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Elon - Oak;
Grove; strong
Undergrove - ) A
Grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones
Rovy - ) Pertaining to, or resembling, a
Grove; situated in, or frequenting,
Groves
Pinery - ) A pine forest; a
Grove of pines
Shaw - ) A thicket; a small wood or
Grove
Bosquet - ) A
Grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed
Maarath - from a root meaning "openness or boreness" (Gesenius), or (mearah ) a "cave" (Grove)
Zedad -
Grove conjectures the present Sudud, E
Toft - ) A
Grove of trees; also, a plain
Asherah - "grove. Ashtoreth was the Hebrew name of the goddess; Asherah mistranslated "grove" in the A
Mamre - " The name probably denotes the "oak
Grove" or the "wood of Mamre," thus designated after Abraham's ally. This "grove" must have been within sight of or "facing" Machpelah (q
Grove -
Grove, n. A
Grove is either open or close open, when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds. Tall
Groves of masts arose in beauteous pride
Kirjath Arba - Hebron was the original name, then Mamre ("the sacred
Grove near the town"), then Kirjath Caleb restored the name Hebron
Nahaliel - (nuh hay' lih ehl) Place name meaning, “palm
Grove of God,” “torrent valley of God,” or less likely, “God is my inheritance
Coppice - ) A
Grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes
Beth-Hoglah - Robinson traced this name at a place three miles from the mouth of the Jordan, on the way to Jericho; here was a fine
Grove, watered by a sweet and limpid fountain the best in the valley of the Jordan
Grove - The King James Version of the Bible also uses the word “grove” to translate the term “Asherah. Yahweh repeatedly instructed the Israelites to pull down and destroy the Asherim (groves)
Ash'Erah - (straight ), the name of a Phoenician goddess, or rather of the idol itself (Authorized Version "grove")
Mam're - (strength, fatness ) an ancient Amorite, who with his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, was in alliance with Abram, (
Genesis 14:13,51 ) and under the shade of whose oak
Grove the patriarch dwelt in the interval between his residence at Bethel and at Beersheba
Grove - So
2 Kings 23:6, where it is nonsense "Josiah brought out the
Grove (Asherah) from the house of the Lord"; Manasseh had "set this graven image of Asherah in the house" (
2 Kings 21:7;
2 Kings 22:7; compare
Judges 3:7). Also a "grove" could not be "set up under every green tree" (
2 Kings 17:10;
1 Kings 14:23;
1 Kings 18:19;
Exodus 34:13). In
Genesis 21:33 it is a different word, "Abraham planted a "grove" (eshowl ) in Beersheba," rather "a tamarisk tree," a hardy evergreen fitted to be a memorial to his posterity that the well was theirs. "Maacbah had made an idol Asherah" (not" IN
