Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Caphar-Zachariae (“village of Zacharias”), a place mentioned by Sozomen (Hist. Ecc 9:17) as lying in the region of Eleutheropolis, and apparently visited by Willibald on his way from Gaza to Hebron (Travels, p. 20, Bohn). It seems to have been different from the Bath-Zacharias (q.v.) of the Apocrypha (1Ma 6:32) and Josephus (Ant. 12:9, 4). … Continue reading “Caphar-Zachariae”

Caphar-Sorech SEE SOREK. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Caphar (the Latinized form of the Hebrews prefix , Kefar’, the “construct form” of Kaophar’, , from the root of the same form signifying “to cover,” Gesenisi, Thesaur. p. 707), one of the numerous words employed in the Bible (and still oftener in later or, rabbinical Hebrew) to denote a village or collection of dwellings … Continue reading “Caphar”

Caph CAPH or KAPH.Eleventh letter of Heb. alphabet, and as such used in the 119th Psalm to designate the 11th part, each verse of which begins with this letter. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Caph See KAPH. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Capgrave, John Augustinian friar, historian, and theologian, b. at Lynn in Norfolk, 21 April, 1393; d. there, 12 August, 1464 (according to Pits, 1484). His name is known chiefly in connection with the “Nova Legenda Angliae”, the first comprehensive collection of English saints’ lives. But this work was really complied by John of Tynemouth, a … Continue reading “Capgrave, John”

Capgrave (Or Catgrave), John an English theologian, was an Augustine monk of Canterbury, and afterwards a doctor at Oxford, and provincial of his order. He was an intimate friend and the confessor of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and flourished about 1450. He died, according to some. accounts, in 1464;’ according to Pits and others, in … Continue reading “Capgrave (Or Catgrave), John”

Capet, Jean a French theologian and canon, was born at Lille. He received the degree of doctor at Louvain, where he taught philosophy. He died in his native city, May 12, 1599. He wrote, De Vera Christi Ecclesia, deque Ecclesice et Scriptutrce Autoritate (Douay, 1584):-De Hceresi et. Modo Coercendi Hcereticos (Antwerp, 1591). See Hoefer, Nouv. … Continue reading “Capet, Jean”

Capes, George an English Baptist minister, was born in 1776. He united with the Little Prescott Street Church, London, in 1797, being baptized by the celebrated Abraham Worth. He entered the ministry in 1808, and became pastor of the Church in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, and afterwards in Loughborough, Leicestershire, from 1816 to 1826. His third and … Continue reading “Capes, George”

Capers, William D.D. A bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in St. Thomas’s Parish, S. C., Jan. 26, 1790. In 1805 he entered the sophomore class at the South-Carolina College, but left college before the time of graduation, and began the study of law. He ‘entered the itinerant ministry in the South-Carolina … Continue reading “Capers, William D.D.”

Capers, Thomas H. a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Sumnter District S. C., March 27, 1811. He was son of the Rev. Gabriel Capers. and nephew of bishop William Capers; joined the Church early in life, and, at the age of nineteen. entered the Georgia Conference. In 1839 he was … Continue reading “Capers, Thomas H.”