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Barabbas in Hitchcock's Bible Names

son of shame...

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Barachias in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Mt 23:35 [ZACHARIAS]...

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Barak in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("lightning".) So the family name of Hannibal was Barres, "the thunderbolt of war"; also Boanerges, "sons of thunder," applied to James and John. Son of Abinoam, of Kedesh, a refuge city of Naphtali. Incited by Deborah the prophetess to deliver Israel from the yoke of Jabin II, king of northern Canaan, of which Hazor, on lake Merom (now Hulah)...

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Barkos in Naves Topical Bible

A Jew whose descendants returned from exile Ezr 2:53; Ne 7:55...

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Barnabas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("son of prophecy, or exhortation and consolation.") The surname given by the apostles to Joses or Joseph (as the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus manuscripts read), a Levite, settled in Cyprus (Acts 4:36). As a Christian, he brought the price of his field and laid it as a contribution at the apostles' feet. It was he who took Saul afte...

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Baalis in Easton's Bible Dictionary

king of the Ammonites at the time of the Babylonian captivity (Jer. 40:14). He hired Ishmael to slay Gedaliah who had been appointed governor over the cities of Judah....

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Baanah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-a-na ba`anah, "son of oppression"): (1) Captain in the army of Ish-bosheth (2 Sam 4:2 ff). (2) Father of Iteleb, one of David's mighty men (2 Sam 23:29; 1 Ch 11:30). (3) Returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem; a leader and one who sealed the covenant (Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7; 10:27). See BAANA (4)....

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Baasha in Easton's Bible Dictionary

bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his kingdom, and there he was buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years (1 Kings 15:33). On account of his ido...

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Balaam in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the ancient of the people; the destruction of the people...

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Baal in Naves Topical Bible

1. An idol of the Phoenicians, god of the sun The Israelites wickedly worshiped in the time of the judges Jud 2:10-23; 1Sa 7:3,4 By the kingdom of Israel 2Ki 17:16; Jer 23:13; Ho 1; 2; 13:1 Under Ahab 1Ki 16:31-33; 18:18; 19:18 Under Jehoram 2Ki 3:2 By the Jews 2Ki 21:3; 2Ch 22:2-4; 24:7; 28:2; 33:3 Jeremiah expostulates against the wor...

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