Suspicion of a wife's purity, one of the strongest passions (Num. 5:14; Prov. 6:34; Cant. 8:6); also an intense interest for another's honour or prosperity (Ps. 79:5; 1 Cor. 10:22; Zech. 1:14).
·noun The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The name of the offering the husband was to bring when he charged his wife with adultery (Num. 5:11-...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
An idolatrous object, seen in vision by Ezekiel (Ezek. 8:3, 5), which stood in the priests' or inner...
Water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or in...
A phrase employed (not, however, in Scripture) to denote the water used in the solemn ordeal prescri...
(Numbers 5:11-31) The ritual prescribed consisted in the husband's bringing before the priest the wo...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary