Bible Names A-G

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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Crispus in Naves Topical Bible

A leader of a synagogue at Corinth Ac 18:8; 1Co 1:14...

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Cleopas in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(abbreviation of Cleopatros), one of the two disciples with whom Jesus conversed on the way to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection (Luke 24:18). We know nothing definitely regarding him. It is not certain that he was the Clopas of John 19:25, or the Alphaeus of Matt. 10:3, although he may have been so....

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