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Lazarus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

laz'-a-rus (Lazaros, an abridged form of the Hebrew name Eleazar, with a Greek termination): Means "God has helped." In Septuagint and Josephus are found the forms Eleazar, and Eleazaros. The name was common among the Jews, and is given to two men in the New Testament who have nothing to do with each other. 1. Lazarus of Bethany: The home of t...

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Lebbaeus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a man of heart), one name of Jude, who was one of the twelve apostles....

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Laban in Easton's Bible Dictionary

white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac's wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (See JACOB (2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the...

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Laish in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a lion...

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Lazarus in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Brother of Mary and Martha Sickness and death of Joh 11:1-14 Resurrection of Joh 11:38-44; 12:17,18 Had dinner with Jesus Joh 12:1,2,9 Plotted against by the chief priests Joh 12:10,11...

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Lebbaeus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

courageous, a surname of Judas (Jude), one of the twelve (Matt. 10:3), called also Thaddaeus, not to be confounded with the Judas who was the brother of our Lord....

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Laban in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("whiteness). Possibly alluding to the white poplars growing near. Deuteronomy 1:1. Perhaps Libnah (Numbers 33:20); near the Elanitic gulf or the Arabah desert. The name may be preserved in El Beyaneh, W. of the Arabah, N. of Ezion Geber....

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Laadan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(put in order). 1. An Ephraimite, ancestor of Joshua the son of Nun. 1Ch 7:26 2. The son of Gershom, elsewhere called LIBNI. 1Ch 23:7,8,9; 26:21...

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Lamech in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

la'-mek (lemekh; Lamech, "a strong youth"?): (1) The name is first mentioned in Gen 4:18-24. Here Lamech, the son of Methushael, is named as the last of the descendants of Cain. He was the father of Jabel, Jubal, Tubal-cain, and Naamah. As the husband of two wives, namely, Adah and Zillah, he furnishes the first recorded instance of polygamy. ...

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Lazarus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(whom God helps), another form of the Hebrew name Eleazar. 1. Lazarus of Bethany, the brother of Martha and Mary. Joh 11:1 All that we know of him is derived from the Gospel of St. John, and that records little more than the facts of his death and resurrection. The language of Joh 11:1 implies that the sisters were the better known. Lazarus i...

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