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Onan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

o'-nan ('onan, "vigorous"; compare ONAM, a "son" of Judah (Gen 38:4,8-10; 46:12; Nu 26:19; 1 Ch 2:3); "The story of the untimely death of Er and Onan implies that two of the ancient clans of Judah early disappeared" (Curtis, Chron, 84). See Skinner, Gen, 452, where it is pointed out that in Gen 38:11 Judah plainly attributes the death of his s...

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Onesimus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the apostle Paul, who sent him back to his master with the epistle which bears his name. In it he beseeches Philemon to receive his slave as a "faithful and beloved brother." Paul offers to pay to Philemon anything his slave h...

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Onesiphorus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

who brings profit...

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Onan in Naves Topical Bible

-(Son of Judah) -Killed for his refusal to raise seed (offspring) for his deceased brother Ge 38:4,8-10; 46:12; Nu 26:19; 1Ch 2:3...

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Onesimus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("profitable".) Philemon's runaway slave, of Colosse (Colossians 4:9, "one of you"), in whose behalf Paul wrote the epistle to Philemon: Philemon 1:10-16. Slaves were numerous in Phrygia, from whence Paul dwells on the relative duties of masters and slaves (Colossians 3:22; Colossians 4:1). Paul's "son in the faith," begotten spiritually while...

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Ophir in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

o'-fer, o'-fir ('owphiyr (Gen 10:29), 'owphir (1 Ki 10:11), 'ophir): 1. Scriptural References: The 11th in order of the sons of Joktan (Gen 10:29 = 1 Ch 1:23). There is a clear reference also to a tribe Ophir (Gen 10:30). Ophir is the name of a land or city somewhere to the South or Southeast of Israel for which Solomon's ships along with Phoe...

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Ohel in Naves Topical Bible

-Son of Zerubabbel 1Ch 3:20...

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Olympas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Christian at Rome (Romans 16:15). The addition, "and all the saints which are with them," implies that each of the five, of whom Olympas is one, was a center round whom others gathered for prayer, edification, and good works....

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Og in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a cake; bread baked in ashes...

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Og in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

An Amorite king of Bashan, ruling 60 cities, including Ashteroth Karnaim and Edrei (Joshua 13:12; Joshua 12:4; Genesis 14:5). After conquering Sihon's land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, Israel marched by way of Bashan which is N. of the Jabbok. (See BASHAN; ARGOB.) Og met them and perished with all his people at Edrei, and Israel took his land...

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