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Asnapper in Naves Topical Bible

A noble Assyrian prince, who colonized the cities of Samaria after the Israelites were taken captive to Assyria Ezr 4:10...

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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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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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Asnapper in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(swift), mentioned in Ezr 4:10 as the person who settled the Cutheans in the cities of Samaria. He was probably a general of Esarhaddon. (B.C. 712.)...

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Arphaxad in Easton's Bible Dictionary

son of Shem, born the year after the Deluge. He died at the age of 438 years (Gen. 11:10-13; 1 Chr. 1:17, 18; Luke 3:36). He dwelt in Mesopotamia, and became, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, the progenitor of the Chaldeans. The tendency is to recognize in the word the name of the country nearest the ancient domain of the Chald...

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Artaxerxes in Hitchcock's Bible Names

the silence of light; fervent to spoil...

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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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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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