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• Text:EBD:Hazel
  Heb. luz, (Gen. 30:37), a nutbearing tree. The Hebrew word is rendered in the Vulgate by amygdalinus, "the almond-tree," which is probably correct. That tree flo
  225 bytes (31 words) - 18:19, 12 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Sheep-market
  ...certain whether the noun to be supplied should be "gate" or, following the Vulgate Version, "pool."
  254 bytes (39 words) - 02:06, 4 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Villages
  ...ages (Deut. 3:5; 1 Sam. 6:18). Others, however, following the LXX. and the Vulgate versions, render the word "rulers."
  271 bytes (34 words) - 15:18, 17 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Dan-jaan
  ...ion of Dan, near the sources of the Jordan (2 Sam. 24:6). The LXX. and the Vulgate read "Dan-ja'ar", i.e., "Dan in the forest."
  228 bytes (35 words) - 14:42, 3 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Rent
  (Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and
  249 bytes (40 words) - 14:51, 16 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Rosin
  ...sori, uniformly rendered elsewhere "balm" (q.v.), as here in the text. The Vulgate has resinam, rendered "rosin" in the Douay Version. As used, however, by Je
  324 bytes (48 words) - 15:42, 16 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Log
  ...or liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to th
  309 bytes (49 words) - 12:23, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Ash
  ...44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs aran, found still in the vall
  384 bytes (65 words) - 18:58, 24 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Greyhound
  ...the lions." Some (Gesen.; R.V. marg.) render it "war-horse." The LXX. and Vulgate versions render it "cock." It has been by some interpreters rendered also "
  467 bytes (68 words) - 14:27, 12 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Gopher
  ...entioned only there. The LXX. render this word by "squared beams," and the Vulgate by "planed wood." Other versions have rendered it "pine" and "cedar;" but t
  413 bytes (68 words) - 14:09, 12 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Testament
  ...nant" in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised Version. The Vulgate translates incorrectly by testamentum, whence the names "Old" and "New Test
  460 bytes (69 words) - 19:18, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Cheese
  ...d. (2.) 2 Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk is meant by the wo
  387 bytes (56 words) - 19:49, 1 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Chamois
  ...till found in Sinai and in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX. and Vulgate render the word by camelopardus, i.e., the giraffe; but this is an animal o
  465 bytes (80 words) - 19:39, 1 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Meadow
  ..."). Some have adopted the rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate translates the word "from the west."
  482 bytes (72 words) - 19:50, 30 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Orion
  ...tellation (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The Vulgate renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e., "the evening-star," V
  554 bytes (85 words) - 20:51, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Chalcedony
  ...16; 28:13). It is rendered "anthrax" in the LXX., and "carbunculus" in the Vulgate. (See CARBUNCLE.)
  575 bytes (88 words) - 19:36, 1 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Melons
  Only in Num. 11:5, the translation of the Hebrew abattihim, the LXX. and Vulgate pepones, Arabic britikh. Of this plant there are various kinds, the Egyptia
  646 bytes (104 words) - 14:52, 26 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Judah upon Jordan
  The Authorized Version, following the Vulgate, has this rendering in Josh. 19:34. It has been suggested that, following t
  519 bytes (77 words) - 18:30, 13 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Amber
  (Ezek. 1:4, 27; 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word b
  505 bytes (76 words) - 05:52, 24 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Rehoboth
  ...Probably, however, the words "rehoboth'ir" are to be translated as in the Vulgate and the margin of A.V., "the streets of the city," or rather "the public sq
  517 bytes (80 words) - 14:47, 16 November 2008

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