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Hammedatha in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ham-e-da'-tha (hammedhatha'): The father of Haman (Est 3:1). He is generally termed the "Agagite"; the name is of Persian etymology, signifying "given by the moon."...

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Hammelech in Naves Topical Bible

-Name of a man, or possibly only an appellation, meaning "the king," Jer 36:26; 38:6...

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Hamor in Easton's Bible Dictionary

he-ass, a Hivite from whom Jacob purchased the plot of ground in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Gen. 33:19). He is called "Emmor" in Acts 7:16. His son Shechem founded the city of that name which Simeon and Levi destroyed because of his crime in the matter of Dinah, Jacob's daughter (Gen. 34:20). Hamor and Shechem were also slain (ve...

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Haggai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(festive), the tenth in order of the minor prophets, and first of those who prophesied after the captivity. With regard to his tribe and parentage history and tradition are alike silent....

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Hakkoz in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 24:10. In Ezra 2:61 Koz is a family of priests, the ha- being the article....

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Ham in Hitchcock's Bible Names

hot; heat; brown...

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Hammedatha in Naves Topical Bible

-Father of Haman Es 3:1,10; 8:5; 9:10,24...

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Hammelech in Smiths Bible Dictionary

lit. "the king," unnecessarily rendered in the Authorized Version as a proper name. Jer 36:26; 38:6...

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Hamor in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a large he-ass".) So (Genesis 49:14) Issachar. A Hivite; but Alex. manuscript, Septuagint, a Horite; prince of Shechem and the adjoining district, probably named from his son. Head of the clan named from him while yet alive "the children of Hamor." (Genesis 33:19.) From them Jacob bought for 100 kesita (i.e. bars or rings of silver of a cert...

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Haggai in Easton's Bible Dictionary

festive, one of the twelve so-called minor prophets. He was the first of the three (Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who was about one hundred years later, being the other two) whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon. Scarcely anything is known of his personal...

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