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Jakeh in Easton's Bible Dictionary

pious, the father of Agur (Prov. 30:1). Nothing is known of him....

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Jahath in Hitchcock's Bible Names

broken in pieces; descending...

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Jahdai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(whom Jehovah directs), a man who appears to be thrust abruptly into the genealogy of Caleb, as the father of six sons. 1Ch 2:47...

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Jairus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-i-rus, ja-i'-rus (Iaeiros; 1 Esdras 5:31; Additions to Esther 11:2). See AIRUS; JAIR....

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Jakim in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-kim (yaqim, "he (God) lifteth Up"; compare ELIAKIM): (1) A Benjamite, a son of Shimei (1 Ch 8:19). (2) A priest, the head of the 12th of the 24 courses into which the priests were divided (1 Ch 24:12)....

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Jadon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-don (yadhon, perhaps "he will judge" or "plead"): One who helped to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem in company with the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah (Neh 3:7). He is called the "Meronothite," and another Meronothite is referred to in 1 Ch 27:30, but there is no mention of a place Meronoth. Jadon is the name given by Josephus (Ant., VIII, viii...

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Jahaziel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja-ha'-zi-el (yachazi'el, "God sees"): (1) In 1 Ch 12:4 (Hebrew 5), one of David's recruits at Ziklag, a Benjamite or maybe a Judean. (2) In 1 Ch 16:6, one of two priests appointed by David to sound trumpets before the ark on its journey to Jerusalem. The Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, read "Uzziel." (3) In 1 Ch 23:19; 24:...

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Jahdai in Easton's Bible Dictionary

grasper, a descendant of Caleb, of the family of Hezron (1 Chr. 2:47)....

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