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• Nahor

  [People]

  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).

• Ahimelech

  [People]

  Ahimelech was the priest of Nob during the reign of King Saul. He was put to death at Saul's command for giving the fleeing David the holy bread and the sword of Goliath.

• Enosh

  [People]

  Enosh is an antediluvian figure in Genesis, the son of Seth and grandson of Adam. The record of his birth is followed by the words "then began men to call upon the name of the LORD."

• Kenaz

  [People]

  Kenaz is the name of several individuals in the Old Testament. The best known are a grandson of Esau who became a chief of Edom and the father of Othniel, the first judge. The term "Kenezite," applied to Caleb's family, also derives from this name.

• Ophir

  [Bible]

  Ophir is an Old Testament place name known as a source of fine gold. It appears as the destination of maritime trade in the time of Solomon, though its exact location is unknown.

• Eber

  [People]

  Eber is a descendant of Noah named in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. He is the son of Salah and the father of Peleg and Joktan, and his name is commonly associated with the origin of the word "Hebrew."

• Tribe of Dan

  [Bible]

  The tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Dan, the son of Jacob. Unable to hold the territory it was first allotted, it migrated north and settled there.

• Kish

  [People]

  Kish was the father of Saul, the first king of Israel, and the son of Abiel of the tribe of Benjamin. Several other individuals of the same name also appear in the Bible.

• Jesus Prayer

  [Christian Life]

  The Jesus Prayer is the short prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner," recited repeatedly. It originated in the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  [People]

  Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis northeast of the Sea of Galilee. He is named in Luke 3:1 and is known as the founder of Caesarea Philippi.

• Philip the Tetrarch

  [People]

  Philip the Tetrarch was a son of Herod the Great who ruled as tetrarch over Ituraea and Trachonitis, the region northeast of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, his name appears in Luke 3:1.

• Hanamel

  [People]

  Hanamel was a cousin of the prophet Jeremiah who appears in Jeremiah 32. While Jerusalem was under Babylonian siege, he sold his field in Anathoth to Jeremiah.

• Adriel

  [People]

  Adriel was an Israelite of the time of King Saul, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He married Merab, Saul's elder daughter, who had been promised to David.

• Abdon

  [People]

  Abdon was a judge of Israel mentioned in Judges 12. The son of Hillel the Pirathonite from the land of Ephraim, he judged Israel for eight years. Scripture records that his forty sons and thirty grandsons rode on seventy donkey colts.

• Izhar

  [People]

  Izhar was a grandson of Levi and a son of Kohath. He was the uncle of Moses and Aaron and appears in biblical genealogies as the father of Korah, who rose up against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

• Serah (Daughter of Asher)

  [People]

  Serah was the daughter of Asher, son of Jacob. She is named only in the genealogies of Genesis 46, Numbers 26, and 1 Chronicles 7, and later Jewish tradition added many stories about her.

• Imnah

  [People]

  Imnah is a biblical figure, a son of Asher and grandson of Jacob, whose name appears in the genealogies of Genesis, Numbers, and 1 Chronicles. In Numbers he is recorded as the ancestor of "the family of the Jimnites" within the tribe of Asher.

• Gospel of John

  [Bible]

  The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament and the last of the four Gospels. It presents Jesus as the Son of God and the Word made flesh, and it consists of twenty-one chapters.

• Mark 10:45

  [Bible Verses]

  Mark 10:45 is a saying of Jesus: "For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." The verse unites the theme of servant leadership with the meaning of substitutionary redemption and is a central text for the doctrine of the atonement.

• Isaac

  [People]

  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.