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Lotan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lo'-tan (loTan): Son of Seir, a chief (the King James Version "duke") of Edom (Gen 36:20,22,29; 1 Ch 1:38 f)....

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Lud in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(strife) the fourth name in the list of the children of Shem, Ge 10:22 comp. 1Chr 1:17 supposed to have been the ancestor of the Lydians....

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Luke in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

front Contracted from Lucanus, as Silas is contracted from Silvanus. A slave name. As Luke was a "physician," a profession often exercised by slaves and freedmen, he may have been a freedman. Eusebius (H.E. iii. 4) states that Antioch was his native city. He was of Gentile parentage before he became a Christian; as appears from Colossians 4:1...

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Lotan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(covering), the eldest son of Seir the Horite. Ge 36:20,22,29; 1Ch 1:38,39...

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Lucius in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lu'-shi-us, lu'-shus (Loukios, Leukios): A Roman consul who is said (1 Macc 15:16 ff) to have written a letter to Ptolemy Euergetes securing to Simon the high priest and to the Jews the protection of Rome. As the praenomen only of the consul is given, there has been much discussion as to the person intended. The weight of probability has been ...

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Lud in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) The fourth son of Shem (Gen. 10:22; 1 Chr. 1:17), ancestor of the Lydians probably. (2.) One of the Hamitic tribes descended from Mizraim (Gen. 10:13), a people of Africa (Ezek. 27:10; 30:5), on the west of Egypt. The people called Lud were noted archers (Isa. 66:19; comp. Jer. 46:9)....

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Lot in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lot: I. Personality. The man who bore the name Lot (lot; Lot) is mentioned for the first time in Gen 11:27, at the beginning of that section of Genesis which is entitled "the generations of Terah." After Terah's 3 sons are named, it is added that the third of these, Haran, begat Lot. The reason for thus singling out but one of the grandsons of ...

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