Bible Names A-G

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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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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