Transcriber’s Note:

The original text was printed in two columns, which cannot be replicated here.

As is common in dictionaries, each column is headed with a three-letter indication of the first and last articles on that page. This feature is not feasible here.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s [note] at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

There are several unusual Greek characters employed in this text:

ȣligature of ‘ου’
ϛstigma, a ligature of ‘στ’
ϖa cursive variant of ‘π’, almost always used as the first character of a word.
ϐa cursive variant of ‘β’, used in any position other than the first character, which appears as ‘β’.

The map appearing as the [frontispiece], as well as those facing pp. [76], [524], [724], [728] serve as links to larger versions of those maps.

There are maps appearing as the [frontispiece], as well as facing pp. [76], [524], [724], [728] in the original.

The cover image has been created, based on title page information, and is added to the public domain.

A BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL
DICTIONARY:


EXPLANATORY OF THE

HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE JEWS,

AND NEIGHBOURING NATIONS.

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PLACES AND PERSONS

MENTIONED IN SACRED SCRIPTURE;

An Exposition

OF THE

PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY;

AND NOTICES OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SECTS AND HERESIES.

BY RICHARD WATSON.

[REVISED BY THE AMERICAN EDITORS.]

ΛΙΜ’ΗΝ ἐϛιν ἀκύμαντος, καὶ τειχος ἀρραγὲς, καὶ ϖύργος ἄσειστος, καὶ δόξα ἀναφαίρετος, καὶ ὅ πλα ἄτρωτα, καὶ εὐθυμία ἀμάραντος, καὶ ἡδονὴ διηνεκὴς, καὶ ϖάντα οσα ἄν ἔιποι τὶς καλὰ, τῶν θεῖων γραφῶν ἡ συνȣσία.--Chrysostom.

[An intimate acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures is a secure haven, and an impregnable bulwark, and an immovable tower, and imperishable glory, and impenetrable armour, and unfading joy, and perpetual delight, and whatever other excellence can be uttered.]

NEW-YORK,

PUBLISHED BY B. WAUGH AND T. MASON,

FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE

OFFICE, 14 CROSBY-STREET.


J. Collord, Printer.

1832.

“Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by B. Waugh and T. Mason, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.”