Bible Names A-G

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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Eliphalet in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(the god of deliverance), the last of the thirteen sons born to David after his establishment in Jerusalem. 2Sa 5:16; 1Ch 14:7 [ELIPHELET, 2]...

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Eliphaz in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("God for strength".) 1. Esau's son by Adah; Teman's father (Genesis 36:4; 1 Chronicles 1:35-36). 2. First of Job's three friends, the "Temanite," sprung from the former Eliphaz Teman answers to Edom (Jeremiah 49:20), part of Arabia Petraea. Calmer and less vehement against Job than Bildad and Zophar, but condemned at the end for the same ...

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Elias in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the Greek form of Elijah....

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Eliathah in Naves Topical Bible

A musician 1Ch 25:4,27...

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Elidad in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom God has loved, son of Chislon, and chief of the tribe of Benjamin; one of those who were appointed to divide the Promised Land among the tribes (Num. 34:21)....

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