Bible Names A-G

Diotrephes in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

di-ot'-re-fez (Diotrephes): A person mentioned in 3 Jn 1:9,10 as contentiously resisting the writer's authority and forbidding others from exercising the Christian hospitality which he himself refused to show. The words "who loveth to have the preeminence, among them" may indicate that he was a church official, abusing his position.chief stars...

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Dishan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(antelope), the youngest son of Seir the Horite. Ge 36:21,28,30; 1Ch 1:38,42...

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Doeg in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(fearful), an Idumean, chief of Saul's herdmen. (B.C. 1062.) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king's order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the number of 85 persons, together with all their propert...

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Diotrephes in Naves Topical Bible

A false teacher 3Jo 1:9...

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Dishan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

antelope, the youngest son of Seir the Horite, head of one of the tribes of Idumaea (Gen. 36:21, 28, 30)....

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Dodo 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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Doeg in Easton's Bible Dictionary

fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1 Sam. 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.)...

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Dathan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

da'-than (dathan, meaning and derivation unknown, though the name is found in Assyrian, in the records of Shalmaneser II): The son of Eliab the son of Pallu the son of Reuben (Nu 26:5 ff; Dt 11:6; Ps 106:17). He and his brother Abiram, with others, followed Korah the Levite in disputing the authority of Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Nu 16...

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