Bible Names, Places, Numbers, Symbols, and Types
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If a name or place has more than one meaning attached to it, or has more than one individual or place attached to it, each variant will be list as follows (2) (3), etc.
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Haaraloth Gibeath-haaraloth |
Foreskins (Hill of the Foreskins); Where Joshua circumcised the children of Israel (Jos 5:3) |
| Habaiah | Yah Has Hidden, The Hiding of the Lord; A post-exilic priestly family which was unable to establish its pedigree |
| Habakkuk | Embrace; The eighth of the twelve minor prophets; He was probably a member of the Levitical choir. He was contemporary with Jeremiah and Zephaniah and prophesied about 610 B.C., shortly before Nebuchadnezzar's first invasion of Judea. The BOOK OF HABAKKUK consists of three chapters, which all constitute on oracle. In Habakkuk 1:1-17, he foretells the woes which the rapacious and terrible Chaldeans would soon inflict upon his guilty nation. In Habakkuk 2:1-20, he predicts the future humiliation of the conquerors. Habakkuk 3:1-19 is a sublime and beautiful ode, in which the prophet implores the succor of Jehovah in view of his mighty works of ancient days, and expresses the most assured trust in him. (ATS Bible Dictionary) |
| Hadoram | Thunder Is Exalted, A Noble Generation, Exalted Glory, Exalted Snake Charmer; Son of Joktan, Grandson of Eber. (Genesis 10:27) (2) The son of king Tou of Hamath. King Tou sends Hadoram and all kinds of wonderful gifts to King David to salute his victory over Hadadezer, king of Zobah (1 Chronicles 18:10). In 2 Samuel 8:10 this prince is called Joram. (3) King Rehoboam Chief of Forced Labor, stoned to death of the mob of Israelites (2 Chronicles 10:18); Adoram in 2 Samue 20:24 and Adoniram in 1 Kings 4:6. |
| Hagar | Flight or Stranger; Type of the Law Covenant |
| Hagrites | North East Jordan; |
| Hail | Type of Hard Distressing Truth |
| Hair | Type of Wisdom, Venerable |
| Ham I (Cham) | Hot or Protective Wall, warm, passion; Youngest son of Noah; Father of the Cush (Cushites (Ethiopians), Mizram (Egyptians), Put, & Canaan; descendants in West Asia and North Africa; Sons of Ham: Cush = Sudan, Ethiopea; Mizraim = Egyptians; Put = Lybia; Canaan = Hivites, Jebusites, Arvadites, Girgashites, Amorites, Arkite, Sinites, Hittites, Sidoniams, Perizzites, Zemarites (30 nations, some spoke Semitic); Ham's sin may have been to look at Noah's genitals, since to look at another's genitals to breach a boundary or it could have been a sexual act since the Hebrew word "sh" means to press in a sexual way (Exodus 23:3,8). Ham is sometimes rendered passion since the Hebrew "hmm" and "yim" can denote sexual heat. |
| Ham II | Noisy; a town where kings Amraphel, Arioch, Tidal, and Chedorlaomer defeated Zuzim. (Genesis 14:5). (Different Hebrew word than Ham I) |
| Hamathite | People Of Fortification, Hotness, Waterskin; Descendants of Canaan; From a city (Hamath), somewhere in Syria, near the Northern frontier of Israel (1 Kings 8:65, Isaiah 11:11, Ezekiel 47:16) |
| Hand | Type of Work, cooperation, responsibility (See Right Hand; See Left Hand) |
| Haran I | Mountainous, Mountaineer; Son of Terah; Brother of Abraham; Half-Brother of Sarah (Genesis 11:26) Father of Lot (2) A Levite of the family of Gershon (1 Chronicles 23:9); Derived from the Hebrew word Har, meaning hill or mountain. |
| Haran II | Freedom, Central Fire; The city in Mesopotamia where Terah, Abram's father, settled after leaving Ur and where he died. (Genesis 11:31) Nahor was the only son of Terah who settled at Haran, called "the city of Nahor". (Genesis 24:10; 27:43) Birthplace of Rebekah; Conquered by the Assyrian kings (II Kings 19:12); Had a commercial relationship with Tyre (Ezekiel 27: 23); May be identical with the Carrhae, in Mesopotamia, famous for the defeat of Crassus by the Parthians and known to the Arabs as Harran, the abode of the Sabeans. Some believe the city was built by Haran, the brother of Abraham, others think it was the first city built after the Flood. Haran (Carrhae) is in the territory of Muḍar, a day's journey southeast of Edessa. May be the same as the town of Harran in Southeastern Turkey. (2) A son of Caleb and Ephah (Caleb's concubine) (1 Chronicles 2:46). From the Hebrew word Hara, to burn or Harar, to be hot or even to be free. |
