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Didymus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Gr. twin = Heb. Thomas, q.v.), John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2....

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Dionysius in Hitchcock's Bible Names

divinely touched...

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Dishan in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Seir Ge 36:21,30; 1Ch 1:38...

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Dodai in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. (1 Chronicles 27:4) DODO (1 Chronicles 11:12; 2 Samuel 23:8). Possibly the clause "Eleazar, the son of," has fallen out before "Dodai" in 1 Chronicles 27:4. Jewish tradition makes Dodo or Dodai the brother of Jesse. 2. DODO of Bethlehem (2 Samuel 23:24; 1 Chronicles 11:12). 3. Dodai of Issachar (Judges 10:1)....

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Doeg in Naves Topical Bible

An Edomite, present when Ahimelech helped David 1Sa 21:7; Ps 52 -Murdered eighty-five priests 1Sa 22:18,19...

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Darius in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A common name of several Medo-Persian kings, from a Persian root darvesh, "restraint;" Sanskrit, dhari, "firmly holding." 1. Darius the Mede. (See DANIEL; BABYLON; BELSHAZZAR; CYRUS.) Daniel 5:31; Daniel 6:1; Daniel 9:1; Daniel 11:1. This Darius "received the kingdom" (Daniel 5:31) of Babylon as viceroy from Cyrus, according to G. Rawlinson...

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David in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

I. Name and Genealogy. This name, which is written "defectively" in the older books, such as those of Samuel, but fully with the yodh in Chronicles and the later books, is derived, like the similar name Jedidish (2 Sam 12:25), from a root meaning "to love." The only person who bears this name in the Bible is the son of Jesse, the second king o...

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Demas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

de'-mas (Demas, "popular"): According to Col 4:14; 2 Tim 4:10; Philem 1:24, one who was for a time a "fellow-worker" with Paul at Rome (Col, Philem), but at last, "having loved this present world," forsook the apostle and betook himself to Thessalonica (2 Tim). No other particulars are given concerning him. See APOSTASY; DEMETRIUS....

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Debir in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a sanctuary), the name of three places of Israel. 1. A town in the mountains of Judah, Jos 15:49 one of a group of eleven cities to the west of Hebron. The earlier name of Debir was Kirjath-sepher, "city of book," Jos 15:15; Jud 1:11 and Kirjath-sannah, "city of palm." Jos 15:49 It was one of the cities given with their "suburbs" to the pries...

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Dedan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Raamah, son of Cush (Genesis 10:7), brother of Sheba. A second Dedan is son of Jokshan, son of Keturah (Genesis 25:3), and is brother of a second Sheba. The recurrence of the same names points to an intermarriage between the Cushite (Ethiopian, rather Hamitic) Dedan and the Semitic Dedan, which is referred to as Edomite (Jeremiah 49:8; ...

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