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of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. Leaves of proposition (Jewish Antiq.), the showbread. Wyclif (Luke vi. 4).

A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Esther ix. 26.

Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law. "The gravest rabbies." Milton.

ht must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing Sir H. Wotton. Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. -- House of refuge, a charitable institution for…

prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.

anctum. Sanctum sanctorum Etym: [L.] , the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple.

The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. F. W. Robertson.

A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

ignating, the Jews (the Sephardim, also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition.

e that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

Roman empire, said to have been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl. (b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.

ooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson.

The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.

Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. Acts xv. 16.

Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January. Esther ii. 16.

The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.