American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Elath

OrELOTH, a city of Idumea, situated at the northern extremity of the eastern gulf of the Red Sea, which was anciently called the Elantic gulf, and now the gulf of Akaba. Ezion-G...

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Eldad

AndMEDAD, Two of the seventy elders appointed to aid Moses in governing the people. The spirit of prophecy coming upon them, they prophesied in the camp at a distance from Moses...

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Elders Of Israel

The heads of tribes, who, before the settlement of the Hebrew commonwealth, had a government and authority over their own families and the people. Moses and Aaron treated the el...

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Elealeh

A town of the Amorites, near Heshbon their capital, assigned to the tribe of Reuben, Nu 32:3,37, and long afterwards threatened as a city of Moab, Isa 15:4; 16:9; Jer 48:34. Its...

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Eleazar

1. The third son of Aaron, and high priest after him, Ex 6:23; Nu 20:25-28. The high priesthood continued in his family through seven generations; till the time of Eli, when we ...

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Eli

A high priest of the Jews, the first in the line of Ithamar, 1Sa 2:27. He was also a judge of Israel forty years, and was eminent for piety and usefulness, but criminally neglig...

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Eliab

The oldest brother of David, towards whom his conduct was passionate and jealous, thus confirming the judgment of Him who looks not on the appearance, but the heart, 1Sa 16:6,7;...

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Eliakim

1. A king of Judah, 2Ki 23:24. SeeJEHOIAKIM.2. An officer of king Hezekiah’s court, appointed with others to treat with Rabshakeh, general of the Assyrian forces them besieging ...

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Elias

SeeELIJAH.

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Eliashib

A high priest in the days of Nehemiah, who took part in rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, Ne 3:1. The same person probably was afterwards censured for profaning the temple, b...

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Eliezer

1. Of Damascus, the lawful heir of Abraham, should he die childless, Ge 15:2. He is generally assumed to be the "eldest servant," who was sent, sixty-five years afterwards, to o...

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Elihu

A native of Buz, Ge 22:21, which was probably a city of Edom, Jer 25:23, perhaps Bozrah, Jer 49:7,8,13. He came to condole with Job in his calamities. Young, ardent, sagacious, ...

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Elijah

The prophet, a native of Tishbeh in Gilead, 1Ki 17:1. His parentage and early history are unknown. His bold faithfulness provoked the wrath of Ahab and Jezebel, especially when ...

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Elim

A station of the Israelites, on their way to mount Sinai, Ex 15:27; 16:1; Nu 33:9, generally taken to be the present Wady Ghurundel, a broad valley running southwest of Suez. He...

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Elimelech

A Bethlehemite, husband of Naomi, Ru 1:2.

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Eliphaz

A native of Teman, and friend of Job, Job 2:11. Compare Ge 36:10. He seems to have been older than Bildad and Zophar, and was the first address Job, Job 4:1-5:27 15:1-35 22:1-30.

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Elisabeth

A devout woman, "of the daughters of Aaron," the wife of Zacharias, and mother of John the Baptist, Lu 1:5-25,36,39-80.

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Elisha

The pupil and successor of Elijah, a prophet of Israel during the reign of Jehoram, Jehu, Jehoahaz, and Joash, B. C. 903-838. He was a native of Abel-meholah, where he was at wo...

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Elishah

A son of Javan, Ge 10:4. "The isle of Elishah," which sent purple and scarlet stuffs to Tyre, Eze 27:7, are supposed to mean Greece and the adjacent islands.

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Elisheba

The wife of Aaron, Ex 6:23. Elisabeth is the same name in Greek, Lu 1:5

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Ellasar

Ge 14:1,9, perhaps the same country as Thelassar, 2Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12. The Arabic version calls it Armenia.

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Elm

Ho 4:13. The original Hebrew word here, elsewhere translated oak, probably denotes the terebinth. SeeOAK.

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Eloi

SeeEI.

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Elul

A Hebrew month, the twelfth of the civil year, and sixth of the ecclesiastical, Ne 6:15. It included the time from the new moon of September to that of October.

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Elymas

A Jewish sorcerer in the retinue of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul at Paphos in Cyprus. He was sharply reproved by Paul, and struck with instant blindness for opposing the ...

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Embalming

The process of embalming dead bodies among the Egyptians was as follows: The embalmers, who were looked upon as sacred officers, drew the brains through the nostrils with a hook...

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Emerald

A precious stone of a fine green color, found anciently in Ethiopia, but in modern times only in South America, Ex 28:18; Eze 27:16; 28:13. Josephus, however, and the Seventy ma...