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Descendants (326 Occurrences)
...Descendants (326 Occurrences). ... (WEY). Matthew 23:31 "So that you bear witness against
yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the Prophets. ...
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Rechabites (4 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The descendants of Rechab through Jonadab or
Jehonadab. They belonged to the Kenites, who accompanied ...
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Japheth (12 Occurrences)
... After the Flood the earth was re-peopled by the descendants of Noah, "the sons of
Japheth" (Genesis 10:2), "the sons of Ham" (6), and "the sons of Shem" (22). ...
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Nations (683 Occurrences)
... " 1. The Table and Its Object 2. What It Includes and Excludes 3. Order of the Three
Races 4. Extent of Each 5. Sons of Japheth 6. Sons and Descendants of Ham 7 ...
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Heredity
... and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which
living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. ...
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Forefather (33 Occurrences)
... 3:9 and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our
forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from ...
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Confusion (71 Occurrences)
... every one after his tongue, after their families" (10:5, 20, 31) as due to the orderly
migration and gradual spreading of the sons and descendants of Noah, and ...
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Amalekite (12 Occurrences)
... They were not the descendants of Amalek, the son of Eliphaz, for they existed in
the days of Abraham (Genesis 14:7). They were probably a tribe that migrated ...
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Amalek (35 Occurrences)
... 16). His mother was a Horite, a tribe whose territory the descendants of
Esau had seized. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. AMALEK. ...
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Anakim (10 Occurrences)
... The descendants of Anak (Joshua 11:21; Numbers 13:33; Deuteronomy 9:2). They dwelt
in the south of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Hebron (Genesis 23:2 ...
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Shem (17 Occurrences)
... Noah's prophetic blessing, on awakening from his wine, may be regarded as having
been fulfilled in his descendants, who occupied Syria (Aramaic), Palestine ...
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Table (125 Occurrences)
... " 1. The Table and Its Object 2. What It Includes and Excludes 3. Order of the Three
Races 4. Extent of Each 5. Sons of Japheth 6. Sons and Descendants of Ham 7 ...
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Shimei (43 Occurrences)
... (11.) Another Levite (Ezra 10:23). "The family of Shimei" (Zechariah 12:13; RV,
"the family of the Shimeites") were the descendants of Shimei (1). Int. ...
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Esau (89 Occurrences)
... Long after this, when the descendants of Jacob came out of Egypt, the Edomites
remembered the old quarrel between the brothers, and with fierce hatred they ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/esau.htm - 41k

Semitic
... (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of
the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. Int. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/semitic.htm - 28k

Descendant (32 Occurrences)
... (WEY NAS). Hebrews 2:16 For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually
reaching a helping hand, but it is to the descendants of Abraham. ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... Davididae, descendants of David, are found as late as the Roman period. ... Instance
Jacob's 70 descendants, and the 70 nations of Genesis 10. ...
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Zebulun (46 Occurrences)
... At Shechem Zebulun, the descendants of Leah's youngest son, stood along with Reuben,
whose disgrace carried with it that of his tribe, and the descendants of ...
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Ken'ite (5 Occurrences)
... Judges 1:16 And the descendants of the Ken'ite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with
the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah ...
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Noah (55 Occurrences)
... Ezek. 14:14, 20). But now the descendants of Cain and of Seth began to intermarry,
and then there sprang up a race distinguished for their ungodliness. ...
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Libertines (1 Occurrence)
... to this view. 2. Interpretation of "Libertines": (1) They are "freedmen,"
liberated slaves or their descendants. Against this it ...
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Lamech (11 Occurrences)
... Cain. We know nothing of his descendants. ... 24. Here Lamech, the son of
Methushael, is named as the last of the descendants of Cain. ...
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Gomer (7 Occurrences)
... (2.) The eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah (Genesis
10:2, 3), whose descendants formed the principal branch of the ...
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Gershom (16 Occurrences)
... His descendants were numbered among the tribes of Levi (1 Chronicles
23:14). One of them apparently was the Jonathan who officiated ...
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Ishmaelites (6 Occurrences)
... ish'-ma-el-its (yishme`e'lim): The supposed descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham
and Hagar, whom Abraham sent away from him after the birth of Isaac ...
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Issue (59 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general
sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. ...
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Imposed (16 Occurrences)
... Esther 9:27 the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants,
and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not ...
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Fulfilment (25 Occurrences)
... Acts 13:23 "It is from among David's descendants that God, in fulfilment of His
promise, has raised up a Saviour for Israel, even Jesus. (WEY). ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fulfilment.htm - 13k