| Harlot | Type of the Church United with Secular (Governmental) Authority |
| Harp | Type of a Harmonious set of doctrines |
| Harvest (Gospel) | Type of the End of the Gospel Age, beginning of Millennial Age |
| Harvest (Jewish) | Type of the End of the Jewish Age, beginning of Gospel Age |
| Haahashtari | A Runner; A descendant of Judah; a man or a family immediately descended from Ashur. "father of Tekoa," by his second wife Naarah |
| Havilah | Circle Land; Rich in Gold, Bdellium, & Onyx; Maybe the sandy tract which skirts Babylon on the W. border; (2) A district in Arabia (Felix); (3) A Son of Cush (4) A Son of Joktan |
| Hazarmaveth | Village of Death, Count of Death; Son of Joktan, Grandson of Eber. |
| Head | Type of Place of ideas; Type of forms of government |
| Heat | Type of Adverse effects of enlightenment on individuals or organizations |
Heaven |
Type of Powers of Spiritual Control; |
| Hebron | Place Of Joining, Alliance; Derived from the Hebrew word for "friend" Haver. A city in Canaan, originally named Kiriath-arba (Genesis 23:2). It rises 3,050 feet above sea level, Abraham resided near and bought a cave there to bury Sarah (Genesis 23). Joshua conquered it (Joshua 10) and expeled the Anakim (Joshua 14:12). It is given to Caleb (Joshua 14:14). It is assigned to the tribe of Judah and assigned to the Kohathite Livites (Joshua 21:11). God gives Hebron to King David (2 Samuel 2:1). It became David's capital for seven years. Absalom rebelled against David at Hebron. It lays 23 miles South of Jerusalem. Hebron today is home to 120,000 Arabs and only 500 Jews. (2) A son of Kohath, son of Levi (Exodus 6:18). He was the patriarch of Hebronite temple workers (1 Chronicles 26:23), put in charge with the king's busness west of the Jordan (1 Chronicles 26:30). (3) A man from Judah (1 Chronicles 2:43). |
| Hell | Type of oblivion for the incorrigible; From Strong's 1067 (Greek) Gehenna, a valley west and South of Jerusalem, also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment (second death) of the ungodly; so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch, an idol having the form of a bull. The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10, that they cast into it refuse, the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed. Fires were always kept burning to consume the dead bodies. |
| Heth | Terror or Dread; Descendant of Canaan and Ham; Father of the Hittites. |
High Towers |
Type of Human Organizations |
| Hittite | Terrors, Troubles; From Heth, Descendant of Canaan and Ham; (Genesis 10:5); The tribe who sold Abraham his cave in Machpelah (Genesis 23:8); They were settled in a town called Kirjath-arba (Hebron). Kirjath-arba was founded by one Arba of the Anakim and had inhabitants of that giant race. The Hittites and Amoritessettled together in the Orontes valley in the south of Palestine. The Hittites were mixed with the Rephaite Anakim. Ezekiel speaks of Jerusalem as daughter of an Amnorite father and a Hittite mother (Ezekiel 16:3,45). They lived east of the isthmus of Suez. They were nomadic and pastoral tribes. The Hittites were the warlike part of a confederation of tribes. They inhabited the region between the Euphrates and Damascus in the Orontes valley. They were rivals of the Egyptian and Assyrian empires. In the book of Joshua they appear as the dominant race to the north of Galilee. |
| Hivite | Villagers; Son of Canaan, Canaanite Tribe |
| Horeb | Arid, Dryness; the Mountain of God is the mountain where Moses receives the Law (Exodus 3:1). Elijah spends forty days fasting on Horeb (1 Kings 19:8). According to some, a lower part or peak of Mount Sinai, but, according to others, a general name for the whole mountain, of which Sinai was a particular summit. (See Sinai) |
| Horites | From Chor for hole, cave; Descended from Seir and inhabited the lime-stone caves in what became Edom (displaced by the Edomites); Mt. Seir; Esau married a Horite (Gen. 36:28); defeated by Chedorlaomer; Semites 2) Hori the father of Shaphat of the tribe of simeon, represented Simeonites when spying out the land (Nu 15:5) |
| Horns | Type of Power |
| Horsemen | Type of Followers or promoters of doctrines |
Horses |
Type of Doctrines |
| Hour | Type of Nonspecific time with certain characteristics |
| House | Type of a Covenant |
| Hunger | Type of Lack of Spiritual Food |