A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible

Mainly abridged from Dr. Wm. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, but comprising important additions and improvements from the works of Robinson, Gesenius, Fürst, Pape, Pott, Winer, Keil, Lange, Kitto, Fairbairn, Alexander, Barnes, Bush, Thomson, Stanley, Porter, Tristram, King, Ayre, and many other eminent scholars, commentators, travellers, and authors in various departments. Designed to be a complete guide in regard to the pronounciation and signification of scriptural names; the solution of difficulties respecting the interpretation, authority, and harmony of the old and new testazents; the history and description of biblical customs, events, places, persons, animals, plants, minerals, and other things concerning which information is needed for an intelligent and thorough study of the holy scriptures, and of the books of the apocrypha

Edited by rev. Samuel W. Barnum. Jerusalem. Illustrated with five hundred maps and engravings