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Naphish in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

na'-fish (naphish; Naphes, D, Napheth): A son of Ishmael (Gen 25:15; 1 Ch 1:31). Naphish, along with other Hagrite clans, was overwhelmingly defeated by the Israelite tribes on the East of the Jordan (1 Ch 5:19, the King James Version "Nephish"). Their descendants are mentioned among the Nethinim by the name "Nephisim," the King James Version ...

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Naphtali in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(wrestling), the fifth son of Jacob; the second child name to him by Bilhah, Rachel's slave. His birth and the bestowal of his name are recorded in Ge 30:8 When the census was taken at Mount Sinai the tribe of Naphtali numbered no less than 53,400 fighting men, Nu 1:43; 2:50 but when the borders of the promised land were reached, its numbers w...

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Narcissus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Romans 16:11. A house holder at Rome, of whose family some were known to Paul as being Christians....

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Nathanael in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

na-than'-a-el (Nathanael): (1) One of the "captains over thousands" who furnished the Levites with much cattle for Josiah's Passover (1 Esdras 1:9) = "Nethanel" of 2 Ch 35:9. (2) (Nathanaelos, Codices Vaticanus and Alexandrinus omit): One of the priests who had married a "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:22) = "Nethanel" of Ezr 10:22. (3) An ancestor ...

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Naphish in Naves Topical Bible

-Also called NEPHISH -A son of Ishmael Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:31...

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Naphtali in Easton's Bible Dictionary

my wrestling, the fifth son of Jacob. His mother was Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid (Gen. 30:8). When Jacob went down into Egypt, Naphtali had four sons (Gen. 46:24). Little is known of him as an individual....

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Narcissus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

astonishment; stupidity...

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Nathanael in Naves Topical Bible

-Becomes a disciple of Jesus Joh 1:45-49; 21:2...

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Naphish in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(refreshment), the last but one of the sons of Ishmael. Ge 25:15; 1Ch 1:31...

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Naphtali in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("my wrestling".) Jacob's fifth son, second by Bilhah, Rachel's maid. Genesis 30:8, Rachel said, "with wrestlings of God (i.e. earnest prayer, as her husband does in Genesis 32:24-28; he had reproved her impatience, telling her God, not he, is the giver of children: Genesis 30:1-2; so she wrestled with God) have I wrestled with my sister, and ...

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