BUTLER
properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1;41:9). The Hebrew word, _mashkeh_, thus translated is rendered also (plural) "cup-bearers" (1-Kings 10:5; 2-Chr 9:4). Nehemiah (1:11) was cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes. It was a position of great responsibility and honour in royal households.......
BUTTER
(Heb. hemah), curdled milk (Gen. 18:8; Judg. 5:25; 2-Sam 17:29), or butter in the form of the skim of hot milk or cream, called by the Arabs kaimak, a semi-fluid (Job 20:17;29:6; Deut. 32:14). The words of Prov. 30:33 have been rendered by some "the pressure [not churning] of milk bringeth forth cheese."......
SACKBUT
(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3:5, Dan. 3: 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument. ......
TRIBUTE
a tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2-Sam 20:24; 1-Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24 the word denotes the temple rate (the "didrachma," the "half-shekel," as rendered by the R.V.) which was required to be paid for the support of the temple by every Jew above twenty years of age (Exo 30:12; 2-Kings 12:4; 2-Chr 24:6, 2-Chr 24: 9). It was not a civil but a religious tax. In Matt. 22:17, Ma......
JANOAH
or Jano'hah, rest. (1.) A town on the north-eastern border of Ephraim, in the Jordan valley (Josh. 16:6, Josh. 16: 7). Identified with the modern Yanun, 8 miles south-east of Nablus. (2.) A town of Northern Palestine, within the boundaries of Naphtali. It was taken by the king of Assyria (2-Kings 15:29). ......
MANOAH
rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1, Judg. 13: 14:2). ......
NOAH
rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen. 5:25), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam's death. This patriarch is rightly regarded as the connecting link between the old and the new world. He is the second great progenitor of the human family. The words of his father Lamech at his birth (G......
ZANOAH
marsh. (1.) A town in the low country or shephelah of Judah, near Zorah (Josh. 15:34). It was re-occupied after the return from the Captivity (Neh. 11:30). Zanu'ah in Wady Ismail, 10 miles west of Jerusalem, occupies probably the same site. (2.) A town in the hill country of Judah, some 10 miles to the south-west of Hebron (Josh. 15:56).......