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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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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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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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Baladan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

he has given a son, the father of the Babylonian king (2 Kings 20:12; Isa. 39:1) Merodach-baladan (q.v.)....

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Bar-Jesus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

son of Joshua, the patronymic of Elymas the sorcerer (Acts 13:6), who met Paul and Barnabas at Paphos. Elymas is a word of Arabic origin meaning "wise."...

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Barabbas in Naves Topical Bible

A prisoner released by Pilate Mt 27:16-26; Mr 15:7-15; Lu 23:18-25; Joh 18:40; Ac 3:14...

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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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Bani in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-ni (bani, "posterity"): (1) A Gadite, one of David's mighty men (2 Sam 23:36). (2) A Levite whose son was appointed for service in the tabernacle at David's time (1 Ch 6:46). (3) A Judahite whose son lived in Jerusalem after the captivity (1 Ch 9:4). (4) The descendants of Bani (called Binnui, Neh 7:15) returned with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:10) an...

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