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Obelisk
... See Dagger. 3. (vt) To mark or designate with an obelisk. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. OBELISK. ob'-e-lisk, ob'-el-isk: A sacred stone or matstsebhah. ...
biblethesaurus.org/o/obelisk.htm - 7k

On (40792 Occurrences)
... Though the XIIth Dynasty removed the capital to Diospolis, Usertsen I (Senwesret)
of that Dynasty erected a great obelisk at On in front of the entrance to the ...
biblethesaurus.org/o/on.htm - 17k

Hazael (23 Occurrences)
... From the Black Obelisk in the British Museum, on which Shalmaneser II (860-825 BC)
has inscribed the story of the campaign he carried on during his long reign ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hazael.htm - 23k

Jehu (63 Occurrences)
... and headquarters of the Baal-worship introduced by Jezebel, though it is recorded
of Jehoram that he had removed, at least temporarily, an obelisk of Baal ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/jehu.htm - 47k

Needle (4 Occurrences)
... See Pinus. 5. (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed
crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. ...
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Obelisks (1 Occurrence)

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Jew (34 Occurrences)
... `obelisk'], and without an ephod, and without teraphim" (Hosea 3:4). Till about
the beginning of the present century [1800] they were everywhere greatly ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/jew.htm - 22k

Exploration
... The black obelisk of Shalmancser II (9th century) catalogues and pictures the tribute
received from Jehu; almost every king of the 8th century tells something ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/exploration.htm - 38k

Dial (2 Occurrences)
... 9, 10, 11. The ma'aloth was probably stairs on which the shadow of a column
or obelisk placed on the top fell. The shadow would ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/dial.htm - 19k

Dagger (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order
when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk. ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/dagger.htm - 8k

Medes (15 Occurrences)
... i.96). Shalmaneser II mentions them (Nimrod Obelisk, i.121) about 840 BC They
then inhabited the modern A'zarbaijan (Media Atropatene). ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/medes.htm - 18k

Menahem (8 Occurrences)
... Either the inscription, like that on the black obelisk of Kurkh (see JEHU), was
written some years after the events to which it refers and contains records of ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/menahem.htm - 13k

Column (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright
body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/column.htm - 9k

Shaft (13 Occurrences)
... Also, the spire of a steeple. 11. (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped
or columnar monument. 12. (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. 13. ...
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Obeisance (45 Occurrences)

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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
... The earliest historical record of the town is found on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser,
about 850 BC, where it figures among the places captured by that king. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tarsus.htm - 30k

Shushan (19 Occurrences)
... of the Babylonian king Dungi (circa 2360 BC); the reliefs and inscriptions of the
Elamite king Ba(?)-sa-Susinak (circa 2340 BC); the obelisk inscribed with the ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/shushan.htm - 21k

Siege (63 Occurrences)
... Smith, OTJC2, 369), and the Assyrians when they captured a city had no compunction
in destroying its plantations (Inscription of Shalmaneser II on Black Obelisk...
biblethesaurus.org/s/siege.htm - 51k

Omri (16 Occurrences)
... down to the time of Sargon (722 BC), Northern Israel was known to the Assyrians
as "the land of the house of Omri." On Shalmaneser's black obelisk, Jehu, who ...
biblethesaurus.org/o/omri.htm - 20k

Captivity (141 Occurrences)
... The Assyrian authorities for his reign are an inscription engraved by himself on
the rocks of Armenia; the Black Obelisk brought by Layard from Nimroud, now in ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/captivity.htm - 79k

Syria (73 Occurrences)
... three unsuccessful expeditions against Damascus, but in 842 received tribute from
Tyre, Sidon and Jehu of Israel, as recorded and depicted on the Black Obelisk...
biblethesaurus.org/s/syria.htm - 60k

Dress (38 Occurrences)
... In the obelisk of Shalmaneser, however, Jehu's attendants are distinguished by shoes
completely covering the feet, from the Assyrians, who are represented as ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/dress.htm - 53k

Assyria (124 Occurrences)
... The scene is represented on the Black Obelisk found at Nimrud and now in the British
Museum. Shalmaneser's campaigns were not confined to the West. ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/assyria.htm - 101k

Hittites (39 Occurrences)
... and the Turkish shoe or slipper with a curled-up toe, which, however, is also worn
by the Hebrew tribute bearers from Jehu on the "black obelisk" (about 840 BC ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hittites.htm - 55k

Palestine (1 Occurrence)
... The black obelisk of Shalmancser II (9th century) catalogues and pictures the tribute
received from Jehu; almost every king of the 8th century tells something ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/palestine.htm - 89k




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