Fall (522 Occurrences)
... and disobedience of our first parents brought not only on themselves this misery
and ruin, it entailed also the same sad consequences on all their descendants. ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fall.htm - 62k

Relationships (1 Occurrence)
... into lineal and collateral groups; the former are those of parents and children,
grandparents and grandchildren, and ancestors and descendants in general; the ...
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Elishah (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The oldest of the four sons of Javan (Genesis
10:4), whose descendants peopled Greece. It has been supposed ...
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Dedan (10 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Low ground. (1.) A son of Raamah (Genesis 10:7). His
descendants are mentioned in Isaiah 21:13, and Ezek. 27:15. ...
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Mesech (1 Occurrence)
... His descendants and their dwelling-place (probably somewhere in the neighborhood
of armenia (Herodotus iii.94)) seem to be regarded in Scripture as synonyms ...
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Merarites (7 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The descendants of Merari (Numbers 26:57). ... me-ra'-rits
(merari, "bitter"): The descendants of MERARI (which see), son of Levi. ...
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Meshech (11 Occurrences)
... His descendants and their dwelling-place (probably somewhere in the neighborhood
of armenia (Herodotus iii.94)) seem to be regarded in Scripture as synonyms ...
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Menuhoth (1 Occurrence)
... The people here spoken of by the King James Version as "half of the Manahethites"
are mentioned as descendants of Salma (1 Chronicles 2:54), while those ...
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Mizraim (5 Occurrences)
... (2) Ham has sometimes been connected directly with cham, the second son of Noah
whose descendants under the name Mitsraim occupied a part of Northeastern Africa ...
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Becher (4 Occurrences)
... It is probable that he married an Ephraimitish heiress, and that his descendants
were consequently reckoned among the tribe of Ephraim (Numbers 26:35; 1 ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/becher.htm - 8k

Caleb (39 Occurrences)
... (1.) One of the three sons of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He is also called Chelubai
(1 Chronicles 2:9). His descendants are enumerated (18-20, 42-49). ...
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Canaanites (63 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham. Migrating
from their original home, they seem to have reached ...
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Adaiah (8 Occurrences)
... 21). Shaharaim and his descendants are listed with the descendants of Benjamin,
though his relations to Benjamin are not stated. ...
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Arkite (7 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Genesis 10:17; 1 Chronicles 1:15), a designation of certain
descendants from the Phoenicians or Sidonians, the inhabitants of Arka ...
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Arad (5 Occurrences)
... (2) One of the descendants of Elpaal the son of Shaharaim, mentioned among the
descendants of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:15). Willis J. Beecher. ...
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Shephatiah (13 Occurrences)
... 4 Nehemiah 7:9); 80 more males of this family, with their head, returned with Ezra
(Ezra 8:8). (7) A servant of Solomon, 392 of whose descendants returned with ...
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Seed (337 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) The principle of production. 7. (n.) Progeny; offspring; children;
descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David. ...
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Statute (63 Occurrences)
... near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity,
and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/statute.htm - 27k

Seir (38 Occurrences)
... 16). It was allotted to the descendants of Esau (Deuteronomy 2:4, 22; Joshua
24:4; 2 Chronicles 20:10; Isaiah 21:11; Ezek. 25:8). ...
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Perpetual (57 Occurrences)
... near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity,
and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. ...
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Mesha (4 Occurrences)
... Middle district, Vulgate, Messa. (1.) A plain in that part of the boundaries of
Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Genesis 10:30). ...
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Including (90 Occurrences)
... Mark 3:28 Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be
forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; (WEB). ...
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Posterity (38 Occurrences)
... offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended
from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ...
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Tongues (67 Occurrences)
... The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God "confounded
their language" (Genesis 11:1-8), and they were scattered over the whole ...
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Hamul (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Spared, one of the sons of Pharez, son of Judah (1 Chronicles
2:5). His descendants are called Hamulites (Numbers 26:21). Int. ...
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Hezronites (2 Occurrences)
... hez'-ron-its (ha-chetsrowni and ha-chetsroni; Septuagint ho Asronei): The name of
the descendants of Hezron the son of Reuben (Numbers 26:6), and of the ...
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Hakkoz (6 Occurrences)
... 10). According to Ezra 2:61 Nehemiah 3:4, 21; Nehemiah 7:63, his descendants
returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity. But the ...
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Jew (34 Occurrences)
... inhabitant of Judah (2 Kings 16:6 applies to the two tribes of the Southern Kingdom),
but later the meaning was extended to embrace all descendants of Abraham. ...
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Awe (32 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV WBS). Psalms 22:23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants
of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/awe.htm - 17k