Grove". The Hebrew word translated "plain" (elon ) signifies a
Grove or plantation; that of Mamre (
Genesis 13:18), of Moreh (
Genesis 12:6), of Zaanaim (
Judges 4:11), of the pillar in Shechem (
Judges 9:6), of Meonenim (
Judges 9:37), of Tabor (
1 Samuel 10:3).
Groves were associated with worship from ancient times, as the passages just quoted show. The Druids venerated oak
Groves (Pliny, H. The black priests in Africa alone may enter the sacred
Groves
Betake - It generally implies a motion towards an object, as to betake ourselves to a shade
Grove or an application of the mind or faculties, corresponding with such motion, as to betake ourselves to study or to vice
Jerubbaal - One of the names of Gideon: he was so called for destroying the
Grove of that idol Baal-Jerub, meaning, that he destroys
Tope - ) A
Grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope
Topheth - ) From toph , the "drums" beaten to drown the shrieks of the children made to pass through the fire to Moloch; rather tophet means tabret, so "tabret
Grove," i. music
Grove, as Chinneroth is "the harp sea"; or tuph "to spit," less probably; or from a root "burning" (Persian, Gesenins); or "filth" (Roediger). One of the chief
Groves in Hinnom; forming part of the king's gardens, and watered by Siloam; Hinnom is placed by old writers E. In Kings and Jeremiah the article precedes, "the Topheth" In
Isaiah 30:33 it is Τophteh , "tabret
Grove," as tupim in
Isaiah 30:32 is "tabrets
Grove - in
1 Samuel 22:6 ('grove' in margin ) and
1 Samuel 31:13 . The word 'grove' naturally suggests a row of trees, but that this cannot be the meaning is evident from
Groves being set up 'under every green tree. Manasseh set a graven image of the
Grove that he had made in the temple, which Josiah removed, burnt, and ground to powder. This was doubtless made of metal, but the
Groves were of wood, as we learn from their being cut down, and burnt. One passage speaks of
Groves being planted,
Deuteronomy 16:21 ; another, of their being made, and another, of their being built. In
2 Kings 23:7 we read that women wove 'hangings' for the
Groves, but these were literally 'houses' or 'tents,' which implies that they enclosed the
Groves, probably for impure purposes, for immorality was almost constantly associated with idolatry. The many references to the idols, images, and
Groves show how far Israel had departed from the living God and fallen into idolatry
Grove - 'asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a
Grove (
2 Kings 21:7 ; 23:4 ). word 'elon, uniformly rendered in the Authorized Version by "plain," properly signifies a
Grove or plantation. In the earliest times
Groves are mentioned in connection with religious worship. The heathen consecrated
Groves to particular gods, and for this reason they were forbidden to the Jews (
Jeremiah 17:3 ;
Ezekiel 20:28 )
Mamre - He gave his name to the town where he dwelt, afterwards Hebron, in the suburbs of which was a large terebinth-tree, or
Grove, (see
Genesis 13:18 18:1
Bethbarah - )
Grove supposes Bethbarah to be the ford Jacob crossed in returning from Mesopotamia, and at which Jephthah slew the Ephraimites
Erech - By the Accadians it was also styled 'the heavenly
Grove,' 'the heavenly resting place,' 'the seven enclosures,' etc
Loom - ) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or
Grove
Loom - ) A shady, gloomy, or dark place or
Grove
e'Lath, e'Loth - (a
Grove ), the name of a town of the land of Edom, commonly mentioned with Ezion-geber, and situated at the head of the Arabian Gulf, which was thence called the Elanitic Gulf. The Arabic name is Eyleh , and palm
Groves still exist there, after which it was named
Oak - It should appear that the Patriarch Abraham resided under an oak, or a
Grove of oaks, which our translators render the plain of Mamre; and that he planted a
Grove of this tree,
Genesis 13:18 . ...
Oaks, and
Groves of oaks, were esteemed proper places for religious services; altars were set up under them,
Joshua 24:26 ; and, probably, in the east as well as in the west, appointments to meet at conspicuous oaks were made, and many affairs were transacted or treated of under their shade, as we read in Homer, Theocritus, and other poets
Beersheba - Here also he planted a
Grove, as it would appear, for the purpose of retirement for religious worship
Cedar - Every thing about this tree has a strong balsamic odor; and hence the whole
Grove is so pleasant and fragrant, that it is delightful to walk in it, Song of
Song of Solomon 4:11 Hosea 14:6 . The largest and most ancient trees, generally thought to be the only ones, are found in a
Grove, lying a little off from the road which crosses mount Lebanon from Baalbek to Tripole, at some distance below the summit of the mountain on the western side, at the foot indeed of the highest summit or ridge of Lebanon. This
Grove consists of a few very old trees, perhaps as old as the time of Christ, intermingled with 400 or 500 younger ones
Maktesh - The deep valley between the temple and upper city, crowded with merchant bazaars (Grove):
Zephaniah 1:11
Rifle - ) To
Grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon
Academy - ) A garden or
Grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head
Atad -
Grove however makes Atad W
Wood - ) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or
Grove; - frequently used in the plural
Grove -
A word used in the Authorized Version, with two exceptions, to translate the mysterious Hebrew term Asherah , which is not a
Grove, but probably an idol or image of some kind. In the religions of the ancient heathen world
Groves play a prominent part. It was thought wrong to shut up the gods within walls, and hence trees were the first temples; and from the earliest times
Groves are mentioned in connection with religious worship. " the
Groves were generally found connected with temples, and often had the right of affording an asylum
Elim - A few palms still remain, dwarfs and trunkless, gnarled tamarisks and acacias, the sole relics of the
Grove that once flourished on this oasis of the W
Nebo (1) -
Grove suggests jebel Nebbah, S
Chastity -
Grove gives us the following rules for the conservation of chastity.
