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Shuah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

shoo'-a: (1) (shua` "prosperity"): A Canaanite whose daughter Judah took to wife (Gen 38:2,12; 1 Ch 2:3). See BATHSHUA. (2) (shu`-a'', "prosperity"): Daughter of Heber, an Asherite (1 Ch 7:32). (3) (shuach, "depression"): A son of Keturah by Abraham (Gen 25:2; 1 Ch 1:32), and his posterity. See BILDAD. (4) A brother of Caleb (1 Ch 4:11). See SHU...

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Shobal in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(flowing). 1. Second son of Seir the Horite, Ge 36:20; 1Ch 1:38 and one of the "dukes" of the Horites Ge 36:29 2. Son of Caleb the son of Hur and founder or prince of Kirjath-jearim. 1Ch 2:50,52 (B.C. about 1445.) 3. In 1Ch 4:1,2 Shobal appears with Hur among the sons of Judah. He is possibly the same as the preceding....

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Shobi in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of NAHASH (2 Samuel 17:27). Showed hospitality to David when fleeing from Absalom....

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Shuah in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Son of Abraham by his wife (concubine), Keturah Ge 25:2; 1Ch 1:32 -2. Brother of Chelub 1Ch 4:11...

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Shishak in Smiths Bible Dictionary

king of Egypt, the Sheshonk I. of the monuments, first sovereign of the Bubastite twenty-second dynasty. His reign offers the first determined syncronism of Egyptian and hebrew history. The first year of Shishak would about correspond to the 26th of Solomon (B.C. 989), and the 20th of shishak to the 5th of Rehoboam. Shishak at the beginning of...

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Shobab in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 2 Samuel 5:14; 1 Chronicles 3:5; 1 Chronicles 14:4. 2. 1 Chronicles 2:18....

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Shobai in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

sho'-bi, sho-ba'-i, sho'-ba-i (shobhay; Codex Vaticanus Abaou; Codex Alexandrinus Lucian, Sobai): The head of one of the families which returned from the Babylonian captivity (Ezr 2:42; Neh 7:45)....

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Shiphtan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

shif'-tan (shiphTan; Codex Vaticanus Sabatha; Codex Alexandrinus Sabathan, F, Saphatan, Lucian, ((S)ephatha): An Ephraimite prince (Nu 34:24)....

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Shishak in Easton's Bible Dictionary

=Sheshonk I., king of Egypt. His reign was one of great national success, and a record of his wars and conquests adorns the portico of what are called the "Bubastite kings" at Karnak, the ancient Thebes. Among these conquests is a record of that of Judea. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign Shishak came up against the kingdom of Judah w...

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Shobab in Hitchcock's Bible Names

returned; turned back; a spark...

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