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Elika in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(rejected of God), a Harodite, one of David's guard. 2Sa 23:25...

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Elimelech in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("my God is king".) Of the family of Hezron of Judah, kinsman of Boaz, residing in Bethlehem Ephratah under the judges. In a famine he and his wife Naomi, with their two sons, went to Moab, where he and his sons died, and from whence Naomi returned a childless widow with Ruth. (See BOAZ; RUTH; NAOMI)...

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Eliphalat in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e-lif'-a-lat (Eliphalet; 1 Esdras 8:39; 9:33): Called "Eliphelet" in Ezr 8:13; 10:33....

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Eliphaz in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(God is his strength). 1. The son of Esau and Adah, and the father of Teman. Ge 36:4; 1Ch 1:35,36 2. The chief of the "three friends" of Job. He is called "the Temanite;" hence it is naturally inferred that he was a descendant of Teman. On him falls the main burden of the argument, that God's retribution in this world is perfect and certain,...

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Elijah in Naves Topical Bible

1. The Tishbite, a Gileadite and prophet, called ELIAS in the King James Version of the N. T. Persecuted by Ahab 1Ki 17:2-7; 18:7-10 Escapes to the wilderness, where he is miraculously fed by ravens 1Ki 17:1-7 By divine direction goes to Zarephath, where he is sustained in the household of a widow, whose meal and oil are miraculousiy in...

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Elika in Easton's Bible Dictionary

God is his rejector, one of David's thirty-seven distinguished heros (2 Sam. 23:25)....

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Elimelech in Hitchcock's Bible Names

my God is king...

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Eliphelet in Naves Topical Bible

1. A distinguished warrior 2Sa 23:34 -2. A son of David 1Ch 3:6 Called ELPALET 1Ch 14:5 -3. A son of David, probably identical with number two above 2Sa 5:16; 1Ch 3:8; 14:7 Called ELIPHALET in 2Sa 5:16; 1Ch 14:7 -4. A descendant of Saul 1Ch 8:39 -5. A companion of Ezra Ezr 8:13 -6. An Israelite, probably identical with number five abo...

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Eliphaz in Easton's Bible Dictionary

God his strength. (1.) One of Job's "three friends" who visited him in his affliction (4:1). He was a "Temanite", i.e., a native of Teman, in Idumea. He first enters into debate with Job. His language is uniformly more delicate and gentle than that of the other two, although he imputes to Job special sins as the cause of his present suffe...

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Elijah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(my God is Jehovah) has been well entitled "the grandest and the most romantic character that Israel ever produced." "Elijah the Tishbite,... of the inhabitants of Gilead" is literally all that is given us to know of his parentage and locality. Of his appearance as he "stood before" Ahab (B.C. 910) with the suddenness of motion to this day ch...

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