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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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in them and cookedwhole. These may bewhat are rendered inour version ranges forpots. Lev. 11: 35. 3. Portable oven.—This is an earthen ves-sel without a bottom,about 3 feet high,smeared outside andinside with clay andplaced upon a frame orsupport. Fire is madewithin it or below it.When the sides are suf-ficiently heated thin patches of dough are spread on the inside, and the top is covered without removing the fire, as in the other cases, and the bread is quickly baked. To this we may refer the phrase oven. Lev. 2 : 4. Convex plates of iron, pans or plates, flat stones, etc., are often used for bak-ing. See Bake, Bread. OVERSEERS. Acts 20: 28. This term denotes the pastor of a congrega-tion of Christians, and is identical wit presbyter or elder. Comp. v. 17. The same Greek word is elsewhere translated bishop. See Bishop. OWL. In Deut. 14: 16,17; Isa. 34:11, 15: Ps. 102:6 this word doubtless denotes some one or other of the five species of owl common in Egypt and Syria. The Hebrew word translated
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Eagle Owl. Bubo Maximus. After Houghton.) baken in the oven owl in eight other cases means the ostrich, as is often indicated in the margin. Some of these birds we know635 ox OZN are very abundant in Palestine, espe-cially among ruins, and their doleful hooting as they seek their prey by night intensifies the present desolation of thes former habitations of pride and glory. The prophecies of Isa. 34 find a fulfil-ment in modern Petra—ancient Idumaea—as described by Irby and Mangles : The screaming of eagles, hawks, and owls, which were soaring above ourheads in considerable numbers, seem-ingly annoyed at any one approachin their lonely habitation, added much to the singularity of the scene. See Night-hawk, Ostrich. OX, a well-known domestic animal, clean by the Levitical Law, strong and patient of labor, of great use in agricul-tural pursuits, and one of the most val-uable possessions of the Jewish husband-man. Gen. 24 : 35; 30 : 43 ; 1 Sam. 11 : 7 ;Job 1: 3. Oxen were used for ploughing, Deut.

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