•In (Hosea 10:8) the word is clearly an abbreviation of Bethaven, that is, Bethel. Comp. (Hosea
4:15) etc.
•The sacred city of Heliopolis or On, in Egypt. (Ezekiel 30:17)
Avim
(ruins), A’vims or A’vites.
•A people among the early inhabitants of Palestine, whom we meet with in the southwest corner
of the seacoast, whither they may have made their way north-ward from the desert, (2:23) probably
the same as the Hivites.
•The people of Avva, among the colonists who were sent by the king of Assyria to reinhabit the
depopulated cities of Israel. (2 Kings 17:31)
Avith
(ruins), the city of Hadad ben-Bedad, one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel.
(Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46)
Awl
a tool of which we do not know the ancient form. The only notice of it is in connection with
the custom of boring the ear of the slave. (Exodus 21:6; 15:17)
Azal
a name only occurring in (Zechariah 14:5) It is mentioned as the limit to which the ravine of
the Mount of Olives will extend when “Jehovah shall go forth to fight.”
Azaliah
(whom the Lord reserved), the father of Shaphan the scribe in the reign of Josiah. (2 Kings
22:3; 2 Chronicles 34:8) (B.C. before 641.)
Azaniah
(whom the Lord hears), the father or immediate ancestor of Jeshua the Levite, in the time of
Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:9)
Azarael
a Levite musician. (Nehemiah 12:36)
Azareel, Or Azareel
(whom the Lord helps).
•A Korhite who joined David in his retreat at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:6) (B.C. 1060.)
•A Levite musician of the family of Heman in the time of David, (1 Chronicles 25:18) called Uzziel
in (1 Chronicles 25:4) (B.C. 1050.)
•Son of Jeroham, and prince of the tribe of Dan when David numbered the people. (1 Chronicles
27:22)
•One of the sons of Bani, who put away his foreign wife on the remonstrance of Ezra. (Ezra 10:41)
(B.C. 459.)
•Father or ancestor of Maasiai, or Amashai, a priest who dwelt in Jerusalem after the return from
Babylon. (Nehemiah 11:13) comp. 1Chr 9:12 (B.C. about 440.)
Azariah
(whom the Lord helps) a common name in Hebrew, and especially in the families of the priests
of the line of Eleazar, whose name has precisely the same meaning as Azariah. It is nearly identical,
and is often confounded, with Ezra as well as with Zerahiah and Seraiah. The principal persons
who bore this name were—
frankie
(Frankie)
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