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Maath in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma'-ath (Maath): An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy in the 12th generation before Joseph, the husband of Mary (Lk 3:26)....

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Maaziah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Nehemiah 10:8. The coincidence of names between David's 24 courses, and the signers of Nehemiah's covenants, and the returners with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12) implies that these names were applied to the families. 2. 1 Chronicles 24:18....

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Maachah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

oppression, a small Syrian kingdom near Geshur, east of the Hauran, the district of Batanea (Josh. 13:13; 2 Sam. 10:6,8; 1 Chr. 19:7). (2.) A daughter of Talmai, king of the old native population of Geshur. She became one of David's wives, and was the mother of Absalom (2 Sam. 3:3). (3.) The father of Hanan, who was one of David's body-gu...

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Maath in Naves Topical Bible

-An ancestor of Jesus Lu 3:26...

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Machbanai in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mak'-ba-ni, -ba-na'-i (makhbannay; the King James Version Machbanai): A Gadite who attached himself to David in Ziklag (1 Ch 12:13)....

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Lot in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(veil or covering), the son of Haran, and therefore the nephew of Abraham. Ge 11:27,31 (B.C. before 1926-1898.) His sisters were Milcah the wife of Nahor, and Iscah, by some identified with Sarah. haran died before the emigration of Terah and his family from Ur of the Chaldees, ver. 28, and Lot was therefore born there. He removed with the res...

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Lucas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lu'-kas, loo'-kas. In Philem 1:24 the King James Version, for "Luke" (Revised Version)....

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Lucius in Easton's Bible Dictionary

of Cyrene, a Christian teacher at Antioch (Acts 13:1), and Paul's kinsman (Rom. 16:21). His name is Latin, but his birthplace seems to indicate that he was one of the Jews of Cyrene, in North Africa....

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Luke in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

look, luk. 1. Name: The name Luke (Loukas) is apparently an abbreviation for Loukanos. Old Latin manuscripts frequently have the words CATA LUCANUM as the title of the Third Gospel. (But the form Loukios, is also found in inscriptions synonymous with Loukas; compare Ramsay, The Expositor, December, 1912.) It was a common fashion in the koine to...

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