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Belshazzar in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal- sharezer. When still young he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and when heated with wine sent for the sacred vessels his "father" (Dan. 5:2), or grandfath...

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Ben-ammi in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ben-am'-i (ben `ammi, "son of my kinsman," Gen 19:38): The progenitor of the Ammonites was a son of Lot's younger daughter, born after the destruction of Sodom. The account of his birth as well as that of Moab was commonly regarded as an expression of Israel's intense hatred and contempt toward these two nations. However, this idea is rather ...

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Bedan in Hitchcock's Bible Names

according to judgment...

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Bela in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(destruction). 1. One of the five cities of the plain which was spared at the intercession of Lot, and received the name of Zoar, Ge 14:2; 19:22 [ZOAR] 2. Son of Beor, who reigned over Edom in the city of Dinhabah, eight generations before Saul. Ge 36:31-33; 1Ch 1:43,44 3. Eldest son of Benjamin, according to Ge 46:21 (Authorized Version "B...

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Ben-ammi in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Lot Ge 19:38...

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Beeri in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

be-e'-ri (be'eri, "expounder"): (1) Father of Judith, one of Esau's wives (Gen 26:34). (2) The father of the prophet Hosea (Hos 1:1)....

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Bela in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a thing swallowed. (1.) A city on the shore of the Dead Sea, not far from Sodom, called also Zoar. It was the only one of the five cities that was spared at Lot's intercession (Gen. 19:20,23). It is first mentioned in Gen. 14:2,8. (2.) The eldest son of Benjamin (Num. 26:38; "Belah," Gen. 46:21). (3.) The son of Beor, and a king of Edom (...

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Belshazzar in Hitchcock's Bible Names

master of the treasure...

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Belshazzar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Contracted from Belsharezar: from Bel, the Babylonian idol, and shar, a "king"; zar is a common Babylonian termination, as in Nebuchadnez-zar. His solemnly instructive history is graphically told in Daniel 5. See BABEL; BABYLON, for the remarkable confirmation of the Scripture account of his death on the night of revelry in the siege of Babylo...

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Becher in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("first-born"); Gesenius, young camel: BECHORATH. 1. Benjamin's second son (Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:6). In 1 Chronicles 8:1 the reading possibly ought to be" Bela, Becher, and (instead of 'his firstborn,' only one Hebrew letter is thus omitted) Ashbel." Then "the second," "the third," etc., were probably added, after the change in the ...

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