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Shalman in Hitchcock's Bible Names

peaceable; perfect; that rewards...

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Shabbethai in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

shab'-e-thi (shabbethay, "one born on the Sabbath"; Codex Vaticanus Sabathai; Codex Alexandrinus Kabbathai = "Sabbateus" of 1 Esdras 9:14): A Levite who opposed (?) Ezra's suggestion that the men who had married foreign wives put them aside (Ezr 10:15). Kuenen, however, renders the phrase `amedhu `al zo'th, of which Asahiel and Jahaziah are th...

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Shadrach in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(royal, or the great scribe) the Hebrew, or rather Chaldee, name of Hananiah. The history of Shadrach or Hananiah, as told in Dani 1-3 is well known. After their deliverance from the furnace, we hear no more of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, except in Heb 11:33,34 but there are repeated allusions to them in the later apocryphal books, and the...

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Shallum in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("retribution".) 1. Son of Jabesh; 15th king of Israel. Smote Zachariah, son of Jeroboam II, openly before the people (showing that their sympathies were with him), and seized the kingdom (2 Kings 15:9-10), thereby fulfilling the prophecy that Jehu's dynasty should last only to the fourth generation (2 Kings 10:30). Slain after a month's rei...

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Shabbethai in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A Levite, assistant to Ezra Ezr 10:15 -2. An expounder of the law Ne 8:7 -3. A chief Levite, an attendant of the temple Ne 11:16...

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Shadrach in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Aku's command, the Chaldean name given to Hananiah, one of the Hebrew youths whom Nebuchadnezzar carried captive to Babylon (Dan. 1:6, 7; 3:12-30). He and his two companions refused to bow down before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up on the plains of Dura. Their conduct filled the king with the greatest fury, and he commanded them...

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Shabbethai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(sabbatical) a Levite in the time of Ezra. Ezr 10:15 It is apparently the same who with Jeshua and others instructed the people in the knowledge of the law. Ne 8:7 (B.C. 450.)...

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Shalman in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

shal'-man (shalman): A name of uncertain meaning, found only once in the Old Testament (Hos 10:14), in connection with a place-name, equally obscure, "as Shalman destroyed Betharbel." Shalman is most commonly interpreted as a contracted form of Shalmaneser, the name of several Assyrian kings. If this explanation is correct, the king referred t...

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