Dict: smith - ED

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ED - E>@ - (witness), a word inserted in the Authorized Version of kjv@Joshua:22:34) apparently on the authority of a few MSS., and also of the Syriac and Arabic versions, but not existing in the generally-received Hebrew text.

EDAR, TOWER OF - E>@ - (accur. EDER, a flock), a place named only in kjv@Genesis:35:21) According to Jerome it was one thousand paces from Bethlehem.

EDEN - E>@ - (pleasure). The first residence of man, called in the Septuagint Paradise. The latter is a word of Persian origin, and describes an extensive tract of pleasure land, somewhat like an English park; and the use of it suggests a wider view of man’s first abode than a garden. The description of Eden is found in kjv@Genesis:2:8-14) In the eastern portion of the region of Eden was the garden planted. The Hiddekel, one of its rivers, is the modern Tigris; the Euphrates is the same as the modern Euphrates. With regard to the Pison and Gihon a great variety of opinion exists, but the best authorities are divided between

(1) Eden as in northeast Arabia, at the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris, and their separation again, making the four rivers of the different channels of these two, or

(2), and most probably, Eden as situated in Armenia, near the origin of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and in which same region rise the Araxes (Pison of Genesis) and the Oxus (Gihon). One of the marts which supplied the luxury of Tyre with richly-embroidered stuffs. In ( kjv@2Kings:19:12) and Isai 37:12 "The sons of Eden" are mentioned with Gozan, Haran and Rezeph as victims of the Assyrian greed of conquest. Probability seems to point to the northwest of Mesopotamia as the locality of Eden. BETH

- EDEN, "house of pleasure:" probably the name of a country residence of the kings of Damascus. kjv@Amos:1:5)

EDEN - E>@ - A Gershonite Levite, son of Joah, in the days of Hezekiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:12) (B.C. 727.) Also a Levite, probably identical with the preceding. ( kjv@2Chronicles:31:15)

EDER - E>@ - (a flock). One of the towns of Judah, in the extreme south, and on the borders of Edom. kjv@Joshua:15:21) No trace of it has been discovered in modern times. A Levite of the family of Merari, in the time of David. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:23 kjv@1Chronicles:24:30)

EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA - E>@ - (red). The name Edom was given to Esau, the first-born son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, when he sold his birthright to the latter for a meal of lentil pottage. The country which the Lord subsequently gave to Esau was hence called "the country of Edom," kjv@Genesis:32:3) and his descendants were called Edomites. Edom was called Mount Seir and Idumea also. Edom was wholly a mountainous country. It embraced the narrow mountainous tract (about 100 miles long by 20 broad) extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the northern end of the Gulf of Elath to near the southern end of the Dead Sea. The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah (Buseireh). Sela (Petra) appears to have been the principal stronghold in the days of Amaziah (B.C. 838). ( kjv@2Kings:14:7) Elath and Ezion-geber were the seaports. (2 Samuel kjv@8:14; Kings:9:26) History.
Esau’s bitter hatred to his brother Jacob for fraudulently obtaining his blessing appears to have been inherited by his latest posterity. The Edomites peremptorily refused to permit the Israelites to pass through their land. kjv@Numbers:20:18-21) For a period of 400 years we hear no more of the Edomites. They were then attacked and defeated by Saul, ( kjv@1Samuel:14:47) and some forty years later by David. (2 Samuel kjv@8:13-14) In the reign of Jehoshaphat (B.c. 914) the Edomites attempted to invade Israel, but failed. ( kjv@2Chronicles:20:22) They joined Nebuchadnezzar when that king besieged Jerusalem. For their cruelty at this time they were fearfully denounced by the later prophets. kjv@Isaiah:34:5-8 kjv@Isaiah:63:1-4; kjv@Jeremiah:49:17) After this they settled in southern Palestine, and for more than four centuries continued to prosper. But during the warlike rule of the Maccabees they were again completely subdued, and even forced to conform to Jewish laws and rites, and submit to the government of Jewish prefects. The Edomites were now incorporated with the Jewish nation. They were idolaters. ( kjv@2Chronicles:25:14-15 kjv@2Chronicles:25:20) Their habits were singular. The Horites, their predecessors in Mount Seir, were, as their name implies, troglodytes , or dwellers in caves; and the Edomites seem to have adopted their dwellings as well as their country. Everywhere we meet with caves and grottos hewn in the soft sandstone strata.

EDOMITES - E>@ - EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA

EDREI - E>@ - (stronghold). One of the two capital cities of Bashan, in the territory of Manasseh east of the Jordan. kjv@Numbers:21:33 kjv@Numbers:1:4 kjv@Numbers:3:10 ; kjv@Joshua:12:4) In Scripture it is only mentioned in connection with the victory gained by the Israelites over the Amorites under Og their king, and the territory thus acquired. The ruins of this ancient city, still bearing the name Edr’a , stand on a rocky promontory which projects from the southwest corner of the Lejah. The ruins are nearly three miles in circumference, and have a strange, wild, look, rising up in dark, shattered masses from the midst of a wilderness of black rocks. A town of northern Palestine, allotted to the tribe of Naphtali, and situated near Kedesh. kjv@Joshua:19:37) About two miles south of Kedesh is a conical rocky hill called Tell Khuraibeh , the "tell of the ruin," which may be the site of Edrei.

EDUCATION - E>@ - There is little trace among the Hebrews in earlier times of education in any other subjects than the law. The wisdom therefore and instruction, of which so much is said in the book of Proverbs, are to be understood chiefly of moral and religious discipline, imparted, according to the direction of the law, by the teaching and under the example of parents. (But Solomon himself wrote treatises on several scientific subjects, which must have been studied in those days.) In later times the prophecies and comments on them, as well as on the earlier Scriptures, together with other subjects, were studied. Parents were required to teach their children some trade. (Girls also went to schools, and women generally among the Jews were treated with greater equality to men than in any other ancient nation.) Previous to the captivity, the chief depositaries of learning were the schools or colleges, from which in most cases proceeded that succession of public teachers who at various times endeavored to reform the moral and religious conduct of both rulers and people. Besides the prophetical schools instruction was given by the priests in the temple and elsewhere.
See SCHOOLS