Bible Names A-G

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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Amariah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

am-a-ri'-a ('amaryah and 'amaryahu, "the Lord has said"; compare HPN, 180, 285). (1) A Levite in the line of Aaron- Eleazar; a son of Meraioth and grandfather of Zadok (1 Ch 6:7,52) who lived in David's time. Compare Zadok (2 Sam 15:27, etc.) also Ant, VIII, i, 3 and X, viii, 6. (2) A Levite in the line of Kohath-Hebron referred to in 1 Ch 23:...

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Amariah Scripture - 2 Chronicles 31:15

And next him [were] Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:...

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Alexander the Great in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the king of Macedonia, the great conqueror; probably represented in Daniel by the "belly of brass" (Dan. 2:32), and the leopard and the he-goat (7:6; 11:3,4). He succeeded his father Philip, and died at the age of thirty-two from the effects of intemperance, B.C. 323. His empire was divided among his four generals....

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Alpheus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a thousand; learned; chief...

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Amalek in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(dweller in a valley), a son of Eliphaz by his concubine Timnah grandson of Esau, and chieftain ("duke," Authorized Version) of Edom. Ge 36:12,16; 1Ch 1:36 (B.C. about 1700.)...

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