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Gatam in Naves Topical Bible

-Grandson of Esau Ge 36:11,16; 1Ch 1:36...

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Son of Geber in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 1 Kings 4:13. 2. 1 Kings 4:19. Having as his commissariat district the part of Gilead forming Sihon's and Og's kingdom, now Belka, the great pasture E. of Jordan. Translated not "he was the only officer in the land," for there were two others (1 Kings 4:13-14), but "and one (superior) officer (netsitb 'achad) who was in the land," namely,...

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Gaius in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ga'-yus (Gaios; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Gaios): (1) The Gaius to whom 3 Jn is addressed. He is spoken of as "the beloved" (3 Jn 1:1,2,5,11), "walking in the truth" (3 Jn 1:3,4), and doing "a faithful work" "toward them that are brethren and strangers withal" (3 Jn 1:5,6). He has been identified by some with the Gaius men...

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Gallio in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(one who lives on milk), Junius Annaeus Gallio, the Roman proconsul of Achaia when St. Paul was at Corinth, A.D. 53, under the emperor Claudius. Ac 18:12 He was brother to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher. Jerome in the Chronicle of Eusebius says that he committed suicide in 65 A.D. Winer thinks he was put to death by Nero....

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Gamaliel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 7:54-59; Numbers 10:23. 2. A Pharisee and eminent doctor of the law, who advised the council wisely to let the apostles alone (Acts 5:34, etc.), "for if this counsel or work be of men it will come to nought; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." H...

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Gareb in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ga'-reb (garebh): One of David's "mighty men of the armies" (2 Sam 23:38; 1 Ch 11:40), an "Ithrite," i.e. a member of one of the families of Kiriath-jearim (1 Ch 2:53). Some, however, read ha-yattiri for ha-yithri, thus making him a native of Jattir. See IRA....

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Gatam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a burnt valley), the fourth son of Eliphaz the son of Esau, Ge 36:11; 1Ch 1:36 and one of the "dukes" of Eliphaz. Ge 36:16 (B.C. after 1760.)...

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Gaius in Naves Topical Bible

1. A Macedonian, and a companion of Paul Seized at Ephesus Ac 19:29 -2. A man of Derbe; accompanied Paul from Macedonia Ac 20:4 -3. A Corinthian, whom Paul baptized Ro 16:23; 1Co 1:14 -4. Man to whom John's third epistle was addressed 3Jo 1:14...

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Gamaliel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

recompense of God; camel of God...

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Gallio in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the elder brother of Seneca the philosopher, who was tutor and for some time minister of the emperor Nero. He was "deputy", i.e., proconsul, as in Revised Version, of Achaia, under the emperor Claudius, when Paul visited Corinth (Acts 18:12). The word used here by Luke in describing the rank of Gallio shows his accuracy. Achaia was a sena...

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