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Abiathar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(father of abundance, i.e. liberal), High priest and fourth in descent from Eli. (B.C. 1060-1012.) Abiathar was the only one of the all the sons of Ahimelech the high priest who escaped the slaughter inflicted upon his father's house by Saul, in revenge for his father's house by Saul, in revenge of his having inquired of the Lord for David and...

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Abiathar Scripture - 1 Kings 1:25

For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah....

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Abida Scripture - Genesis 25:4

And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these [were] the children of Keturah....

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Abidan Scripture - Numbers 7:60

On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, [offered]:...

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Abednego Scripture - Daniel 2:49

Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel [sat] in the gate of the king....

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Abi-albon in Naves Topical Bible

Also called ABIEL -One of David's heroes 2Sa 23:31; 1Ch 11:32...

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Abia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

my father is the Lord, the Greek form of Abijah, or Abijam (Matt. 1:7), instead of Abiah (1 Chr. 7:8). In Luke 1:5, the name refers to the head of the eighth of the twenty- four courses into which David divided the priests (1 Chr. 24:10)....

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Abiasaph in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(father of gathering, i.e. gathered), Ex 6:24 otherwise written Ebi/asaph. 1Ch 6:23,37; 9:19 one of the descendants of Korah, and head of the Korhites. Among the remarkable descendants of Abiasaph were Samuel the prophet, 1Sa 1:11 and Heman the singer....

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Abiathar in Easton's Bible Dictionary

father of abundance, or my father excels, the son of Ahimelech the high priest. He was the tenth high priest, and the fourth in descent from Eli. When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam (1 Sam. 22:20-23; 23:6). He remained with Davi...

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Abel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Hebrew Hebel. Second of Adam and Eve's sons, Genesis 4: Abel means "vanity" or "weakness", "vapor" or "transitoriness". Cain means "possession"; for Eve said at his birth, "I have gotten as a possession a man from Jehovah," or as the Hebrew (eth) may mean, "with the help of Jehovah"; she inferring the commencement of the fulfillment of the pro...

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