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Thompson Chain Reference
• Trenches
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American Tract Society
• Trench
King James Dictionary
• Trench
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Trench
Webster Dictionary
• Trenching
• Trenched
• Trench-Plow
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Frederick Herbert Trench
• Richard Chenevix Trench
• Trench Fever
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Trench
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Trench
• Trench (2)
• Trench, Hon. Power Le Poer, D.D.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Trench, Richard Chevenix
Lexicons
• χάραξ
• גֵּב , גֵּב
• חֵיל
• מַעְגָּל , מַעְגָּל
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(prop. תַּעָלָה, tealah, 1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 18:35; 1 Kings 18:38, a channel, or "conduit," as elsewhere), a kind of ditch cut into the earth for the purpose of receiving and draining the water from adjacent parts. Something of this kind was the trench cut by the prophet Elijah to contain the water which he ordered to be poured on his sacrifice (1 Kings 18:32), and which, when filled to the brim. with water, was entirely exhausted, evaporated, by the fire of the Lord which consumed the sacrifice. (See ELIJAH).