Grove's Moral Philos
Ezion Geber - On the haven's eastern side lay Elath (now Akaba), from whence the Elanitic gulf took its name, meaning "trees"; a palm
Grove is still there; on the W
Geliloth - " Gilgal occupied the same position "before the going up of Adummim" (
Joshua 15:7) on the northern boundary of Judah, which is the southern bound of Benjamin; therefore
Grove would substitute "Gilgal" for "Geliloth
Salt, Valley of -
Grove objects to this identification with the plain intervening between the Dead Sea and the heights which cross the valley seven miles to the S
Mori'ah - (Smith, Stanley and
Grove are, however, inclined to doubt this tradition
Pergamos - The Nicephorium, or thank offering
Grove for victory over Antiochus, had an assemblage of temples of idols, Zeus, Athene, Apollo, Aesculapius, Dionysus, Aphrodite. The
Grove of Aesculapius was recognized by the Roman senate under Tiberius as having right of sanctuary
Terebinth - In almost every locality where it is allowed to attain its full growth 30 to 40 feet high it is associated with a sacred tomb or
Grove: many such
Groves are still deeply venerated in Galilee
Elath - It means "trees," and a
Grove of palm trees is still at Akaba
Rove -
Exodus 34:13 (a) The
Groves which are described in this passage and in the others which are given in this paragraph represent an unusual planting of branches of trees or saplings carved into shapes for immoral purposes. The
Grove mentioned in
Deuteronomy 16:21 and the
Groves planted by Abraham were normal and natural groups of ordinary trees
Sodom - The northern site has been strongly advocated by
Grove, Tristram, Thomson, and others, and it is probably the true one, though the question is one which is undecided
Aroer -
Grove suggests that at the Arnon junction with the Lejum, one hour E
Ashtoreth, Plural Ash'Taroth - This last name is commonly rendered in the English version "grove;" but eminent Hebrew scholars think this meaning is unsupported either by the etymology or the context
Turtle, Turtle-Dove - " "Immediately on its arrival it pours forth from every garden,
Grove, and wooded hill its melancholy yet soothing ditty unceasingly from early dawn till sunset
Antipatris - 2) gives an account of its foundation:...
‘Herod erected another city in the plain called Kapharsaba, where he Chose out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness or soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a
Grove of the beet trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater
Topheth - Tophet was probably the king's "music-grove" or garden, denoting originally nothing evil or hateful
Hanging, Hangings - In a corrupt passage,
2 Kings 23:7 , we read of ‘hangings for the
Grove,’ or rather, as RV
Olives, Olive Tree - ...
