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Achish in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(angry), a Philistine king of Gath, who in the title of the 34th Psalm is called Abimelech. David twice found a refuge with him when he fled from Saul. (B.C. 1061.) On the first occasion he was alarmed for his safety, feigned madness, and was sent away....

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Achish Scripture - 1 Samuel 21:11

And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?...

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Adaiah Scripture - Nehemiah 11:12

And their brethren that did the work of the house [were] eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,...

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Addar in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ad'-ar ('addar, "glorious"): See ARD (1) A grandson of Benjamin, sometimes counted as one of his sons (1 Ch 8:3). (2) A town on the southern border of Judah (Josh 15:3, the King James Version "Adar"). The same as Hazar-addar (Nu 34:4)....

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Absalom Scripture - 1 Kings 2:28

Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar....

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Achaicus Scripture - 1 Corinthians 16:17

I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied....

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Ashan Scripture - Joshua 7:24

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor....

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Achbor in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Genesis 36:38; 1 Chronicles 1:49. 2. Father of king Jehoiakim's ready tool in evil, Elnathan (Jeremiah 26:22-23); Achbor was, on the contrary, an instrument of good Josiah, to inquire the Lord's will from the prophetess Huldah. Called Abdon, the son of Micah, in 2 Chronicles 34:20-21. Goodness is not always hereditary....

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Achish in Easton's Bible Dictionary

angry, perhaps only a general title of royalty applicable to the Philistine kings. (1.) The king with whom David sought refuge when he fled from Saul (1 Sam. 21:10-15). He is called Abimelech in the superscription of Ps. 34. It was probably this same king to whom David a second time repaired at the head of a band of 600 warriors, and who ...

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Adaiah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a-da'-ya, a-di'-a (`adhayah, "Yahweh hath adorned"): (1) Apparently the seventh of the nine sons of Shimei, who is apparently the same with Shema, who is the fifth of the sons of Elpaal, who is the second of the two sons of Shaharaim and Hushim (1 Ch 8:21). Shaharaim and his descendants are listed with the descendants of Benjamin, though his r...

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