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Apollos in Hitchcock's Bible Names

one who destroys; destroyer...

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Ara in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Jether 1Ch 7:38...

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Arad in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 1 Chronicles 8:15. 2. A Canaanite royal city (Joshua 12:14), N. of the wilderness of Judah (Judges 1:16). In Numbers 21:1; Numbers 33:40, for "king Arad the Canaanite" translate "the Canaanite king of Arad." Robinson identifies it as on the hill Tel Arad between Moladah and Hebron. A large white mound is all that is left to mark the site ...

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Aran in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a'-ran ('aran, "wild goat"): A son of Dishan, the Horite (Gen 36:28; 1 Ch 1:42). It may possibly be connected with the Yerahmelite Oren ('-ren) (1 Ch 2:25; compare Curtis, Chron. at the place; Dillmann, Gen at the place; ZDMG, L, 168); Robertson Smith claims that this name is equivalent to the Samaritan ('-r-n), "wild goat" (Jour. Phil., IX, 9...

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Araunah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(ark), a Jebusite who sold his threshing floor on Mount Moriah to David as a site for an altar to Jehovah, together with his oxen. 2Sa 24:18-24; 1Ch 21:25...

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Arba in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

('Ar Baal "hero of Baal".) Progenitor of the Anakim. From him their city Hebron got its name, Kirjath Arba (Joshua 14:15; Joshua 15:13; Joshua 21:11). Hebron it was first called, then Mamre, then Kirjath Arba, then it resumed its first name (Genesis 13:18; Genesis 23:2)....

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Archelaus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(prince of the people), son of Herod the Great by a Samaritan woman, Malthake, and, with his brother Antipas brought up at Rome. At the death of Herod (B.C. 4) his kingdom was divided between his three sons, Herod Antipas, Archelaus and Philip. Archelaus never properly bore the title of king, Mt 2:22 but only that of ethnarch. In the tenth yea...

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Antichrist in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

There are seven sets of passages noteworthy. Summary. (I.) Christ's predictions of false Christs and false prophets (Matthew 21:3-31). (II.) John's prophecy of "Antichrist" (this name occurs only with him) (1 John 2:18-23; 1 John 4:1-3; 2 John 1:5; 2 John 1:7). (III.) Paul's "adversary" (Greek antikeimenos, in sound and sense answering ...

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Antipas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(like the father), martyr at Pergamos, Re 2:13 and according to tradition the bishop of that place. (A.D. before 100.)...

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Apelles in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Christian saluted in Romans 16:10 as "approved in Christ." A common Jewish name, probably not, as Origen thought, Apollos. Said to have been afterward bishop of Smyrna....

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