Bible Names A-G

Chesed in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(increase), fourth son of Nahor. Ge 22:22...

Read More

Chileab in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

David's son by Abigail (2 Samuel 3:3). Elsewhere called Daniel (1 Chronicles 3:1)....

Read More

Chimham in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

kim'-ham (kimham (2 Sam 19:37,38) or kimhan (2 Sam 19:40) or kemohem (Jer 41:17 Kt.); this reading, however, may probably be safely ignored): One of the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, who supported David while the latter was in exile in Mahanaim (2 Sam 19:37). After the death of Absalom, Barzillai was invited to spend the remainder of his li...

Read More

Chushan-rishathaim in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(chief of two governments), the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel during eight years in the generation immediately following Joshua. Jud 3:8 (B.C. after 1420.) His yoke was broken from the neck of the people of Israel by Othniel, Caleb's nephew. Jud 3:10...

Read More

Claudius in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Tiberius Nero Drusus Germanicus; fourth Roman emperor; reigned from A.D. 41 to 54; successor of Caligula; son of Nero Drusus; born 9 B.C.; lived in privacy until he became emperor (A.D. 41) mainly through the influence of Herod Agrippa I (Josephus, Ant. 19:2, section 1, 3, 4), whose territory therefore he enlarged by adding Judaea, Samaria, an...

Read More

Chesed in Easton's Bible Dictionary

gain, the son of Nahor (Gen. 22:22)....

Read More

Chiliab in Hitchcock's Bible Names

totality; or the perfection of the father...

Read More

Chimham in Naves Topical Bible

A Gileadite 2Sa 19:37,38,40; Jer 41:17...

Read More

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 ...

Read More

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...

Read More