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shiloh |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shiloh \Shi"loh\ (sh[=i]"l[=o]), n. [Heb. sh[=i]l[=o]h, literally, quiet, rest, fr sh[=a]l[=a]h to rest.] (Script.) A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as ``the Messiah,'' or as the city ``Shiloh,'' or as ``Rest.'' From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Shiloh n : the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but is was not a Union victory [syn: {Shiloh}, {battle of Shiloh}, {battle of Pittsburgh Landing}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Shiloh, AL (town, FIPS 69840) Location: 34.46547 N, 85.87734 W Population (1990): 252 (114 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Shiloh, GA (city, FIPS 70428) Location: 32.81242 N, 84.69784 W Population (1990): 329 (135 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31826 Shiloh, IL (village, FIPS 69524) Location: 38.55353 N, 89.90522 W Population (1990): 2655 (1101 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62269 Shiloh, NC Zip code(s): 27974 Shiloh, NJ (borough, FIPS 67020) Location: 39.45800 N, 75.29797 W Population (1990): 408 (184 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Shiloh, OH (CDP, FIPS 72284) Location: 39.81355 N, 84.23176 W Population (1990): 11607 (6226 housing units) Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Shiloh, OH (village, FIPS 72298) Location: 40.96871 N, 82.60220 W Population (1990): 778 (264 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44878 Shiloh, PA (CDP, FIPS 70256) Location: 39.97379 N, 76.79177 W Population (1990): 8245 (3312 housing units) Area: 10.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Shiloh, TN Zip code(s): 38376 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Shiloh generally understood as denoting the Messiah, "the peaceful one," as the word signifies (Gen. 49:10). The Vulgate Version translates the word "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Messiah; the Revised Version, margin, "till he come to Shiloh;" and the LXX., "until that which is his shall come to Shiloh." It is most simple and natural to render the expression, as in the Authorized Version, "till Shiloh come," interpreting it as a proper name (comp. Isa. 9:6). Shiloh, a place of rest, a city of Ephraim, "on the north side of Bethel," from which it is distant 10 miles (Judg. 21:19); the modern Seilun (the Arabic for Shiloh), a "mass of shapeless ruins." Here the tabernacle was set up after the Conquest (Josh. 18:1-10), where it remained during all the period of the judges till the ark fell into the hands of the Philistines. "No spot in Central Palestine could be more secluded than this early sanctuary, nothing more featureless than the landscape around so featureless, indeed, the landscape and so secluded the spot that from the time of St Jerome till its re-discovery by Dr Robinson in 1838 the very site was forgotten and unknown." It is referred to by Jeremiah (7:12, 14; 26:4-9) five hundred years after its destruction. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Shiloh, sent
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