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Rephael in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

re'-fa-el, ref'-a-el (repha'el, "God has healed"; Rhaphael): The eponym of a family of gatekeepers (1 Ch 26:7). The name occurs in Tobit and Enoch ("Raphael"); it probably belongs to a group of late formations. See Gray, HPN, 225, 311....

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Reuben in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(behold a son), Jacob's firstborn Child, Ge 29:32 the son of Leah. (B.C. 1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, on the whole a favorable view of his disposition. To him and him alone the preservation of Joseph's life appears to have been due and afterward he becomes responsible for his safety. Ge 37:18-30; 42:37 Of the repulsive crim...

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Rekem in Hitchcock's Bible Names

vain pictures; divers picture...

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Rephael in Naves Topical Bible

-A porter of the temple during the time of David 1Ch 26:7...

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Reuben in Easton's Bible Dictionary

behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father's malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death (37:21,22). It was he also who pledged his life and ...

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Remaliah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

rem-a-li'-a (remalyahu, "whom Yahweh has adorned"): The father of Pekah (2 Ki 15:25 ff; Isa 7:4 ff; 8:6). The contemptuous allusion to Pekah as "the son of Remaliah" in Isa 7:4 (similarly "the son of Kish," 1 Sam 10:11) may be a slur on Remaliah's humble origin....

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Rephael in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(healed of God), son of Shemaiah, the first-born of Obed-edom. 1Ch 26:7 (B.C. about 1015.)...

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Rei in Hitchcock's Bible Names

my shepherd; my companion; my friend...

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Remaliah in Naves Topical Bible

-Father of Pekah, king of Israel 2Ki 15:25,27,30; 16:1,5; 2Ch 28:6; Isa 7:1,4; 8:6...

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Reuben in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Jacob's firstborn, Leah's son, born long after the marriage. The name expresses the parents' joy at the accomplishment of long deferred hope: "Behold ye a son" (Genesis 29:32). He gathered mandrakes for his mother, in boyhood (Genesis 30:14). (See MANDRAKES.) In a sudden gust of temptation he was guilty of foul incest with Bilhah, his father's...

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