2: ἐλαιών (Strong's #1638 — Noun Masculine — elaion — el-ah-yone' ) "an olive Grove" or "olive garden," the ending -- on, as in this class of noun, here indicates "a place set with trees of the kind designated by the primitive" (Thayer); hence it is applied to the Mount of Olives, Luke 19:29 ; 21:37 ; Acts 1:12 ("Olivet"): in the first two of these and in Mark 11:1 , some mss
to'Pheth, - (
Isaiah 30:32,37 ) The Hebrew words are nearly identical; and Tophet was probably the king's "music-grove" or garden, denoting originally nothing evil or hateful
Ashtaroth - The word Ashtaroth properly signifies flocks of sheep, or goats; and sometimes the
Grove, or woods, because she was goddess of woods, and
Groves were her temples. In
Groves consecrated to her, such lasciviousness was committed as rendered her worship infamous
Jezreel - Near by were a temple and
Grove of Astarte, with an establishment of 400 priests supported by Jezebel
Antioch - The
Grove at Daphne, planted by Seleucus, which, with its temple and oracle, presented, during the reigns of the Macedonian kings of Syria, the most splendid and fashionable place of resort for Pagan worship in the east, had sunk into neglect since the establishment of Christianity. The altar of the god was deserted, the oracle was silenced, and the sacred
Grove itself defiled by the interment of Christians. Julian undertook to restore the ancient honours and usages of the place; but it was first necessary to take away the pollution occasioned by the dead bodies of the Christians, which were disinterred and removed! Among these was that of Babylas, a bishop of Antioch, who died in prison in the persecution of Decius, and after resting near a century in his grave within the walls of Antioch, had been removed by order of Callus into the midst of the
Grove of Daphne, where a church was built over him; the remains of the Christian saint effectually supplanting the former divinity of the place, whose temple and statue, however, though neglected, remained uninjured. The temple stood in the midst of a
Grove of laurels and cypresses, where every thing was assembled which could minister to the senses; and in whose recesses the juvenile devotee wanted not the countenance of a libertine god to abandon himself to voluptuousness
Oak - ...
It is probably sprung from some far back offshoot of the original
Grove under which he pitched his tent (
Genesis 13:18), "Abram dwelt at the oaks of Mamre in Hebron
Academics - They were so called from the Academia, a
Grove near Athens, where they frequently indulged their contemplations. ...
Gethsemane - Oil-press, a garden or Grove in the valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives, over against Jerusalem, to which our Savior sometimes retired, and in which he endured his agony, and was betrayed by Judas, Matthew 26:36-57
Shade - An obscure place, properly in a
Grove or close wood, which precludes the sun's rays an hence, a secluded retreat
Plains - They regard the word as meaning an "oak" or "grove of oaks," a rendering supported by nearly all the commentators and lexicographers of the present day, The passages in which the word occurs erroneously translated "plain" are as-follows: Plain of Moreh, (
Genesis 12:6 ; 11:30) plain of Mamre, (
Genesis 13:18 ; 14:13 ; 18:1 ) plain of Zaanaim, (
Judges 4:11 ) plain of the pillar, (
Judges 9:6 ) plain of Meonenim, (
Judges 9:37 ) plain of Tabor, (
1 Samuel 10:5 )
Tongue - ) To join means of a tongue and
Grove; as, to tongue boards together
ga'za - There are a few palm trees in the town, and its fruit orchards are very productive; but the chief feature of the neighborhood is the wide-spread olive
Grove to the north and northeast
Beersheba - Abraham planted here a"
Grove" ('eshel ) (distinct from the idol
Grove, Asheerah, or Astarte Baal), or tree, the tamarisk, long living, of hard wood, with long, clustering, evergreen leaves, as a type of the ever enduring grace of the faithful, covenant keeping God (
Genesis 21:33), "and called on the name (the self manifested character and person) of Jehovah, the everlasting God
Oak - 330, and no tree now marks the
Grove of Mamre
Prudence - "
Grove thus: "Prudence is an ability of judging what is best in the choice both of ends and means. 28;
Grove's Moral Phil
a'Hab - He married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal king of Tyre; and in obedience to her wishes, caused temple to be built to Baal in Samaria itself; and an oracular
Grove to be consecrated to Astarte
Forest - In
Isaiah 17:9 for "bough" translated "his strong cities shall be as the leavings of woods," what the axeman leaves when he cuts down the
Grove (
Isaiah 17:6)
Cenchreae - Between Cenchreae and Schœnus was a famous sanctuary, in which stood ‘the temple of Isthmian Neptune, shaded above with a
Grove of pine-trees, where the Corinthians celebrated the Isthmian games’ (Strabo, loc
Rich - Having something precious as a
Grove of rich trees
Bela - But
Grove places the cities of the plain N
Injury - Some, says
Grove, distinguish between injustitia and injuria. ...
