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Enoch in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e'-nok (chanokh, "initiated"; Henoch): (1) The eldest son of Cain (Gen 4:17,18). (2) The son of Jared and father of Methuselah, seventh in descent from Adam in the line of Seth (Jude 1:14). He is said (Gen 5:23) to have lived 365 years, but the brief record of his life is comprised in the words, "Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God t...

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Enos in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(mortal man), the son of Seth, Ge 4:26; 5:6,7,9,10,11; Lu 3:38 properly ENOSH, as in 1Ch 1:1...

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Epenetus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

laudable; worthy of praise...

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Elnathan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom God has given. (1.) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, the father of Nehushta, who was the mother of king Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). Probably the same who tried to prevent Jehoiakim from burning the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies (Jer. 26:22; 36:12). (2.) Ezra 8:16....

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Elon in Hitchcock's Bible Names

oak; grove; strong...

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Enoch in Naves Topical Bible

1. Oldest son of Cain Ge 4:17,18 -2. A city built by Cain Ge 4:17 -3. Father of Methuselah. Transporting of Ge 5:18-24; Lu 3:37; Heb 11:5; Jude 1:14 Called HENOCH 1Ch 1:3...

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Enos in Easton's Bible Dictionary

man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time "men began to call upon the name of the Lord" (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then began men to call themselves by the name of the Lord (marg.) i.e., to distinguish themselves thereby from idolaters; or (2) then men in some...

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Epaphras in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ep'-a-fras (Epaphras): A contracted form of Epaphroditus. He must not, however, be confounded with the messenger of the Philippian community. He was with Paul during a part of his 1st Roman imprisonment, joining in Paul's greetings to Philemon (Philem 1:23). Epaphras was the missionary by whose instrumentality the Colossians had been converted...

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Elnathan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Elnathan: of Jerusalem. Jehoiachin's maternal grandfather (2 Kings 24:8). Son of Achbor. Jehoiakim's ready tool for evil, in fetching the prophet Urijah out of Egypt to be killed (Jeremiah 26:22-23); one of the king's council when Jeremiah's roll was burned (Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:25); he interceded with the king not to burn it. Compare f...

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Elymas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

el'-i-mas (Elumas, "wise"; Acts 13:8)....

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