International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Baani

ba'-a-ni (A, Baani; B, Baanei; the King James Version Maani =Bani [Ezr 10:34]): The descendants of Baani put away their "strange wives" (1 Esdras 9:34).

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Baanias

ba-a-ni'as. SeeBANNEAS(Apocrypha).

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Baara

ba'-a-ra ba`ara', ("the burning one"): A wife of the Benjamite Shaharaim (1Ch 8:8).

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Baaseiah

ba-a-si'a, ba-a-se'-ya ba`aseyah, ("the Lord is bold"): Perhaps for ma`aseyah, after the Greek Maasai, B, Maasai, "the work of the Lord." Compare Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper ...

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Baasha

ba'-a-sha ba`sha', ("boldness"): King of Israel. Baasha, son of Ahijah, and of common birth (1Ki 16:2), usurped the throne of Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, killed Nadab and exterm...

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Babbler

bab'-ler ba`al ha-lashon; the King James Version ofEc 10:11literally, "master of the tongue"; the Revised Version (British and American)CHARMER; lapistes, the King James Version...

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Babbling

bab'-ling siach; the Revised Version (British and American)COMPLAINING): The consequence of tarrying long at the wine (Pr 23:29the King James Version); lalia, the Revised Versio...

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Babe

bab:(1) na`ar; pais of a male infant 3 months old (Ex 2:6) translated elsewhere "boy" or "lad."(2) `olel, ta`alulim, in the general sense of "child" (Ps 8:2;17:14;Isa 3:4).(3) b...

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Babel, Babylon (1)

ba'-bel, bab'-i-lon (Topographical): Babylon was the Greek name of the city written in the cuneiform script of the Babylonians, bab-ili, which means in Semitic, "the gate of god...

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Babel, Babylon (2)

@babhel; Assyro-Bab Bab-ili, (Bab-ilani, "gate of god," or "of the gods," rendered in Sumerian as Ka-dingira, "gate of god," regarded as a folk-etymology):SeeBABEL, TOWER OF, se...

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Babel, Tower Of

This expression does not occur in the Old Testament, but is used popularly for the tower mighdol built by the inhabitants of the world who, traveling in the East, built a city o...

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Babi

ba'-bi (Codex Alexandrinus, Babi; Codex Vaticanus, Baier = Bebai (Ezr 8:11)). The descendants of Babi returned with Ezra to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 8:37).

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Babylon In The New Testament

Babylon Babulon, is used in New Testament in at least two different senses:1. Mesopotamian Babylon:InMt 1:11,12,17;Ac 7:43the old Mesop city is plainly meant. These all refer to...

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Babylon In The Old Testament

SeeBABEL,BABYLON.

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Babylonia

bab-i-lo'-ni-a1. Mounds2. Explorations3. Names4. Semites5. Sumerians6. Home of the Semites7. Immigration8. Language9. Script10. Architecture11. Art12. Literature13. Libraries14....

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Babylonia And Assyria, Religion Of

I. DEFINITION1. First Period2. Second Period3. Third PeriodII. THE SOURCESIII. THE HISTORYIV. THE PANTHEON1. Enlil, Ellil2. Anu3. Ea4. Sin5. Shamash6. Ishtar7. Marduk (Old Testa...

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Babylonian Captivity

SeeCAPTIVITY.

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Babylonians

bab-i-lo'-ni-anz: The inhabitants ofBABYLONIA(which see). They were among the colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrians (Ezr 4:9). "The likeness of the Babylonians in Chalde...

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Babylonish Garment

bab-i-lo'-nish gar'ment: In the King James Version,Jos 7:21, forBABYLONISH MANTLE, which see.

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Babylonish Mantle

man'-tl (the King James Version Babylonish Garment): One of the articles taken by Achan from the spoil of Jericho (Jos 7:21). In the Hebrew "a mantle of Shinar." Entirely gratui...

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Baca

ba'-ka bakha': In the King James Version inPs 84:6, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "the valley of Weeping," with a marginal variant which is best put in th...

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Bacchides

bak-i-dez: Bakchides: Bacchides, ruler over Mesopotamia and a faithful friend of both Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius Soter, established at the request of the latter the ruler...

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Bacchurus

ba-ka'-rus: Bakchouros: One of the "holy singers" who put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:24). Omitted inEzr 10.

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Bacchus

bak'-us Dionusos; later Bakchos, the Feast of Bacchus; Dionusia: The god of wine. His worship had extended over the whole Greek and Roman world centuries before the Christian er...

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Bacenor

ba-se'-nor Bakenor: An officer in the army of Judas Maccabee engaged in war against Gorgias, governor of Idumaea (2 Macc 12:35). Compare Ant, XlI, viii, 6.

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Bachrite

bak'-rit. SeeBECHER.

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Back, Back Parts

(1) 'achar, ("back side" as in the King James Version): "He led the flock to the back of the wilderness" (Ex 3:1), i.e. "to the pasture-lands on the other side of the desert fro...