Bible Names N-Z

Omri in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("servant of Jehovah".) 1. Elah's captain. Besieged Gibbethon in Dan, the siege had some time before been begun by Nadab (1 Kings 15:27). On Elan's murder at Tirzah by Zimri the army made Omri king, 935 B.C. He took Tirzah, and Zimri after a seven days' reign perished in the flames. Half the people desired Tibni (1 Kings 16:15-27), who accor...

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Onesimus in Naves Topical Bible

-A fugitive slave and subsequent convert of Paul Col 4:9; Phm 1:10...

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Onesiphorus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and had oft refreshed him. Paul expresses a warm interest in him and his household (2 Tim. 1:16-18; 4:19)....

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Onesimus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(profitable, useful), the name of the servant or slave in whose behalf Paul wrote the Epistle to Philemon. He was a native, or certainly an inhabitant, of Colosse. Col 4:9 (A.D. 58.) He fled from his master end escaped to Rome, where he was led to embrace the gospel through Paul's instrumentality. After his conversion the most happy and friend...

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Onesiphorus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

2 Timothy 1:16-18; 2 Timothy 4:19; "the Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus (as Onesiphorus showed mercy), for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain (compare Matthew 25:36; Matthew 25:45), but when he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me. The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy (as he found m...

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Ohad in Hitchcock's Bible Names

praising; confessing...

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Olympas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(heavenly), a Christian at Rome. Ro 16:15 (A.D. 65.)...

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Omar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Eliphaz, Esau's firstborn (Genesis 36:11-15). Related to the Amir Arabs E. of Jordan, also to amar "to speak," and emir "a chief."...

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Ohel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

o'-hel ('ohel, "tent"): A son of Zerubbabel (1 Ch 3:20)....

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