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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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