Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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TIB TIB der and resembling our cedar and arbor-vitas. It was highly valued by theRomans, in the days of their luxury,for cabinet-work, being very compactand fragrant and of a handsome brown,often variegated by knots. It was ob-tained in Northern Africa, and from itis still collected the true gum-sanda-rach. Rev. 18 : 12. TIBERIAS, a town of Galilee,situated on the western bank of the Seaof Galilee, which is called the Sea ofTiberias only by John, who was the lastof the N. T. writers. John 6 : 1; 21 : 1. History.—The city is only once men-tioned in the N. T. John 6 : 23. Althoughit was an important and busy town inChrists time, there is no record that heever visited it. It was then a new city,built by Herod Antipas, a. d. 16-22, andnamed in honor of the emperor Tiberias.Josephus, who mentions the city veryfrequently, says that Herod built it ona site where were ancient sepulchresbelonging to an extinct and forgottencity. Thus it was unclean to the Jews,and Herod brought in many stran

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