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Chushan-rishathaim in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judg. 3:8). We learn from the Tell-el-Amarna tablets that Israel had been invaded by the forces of Aram-naharaim (A.V., "Mesopotamia") more than once, long before the Exodus, and that at ...

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Clement in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

klem'-ent (Klemes, "mild"): A fellow-worker with Paul at Philippi, mentioned with especial commendation in Phil 4:3. The name being common, no inference can be drawn from this statement as to any identity with the author of the Epistle to the Corinthians published under this name, who was also the third bishop of Rome. The truth of this suppos...

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Chesed in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Nahor's fourth son (Genesis 22:22)....

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Chilion in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

kil'-i-on (kilyon, "pining," "wasting away"): One of the two sons of Elimelech and Naomi, "Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah" (Ruth 1:2). With his mother and brother he came into Moab and there both married Moabite women, Orpah being the name of Chilion's wife and Ruth that of the wife of Mahlon (4:9,10). Both died early and O...

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Chimham in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(longing), a follower and probably a son, of Barzillai the Gileadite, who returned from beyond Jordan with David. 2Sa 19:37,38,40 (B C 1023.) David appears to have bestowed on him a possession at Bethlehem, on which, in later times, an inn or khan was standing. Jer 41:17...

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Chushan-rishathaim in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("the Ethiopian of double wickedness".) (A Cushite or Hamitic element was prominent in the oldest Babylonian race as their vocabulary proves.) The Mesopotamian king who oppressed Israel eight years in the generation succeeding Joshua (Judges 3:8). About 1402 B.C. he was king of the Syrian country about Haran, the region between the Euphrates a...

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Clement in Naves Topical Bible

A disciple at Philippi Php 4:3...

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Chesed in Hitchcock's Bible Names

as a devil...

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Chilion in Naves Topical Bible

A son of Naomi Ru 1:2,4,5; 4:9...

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Chimham in Easton's Bible Dictionary

pining, probably the youngest son of Barzillai the Gileadite (2 Sam. 19:37-40). The "habitation of Chimham" (Jer. 41:17) was probably an inn or khan, which is the proper meaning of the Hebrew _geruth_, rendered "habitation", established in later times in his possession at Bethlehem, which David gave to him as a reward for his loyalty in a...

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