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• Text:EBD:Ophir
  ...me for India, which is the rendering of the Arabic version, as also of the Vulgate. Josephus has identified it with the Golden Chersonese, i.e., the Malay pen
  583 bytes (91 words) - 20:49, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Bramble
  (1.) Hebrew atad, Judg. 9:14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawth
  529 bytes (69 words) - 20:17, 28 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Jasher
  ...ook of Jasher," rendered in the LXX. "the Book of the Upright One," by the Vulgate "the Book of Just Ones," was probably a kind of national sacred song-book,
  641 bytes (108 words) - 14:41, 13 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Spider
  ...v. 30:28 a different Hebrew word (semamith) is used. It is rendered in the Vulgate by stellio, and in the Revised Version by "lizard." It may, however, repres
  593 bytes (99 words) - 17:51, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Tale
  ...a whisper of sadness," which is soon over, or "as a thought." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "spider;" the Authorized Version and Revised Version, "as a tale"
  593 bytes (86 words) - 18:49, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Carbuncle
  (Ex. 28:17; 39:10; Ezek. 28:13). Heb. barkath; LXX. smaragdos; Vulgate, smaragdus; Revised Version, marg., "emerald." The Hebrew word is from a ro
  714 bytes (117 words) - 05:44, 30 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Shinar, The Land of
  LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia
  779 bytes (122 words) - 14:43, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Cubit
  ...16 gomed, which literally means a "cut," something "cut off." The LXX. and Vulgate render it "span."
  793 bytes (139 words) - 14:20, 3 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Firmament
  From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki'a. This wo
  860 bytes (140 words) - 15:18, 6 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Owl
  The LXX. and Vulgate render this word by "ibis", i.e., the Egyptian heron. ...oz, the "great owl" (Isa. 34:15); Revised Version, "arrow-snake;" LXX. and Vulgate, "hedgehog," reading in the text, kippod, instead of kippoz. There is no re
  2 KB (366 words) - 23:49, 30 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Sela
  It appears in later history and in the Vulgate Version under the name of Petra. "The caravans from all ages, from the inte
  903 bytes (152 words) - 13:34, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Solomon, Song of
  Called also, after the Vulgate, the "Canticles." It is the "song of songs" (1:1), as being the finest and
  800 bytes (114 words) - 03:15, 17 October 2015
• Text:EBD:Ed
  Witness, a word not found in the original Hebrew, nor in the LXX. and Vulgate, but added by the translators in the Authorized Version, also in the Revise
  934 bytes (162 words) - 06:29, 9 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Brier
  (3.) Isa. 55:13, probably simply a thorny bush. Some, following the Vulgate Version, regard it as the "nettle."
  877 bytes (128 words) - 20:24, 28 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Maccabees, Books of the
  ...hus|Antiochus Epiphanes]], and terminating B.C. 135. It became part of the Vulgate Version of the Bible, and was thus retained among the [[Apocrypha]].
  1 KB (196 words) - 15:39, 28 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Apocrypha
  ...e given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translati
  1 KB (216 words) - 18:15, 24 October 2008
• English Standard Version
  ...the [[Samaritan Pentateuch]], the Syriac [[Peshitta]], the [[Vulgate|Latin Vulgate]], and other sources were consulted to shed possible light on the text, or,
  4 KB (547 words) - 13:40, 21 October 2008
• Text:EBD:On
  ...Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and near Cairo, in the north-east. The Vulgate and the LXX. Versions have "Heliopolis" ("city of the sun") instead of On i
  1 KB (228 words) - 20:44, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Shiloh
  ...g the Messiah, "the peaceful one," as the word signifies (Gen. 49:10). The Vulgate Version translates the word, "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Mes
  1 KB (213 words) - 14:37, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Ezra, Book of
  ...Jews regarding them as one volume. The two are still distinguished in the Vulgate version as I. and II. Esdras. It consists of two principal divisions:
  1 KB (243 words) - 03:48, 17 October 2015

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