Dict: smith - ANATH

smith:

ANATH - A>@ - (answer), father of Shamgar. kjv@Judges:3:31 kjv@Judges:5:6)

ANATHEMA - A>@ - which literally means a thing suspended, is the equivalent of the Hebrew word signifying a thing or person voted. Any object so devoted to Jehovah was irredeemable. If an inanimate object, it was to be given to the priests, kjv@Numbers:18:14) if a living creature or even a man, it was to be slain. kjv@Leviticus:27:28-29) The word anathema frequently occurs in St. Paul’s writings, and is generally translated accused. An examination of the passages in which it occurs shows that it had acquired a more general sense as expressive either of strong feeling, kjv@Romans:9:3) or of dislike and condemnation. ( kjv@1Corinthians:12:3 kjv@1Corinthians:16:22; kjv@Galatians:1:9)

ANATHOTH - A>@ - (answers to prayer). Son of Becher, a son of Benjamin. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:8) One of the "heads of the people" who signed the covenant in the time of Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:19) (B.C. 410.)

ANATHOTH - A>@ - a priests’ city belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, with "suburbs." kjv@Joshua:21:18; kjv@1Chronicles:6:60) Anathoth lay about three miles from Jerusalem. kjv@Isaiah:10:30) The cultivation of the priests survives in tilled fields of grain, with figs and olives. There are the remains of walls and strong foundations, and the quarries still supply Jerusalem with building stones.