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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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Lot in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the divine will (Prov. 16:33), and in serious cases of doubt (Esther 3:7). Thus the lot was used at the division of the la...

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Lucas in Naves Topical Bible

-Fellow-laborer of Paul Phm 1:24 -See LUKE...

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Lucius in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Paul's kinsman or fellow tribesman (Romans 16:21). Tradition makes him consecrated Bishop of Cenchreae by Paul (Apost. Const. 7:46)....

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Luke in Naves Topical Bible

-(A disciple) -A physician Col 4:14 -Wrote to Theophilus Lu 1:1-4; Ac 1:1,2 -Accompanies Paul in his tour of Asia and Macedonia Ac 16:10-13; 20:5,6 -To Jerusalem Ac 21:1-18 -To Rome Ac 27; 28; 2Ti 4:11; Phm 1:24...

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Lucas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Phm 1:24 [LUKE]...

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Lot in Hitchcock's Bible Names

Lotan...

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Lot in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Haran's son, Abraham's nephew (Genesis 11:27-31). Born in Ur of the Chaldees, before Terah's emigration. Accompanied Abram to Charan, then to Canaan (Genesis 12:4-5), then, in the famine, to Egypt. On their return a quarrel arose between Abram's and Lot's herdsmen. In the spirit of a child of God Abram goes to Lot himself, instead of listening...

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Lud in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lud, lu'-dim, lood'-im (ludh, ludhim, ludhiyum, "Ludites"; Loud, Loudieim; Targum Onk: ludha'e): 1. Two Different Nationalities: In Gen 10:13 Ludim appears as the firstborn of Mizraim (Egypt), and in 10:22 Lud is the fourth son of Shem. #We have therefore to do with two different nationalities bearing the same name, and not always easy to disti...

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Luke in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(light-giving), or Lu'cas, is an abbreviated form of Lucanus. It is not to be confounded with Lucius, Ac 13:1; Ro 16:21 which belongs to a different person. The name Luke occurs three times in the New Testament-- Col 4:14; 2Ti 4:11; Phle 1:24 --and probably in all three the third evangelist is the person spoken of. Combining the traditional e...

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