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Abiathar

(Encyclopedia)Abiathar əbīˈəthär [key], in the Bible, priest, son of Ahimelech, the only one of his family who escaped massacre by Doeg. He fled to David, to whom he remained loyal. Later he sided with Adonija...

Jahaziel

(Encyclopedia)Jahaziel jəhāˈzēĕl, jāˌhāzīˈəl, jāhăzˈēĕl [key], in the Bible. 1 Man who joined David at Ziklag. 2 One who inspired Jehoshaphat to oppose the invading Ammonites. 3 Priest before the Ar...

Obed

(Encyclopedia)Obed ōˈbĕd [key], in the Bible. 1 David's grandfather. 2 Father of Azariah (18.) 3 Gatekeeper at the Temple. ...

Tamar

(Encyclopedia)Tamar tāˈmär [key], in the Bible. 1 Mother of Judah's twin sons Pharez and Zerah. An alternate spelling is Thamar. 2 Daughter of David and Maachah. She was the victim of her half-brother Amnon's pa...

Thompson , river, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Thompson, river, 304 mi (489 km) long, formed by the junction of the North Thompson and the South Thompson rivers at Kamloops, S British Columbia, and flowing W and S to the Fraser River at Lytton. Th...

Adullam

(Encyclopedia)Adullam ədŭlˈəm [key], in the Bible, border town of Judah, SW of Jerusalem. David hid in the Cave of Adullam when he fled from Saul. From here three of his men went to get him water from the well ...

Barzillai

(Encyclopedia)Barzillai bärzĭlˈāī [key], in the Bible. 1 Chief in Gilead who was friendly to David. 2 The father-in-law of Saul's daughter Merab. ...

Notre Dame Mountains

(Encyclopedia)Notre Dame Mountains, section of the Appalachian system, extending c.500 mi (800 km) from the Green Mts. of Vermont into the Gaspé Peninsula, Canada. Worn low by erosion, the ancient mountains have a...

sleep

(Encyclopedia)sleep, resting state in which an individual becomes relatively quiescent and relatively unaware of the environment. During sleep, which is in part a period of rest and relaxation, most physiological f...

Eznite

(Encyclopedia)Eznite ĕzˈnīt [key], ostensibly an epithet of Adino (one of David's men) in Second Samuel. The name with its qualifier is translated in the parallel passage in First Chronicles as “he lifted up h...