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Bilgah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

ancient countenance...

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Birsha in Naves Topical Bible

A king of Gomorrah Ge 14:2-10...

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Blastus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

chamberlain to king Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:20). Such persons generally had great influence with their masters...

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Bigthan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(gift of God), a eunuch (chamberlain, Authorized Version) in the court of Ahasuerus, one of those "who kept the door," and conspired with Teresh against the king's life. Es 2:21 (B.C. 479.)...

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Bildad in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

BILDAD or BENLEDAD ("son of contention, disputant".) Second of Job's (Job 2:11; Job 2:8; Job 2:18; Job 2:25) three friends. The Shuhite, i.e. sprung from Shuah, Abraham's son by Keturah, who was sent eastward by Abraham and founded an Arab tribe (Genesis 25:2) Syccea, in Arabia Deserta, E. of Batanea, mentioned by Ptolemy, is identified by Ges...

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Bilshan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bil'-shan (bilshan): An Israelite who returned with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:2 = Neh 7:7). The name may be explained as "inquirer" (new Hebrew and Aramaic), balash, the ("b" being an abbreviation of ben, as in bidhqar, and bimhal. Bilshan would then be a compound of ben, and lashon. J. Halevy (Revue etudes juives, X, 3) translates the name "pere de l...

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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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Beriah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("in evil" or "a gift".) 1. Asher's son, from whom descended "the family of the Beerites" (Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44-45). 2. A son of Ephraim, so-called "because it went evil with Ephraim's house" at the time, the men of Gath "born in that land" (Goshen, or else the eastern part of Lower Egypt) having slain his sons in a raid on cattle (...

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Bethuel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

be-thu'-el (bethu'el; "dweller in God"): A son of Nahor and Milcah, Abraham's nephew, father of Laban and Rebekah (Gen 22:23; 24:15,24,47,50; 25:20; 28:2,5). In the last-named passage, he is surnamed "the Syrian." The only place where he appears as a leading character in the narrative is in connection with Rebekah's betrothal to Isaac; an...

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