Bible History
Bible History
Choose a Category

Bible Names A-G

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

Elymas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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

Read More

Enoch in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(dedicated). 1. The eldest son of Cain, Ge 4:17 who called after his name the city which he built. Ge 4:18 (B.C. 3870.) 2. The son of Jared and father of Methuselah. Ge 5:21 ff.; Luke 3:37 (B.C. 3378-3013.) In the Epistle of Jude Jude 1:14 he described as "the seventh from Adam;" and the number is probably noticed as conveying the idea of div...

Read More

Enos in Hitchcock's Bible Names

mortal man; sick; despaired of; forgetful...

Read More

Epaphras in Naves Topical Bible

A co-laborer with Paul Col 1:7; 4:12; Phm 1:23...

Read More

Elisha in Hitchcock's Bible Names

salvation of God...

Read More

Eliphelet in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(the God of deliverance). 1. The name of a son of David, one of the children born to him after his establishment in Jerusalem. 1Ch 3:6 (B.C. after 1044.) 2. Another son of David, belonging also to the Jerusalem family, and apparently the last of his sons. 1Ch 3:8 3. One of the thirty warriors of David's guard. 2Sa 23:34 4. Son of Eshek, a d...

Read More

61 Bible Translations

Popular Articles

Explore the Bible Like Never Before!

Bible History Online

Bible Study Tools

Top Tags