Bible Names A-G

Berachah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

blessing; bending the knee...

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Bered in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(hail). 1. A place in the south of Israel, near the well Lahairoi. Ge 16:14 2. A son or descendant of Ephraim, 1Ch 7:20 possibly identical with Becher in Nu 26:35...

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Ben-hadad in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning "the son of Hadad." (See HADADEZER -T0001569.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. He was long engaged in war against Israel. He was murdered probably by Hazael, by whom he was succeeded (2 K...

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Beor in Naves Topical Bible

1. Father of Bela Ge 36:32; 1Ch 1:43 -2. Father of Balaam Nu 22:5 Called BOSOR 2Pe 2:15...

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Bera in Easton's Bible Dictionary

gift, or son of evil, king of Sodom at the time of the invasion of the four kings under Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:2, 8, 17, 21)....

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Berechiah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ber-e-ki'-a (berekhyah, berekhyahu, "Yahweh blesses," HPN, 216, 287): (1) A descendant of David (1 Ch 3:20). (2) The father of Asaph, the singer (1 Ch 6:39 the King James Version "Berachiah"; 1 Ch 15:17). (3) A former inhabitant of Jerusalem, a Levee (1 Ch 9:16). (4) A doorkeeper 'for the ark at David's time (1 Ch 15:23). (5) One of the heads of ...

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Bered in Easton's Bible Dictionary

hail. (1.) A town in the south of Israel (Gen. 16:14), in the desert of Shur, near Lahai-roi. (2.) A son of Shuthelah, and grandson of Ephraim (1 Chr. 7:20)....

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Ben-hadad in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("son" i.e. "worshipper" of Hadad"), the Syrian sun-god. A name common to three kings of Damascus. Hadad-ezer ("Hadad helps") is a similar Syrian name. David, having conquered him, put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; Rezon retook Damascus, and reigned there "an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon" (1 Kings 11:23). Ben-Hadad I grandson ...

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Benjamin in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ben'-ja-min (binyamin, or binyamin; Beniaein, Beniamin): 1. The Patriarch: The youngest of Jacob's sons. His mother Rachel died in giving him birth. As she felt death approaching she called him Benoni, "son of my sorrow." Fearing, probably, that this might bode evil for the child--for names have always preserved a peculiar significance in the E...

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