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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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Adbeel in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Ishmael Ge 25:13; 1Ch 1:29...

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Addar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(mighty one), son of Bela, 1Ch 8:3 called ARD in Nu 26:40...

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Abishua in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("father of safety".) 1. Son of Phinehas, fourth high priest (1 Chronicles 6:50). The Chronicon of Alexandria shows that his pontificate included the period of Ehud's judgeship, and probably of Eglon's oppression. Father of Bukki (1 Chronicles 6:4-5; 1 Chronicles 6:50-51; Ezra 7:4-5). Josephus (Ant. 8:1, 3) says he was succeeded in the pries...

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Abishur in Naves Topical Bible

Son of Shammai 1Ch 2:28,29...

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Abitub in Naves Topical Bible

A Benjamite 1Ch 8:11...

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