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Becher in Hitchcock's Bible Names

first begotten; first fruits...

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Beeri in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. The Hittite = ANAH. frontTHE HORITE.) Father of Judith, Esau's wife was Aholibamah. (See AHOLIBAMAH.) In the narrative where stress is laid on Esau's wife being a Canaanite, her father is called a Hittite; in the genealogy, where the stress is on Esau's marriage connection with the former holders of mount Seir, he is properly termed a Horit...

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Bela in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a swallowing up"), called so from earthquakes having affected it. 1. One of the five cities of the plain, spared at Lot's intercession, and named Zoar, "a little one" (Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:22). S.E. of the Dead Sea, on the route to Egypt, not far from where Sodom and Gomorrah stood, according to Holland, arguing from the smoke of the b...

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Belteshazzar in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

bel-te-shaz'-ar (belTsha'tstsar Babylonian BalaT-sharucur "protect his life"; Dan 4:8): The Bah name given to Daniel (Dan 1:7; 2:26; 5:12). Not to be confounded with Belshazzar....

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Ben-ammi in Easton's Bible Dictionary

son of my kindred; i.e., "born of incest", the son of Lot by his youngest daughter (Gen. 19:38)....

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Baruch in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-ruk, bar'-uk (baruk; Barouch, "blessed"): (1) Son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah, King Zedekiah's chamberlain (Jer 51:59). He was the devoted friend (Jer 32:12), the amanuensis (36:4 ff,32) and faithful attendant (36:10 ff; Josephus, Ant, X, vi, 2) of the prophet Jeremiah. He seems to have been of noble family (see Ant, X, ix, 1; compare...

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Bartholomew in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("son of Tolmai or Talmai"), an Old Testament name, Joshua 14:14. One of Christ's 12 apostles (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:14; Acts 1:13). His own name probably was Nathanael (John 1:45-51), just as Joses or Joseph is called Barnabas. The three synoptical Gospels never mention Nathanael, John never mentions Bartholomew; the two names belon...

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Barzillai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(iron, i.e., strong). 1. A wealthy Gileadite who showed hospitality to David when he fled form Absalom. 2Sa 17:27 (B.C. 1023.) He declined the king's offer of ending his days at court. 2Sa 19:32-39 2. A Meholathite, whose son Adriel married Michal, Saul's daughter. 2Sa 21:8 (B.C. before 1062.) 3. Son-in-law to Barzillai the Gileadite. Ezr 2:6...

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Bealiah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Combining Baal and Jah (1 Chronicles 12:5)....

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Bartholomew in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a son that suspends the waters...

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