. It was in Pamphylia that St. Paul
first entered Asia Minor, after preaching the gospel in Cyprus. He and Barnabas sailed up the river
Cestrus to Perga. (Acts 13:13) The two missionaries finally left Pamphylia by its chief seaport
Attalia. Many years afterward St. Paul sailed near the coast. (Acts 27:5)
Pan
Of the six words so rendered in the Authorized Version, two seem to imply a shallow pan or
plate, such as is used by the Bedouine and Syrians for baking or dressing rapidly their cakes of
meal, such as were used in legal oblations; the others, a deeper vessel or caldron for boiling meat,
placed during the process on three stones.
Pannag
(sweet), an article of commerce exported from Palestine to Tyre, (Ezekiel 27:17) the nature of
which is a pure matter of conjecture, as the term occurs nowhere else. A comparison of the passage
in Ezekiel with (Genesis 43:11) leads to the supposition that pannag represents some of the spices
grown in Palestine.
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