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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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Tirhakah in Naves Topical Bible

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

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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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Timaeus in Naves Topical Bible

-Father of a blind man cured by Jesus Mr 10:46...

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Timaeus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ti-me'-us (Timaios (Mk 10:46); English Versions of the Bible, "Timaeus"). See BARTIMAEUS....

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Timotheus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ti-mo'-the-us (Timotheos): (1) A leader of the children of Ammon who was on several occasions severely defeated by Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc 5:6 ff,34 ff; 2 Macc 8:30; 9:3; 10:24; 19:2,18 ff) in 165-163 BC. According to 2 Macc 10:37, he was slain at Gazara after having hidden in a cistern. But in 2 Macc 12:2 he is again at liberty as an opponent...

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Timaeus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the father of the blind man, Bartimaus. Mr 10:46...

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Timnah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

forbidding...

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Timotheus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. A "captain of the Ammonites," 1 Macc. 5:6 who was defeated on several occasions by Judas Maccabaeus, B.C. 164. 1 Macc. 5:6,11,34-44. He was probably a Greek adventurer. 2. In 2 Macc. a leader named Timetheus is mentioned as having taken part in the invasion of Nicanor, B.C. 166. 2 Macc. 8:30; 9:3. 3. The Greek name of Timothy. Ac 16:1; 17:...

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Timnah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a divided or assigned part".) 1. Judah went to shear his sheep in Timnah (Genesis 38:13-14). 2. A boundary town in Judah on the N. side (Joshua 15:10). Near the western extremity, further than Bethshemesh, toward Ekron; in the shephelah or low hills between the mountains and the plain (2 Chronicles 28:18). Probably the same as TIMNATHAH ...

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