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Tohu in Easton's Bible Dictionary

one of Samuel's ancestors (1 Sam. 1:1)....

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Timothy in Naves Topical Bible

-(also Called TIMOTHEUS, the companion of Paul) -Parentage of Ac 16:1 -Reputation and Christian faith of Ac 16:2; 1Co 4:17; 16:10; 2Ti 1:5; 3:15 -Circumcised; becomes Paul's companion Ac 16:3; 1Th 3:2 -Left by Paul at Berea Ac 17:14 -Rejoined Paul at Corinth Ac 17:15; 18:5 -Sent into Macedonia Ac 19:22 -Rejoined by Paul; accompanies Pa...

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Tiras in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Genesis 10:2. Josephus (Ant. 1:6, section 1) identifies his descendants with the Thracians, including the Getae (from whence came the Goths) and Dacians. Tuch derives the Tyrsenians from Tiras. (See ROSH.) Thracian tribes occupied most of northern and central Asia Minor originally. The Bithynians were Thracians. So also the Mariandynians, Pap...

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Titus in Naves Topical Bible

-(A faithful Greek companion of Paul) -Paul's love for 2Co 2:13; 7:6,7,13,14; 8:23; Tit 1:4 -With Paul in Macedonia (see postscript to 2Co) 2Co 7:5,6 -Affection of, for the Corinthians 2Co 7:15 -Sent to Corinth 2Co 8:6,16-22; 12:17,18 -Character of 2Co 12:18 -Accompanies Paul to Jerusalem Ga 2:1-3 -Compare Ac 15:1-29 -Left by Paul in...

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Timothy in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The disciple thus named was the son of one of those mixed marriages which, though condemned by stricter Jewish opinion were yet not uncommon in the later periods of Jewish history. The father's name is unknown; he was a Greek, i.e. a Gentile, by descent. Ac 16:1,3 The absence of any personal allusion to the father in the Acts or Epistles sugge...

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Tirhakah in Naves Topical Bible

-A king of Ethiopia 2Ki 19:9; Isa 37:9...

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Tirhakah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ter-ha'-ka, tir-ha'-ka (tirhaqah; Codex Vaticanus in 2 Kings Thara; elsewhere and in Codex Alexandrinus Tharaka; Josephus Tharsikes): 1. Name and Prenomen: The king of Cush or Ethiopia (basileus Aithiopon), who opposed Sennacherib in Israel (2 Ki 19:9; Isa 37:9). The name of this ruler of Egypt and his native realm appears in hieroglyphics as ...

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Timothy in Easton's Bible Dictionary

honouring God, a young disciple who was Paul's companion in many of his journeyings. His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are mentioned as eminent for their piety (2 Tim. 1:5). We know nothing of his father but that he was a Greek (Acts 16:1). He is first brought into notice at the time of Paul's second visit to Lystra (16:2), w...

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Titus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Our materials for the biography of this companion of St. Paul must be drawn entirely from the notices of him in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, the Galatians, and to Titus himself, combined with the Second Epistle to Timothy. He is not mentioned in the Acts at all. Taking the passages in the epistles in the chronological order of the ev...

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Titus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to have been a Gentile, and to have been chiefly engaged in ministering to Gentiles; for Paul sternly refused to have him circumcised, inasmuch...

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