Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Semite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A descendant of Shem.

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Examples

  • And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

    The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 3 Gustave Dor�� 1857

  • And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

    The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Complete Gustave Dor�� 1857

  • And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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