Bible Names N-Z

Phlegon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(burning), a Christian at Rome whom St. Paul salutes. Ro 16:14 (A.D.55.) Pseudo-Hippolytus makes him one of the seventy disciples and bishop of Marathon....

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Phinehas in Naves Topical Bible

-High priest Ex 6:25; 1Ch 6:4,50 -Religious zeal of, in killing the Israelitish woman who had committed abomination Nu 25:7-15; Ps 106:30 -Chief of the Korahite Levites 1Ch 9:19,20 -Sent to sound the trumpets in the battle with the Midianites Nu 31:6 -Sent, with other princes of the Israelites west of the Jordan River to inquire of the ...

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Phlegon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

burning, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sent salutations (Rom. 16:14)....

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Philip in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fil'-ip (Philippos, "lover of horses"): (1) The father of Alexander the Great (1 Macc 1:1; 6:2), king of Macedonia in 359-336 BC. His influence for Greece and for mankind in general lay in hastening the decadence of the Greek city-state and in the preparations he left to Alexander for the diffusion throughout the world of the varied phases of ...

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Phinehas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(mouth of brass). 1. Son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron. Ex 6:25 He is memorable for having while quite a youth, by his zeal and energy at the critical moment of the licentious idolatry of Shittim, appeased the divine wrath, and put a stop to the plague which was destroying the nation. Nu 25:7 (B.C. 1452.) For this he was rewarded by the sp...

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Phlegon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Christian whom Paul salutes...

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Philip in Naves Topical Bible

-1. The brother of Herod Antipas and the husband of Herodias Mt 14:3; Mr 6:17; Lu 3:19 -2. Tetrarch of Iturea Lu 3:1 -3. One of the seven servants (Greek: diakonos) Ac 6:5 Successfully preaches in Samaria Ac 8:4-14 Expounds the Scriptures to the Ethiopian eunuch whom he immerses Ac 8:27-38 Caught away by the Spirit to Azotus, preaches in...

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Phinehas in Easton's Bible Dictionary

mouth of brass, or from old Egypt, the negro. (1.) Son of Eleazar, the high priest (Ex. 6:25). While yet a youth he distinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the immorality into which the Moabites had tempted the people (Num. 25:1-9), and thus "stayed the plague" that had broken out among the people, and by which twenty-four tho...

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