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Elasah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(whom God made). 1. A priest in the time of Ezra who had married a Gentile wife. Ezr 10:22 (B.C. 458). 2. Son of Shaphan, one of the two men who were sent on a mission by King Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon. Jer 29:3 (B.C. 594.)...

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Eldaah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

knowledge of God...

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Eglon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the bullock; place of heifers. (1.) Chieftain or king of one of the Moabite tribes (Judg. 3:12-14). Having entered into an alliance with Ammon and Amalek, he overran the trans-Jordanic region, and then crossing the Jordan, seized on Jericho, the "city of palm trees," which had been by this time rebuilt, but not as a fortress. He made this...

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Ehud in Hitchcock's Bible Names

he that praises...

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Elam in Naves Topical Bible

1. A district southeast of Babylon, on Persian Gulf Ge 14:1,9; Da 8:2 Prophecies concerning Isa 11:11 Jews from Ac 2:9 See ELAMITES -2. A Korhite Levite 1Ch 26:3 -3. A Benjamite chief 1Ch 8:24 -4. Designated as "the other Elam," Ezr 2:31; Ne 7:34 -5. A Jewish captive, whose descendants, to the number of One-thousand two-hundred and fi...

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Elasah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

God made. (1.) One of the descendants of Judah, of the family of Hezron (1 Chr. 2:39, "Eleasah"). (2.) A descendant of king Saul (1 Chr. 8:37; 9:43). (3.) The son of Shaphan, one of the two who were sent by Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and also took charge of Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon (Jer. 29:3)....

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Eldad in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

el'-dad ('eldadh, "God has loved"): One of the 70 elders chosen by Moses at the command of Yahweh to share "the burden of the people" (Nu 11:16-25). Eldad and his companion Medad were not present with the rest at the tent of meeting, yet the Spirit rested also upon them and they prophesied in the camp (Nu 11:26-29)....

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Eglon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. King of Moab. With Amalekites and Ammonites crossed the Jordan and took Jericho the city of palmtrees, left unwalled, and therefore an easy prey to the foe, because of Joshua's curse in destroying it 60 years before. There (according to Josephus) Eglon built a palace. For 18 years he oppressed Israel. Ehud, a young Israelite of Jericho, ga...

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Elah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e'-la ('elah, "oak" or "terebinth"): (1) A "duke" or "sheik" (head of a clan, the Revised Version (British and American) "chief") of Edom (Gen 36:41). (2) Shimei-ben-Elah, Solomon's commissary in Benjamin (1 Ki 4:18 the King James Version). (3) A son of Caleb the son of Jephunneh (1 Ch 4:15). (4) Father of Hoshea, last king of Israel (2 Ki ...

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Elam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(eternity). 1. This seems to have been originally the name of a man, the son of Shem. Ge 10:22; 1Ch 1:17 Commonly, however, it is used as the appellation of a country. Ge 14:1,9; Isa 11:11; 21:2 The Elam of Scripture appears to be the province lying south of Assyria and east of Persia proper, to which Herodotus gives the name of Cissia (iii. ...

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