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Azariah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

he that hears the Lord...

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Azel in Naves Topical Bible

A Benjamite 1Ch 8:37,38; 9:43,44...

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Azmaveth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 2 Samuel 23:31; 1 Chronicles 11:33. 2. 1 Chronicles 8:36; 1 Chronicles 9:42; 1 Chronicles 12:3. 3. 1 Chronicles 12:3. 4. 1 Chronicles 27:25. 5. A place in Benjamin (Ezra 2:24). Beth-Azmaveth (Nehemiah 7:28; Nehemiah 12:29). The singers from it built villages round Jerusalem....

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Baal in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ba'-al: (ba`al; or Baal): The Babylonian Belu or Bel, "Lord," was the title of the supreme god among the Canaanites. I. NAME AND CHARACTER OF BAAL II. ATTRIBUTES OF BAAL III. BAAL-WORSHIP IV. TEMPLES, ETC. V. USE OF THE NAME VI. FORMS OF BAAL 1. Baal-berith 2. Baal-gad 3. Baal-hamon 4. Baal-hermon 5. Baal-peor 6. Baal-zebub I. Name...

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Arphaxad in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(stronghold of the Chaldees). 1. The son of Shem and ancestor of Eber. Ge 10:22,24; 11:10 2. Arphaxad, a king "who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana," Judith 1:1-4; perhaps the same as Phraortes, who fell in a battle with the Assyrians, 633 B.C....

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Artaxerxes in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

From arta, "great," or "honored"; Artaioi, Arii, Sansk. Arya, being the old name of the Persians, and kshershe, "a king" = Xerxes = Ahasuerus. (See AHASUERUS.) Artaxerxes I. (Ezra 4:7) is the Magian usurper, who impersonated Smerdis, Cyrus' younger son. To him the adversaries of the Jews wrote, in order to frustrate the building of the templ...

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Asahel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

as'-a-hel (`asah'el, "God hath made"; Asael): (1) The brother of Joab and Abishai. The three were sons of Zeruiah, one of David's sisters (1 Ch 2:15,16; 2 Sam 2:18, etc.). The three brothers seem to have been from the beginning members of David's troop of strangely respectable brigands. Asahel was distinguished for his swift running, and this ...

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Asaph in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(collector of the people). 1. A Levite, son of Berechiah, one of the leaders of David's choir. 1Ch 6:39 Psalms 50 and 73-83 are attributed to him; and he was in after times celebrated as a seer as well as a musical composer. 2Ch 29:30; Ne 12:46 (B.C. 1050.) 2. The father or ancestor of Joah, the chronicler to the kingdom of Judah in the reign...

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Asher in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

ASHER or ASER. 1. Eighth son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Genesis 30:13). "In my happiness the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher" (happy.) Asher had four sons and one daughter, the heads of families (Numbers 26:44-47). At the Exodus they numbered 41,500; at the close of the forty years in the wilderness 53,4...

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Ashpenaz in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ash'-pe-naz ('ashpenaz): The master of the eunuchs of Nebuchadnezzar was an officer into whose hands the king entrusted those of the children of Israel, and of the princes, and of the seed of the king of Judah, whom he had carried captive to Babylon, that they might be taught the learning and tongue of the Chaldeans in order to serve in the ki...

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