Ephraim (168 Occurrences)
... Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob's blessing (Genesis
41:52; 48:1). The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel ...
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Circumcision (98 Occurrences)
... agreement. Yahweh undertook to be the God of Abraham and of his descendants. ...
kings. He and his descendants were to inherit Canaan. ...
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Imputation
... Thus in doctrinal language (1) the sin of Adam is imputed to all his descendants,
ie, it is reckoned as theirs, and they are dealt with therefore as guilty; (2 ...
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Cain (18 Occurrences)
... it after his son's name, Enoch. His descendants are enumerated to the sixth
generation. They gradually degenerated in their moral ...
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Semites
... 23; 10:1, 21; 11:10 1 Chronicles 1). Formerly the designation was limited to those
who are mentioned in Genesis 10; Genesis 11 as Shem's descendants, most of ...
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Dispersion (4 Occurrences)
... (1.) Many were dispersed over Assyria, Media, Babylonia, and Persia, descendants
of those who had been transported thither by the Exile. ...
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Amorites (82 Occurrences)
... Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of
Canaan (Genesis 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian ...
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Descended (64 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 7:5 And those of the descendants of Levi who receive the priesthood are
authorized by the Law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their ...
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Glorify (49 Occurrences)
... Psalms 22:23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify
him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! ...
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Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)
... Its inhabitants were descendants of Ham (Genesis 10:6; Jeremiah 13:23; Isaiah
18:2, "scattered and peeled, " AV; but in RV, "tall and smooth"). ...
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Ishmael (44 Occurrences)
... 5. Descendants: The character of Ishmael and his descendants (Arabian nomads or
Bedouins) is very accurately and vividly depicted by the angel of Yahweh: "He ...
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Rome (12 Occurrences)
... The former were the descendants of the original clans and constituted
the populus, or body-politic, in a more particular sense. ...
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Generation (150 Occurrences)
... Adam. 37:2, "The generations of Jacob" = the history of Jacob and his
descendants. 7:1, "In this generation" = in this age. Psalm ...
biblethesaurus.org/g/generation.htm - 44k

Arabia (9 Occurrences)
... includes the peninsula of Sinai and the Desert of Petra, originally inhabited by
the Horites (Genesis 14:6, etc.), but in later times by the descendants of Esau ...
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Jehu (63 Occurrences)
... with which he executed his mission, withdraw our sympathy from him, as it did that
of a later prophet (Hosea 1:4). 6. Slaughter of Ahab's Descendants: The next ...
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Ham (16 Occurrences)
... (see ACCAD.). The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of
Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world. Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/ham.htm - 17k

Sons (2429 Occurrences)
... by the use of the modifying term "male." Closely connected with this meaning of
direct male issue or of children is its use to denote descendants, posterity in ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/sons.htm - 65k

Message (222 Occurrences)
... Acts 10:36 The Message which He sent to the descendants of Israel, when He announced
the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--that ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/message.htm - 34k

Hebrew (37 Occurrences)
... Testament. It is one of the class of languages called Semitic, because they
were chiefly spoken among the descendants of Shem. When ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hebrew.htm - 77k

Zadok (50 Occurrences)
... 1) As in the earlier sources so in these, Zodak's father was Ahitub and his son
Ahimaaz-the information being added that they were all descendants from Aaron ...
biblethesaurus.org/z/zadok.htm - 40k

Forever (426 Occurrences)
... near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity,
and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/forever.htm - 36k

Sin (782 Occurrences)
... It is a total depravity, and it is also universally inherited by all the natural
descendants of Adam (Romans 3:10-23; 5:12-21; 8:7). Pelagians deny original sin ...
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