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Teresh in Easton's Bible Dictionary

severe, a eunuch or chamberlain in the palace of Ahasuerus, who conspired with another to murder him. The plot was detected by Mordecai, and the conspirators were put to death (Esther 2:21; 6:2)....

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Tertullus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ter-tul'-us, ter- (Tertullos, diminutive of Latin tertius, "third"):, An orator who descended with Ananias the high priest and elders from Jerusalem to Caesarea to accuse Paul before Felix the Roman governor (Acts 24:1). Tertullus was a hired pleader whose services were necessary that the case for the Jews might be stated in proper form. Altho...

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Terah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(station), the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran, and through them the ancestor of the great families of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Midianites, Moabites and Ammonites. Ge 11:24-32 The account given of him in the Old Testament narrative is very brief. We learn from it simply that he was an idolater, Jos 24:2 that he dwelt beyond the Euphrates ...

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Teresh in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of the two eunuchs or chamberlains who kept the door of Ahasuerus' palace. Hanged on Mordecai's information for attempting to assassinate the king (Esther 2:21; Esther 6:2)....

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Tertullus in Naves Topical Bible

-The prosecutor of Paul before Governor Felix Ac 24:1,2...

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Terah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one daughter, Sarah. He settled in "Ur of the Chaldees," where his son Haran died, leaving behind him his son Lot. Nahor settled at Haran, a place ...

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Tertullus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(diminutive from Tertius), "a certain orator," Ac 24:1 who was retained by the high priest and Sanhedrin to accuse the apostle Paul at Caesarea before the Roman procurator Antonius Felix. He evidently belonged to the class of professional orators. We may infer that Tertullus was of Roman, or at all events of Italian, origin. (A.D. 55.)...

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Terah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Tenth from Noah through Shem; father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran (Genesis 11:27). Accompanied Abram from Ur on the way to Canaan (an act of faith on the part of one so very old; persuaded by his godly son), but died at Haran when 205 years old. He was 70 when Haran his oldest son was born, 130 when ABRAM was born (Genesis 11:26; Genesis 11:32; ...

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Tertius in Naves Topical Bible

-Paul's amanuensis (copyist) in writing the book of Romans Ro 16:22...

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Tertius in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

tur'-shi-us (Tertios): The amanuensis of Paul who wrote at his dictation the Epistle to the Romans. In the midst of Paul's greetings to the Christians in Rome he interpolated his own, "I Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the Lord" (Rom 16:22). "It is as a Christian, not in virtue of any other relation he has to the Romans, that Ter...

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