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"Ebenezer": literally, "stone of help" or "the stone, the help", where 'the second noun is in apposition to the first one'; apparently forming the name by which the stone was known; cf. the expression used in 1 Samuel 5:1 and 7:12, where, unlike 4:1, the first word lacks the definite article. [27]
In contrast, the second battle's location is deemed insufficiently well-defined in the Biblical text. The other proposed site is called "Isbet Sartah". [3] [4] Some scholars hold that there was more than one Aphek. C. R.
The word Sháhál (usually meaning "lion") might possibly, owing to some copyist's mistake, have crept into the place of another name now impossible to restore. צֶפַע ṣep̲aʿ (Isaiah 59:5), "the hisser", generally rendered by basilisk in ID.V. and in ancient translations, the latter sometimes calling it regulus. This snake was ...
Since most scholars agree that there were more than one Aphek, C.R. Conder identified the Aphek of Eben-Ezer [6] with a ruin some 3.7 miles (6 km) distant from Dayr Aban (believed to be Eben-Ezer), and known by the name Marj al-Fikiya; the name al-Fikiya being an Arabic corruption of Aphek. [7]
Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "stone of the help" (derived from the phrase Eben ha-Ezer). [1] The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben . Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens 's A Christmas Carol has given the name a negative connotation.
A Dictionary of the Bible (1863), edited by William Smith, title page for the third volume. A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone.
The cornerstone at the Historic Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2021. Ebenezer AME will celebrate its 150th Anniversary on Nov. 7th, 2021.
The unusual word Ebenezer commonly appears in hymnal presentations of the lyrics (verse 2). Various revised versions appear in hymnals, often changing phrases or replacing the reference to Ebenezer. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The version in Nazarene hymnals and those of the Holiness movement replaces "wandering" with "yielded," and "prone to wander" with "let ...