See
Grove's Mor
Amorite (the) - "
Grove, in Smith's Dictionary, conjectures that "Amorite" expresses locality (highlander), not distinction of race; because the name is spread over a wide area, no connection appears between the Amorites on the E
Asherah - The King James Version translated Asherah “grove” and the proper noun “Ashtaroth
Trees -
Deuteronomy 16:21 (b) These
Groves were very immoral and vile inventions of wicked men. They were not
Groves of trees, as we understand a
Grove. (See under "GROVE")
Self-Defence - "Notwithstanding, " says
Grove, "the great names which may appear on the side of any of these opinions, I cannot but think self-defence, though it proceeds to the killing of another to save one's self, is in common cases not barely permitted, but enjoined by nature; and that a man would be wanting to the Author of his being, to society, and to himself, to abandon that life with which he is put in trust. " ...
See
Grove's Moral Philosophy
Rama - Identified by
Grove with Ramleh
Olive - Almost every village has its olive
Grove
Blow - How blows the citron
Grove
Druids - The chief settlement of the Druids in Britain as in the isle of Anglesey, the ancient Mona, which they might choose for this purpose, as it is well stored with precious
Groves of their favourite oak. They worshipped the Supreme Being under the name of Esus or Hesus, and the symbol of the oak; and had no other temple than a wood or a
Grove, where all their religious rites were performed. Indeed, their whole religion originally consisted in acknowledging that the Supreme Being, who made his abode in these sacred
Groves, governed the universe; and, that every creature ought to obey his laws, and pay him divine homage
Vinyard - ...
The words “vineyard” and “olive
Grove’ (zayit) are often found together in the biblical text
High Places - In
Ezekiel 16:16," of thy garments thou didst take and deckedst thy high places with divers colors," the sense is: as a harlot spreading her tent of divers colors to lure victims, so Israel set up on the high places, not stone chapels, but tents hung with colored tapestry, as the "woven hangings of (Asherah) Astarte" (the right translation for "grove") (
2 Kings 23:7)
Gaza - An extensive olive
Grove lies N
Gaza - Well watered, with broad gardens, and a great olive
Grove stretching northwards, it drives a considerable trade with the nomadic Arabs
Gomorrah -
Grove argues for the northern site that Abram and Lot near Bethel could not have seen the southern valleys (
Genesis 13:10) but could see the northern, and that what they saw was "the Ciccar of the Jordan," whereas Jordan flowed into the northern end of the Dead Sea but not into the southern
Jericho - Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast
Grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (
Joshua 3:16 )
Heathen -
Grove, Dr. 314;
Grove's Mor
Marriage - By
Grove thus: "A society formed between two persons of different sexes, chiefly for the procreation and education of children.
Grove's Mor
Inn - In these ruthless wastes, where no rural village or cheerful hamlet, no inn or house of refreshment, is to be found, how noble is the charity that rears the hospitable roof, that plants the shady
Grove and conducts the refreshing moisture into reservoirs!"...
