Bible Names A-G

Dan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("judge".) Jacob's fourth son, Bilhah's (maid of Rachel) first (Genesis 30:6), own brother to Naphtali. The female corresponding name is Dinah ("judgment".) Rachel's exclamation originated the name, "God hath judged me," i.e. vindicated my cause by giving me a son. Jacob on his deathbed said, "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes o...

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Darda in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

dar'-da (darda`, "pearl of wisdom"): One of the wise men to whom Solomon is compared (1 Ki 4:31). He was either a son of Mahol (ibid.) or a son of Zerah, son of Judah (1 Ch 2:6, where the corresponding name in the same list is given as DARA). In rabbinic lore the name has been interpreted as dor dea, "the generation of knowledge"--the generati...

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Cush in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(black), a Benjamite mentioned only in the title to Ps 7:1 He was probably a follower of Saul, the head of his tribe. (B.C. 1061)....

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Cyrenius in Naves Topical Bible

Governor of Syria when Jesus was born Lu 2:2...

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Cyrus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. Ko'resh), the celebrated "King of Persia" (Elam) who was conqueror of Babylon, and issued the decree of liberation to the Jews (Ezra 1:1, 2). He was the son of Cambyses, the prince of Persia, and was born about B.C. 599. In the year B.C. 559 he became king of Persia, the kingdom of Media being added to it partly by conquest. Cyrus w...

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Dan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

judgment; he that judges...

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Cleopas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(of a renowned father), one of the two disciples who were going to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection. Lu 24:18 Some think the same as Cleophas in Joh 19:25 But they are probably two different persons. Cleopas is a Greek name, contracted from Cleopater, while Cleophas, or Clopas as in the Revised Version, is an Aramaic name, the same as Alp...

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Conaniah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

whom Jehovah hath set, a Levite placed over the tithes brought into the temple (2 Chr. 35:9)....

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Cornelius in Naves Topical Bible

A Roman centurion Ac 10...

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