Ăbēl, indecl. or ēlis, and Ăbēlus, i, m.,
Abel, son of Adam, Vulg. —Hence, Abelĭca Virtus, Mythogr. Vatic. 3, 6, 15.
1) vanity; breath; vapor 2) a city; mourning ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his broth...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
the name of several places in Palestine, probably signifies a meadow . (i.e., breath, vapor, transit...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
mourning of waters ...
mourning of sickness ...
the mourning of Egyptians ...
mourning of thorns ...
(Judg. 11:33, R.V.; A. V., "plain of the vineyards"), a village of the Ammonites, whither Jephthah p...
Meadow of dancing, or the dancing-meadow, the birth-place and residence of the prophet Elisha, not f...
Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place "beyond," i.e., on the west of Jordan, at the "thresh...
Meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply "Shittim" (Num. 25:1; Josh. 2:1; Micah 6:5), a place...
Blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief, instead of a ferula; a jocular puni...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
mourning to the house of Maachah ...
Meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ij...
(the great abel) the place where the ark rested in the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 6...