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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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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d, or trodden in, Isa. 32 : 20, but it seems, according to the Hebrew ofIsa. 28 : 25, to have been planted in rowsor drills, as it certainly often is at pres-ent in Syria. Wheat-harvest is about amonth later than barley-harvest, usuallyin May. Sixty, or even one hundred, grainsmay sometimes be counted in an ear ofthis cereal, according to Tristram, and,as several stalks may spring from asingle seed with thorough cultivation,the increase of Matt. 13 : 8 is not at allincredible. Wheat is still produced for exporteast of the Jordan, where probablyMinnith, Eze. 27 : 17, was located. Thewhole land once produced vast quantitiesof this cereal, and will again when agri-culture is protected and encouraged.Deut. 8:8. In the days of Jacob thisgrain was already so much cultivated inMesopotamia that wheat-harvest de-noted a well-known season. Gen. 30 : 14. The many-eared variety, or mummy-wheat, still sometimes cultivated inEgypt and represented on its monu-ments, is referred to in Pharaohs dream.
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Egyptian Wheat. Gen. 41 : 22. In our translation thisgrain is often mentioned under thegeneral name of corn. See Corn,Thresh. WHITED SEPULCHRES.Matt. 23 : 27. It was customary to WID WIL whitewash the Jewish sepulchres annu-ally, that they might be distinctly seenand avoided, inasmuch as coming incontact with them was the occasion ofceremonial defilement. Num. 19 : 16.This practice gave them a clean andbeautiful appearance, and presented astriking contrast to the dark and offen-sive mass of putrefaction within. WIDOW. By the Jewish law, Deut.25 : 5, if a married man died leaving nochildren, his brother was required tomarry the widow, in order, first, that theestate might be kept in the family, and,second, that he might, in their descend-ants, perpetuate the name. This pre-scription refers only to the family andthe estate, and pays no regard to theindividual; but there are other prescrip-tions in the Mosaic Law which showgreat kindness and circumspection inbehalf of the widowed woman.

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