Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Levirate (from the law-Latin term levir, a husband’s brother), the name applied to an ancient usage of the Hebrews (Gen 38:8 sq.), reordained by Moses (Deu 25:5-10; comp. Josephus, Ant. 4:8, 23; Mat 22:24 sq.), that when an Israelite died without leaving male issue, his brother (, yabam’, which was the specific term applied to … Continue reading “Levirate”

Levings, Noah D.D an eminent Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Cheshire County, N. H., Sept. 29, 1796, and early removed to Trov, N. Y.; was converted about 1812; entered the New York Conference in 1818; was stationed at New York in 1827-8; at Brooklyn in 1829-30, at New Haven in 1831-2; at Albany in … Continue reading “Levings, Noah D.D”

LEVIATHAN Psa 74:14 104:26, an aquatic monster described in the book of Job, Job 41:1-34 . Probably the animal denoted is the crocodile, the terror of the Nile; as BEHEMOTH, in Job 40:1-24, is the hippopotamus of the same river.The crocodile is a native of the Nile, and other Asiatis and African rivers; in some … Continue reading “Leviathan”

Levi Ives Convert , born Meriden, Connecticut, 1796; died New York, New York, 1867. As Protestant Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, influenced by the Oxford Movement, he founded a religious community called the Brotherhood of the Holy Ghost, later dissolved by the convention of his church, which also cited Bishop Ives for teaching Catholic doctrines. … Continue reading “Levi Ives”

Levi, Giuseppe Emanuelo a Jewish writer, was born at Vercelli, Italy, in 1814. In 1848 he was appointed “laureatus” (graduate) professor of literature at the University of Turin, and died June 10, 1874, leaving, Parabole, Legende e Pensieri Raccolti dei Libri Talmudici: Christiani et Ebrei nel Medio Evo (Germ. transl. by Seligmann, Leipsic, 1863): Teocrazia … Continue reading “Levi, Giuseppe Emanuelo”

Levi, David a noted English Jewish writer, was born at London in 1740. He was a hatter by profession, but ardently devoted himself to the study of Jewish literature, and gained great reputation by several learned. publications, of which the principal is his Linageua Sacra, a dictionary and grammar of the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Talmudic … Continue reading “Levi, David”

Levi ben-Gerson SEE RALBAG. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

LEVI 1. The third son of Jacob and Leah, born in Mesopotamia; and father of three sons, and of Jochebed the mother of Moses, Gen 29:34 Exo 6:16-20 . For his share in the treacherous massacre of the Shechemites, Gen 34:1-31, his father at death foreboded evil to his posterity, Gen 49:5-7 ; but as … Continue reading “LEVI”

Lever, Thomas an eminent English divine, was born in Lancashire in the early part of the 16th century. He was ordained a Protestant minister in 1550. On the accession of Mary (1553) he retired to the Continent. He afterwards dissented from the Anglican Church from a partiality to Calvinism. He died in 1577. No man … Continue reading “Lever, Thomas”

Levelling LEVELLING.1. In mountainous countries like Palestine landslips are not uncommon, and in this way roads are blocked, or obstructed by falling dbris. The drenching rains loosen the stones on the hillsides and send them rolling down to the plains, and the swollen burns and torrents cut new channels for themselves, and dam up old … Continue reading “Levelling”