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Shamer

(keeper).

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Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(keeper).

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

keeper; thorn; dregs

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FOUNT'AIN. Springs of water are often mentioned in the Bible. Palestine, in contrast with Egypt, was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, Deut 8:7. Hundreds of fountains may be counted…

MAD is the translation of various Hebrew and Greek words, sometimes denoting actual insanity, 1 Sam 21:13-15; 1 Cor 14:23, but generally signifying an uncontrollable excitement only, caused either by…

(a jackal), son of Zophah, an Asherite. (1 Chronicles 7:36) (B.C. after 1445.)

JA'PHO. Josh 19:46. See Joppa.

(serpent), a Benjamite, and one of the fourteen descendants of Rachael who belonged to the original colony of the sons of Jacob in Egypt. (Genesis 46:21) (B.C. 1706.) In (Numbers 26:39) the name is g…

(portion), the town named as the starting-point for the boundary of the tribe of Asher, (Joshua 19:25) and allotted with its “suburbs” to the Gershonite Levites. ch. (Joshua 21:31) Perhaps Yerka, sev…

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"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." — Psalm 119:105