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Amasiah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(2 Chronicles 17:16.) "Son of Zichri, who willingly, offered himself unto the Lord" as a captain under Jehoshaphat; compare Judges 5:2; Judges 5:9....

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Amaziah Scripture - 2 Kings 14:13

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits....

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Ammihud in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(people of praise). 1. An Ephraimite father of Elishama, the chief of the tribe at the time of the Exodus. Nu 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53; 10:22; 1Ch. 7:26 and, through him, ancestor of Joshua. (B.C. 1491.) 2. A Simeonite, father of Shemuel. Nu 34:20 3. The father of Pedahel, prince of the tribe of Naphtali. Nu 34:28 4. The father-of Talmai king of...

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Amminadab in Naves Topical Bible

1. Father-in-law of Aaron Ex 6:23 Father of Nashon Nu 1:7; 2:9 Lineage of Ru 4:18-20; 1Ch 2:10; Mt 1:4; Lu 3:33 -2. A son of Kohath 1Ch 6:22 -3. A son of Uzziel 1Ch 15:10,11...

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Allon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("oak".) 1. ALLON or ELON, a city of Naphtali (Joshua 19:33); others translate "the oak by Zaanaim" or "the oak of the loading of tents" (compare Judges 4:11), "the plain of Zaanaim the swamp, Ewald by Kedesh." 2. ALLON BACHUTH, "the oak of weeping," namely, for Deborah, Rebekah's nurse: corrupted into Tabor (1 Samuel 10:3; compare Judges ...

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Almodad in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

First of Joktan's descendents (Genesis 10:26; 1 Chronicles 1:20). His name is preserved in El-Mudad, famous in Arab history, reputed father of Ishmael's Arab wife, Mir-at-ez- Zeman, and chief of Jarhum, a Joktanite tribe that passed from Yemen to the vicinity of Mekkeh. The Al is the Arabic article....

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Alphaeus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Father of James the Less, the apostle, and writer of the epistle, and "brother (i.e. cousin) of our Lord" (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13); also of Joses (Mark 15:40). Husband of the Mary who with Jesus' mother stood at the cross (John 19:25). The same as Clopas (as it should be written, not Cleophas), both names being Greek var...

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Amalek in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Eliphaz Ge 36:12; 1Ch 1:36 -Probably not the ancestor of the Amalekites mentioned in time of Abraham Ge 14:7...

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