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Aalar
a'-a-lar. SeeALTAR.
Aaron
ar'-un, sometimes pronounced ar'on ('aharon--Septuagint Aaron, meaning uncertain: Gesenius suggests "mountaineer"; Furst, "enlightened"; others give "rich," "fluent." Cheyne men...
Aaron's Rod
(Nu 17andHe 9:4): Immediately after the incidents connected with the rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram against the leadership of Moses and the priestly primacy of Aaron (Nu ...
Aaronites
ar'-on-its (le-'aharon, literally, "belonging to Aaron"): A word used in the King James Version, but not in the revised versions, to translate the proper name Aaron in two insta...
Ab (1)
('abh, the Hebrew and Aramaic word for "father"): It is a very common word in the Old Testament; this article notes only certain uses of it. It is used both in the singular and ...
Ab (2)
('abh): The name of the fifth month in the Hebrew calendar, the month beginning in our July. The name does not appear in the Bible, but Josephus gives it to the month in which A...
Abacuc
ab'-a-kuk (Latin Abacuc): The form given the name of the prophet Habakkuk in 2 Esdras 1:40.
Abaddon
a-bad'-on ('abhaddon, "ruin," "perdition," "destruction"): Though "destruction" is commonly used in translating 'abhaddon, the stem idea is intransitive rather than passive--the...
Abadias
ab-a-di'-as (Greek Abadias): Mentioned in 1 Esdras 8:35 as the son of Jezelus, of the sons of Joab, returned with Ezra from the captivity; and inEzr 8:9called "Obadiah the son o...
Abagarus
a-bag'-a-rus. SeeABGARUS.
Abagtha
a-bag'-tha ('abhaghetha', perhaps meaning "fortunate one"): One of the seven eunuchs, or "chamberlains," of Xerxes mentioned inEs 1:10. The name is Persian, and is one of the ma...
Abanah
ab'-a-na, a-ba'-na ('abhanah (Kethibh, Septuagint, Vulgate)), orAMANAa-ma'-na ('amanah (Qere, Peshitta, Targum); the King James Version Abana (American Standard Revised Version,...
Abarim
ab'-a-rim, a-ba'-rim (`abharim): The stem idea is that of going across a space or a dividing line, or for example a river. It is the same stem that appears in the familiar phras...
Abase
a-bas': The English rendition of shaphel (Job 40:11;Eze 21:26), and of its derivative shephal (Da 4:37) = "bring down," "debase," "humble"; of `anah (Isa 31:4) = "abase self," "...
Abate
a-bat': Used six times in Old Testament for five different Hebrew words, signifying "to diminish," "reduce," "assuage"; of the Flood (Ge 8:8); of strength (De 34:7); of pecuniar...
Abba
ab'-a (abba, 'abba', Hebraic-Chaldaic, "Father"): In Jewish and old-Christian prayers, a name by which God was addressed, then in oriental churches a title of bishops and patria...
Abda
ab'-da (`abhda', perhaps, by abbreviation, "servant of Yahweh"):(1) The father of Adoniram, King Solomon's superintendent of forced labor (1Ki 4:6).(2) A Levite mentioned in the...
Abdeel
ab'-de-el (`abhdeel, "servant of God"): The father of Shelemiah, one of the officers whom King Jehoiakim commanded to arrest Baruch, the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet (Jer 36...
Abdi
ab'-di (`abhdi, probably by abbreviation "servant of Yahweh"):(1) A Levite, father of Kishi and grandfather of King David's singer Ethan (1Ch 6:44; compare1Ch 15:17). This makes...
Abdias
ab-di'-as (2 Esdras 1:39 = Obadiah): One of the Minor Prophets. Mentioned with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Minor Prophets who shall be given as leaders to the "nation from the...
Abdiel
ab'-di-el (`abhdi'el, "servant of God"): A Gadite who lived in Gilead or in Bashan, and whose name was reckoned in genealogies of the time of Jotham, king of Judah, or of Jerobo...
Abdon (1)
ab'-don (`abhdon, perhaps "service"; Abdon):(1) A judge of Israel for eight years (Jud 12:13-15). The account says that he was the son of Hillel the Pirathonite, and that he was...
Abdon (2)
ab'-don (`abhdon, perhaps "service"): One of the four Levitical cities in the tribe of Asher (Jos 21:30;1Ch 6:74). Probably the same with Ebron (in the King James Version "Hebro...
Abed-Nego
a-bed'-ne-go (Hebrew and Aramaic `abhedh neghgo;Da 3:29, `abhedh negho'): According to many, the nego is an intentional corruption of Nebo, the name of a Babylonian god, arising...
Abel (1)
a'-bel (hebhel; Abel; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Habel; etymology uncertain. Some translation "a breath," "vapor," "transitoriness," which are suggestive of h...
Abel (2)
a'-bel ('abhel, "meadow"): A word used in several compound names of places. It appears by itself as the name of a city concerned in the rebellion of Sheba (2Sa 20:14; compare1Sa...