Dictionary entry

Ben-Hur

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ben-hur' (ben-chur, "son of Hur"; the King James Version son of Hur; from a Hebrew root meaning "to be white." Compare HPN, 69, note 3): One of the twelve commissariat officers in the service of Solomon (1Ki 4:8).

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