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Elioenai in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("toward Jehovah my eyes are turned".) 1. 1 Chronicles 7:8. 2. 1 Chronicles 4:36. 3. 1 Chronicles 26:3. 4. In the seventh generation from Zerubbabel, contemporary with Alexander the Great, but the Hebrew (1 Chronicles 3:23-24) is probably an error, and Shemaiah, grandfather of Elioenai and father of Neariah, Elioenai's father, is probab...

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Eliphaz in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

el'-i-faz, e-li'-faz ('eliphaz, "God is fine gold" (?)): (1) Son of Esau by Adah, and father of Teman, Kenaz and Amalek (Gen 36:4,10; 1 Ch 1:35 f). (2) See next article....

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Elika in Naves Topical Bible

One of David's chiefs 2Sa 23:25...

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Elimelech in Easton's Bible Dictionary

God his king, a man of the tribe of Judah, of the family of the Hezronites, and kinsman of Boaz, who dwelt in Bethlehem in the days of the judges. In consequence of a great dearth he, with his wife Naomi and his two sons, went to dwell in the land of Moab. There he and his sons died (Ruth 1:2,3; 2:1,3; 4:3,9). Naomi afterwards returned to...

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Elioenai in Hitchcock's Bible Names

toward him are mine eyes; or to him are my fountains...

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Eliphaz in Naves Topical Bible

1. Son of Esau Ge 36:4,10-16; 1Ch 1:35 -2. Friend of Job Job 2:11; 4; 5; 22; 42:7-9...

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Elijah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

(1) The great prophet of the times of Ahab, king of Israel. Elijah is identified at his first appearance (1 Ki 17:1) as "Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead." Thus his native place must have been called Tishbeh. A Tishbeh (Thisbe) in the territory of Naphtali is known from Tobit 1:2; but if (with most modern commentators) ...

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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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