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The name Abda means servant, or perhaps is an abbreviated form of servant of YHWH. There are two people by this name in the Hebrew Bible.
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Achsah, was Caleb ben Yefune's only daughter. Her name comes from the word for "anklet", עכס (ekes).
Achshaph was a royal city of the Canaanites, in the north of Canaan. The name means "sorcery".
Adriel was a person mentioned in the Bible. Adriel was a nobleman in the ancient kingdom of Israel.
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- A town in the south of Judea. Judas Iscariot was probably a native, hence his name "Iscariot". It has been identified with the ruins of El Kureitein, about 10 miles south of Hebron.
- A city of Moab, called Kirioth.
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References
- ↑ David Noel Freedman; Allen C. Myers (31 December 2000). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Amsterdam University Press. p. 1405. ISBN 978-90-5356-503-2.
- ↑ Serge Frolov (22 May 2013). Judges. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-2967-2.
- ↑ Ellicott, Charles John, ed. (1883). An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. p. 192.
- 1 2 Thomas Kelly Cheyne; John Sutherland Black (1903). Encyclopædia biblica: a critical dictionary of the literary, political and religious history, the archæology, geography, and natural history of the Bible. Volume 4, Q-Z. A. and C. Black. p. 5369.
- ↑ For the Septuagint's reading (Besemiin or Besenanim), see the New English Translation of the Septuagint at Joshua (Iesous) 19:33 .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Zaanaim". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.