BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1116
ba.mah — high place
1) high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform) 1a) high place, mountain 1b) high places, battlefields 1c) high places (as places of worship) 1d) funeral mound?
85 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G7168
ekphora — a funeral
1. a carrying out of a corpse to burial, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 2. (from Pass.) of horses, a running away , (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8403
nomimos — lawful
1. conformable to custom, usage , or law, customary, prescriptive, established, lawful, rightful , (Euripides):—; νόμιμόν [ ἐστί] τινι ποιεῖν τι (Xenophon Historicus) 2. νόμιμα, ων, τά, usages, customs , (Herdotus Historicus), attic 3. funeral rites , Lat. justa, (Thucydides) 4. adverb -μως, (Plato Philosophus): comparative -ώτερον (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9538
hupatos — supreme
1. like Lat. summus for supremus, the highest, uppermost , of Zeus, ὕπατος κρειόντων, θεῶν ὕπ., (Homer); οἱ ὕπατοι the gods above , Lat. superi, opposite to οἱ χθόνιοι, Lat. inferi, (Aeschulus Tragicus); ὕπατός τις some god above , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 2. simply of Place, ἐν πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ on the very top of the funeral pile, (Iliad by Homer) 3. of Time, last , Lat. supremus, (Sophocles Tragicus) 5. with genitive, like the preposition ὑπό, ὕπατος χώρας supreme over the land, (Aeschulus Tragicus); ὕπατοι λεχέων high above the nest, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 6. as Substantive, ὕπατος, the Roman consul , (Polybius Historicus), etc. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses (Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 35:8, 9, etc.). The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1 Sam. 31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses as a penalty to certain crimes (Lev. 20:14; 21:9). To leave the dead unburied was regarded with horror (1 Kings 13:22; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24, etc.). In the earliest times of which we have record kinsmen carried their dead to the grave (Gen. 25:9; 35:29; Judg. 16:31), but in later times this was done by others (Amos 6:16). Immediately after decease the body was washed, and then wrapped in a large cloth (Acts 9:37; Matt. 27:59; Mark 15:46). In the case of persons of distinction, aromatics were laid on the folds of the cloth (John 19:39; comp. John 12:7). As a rule the burial (q.v.) took place on the very day of the death (Acts 5:6, 10), and the body was removed to the grave in an open coffin or on a bier (Luke 7:14). After the burial a funeral meal was usually given (2 Sam. 3:35; Jer. 16:5, 7; Hos. 9:4).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
