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Bedan in Naves Topical Bible

1. One of the deliverers of Israel, possibly identical with Abdon 1Sa 12:11 -2. Son of Ullam 1Ch 7:17...

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Beeri in Easton's Bible Dictionary

illustrious, or the well-man. (1.) The father of Judith, one of the wives of Esau (Gen. 26:34), the same as Adah (Gen. 36:2). (2.) The father of the prophet Hosea (1:1)....

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Belshazzar in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bel-shaz'-ar (belsha'tstsar; Baltasar, Babylonian Bel-shar- usur): According to Dan 5:30, he was the Chaldean king under whom Babylon was taken by Darius the Mede. The Babylonian monuments speak a number of times of a Bel-shar-usur who was the "firstborn son, the offspring of the heart of" Nabunaid, the last king of the Babylonian empire, that ...

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Belteshazzar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(favored by Bel.) [DANIEL]...

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Ben-ammi in Hitchcock's Bible Names

son of my people...

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Bartimaeus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bar-ti-me'-us (Bartimaios): A hybrid word from Aramaic bar = "son," and Greek timaios = "honorable." For the improbability of the derivation from bar-tim'ai = "son of the unclean," and of the allegorical meaning = the Gentiles or spiritually blind, see Schmiedel in Encyclopedia Biblica. In Mk (10:46-52) Bartimeus is given as the name of a blin...

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Baruch in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(blessed). 1. Son of Neriah, the friend, Jer 32:12 amanuensis, Jer 26:4-32 and faithful attendant of Jeremiah. Jer 36:10 ff. (B.C. 603.) He was of a noble family, comp. Jer 51:59 Bar. 1:1, and of distinguished acquirements. His enemies accused him of influencing Jeremiah in favor of the Chaldaeans, Jer 43:3 cf. Jere 27:13 and he was imprison...

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Becher in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

be'-ker (bekher, "the firstborn"; compare HPN, 88): (1) Son of Benjamin (Gen 46:21; 1 Ch 7:6,8). (2) Son of Ephraim whose family is called Becherites (the King James Version "Bachrites"), Nu 26:35 (1 Ch 7:20 called Bered). Compare BERED....

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Bartimaeus in Naves Topical Bible

A blind man Mr 10:46-52; Mt 20:29-34; Lu 18:35-43...

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Barzillai in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("iron".) A Gileadite chief. of Rogelim, whose friendship David probably made during his flight from Saul in that trans-Jordanic region. He ministered disinterestedly, sympathizingly, and liberally, to David's wants during the whole time of his stay at, Mahanaim in his flight from Absalom (2 Samuel 17:27-29; 2 Samuel 19:32-40). David in prosp...

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