AMMINADIB
Probably another form of Amminadab. He was noted for the swiftness of his chariot. (Solomon 6:12) It is uncertain whether we ought to read here AMMINADIB, with the Authorized Ve...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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AMMIZABAD
(people of the Giver, i.e. God), the son of Benaiah, who commanded the third division of David’s army. (1 Chronicles 27:6) (B.C. 1050.)
AMMON
(sons of renown, mountaineers), Am’monites, Children of Ammon, A people descended from Ben-ammi, the son of Lot by his younger daughter. (Genesis 19:38) comp Psal 83:7,8 The Amm...
AMMONITESS
a woman of Ammonite race. (1 Kings 14:21,31; 2 Chronicles 12:13)
AMMONNO
See NO-AMON.
AMNINADAB
(Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:33) [AMMINADAB, 1]
AMNON
(faithful).Eldest son of David. (B.C. 1052.) He dishonored his half-sister Tamar, and was in consequence murdered by her brother. (2 Samuel 13:1-29)Son of Shimon. (1 Chronicles ...
AMOK
a priest who returned with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:7,20) (B.C. 536.)
AMON
(builder).One of Ahab’s governors. (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chronicles 18:25)King of Judah, son and successor of Manasseh, reigned two years, from B.C. 642 to 640. Amon devoted himself...
AMON, OR AMEN
(the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. (Nahum 3:8) Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order and chief of the triad of Thebes. He ...
AMORITE, THE AMORITES
(dwellers on the summits, mountaineers), one of the chief nations who possessed the land of Canaan before its conquest by the Israelites. As dwelling on the elevated portions of...
AMOS
(burden), native of Tekoa in Judah, about six miles south of Bethlehem, originally a shepherd and dresser of sycamore trees, who was called by God s Spirit to be a prophet, alth...
AMOS, BOOK OF
The book of the prophecies of Amos seems to be divided into four principal portions closely connected together. (1) From 1:1 to 2:3 he denounces the sins of the nations borderin...
AMOZ
(strong), father of the prophet Isaiah, and, according to rabbinical tradition, brother of Amaziah king of Judah. (2 Kings 19:2,20; 20:1; Isaiah 1:1) (B.C. before 756.)
AMPHIPOLIS
(a city surrounded by the sea), a city of Macedonia, through which Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to Thessalonica (Acts 17:1) It was distant 33 Roman miles fro...
AMPLIAS
(large), a Christian at Rome. (Romans 16:8) (A.D. 55.)
AMPLIATUS
(Revised Version,) (Romans 16:8) (the full name of which AMPLIAS, above, is the contraction. The name in this form is "common in the sepulchral inscriptions of persons connected...
AMRAM
(an exalted people).A Levite of the family of the Kohathites, and father of Moses. (Exodus 6:18,20) (B.C. 1571.)A son of Dishon and descendant of Seir, (1 Chronicles 1:41) prope...
AMRAMITES
A branch of the great Kohathite family of the tribe of Levi, (Numbers 3:27; 1 Chronicles 26:23) descended from Amram, the father of Moses.
AMRAPHEL
(keeper of the gods) perhaps a Hamite king of Shinar or Babylonia, who joined the victorious incursion of the Elamite Chedorlaomer against the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and th...
AMULETS
were ornaments, gems, scrolls. etc.. worn as preservatives against the power of enchantments, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. The "earrings" in (Genesis...
AMZI
(strong).A Levite of the family of Merari. (1 Chronicles 6:46)A priest. (Nehemiah 11:12)
ANAB
(grape-town), a town in the mountains of Judah, (Joshua 15:50) named with Debir and Hebron as once belonging to the Anakim. (Joshua 11:21)
ANAH
(one who answers), the son of Zibeon and father of Aholibamah, one of Esau’s wives. (Genesis 36:2,14,25) He is supposed to have discovered the "hot springs" (not "mules," as in ...
ANAHARATH
(gorge or pass), a place within the border of Issachar, named with Shihon and Rabbith. (Joshua 19:19)
ANAIAH
(whom Jehovah answers).Probably a priest. (Nehemiah 8:4)One of the "heads of the people" who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:22)
ANAKIM
(long-necked), a race of giants, descendants of Arba, (Joshua 15:13; 21:11) dwelling in the southern part of Canaan, and particularly at Hebron, which from their progenitor rece...