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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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Pontius in Hitchcock's Bible Names

marine; belonging to the sea...

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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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Philetus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(beloved) was possibly a disciple of Hymenaeus, with whom he is associated in 2Ti 2:17 and who is named without him in an earlier epistle. 1Ti 1:20 (A.D. 68-64) Thep appear to have been persons who believed the Scripture of the Old Testament, but misinterpreted them, allegorizing away the doctrine of the resurrection and resolving it all into ...

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