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Baanah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Rimmon, a Benjamite, who with his brother Rechab murdered Ishbosheth For this they were killed by David; and their mutilated bodies hung up over the pool at Hebron. 2Sa 4:2,5,6,9 (B.C. 1046.) 2. A Netophathite, father of Heleb or Heled, one of David's mighty men. 2Sa 23:29; 1Ch 11:30 (B.C. before 1066.) 3. Accurately Baana, son of H...

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Balaam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(B.C. 1451), the son of beor, a man endowed with the gift of prophecy. Nu 22:5 He is mentioned in conjunction with the five kings of Midian, apparently as a person of the same rank. Nu 31:8 cf. Numb 31:16 He seems to have lived at Pethor, De 23:4; Nu 22:5 on the river Euphrates, in Mesopotamia. Such was his reputation that when the Israelites...

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Balak in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who lays waste or destroys...

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Bar-Jesus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(son of Jesus). [ELYMAS]...

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Barabbas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba-rab'-as (Barabbas): For Aramaic Bar-abba = literally, "son of the father," i.e. of the master or teacher. Abba in the time of Jesus was perhaps a title of honor (Mt 23:9), but became later a proper name. The variant Barrabban found in the Harclean Syriac would mean "son of the rabbi or teacher." Origen knew and does not absolutely condemn a...

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Baana in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-a-na (Old Testament and Apocrypha; Baana; ba`ana' "son of oppression"): (1, 2) Two commissariat-officers in the service of Solomon (1 Ki 4:12; 4:16; the King James Version "Baanah"). (3) Father of Zadok, the builder (Neh 3:4). (4) A leader who returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:8). Compare Bannah (Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7; 10:27)....

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Baanah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

son of affliction. (1.) One of the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, a captain in Saul's army. He and his brother Rechab assassinated Ishbosheth (2 Sam. 4:2), and were on this account slain by David, and their mutilated bodies suspended over the pool at Hebron (5, 6, 12). (2.) The father of Heled, who was one of David's thirty heroes (2 ...

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Baal in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The chief male deity, as Ashtoreth is the chief goddess, of the Canaanites and Phoenicians. Baalim, the plural form, expresses the various aspects of Baal, as different localities viewed him. Baal is also associated with Aaherah, inaccurately translated "THE GROVE" or "groves" (Judges 3:7; 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Kings 23:5-6)....

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Balaam in Easton's Bible Dictionary

lord of the people; foreigner or glutton, as interpreted by others, the son of Beor, was a man of some rank among the Midianites (Num. 31:8; comp. 16). He resided at Pethor (Deut. 23:4), in Mesopotamia (Num. 23:7). It is evident that though dwelling among idolaters he had some knowledge of the true God; and was held in such reputation that...

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