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Eden in Easton's Bible Dictionary

delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region west of the Caspian Sea, in Media, near Damascus, in Israel, in Southern Arabia, and in Babylonia. The site must undoubtedly be sought for so...

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Eder in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a flock...

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Didymus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

did'-i-mus (Didumos, i.e. "twin"): The surname of THOMAS (which see)....

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Dionysius in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(devoted to Dionysus, i.e., Bacchus) the Areop'agite, Ac 17:34 an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52.) He is said to have been first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of some neo-Platonists of the sixth century....

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Diotrephes in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

3 John 1:9, loving to have the preeminence" through ambition. A Judaizer, who opposed the missionaries when preaching grace to the Gentiles, see 3 John 1:7. He "prated against" John and the orthodox "with malicious words"; he "received not" John, by not receiving with love the brethren whom John recommended (Matthew 10:40). His influence was s...

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Dodai in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

do'-do, (dodho, dodhay, "beloved"): (1) The grandfather of Tola of the tribe of Issachar, one of the judges (Jdg 10:1). (2) "The Ahohite," father of Eleazar, one of David's heroes, and (2 Sam 23:9; 1 Ch 11:12) himself the commander of one of the divisions of the army (1 Ch 27:4). (3) The Bethlehemite, father of Elhanan, one of David's migh...

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Dodo in Easton's Bible Dictionary

amatory; loving. (1.) A descendant of Issachar (Judg. 10:1). (2.) An Ahohite, father of Eleazar, who was one of David's three heroes (2 Sam. 23:9; 1 Chr. 11:12). He was the same with Dodai mentioned in 1 Chr. 27:4. (3.) A Bethlehemite, and father of Elhanan, who was one of David's thirty heroes (2 Sam. 23:24)....

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Didymus in Naves Topical Bible

Surname of Thomas Joh 11:16...

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Dionysius in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts 17:34)....

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Dumah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

du'-ma (dumah, "silence"): This word occurs in the Old Testament with the following significations: (1) the land of silence or death, the grave (Ps 94:17; 115:17); (2) a town in the highlands of Judah between Hebron and Beersheba, now ed- Daume (Josh 15:52); (3) an emblematical designation of Edom in the obscure oracle (Isa 21:11,12); (4) an Is...

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