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Jachin in Hitchcock's Bible Names

he that strengthens and makes steadfast...

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Jaddua in Easton's Bible Dictionary

known. (1.) One of the chiefs who subscribed the covenant (Neh. 10:21). (2.) The last high priest mentioned in the Old Testament (Neh. 12:11, 22), sons of Jonathan....

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Jabesh-Gilead in Naves Topical Bible

-A city east of the Jordan River Jud 21:8-15 -Beseiged by the Ammonites 1Sa 11:1-11 -Saul and his sons buried at 1Sa 31:11-13; 1Ch 10:11,12; 2Sa 2:4 -Bones of Saul and his sons removed from, by David, and buried at Zelah 2Sa 21:12-14...

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Jachan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(affliction), one of seven chief men of the tribe of Gad. 1Ch 5:13...

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Jacob in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

I. Name. 1. Form and Distribution: ya`aqobh (5 times ya`aqowbh); Iakob, is in form a verb in the Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular. Like some 50 other Hebrew names of this same form, it has no subject for the verb expressed. But there are a number of independent indications that Jacob belongs to that large class of names consisting of a ve...

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Jaaziel in Easton's Bible Dictionary

comforted by God, a Levitical musician (1 Chr. 15:18)....

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Jabesh in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(dry). 1. Father of Shallum, the fifteenth king of Israel. 2Ki 15:10,13,14 2. Jabesh-gilead, or Jabesh in the territory of Gilead. In its widest sense Gilead included the half tribe of Manasseh, 1Ch 27:21 as well as the tribes of Gad and Reuben, Nu 32:1-42 east of the Jordan; and of the cities of Gilead, Jabesh was the chief. It is first men...

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Jabin in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ja'-bin (yabhin, "one who is intelligent," "discerning." The word may have been a hereditary royal title among the northern Canaanites. Compare the familiar usage of par`oh melekh mitsrayim): (1) "The king of Hazor," the leading city in Northern Israel, who led an alliance against Joshua. He was defeated at the waters of Merom, his city was ta...

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