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Abiasaph in Wikipedia

Abiasaph (meaning: "father of gathering", from abi, son, and asaph, to gather) was a son of Korah of the house of Levi according to Exodus 6:24, born in Egypt....

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Abihu in Wikipedia

In the Book of Exodus and Book of Numbers, Nadab (Hebrew: נדב, Nadav ; "generous, giving") and Abihu (Hebrew: אביהוא, Avihu ; "He God is my father") were respectively the eldest and second-eldest of the sons of Aaron.[1][2][3] They were consecrated to the priest's office along with their brothers Eleazar and Ithamar.[4] With their father, Nada...

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Abdeel in Wikipedia

In Jeremiah 36:26 , Abdeel (Ab'dē el) ("Servant of God"), father of Shelemiah, one of three men that were commanded by King Jehoiakim to seize the prophet Jeremiah and his secretary Baruch.[1] The Septuagint omits his name....

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Abiathar in Wikipedia

Abiathar (אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the [divine] father is pre-eminent), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Achimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli. The only one of the priests to escape from Saul's massacre, he fled to David at Keilah, taking with him the ephod (1 Sam. 22:20 f., 23:6, 9). He was of great service to D...

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Abihud in Wikipedia

- father (i.e., "possessor") of renown. (1.) One of the sons of Bela, the son of Benjamin (1 Chr. 8:3); called also Ahihud (ver. 7). (2.) A descendant of Zerubbabel and father of Eliakim (Matt. 1:13, "Abiud"); called also Juda (Luke 3:26), and Obadiah (1 Chr. 3:21). The name may also occasionally be romanized as Abioud (Greek) or 'Abiyhuwd (He...

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Abdi in Wikipedia

Abdi is also the name of three men in the Hebrew Bible: In 1 Chronicles 6:44 Abdi is a Levite of the family of Merari. In 2 Chronicles 29:12 Abdi is a Levite in the time of King Hezekiah of Judah. This may be the same man as in 1 Chronicles 6:44. In Ezra 10:26 Abdi is the son of Elam, and one of a long list of men who had married foreign wives,...

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Abida in Wikipedia

Abida was the son of Midian, and the grandson of Abraham and his wife Keturah. Abraham sent his sons by Keturah to live in the east, far from their half-brother Isaac. Abida was one of Midian's descendants, the Midianites, settled in the territory east of the Jordan (Tobit 1:14 ) and also much of the area east of the Dead Sea (later occupied b...

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Abijah in Wikipedia

is a Biblical unisex name meaning Aviya or "my Father is Yahweh" in Hebrew.[1] In the Old Testament the name Abijah was borne by several characters: A son of Becher, the son of Benjamin. (1 Chr. 7:8) A wife of Hetzron, one of the grandchildren of Judah. (1 Chr. 2:24) The second son of Samuel. (1 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28) His conduct, along with...

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Geshem in Naves Topical Bible

Also called GASHMU, an Arabian -Opposed Nehemiah in building Jerusalem Ne 2:19; 6:1-6...

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Gideon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a hewer"), i.e. warrior, or the hewer down of Baal (Isaiah 10:33). Of Manasseh; youngest son of Joash, of the Abiezrite family at Ophrah (Judges 6:11; Judges 6:15). Fifth of the judges of Israel, called by the angel of the Lord to deliver Israel from the seven years' yoke of the Midianite hosts, which like swarming locusts consumed all their...

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