Bible Names A-G

Birsha in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(son of godlessness), a king of Gomorrah. Ge 14:2...

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Blastus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Herod Agrippa I's chamberlain; mediator between him and the people of Tyre and Sidon, who made him their friend (Acts 12:20)....

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Bigthan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

one of the eunuchs who "kept the door" in the court of Ahasuerus. With Teresh he conspired against the king's life. Mordecai detected the conspiracy, and the culprits were hanged (Esther 2:21-23; 6:1-3)....

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Bilshan in Naves Topical Bible

A Jew of the captivity Ezr 2:2; Ne 7:7...

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Birsha in Easton's Bible Dictionary

son of wickedness, a king of Gomorrah whom Abraham succoured in the invasion of Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:2)....

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Blastus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

that buds or brings forth...

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Bigthan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Persian and Sanskrit, Bagadana, "gift of fortune" (Esther 2:21; Esther 6:2). "Wroth," because degraded at the same time as Queen Vashti, and a keeper of the door, Bigthan with Teresh "sought to lay bands on Ahasuerus." Detected by Mordecai, he was hanged. The Septuagint states that the conspirators' cause of wrath was Mordecai's advancement; b...

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Bilgah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bil'-ga bil'-ga-i (bilgah; bilgay, "cheerfulness"): A priest or priestly family in the time of the Return (Neh 12:5), and (under the form of "Bilgai," Neh 10:8) in the time of Nehemiah. According to 1 Ch 24:14, Bilgah is the 15th of the 24 divisions of the priests who officiated in the Temple. In the Septuagint, the names read Belgai, Bel...

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Bilshan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(eloquent), one of Zerubbabel's companions on his expedition from Babylon. Ezr 2:2; Ne 7:7 (B.C. 536)....

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