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Arimathea in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a lion dead to the Lord...

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Ariel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a'-ri-el ('ariy'el or 'ari'el, "lioness of God"): But the word occurs in Ezek 43:15,16, and is there translated in the Revised Version (British and American) "ALTAR HEARTH." (1) According to the Revised Version (British and American) a man of Moab whose two sons were slain by David's warrior Benaiah the son of Jehoiada (2 Sam 23:20; 1 Ch 11:22)...

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Ariel Scripture - Isaiah 29:1

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices....

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Arimathea Scripture - John 19:38

And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus....

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Ariel in Naves Topical Bible

1. A messenger from Ezra to Iddo Ezr 8:16 -2. A symbolical name for Jerusalem Isa 29:1,2,7...

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Ariel Scripture - Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel....

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Ariel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(lion of God). 1. One of the "chief men" who under Ezra directed the caravan which he led back from Babylon to Jerusalem. Ezr 8:16 (B.C. 459.) The word occurs also in reference to two Moabites slain by Benaiah. 2Sa 23:20; 1Ch 11:22 Many regard the word as an epithet, "lion-like;" but it seems better to look upon it as a proper name, and trans...

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Arimathea in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ar-i-ma-the'-a (Arimathaia): "A city of the Jews," the home of Joseph in whose sepulchre the body of Jesus was laid. Its identity is the subject of much conjecture. The Onomasticon of Eusebius and Jerome identifies it with Ramathaim-Zophim in the hill-country of Ephraim (1 Sam 11), which is Ramah the birthplace and burial-place of Samuel (1 Sa...

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Ariel in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the lion of God. (1.) One of the chief men sent by Ezra to procure Levites for the sanctuary (Ezra 8:16). (2.) A symbolic name for Jerusalem (Isa. 29:1, 2, 7) as "victorious under God," and in Ezek. 43:15, 16, for the altar (marg., Heb. 'ariel) of burnt offerings, the secret of Israel's lion-like strength....

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Arimathea in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(heights). Mt 27:57; Lu 23:51; Joh 19:38 St. Luke calls it "a city of Judea." It is identified by many with the modern Ramleh....

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