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Haggai in Hitchcock's Bible Names

feast; solemnity...

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Ham in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Noah Ge 5:32; 9:18,24; 1Ch 1:4 Provokes his father's wrath and is cursed by him Ge 9:18-27 His children Ge 10:6-20; 1Ch 1:8-16 -2. Patronymic of the descendants of Ham 1Ch 4:40; Ps 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22 -3. Place where Chedorlaomer struck down the Zuzims Ge 14:5...

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Haman in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(magnificent), the chief minister or vizier of King Ahasuerus. Es 3:1 (B.C. 473.) After the failure of his attempt to cut off all the Jews in the Persian empire, he was hanged on the gallows which he had erected for Mordecai. The Targum and Josephus interpret the inscription of him--the Agagite --as signifying that he was of Amalekitish descen...

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Hammedatha in Easton's Bible Dictionary

father of Haman, designated usually "the Agagite" (Esther 3:1, 10; 8:5)....

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Hammelech in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a king; a counselor...

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Hakkoz in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

hak'-oz (haqqots, or ha-qots, "the nimble"): (1) A priest and chief of the 7th course of Aaron's sons selected by David (1 Ch 24:10). According to Ezr 2:61; Neh 3:4,21; 7:63, his descendants returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity. But the King James Version considers the name in Ezra and Nehemiah as having the article prefixed, hence rend...

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Ham in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(hot; sunburnt). 1. The name of one of the three sons of Noah, apparently the second in age. (B.C. 2448.) Of the history of Ham nothing is related except his irreverence to his father and the curse which that patriarch pronounced. The sons of Ham are stated, to have been "Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan." Ge 10:6 comp. 1Chr 1:8 Egypt is...

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Haman in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(of Persian origin), magnificent, the name of the vizier (i.e., the prime minister) of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Esther 3:1, etc.). He is called an "Agagite," which seems to denote that he was descended from the royal family of the Amalekites, the bitterest enemies of the Jews, as Agag was one of the titles of the Amalekite kings. He or...

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Hammedatha in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Haman's father. Medatha with the definite article, ha-. (See ESTHER; HAMAN.) In Persian, it means "double"....

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Hamor in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ha'-mor (chamor, "an ass"; Emmor): Hamor was the father of Shechem from whom Jacob bought a piece of ground on his return from Paddan-aram for one hundred pieces of silver (Gen 33:19), and the burial place of Joseph when his body was removed from Egypt to Canaan (Josh 24:32). "The men of Hamor" were inhabitants of Shechem, and suffered a great...

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