Bible Dictionary

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AJIEZER

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AJIEZER “helper brother.” (a) Son of Amisadai, he was one of the princes of the tribe of Dan (Num. 1:12; 2:25; 7:66, 71; 10:25). (b) Benjamite, leader of the armed men who joined with David

ALABASTER

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ALABASTER A highly-priced calcareous spar, calcium hydrosulfate, could be creamy white or even transparent. The ancients used it to make vessels for expensive ointments, and other uses; In the Philadelphia University Museum there is an

ALAMOT

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ALAMOT Translated in the LXX “epi alaimot”, and “in nablis arcana cantabant” in the Vulgate (1 Chr. 15:20); “uper ton rufion”, “pro arcanis” (Ps. 46, title). The meaning of this word is unknown, and this

ALEXANDER

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ALEXANDER “man’s helper.” (a) Alexander the Great, king of Greece; is not mentioned by name in the Scriptures, although it is in the apocryphal First Book of Maccabees (1 Maccabees 1:1-9; 6:2). However, he is

ALEXANDRIA

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ALEXANDRIA City built by Alexander the Great to be the capital of his western empire. Founded in 332 BC, it was finished by the Ptolemies, who increased its wealth and splendor. It became very populous

ALFEO

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ALFEO (a) Father of Levi the tax collector (Mt. 2:14), who is generally identified with the apostle and evangelist Matthew. We know nothing more about him from the Bible. (b) Another character who bears this

ALGAE

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ALGAE In the anguish of his permanence at the bottom of the sea, the prophet Jonah prays to God saying: “The waters surrounded me up to my neck, the deep surrounded me, and a seaweed

ALJABA

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ALJABA Receptacle for arrows or arrows (Gen. 27:3; Lam. 3:13). It is used symbolically as a safe, strong, protected place (Is. 49:2). It is used in other passages in a poetic sense (Ps. 127:5), of

ALLEGORICAL EXEGESIS

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ALLEGORICAL EXEGESIS It starts from the conviction that a text actually means something different, deeper, than what it expresses at first sight, even when there are no signs of figurative language. Paul uses allegorical exegesis,

ALLIANCE

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ALLIANCE The word “berit” is translated this way in the OT on various occasions, when it is an agreement between a man and his fellow man, or between nation and nation. Most of the time