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Keziz - abrupt; cut off, a city of the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:21).

Benjamin Biblical figure and son of Jacob

Benjamin was the last-born of Jacob's thirteen children, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. In the Hebrew Bible unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

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Matthew George Easton was a Scottish minister and writer. His most known work is the Easton's Bible Dictionary, published three years after his death.

<i>Eastons Bible Dictionary</i> Illustrated Bible dictionary compiled by Matthew George Easton

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Ahijah" . Easton's Bible Dictionary. T. Nelson and Sons.

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Uzzi is a biblical name meaning "my strength".

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