Dibon

A wide wooden fork used to toss threshed grain into the air. The wind carries the chaff away; the heavier grai…

A binding agreement between two parties, sealed by a sign — a meal, a sacrifice, a mark on the body. Used thro…

Forty years of wandering in the wilderness between Sinai and Canaan. Two generations: the one that came out of…

Son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, attendant to Moses and commander at Rephidim (Exo.17). After Moses he led …

Eighth-century Jerusalem prophet, son of Amoz. Called by a throne-room vision (Isa.6), he ministered to Uzziah…

Priest of Anathoth called to prophesy from the thirteenth year of Josiah through Jerusalem’s fall in 586 BC. A…