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Nergal-sharezer in Hitchcock's Bible Names

treasurer of Nergal...

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Nemuel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

nem'-u-el, ne-mu'-el (nemu'el):ould not show their families nor their stock" (1 Esdras 5:37) = "Nekoda" of Ezr 2:60; Neh 7:62. (1) A Reubenite, brother of Dathan and Abiram (Nu 26:9). (2) A son of Simeon (Nu 26:12; 1 Ch 4:24). The name occurs also in the form "Jemuel" (Gen 46:10; Ex 6:15). According to Gray (Studies in Hebrew Proper Names), eit...

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Ner in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a light or lamp), son of Jehiel, according to 1Ch 8:33 father of Abner, and grandfather of King Saul. (B.C. 1140.) Abner was, therefore, uncle to Saul, as is expressly stated in 1Sa 14:50...

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Nereus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Christian at Rome whom Paul salutes (Romans 16:15). Of Philologus' and Julia's household, Origen guesses. Tradition makes him to have been beheaded at Terracina under Nero, and his ashes deposited in the church of Nereo and Archilleo at Rome....

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Nemuel in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A Reubenite Nu 26:9 -2. A son of Simeon Nu 26:12; 1Ch 4:24...

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Ner in Easton's Bible Dictionary

light, the father of Kish (1 Chr. 8:33). 1 Sam. 14:51 should be read, "Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were the sons of Abiel." And hence this Kish and Ner were brothers, and Saul and Abner were first cousins (comp. 1 Chr. 9:36)....

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Nereus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

same as Ner...

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Nemuel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(day of God). 1. A Reubenite, son of Eliab and eldest brother of Dathan and Abiram. Nu 26:9 2. The eldest son of Simeon, Nu 26:12; 1Ch 4:24 from whom were descended the family of the Nemuelites. In Ge 46:10 he is called JERIUEL....

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Ner in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Jehiel, father of Kish, grandfather of Saul; also father of Ner, Saul's uncle (1 Chronicles 8:33; 1 Samuel 14:50). Kish in 1 Chronicles 9:35-36, is an elder Kish, brother of Ner; or else is enumerated with Jehiel's "sons" (though really his grandson), because he was head of a house of fathers. Gibeon was the family abode. Jehiel's wife ...

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Nergal-sharezer in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

nur-gal-sha-re'-zar (nereghal-shar'etser, Hebrew form of Assyrian Nergal-sar-usur, "O Nergal, defend the prince"): A Babylonian officer, the "Rab-mag," associated with Nebushazban in the care of Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem (Jer 39:3,13). According to Hommel (article "Babylon," Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible (five volumes)) and Sayc...

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