Bible Names N-Z

Puah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

splendid. (1.) One of the two midwives who feared God, and refused to kill the Hebrew male children at their birth (Ex. 1:15-21). (2.) A descendant of Issachar (Judg. 10:1)....

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Pilate in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

1. Name and Office: The nomen Pontius indicates the stock from which Pilate was descended. It was one of the most famous of Samnite names; it was a Pontius who inflicted on a Roman army the disgrace of the Caudine Forks. The name is often met with in Roman history after the Samnites were conquered and absorbed. Lucius Pontius Aquila was a frie...

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Piram in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(like a wild ass; fleet) the Amorite king of Jarmuth at the time of Joshua's conquest of Canaan. Jos 10:3 (B.C. 1450.)...

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Pilate in Naves Topical Bible

-Roman governor of Judaea during the time of Jesus' ministry Mt 27:2; Lu 3:1 -Causes the slaughter of certain Galileans Lu 13:1 -Tries Jesus and orders his crucifixion Mt 27; Mr 15; Lu 23; Joh 18:28-40; 19; Ac 3:13; 4:27; 13:28; 1Ti 6:13 -Allows Joseph of Arimathaea to take Jesus' body Mt 27:57,58; Mr 15:43-45; Lu 23:52; Joh 19:38...

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Piram in Easton's Bible Dictionary

like a wild ass, a king of Jarmuth, a royal city of the Canaanites, who was conquered and put to death by Joshua (10:3, 23, 26)....

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Pilate in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(armed with a spear), Pontius. Pontius Pilate was the sixth Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked, suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but from Tacitus (Ann. xv. 44). was appointed A.D. 25-6, in the twelfth year of Tiberius. His arbitrary administration nearly drove the Jews to insurrection on two or thre...

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Piram in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Amorite king of Jarmuth at Joshua's invasion (Joshua 10:3). Defeated before Gibeon with the other four kings, hid in the cave of Makkedah; hanged, and buried in the cave....

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