The name Abner in the Bible There is only one man named Abner in the Bible. He is a son of Ner — and the name Ner is the same as thener-part of the name Abner — and Ner is the brother ofSaul'sfatherKish(1 Samuel 14:51). ...
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abiel ABIEL a'-bi-el, ab'-yel, a-bi'-el ('abhi'el, "my father is God," or "God is father"): A descendant of Benjamin the son of Jacob. Father of Kish the father of King Saul, and also, apparently, the father of Ner the father ...
The name Saul or Shaul is applied five times in the Bible: Most famously is Saul the son ofKish, who was anointed as the first king ofIsraelbySamuelthe prophet and last of the judges (1 Samuel 10:1). King Saul never managed to unite the tribes and became a bit of a loser king. ...
(kishron, Ecclesiastes 5:11); "good for nothing," the Revised Version (British and American) "profitable" (tsaleah, Jeremiah 13:10), etc. In Jeremiah 18:4, "as seemed good to the potter," the word is yahsar, which means literally, "right." (2) In the New Testament the words ...
Another Sumerian text tells of a conflict between Gilgamesh and Agga, king of Kish (c. 2700 B.C.E.). Some identify Gilgamesh as the "mighty hunter," Nimrod son of Cush, mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Thus the epic may be based on traditions of real events. But it has a ...
Map of Mesopotamia. Shown are Washukanni, Nineveh, Hatra, Assur, Nuzi, Palmyra, Mari, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Nippur, Isin, Lagash, Uruk, Charax Spasinu and Ur, from north to south. Mesopotamian Civilization Humans first settled in Mesopotamia in the Paleolithic era. By 14,000 B.C., ...
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, ...
A son of Jeiel andMaacahof the town ofGibeon, also of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:30). This Abdon has a brother namedNerwho becomes the father ofKish, the father of kingSaul(1 Chronicles 9:39); A son ofMicah, who was sent by kingJosiahto inquire ofHuldahthe prophetess concerning the ...
Israel's first king was Saul of Benjamin, who enters the Biblical stage hunting for the lost donkeys (indeed the word used is אתון, 'aton, she-ass) of his father Kish. Thanks to modern archeology, we've known for over half a century now that the stories of David and ...
5Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, 6who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah. ...