Abraham - Passing along the valley of the Jabbok, in the land of Canaan, he formed his first encampment at Sichem (
Genesis 12:6 ), in the vale or oak-grove of Moreh, between Ebal on the north and Gerizim on the south. Immediately after this Abram was cheered by a repetition of the promises already made to him, and then removed to the plain or "oak-grove" of Mamre, which is in Hebron
Asherah - ]'>[4] and Vulgate, had mistakenly rendered
Grove
Agriculture - For his benefit, too, a sheaf forgotten in carrying to the floor was to be left; so also with regard to the vineyard' and the olive
Grove
Canaan - The plain or circle of Jordan on which Sodom and Gomorrah stood was probably, according to
Grove, at the N. )
Grove states there are no clear traces of volcanic action there, nor in the Holy Land or near it, except in the Leja, or Argob. "The river (nahar ) of Egypt" is the Nile, or Sihor, here representing (according to
Grove) Egypt in general, as "Euphrates" represents Assyria (compare
Isaiah 8:7-8). But
Joshua 13:3 expressly mentions Sihor, "the black turbid river," Nile, as the ultimately appointed border; this extended dominion twice foretold (for the simple language in histories as Genesis and Joshua hardly sanctions
Grove's view that the river represents merely Egypt, in general), and so accurately defining the limits, awaits Israel in the last days (
Isaiah 2:11;
Zechariah 9:9-10)
Lord's Supper - 7; and Henry Earle, Doolittle,
Grove, and Robertson, on the Lord's Supper; Dr
Idolatry, - The terebinth (oak) at Mamre, beneath which Abraham built an altar, (
Genesis 12:7 ; 13:18 ) and the memorial
Grove planted by him at Beersheba, (
Genesis 21:33 ) were intimately connected with patriarchal worship
Tree - The word אשל , translated "grove" in
Genesis 21:33 , has been variously translated. Parkhurst renders it an oak, and says, that from this word may be derived the name of the famous asylum, opened by Romulus between two
Groves of oak at Rome
Samaritan Pentateuch - ...
Grove in 1861 brought a 4to copy from Nablus for the Count of Paris, in whose library it is
Josiah - ...
Josiah spared not even the high places which pious Hezekiah had left, nor those of Solomon in his apostasy, nor their priests (Chemarim), as
Zephaniah 1:4 foretold; also Manasseh his grandfather's
Grove (Asherah) in the Lord's house (
2 Kings 21:7;
2 Kings 23:6)
Exodus - ), where were twelve springs of water and a
Grove of "threescore and ten" palm trees (
Exodus 15:27 )
Ahab - Ahab built an altar and temple to Baal in Samaria, and "made a
Grove," i. ...
So prevalent was idolatry that Baal had 450 prophets, and Asherah ("the
Groves") had 400, whom Jezebel entertained at her own table
Bethesda - ’ Against this view
Grove (Smith’s DB
Games - His statue might be, and often was, placed in the sacred Grove of Elis, and he was looked upon as a public benefactor
Jordan - ...
Grove remarks of the Jordan: "so rapid that its course is one continued cataract, so crooked that in its whole lower and main course it has hardly a half mile straight, so broken with rapids that no boat can swim any distance continuously, so deep below the adjacent country that it is invisible and can only be with difficulty approached; refusing all communication with the ocean, and ending in a lake where navigation is impossible useless for irrigation, it is in fact what its Arabic name signifies, nothing but a 'great watering place,' Sheriat el Khebir
Gideon - ...
His second revelation was in a dream, commanding him to overthrow his father's altar to Baal and to erect an altar to Jehovah and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the Asherah ("grove") or idol goddess of nature, probably a wooden pillar (
Deuteronomy 16:21)
Antioch - So infamous was the
Grove of Daphne, five miles out of the city, filled with shrines to Apollo, Venus, Isis, etc
Olives, Mount of - "The mount of the olive
Grove" (Εlaionos ),
Acts 1:12. Josiah defiled Solomon's idolatrous high places, breaking the "statues," cutting down the
Groves, and filling their places with men's bones
Bethlehem - 117–138), in his zeal to extirpate the very remembrance of Christ, caused a
Grove sacred to Adonis to be planted over the grotto of the Nativity, as he caused a temple to Venus to be erected over the site of the sepulchre of our Lord
Egypt - All were, however, outdone, at least in massiveness and durability, by the Egyptians; the architectural design of whose temples, as well as that of the Grecian edifices, was borrowed from the stems and branches of the
Grove temples
Abram - Here Abraham planted a
Grove, built an altar, and for some time resided
Genesis 21:21
Jerusalem - Without the walls are a Turkish burial ground, the tomb of David, a small
Grove near the tombs of the kings, and all the rest is a surface of rock, on which are a few numbered trees. The foundations are not only broken up, but every fragment of which they were composed is swept away, and the spectator looks upon the bare rock with hardly a sprinkling of earth to point out her gardens of pleasure, or
Groves of idolatrous devotion