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• PurBible

  Pur is a word meaning "lot." In the Book of Esther it refers to the lot that Haman cast to fix the day for destroying the Jews, and the Jewish festival of Purim takes its name from it.

• Job 29Bible

  Job 29 is the chapter in which Job looks back with longing on his former days, when he lived under God's protection, was held in honor, and helped the poor. It opens Job's final extended defense (chapters 29–31).

• ZereshPeople

  Zeresh is the wife of Haman in the Old Testament Book of Esther. She urged her husband to set up a gallows on which to hang Mordecai, but later told him that he would not prevail against Mordecai.

• EvePeople

  Eve is the first woman recorded in the Book of Genesis and the wife of Adam. She is known for the account of her eating the forbidden fruit after being tempted by the serpent and as the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth.

• Letter of JeremiahBible

  The Letter of Jeremiah is a short work presented as a letter from Jeremiah to the Judean captives being carried off to Babylon, warning them against idolatry. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Bible, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• AbinoamPeople

  Abinoam is a figure in the Book of Judges, the father of Barak, the Israelite military leader who, together with Deborah, defeated the Canaanite army.

• Song of Songs 7Bible

  Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.

• NeriahPeople

  Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.

• LoisPeople

  Lois is a woman mentioned in the New Testament book of 2 Timothy as the maternal grandmother of Timothy and the mother of Eunice. Paul wrote that the "unfeigned faith" that dwelt in her had been passed on to her daughter and grandson.

• NahorPeople

  Nahor is the name of two members of Abraham's family in the Book of Genesis: Abraham's grandfather (the father of Terah) and Abraham's brother (the son of Terah).

• IbzanPeople

  Ibzan was a judge of Israel in the book of Judges who succeeded Jephthah, judged Israel for seven years, and was buried in Bethlehem. He is recorded as having had thirty sons and thirty daughters.

• IsaacPeople

  Isaac is a patriarch in the Book of Genesis, the son of promise born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age. He is best known for nearly being offered as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, and he was the father of Jacob and Esau.

• ElimelechPeople

  Elimelech is a man of Bethlehem in Judah who appears in the Book of Ruth. The husband of Naomi, he moved with his family to Moab to escape a famine and died there.

• MithredathPeople

  Mithredath is a Persian personal name found in the Book of Ezra. Two individuals bear this name: the treasurer of King Cyrus, who handed over the temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, and a man who wrote to King Artaxerxes.

• JephthahPeople

  Jephthah was a judge from Gilead in the Book of Judges. He is widely known for defeating the Ammonites and for losing his only daughter because of a rash vow.

• DerbeBible

  Derbe was a city in the region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor where the apostle Paul preached the gospel on his first and second missionary journeys. It is mentioned only in the book of Acts.

• Ai (Place)Bible

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. In the book of Joshua, it is the place where Israel was defeated in its first attack after the fall of Jericho and which it captured in a second attack.

• RaamahPeople

  Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.

• Pashur (son of Malchiah)People

  Pashur son of Malchiah was a high official of Judah during the reign of King Zedekiah. At the king's request he asked Jeremiah to pray for the city, and he later took part in having Jeremiah confined in a cistern.

• Daniel 7:1-8Bible Verses

  In this passage Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea and a little horn springing up among ten horns. Because interpreters disagree about which kingdoms the four beasts represent and who the little horn is, the passage is frequently cited in discussions of eschatology.