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Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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istianized Jew or Gentile.The Jews themselves had no process of adoption(Esther ; Moses) : indeed, it would have been in-consistent with the regulations of the Mosaic lawaffecting the inheritance of property : the instancesoccasionally adduced as referring to the custom (Gen.xv. 3, xvi. 2, xxx. 5-9) are evidently not cases ofadoption proper. A-dora (Gr.), or Ador (L.). Adoraim. Ad-O-raim (Heb. two mounds, Ges.), a fortified citybuilt by Rehoboam (2 Chr. xi. 9), in Judah, appar-ently in or near the low country (Valley 5), since itis by Josephus almost uniformly coupled with Mare-shah ; probably = Adora or Ador (1 Mc. xiii. 20),unless that be Dor, on the sea-coast below Carmel.Robinson (ii. 215) identifies it with Dura, a largevillage on a rising ground, 2^ hours W. of Hebron. A-doram. Adoniram. Ad-o-ration. The acts and postures by which theHebrews expressed adoration were similar to thosestill in use among Oriental nations. To rise up andsuddenly prostrate the body was the most simple
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Adoration. Ancient Egyptian.—(Wilkinson.) method; but generally the prostration was moreformal, the person falling upon the knee and thengradually inclining the body until the foreheadtouched the ground. Such prostration was usual inthe worship of Jehovah (Gen. xvii. 3 ; Ps. xcv. 6);it was also the formal mode of receiving visitors(Gen. xviii. 2), of doing obeisance to superiors (2Sam. xiv. 4), and of showing respect to equals (1 K.ii. 19). Occasionally it was repeated three times(1 Sam. xx. 41), and even seven times (Gen. xxxiii.3). ^ It was accompanied by such acts as a kiss (Ex.xviii. 7), laying hold of the knees or feet of the per-son to whom the adoration was paid (Mat. xxviii. 9), and kissing the ground on which he stood (Ps. lxxii.9; Mic. vii. 17). Similar adoration was paid toidols (1 K. xix. 18): sometimes, however, prostra^tion was omitted, and the act consisted simply inkissing the hand to the object of reverence (Jobxxxi. 27), and in kissing the statue itself (Hos. xiii.

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