Bible Names N-Z

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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Pilate in Easton's Bible Dictionary

probably connected with the Roman family of the Pontii, and called "Pilate" from the Latin pileatus, i.e., "wearing the pileus", which was the "cap or badge of a manumitted slave," as indicating that he was a "freedman," or the descendant of one. He was the sixth in the order of the Roman procurators of Judea (A.D. 26-36). His headquarters...

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Pontius in Hitchcock's Bible Names

marine; belonging to the sea...

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Phygellus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(fugitive). [HERMOGENES]...

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Pispa in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

pis'-pa (picpa', "dipersion," the King James Version Pispah): A son of Jether, an Asherite (1 Ch 7:38)....

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Pilate in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

PILATE, PONTIUS. Connected with the Pontian clan (gens), first remarkable in the person of Pontius Telesinus, the great Samnite general. Pilate is probably from pileus, "the cap of freedom,"which manumitted slaves received; Pilate being perhaps descended from a freedman. Sixth Roman procurator of Judaea, appointed in Tiberius' 12th year (A.D. ...

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