Elijah …His name means: “Yahweh Is My God” His work: Elijah was a prophet active in Israel in the middle of the ninth century BC. His primary work was to combat Baal worship and restore the worship of the true God of Israel. His character: Like Moses, who stood against the false gods of Egypt […]

Eli [ÔöÇ├å’lÔöÇ┬¢]…–jehovah is high or my god. The high priest and judge of Israel of the family of Ithamar (1 Sam. 1-414:3). The Man Who Lacked Parental Authority There are few Bible men in whose character we cannot find some great and glaring fault. There is usually a dead fly in the ointment, a rent […]

Edom [ÔöÇ├å’dom] red earth. The elder son of Isaac, and so named in memory of the red color of the lentil pottage for which he sold his birthright to his twin brother Jacob (Gen. 25:3036:1, 8, 19). See ESAU. Name is also used to describe those descended from Esau, the Edomites (Gen. 36:9).

Gershom [GÔö£Ôòùr'shÔö╝├àm]-A STRANGER THERE. The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah. He was born in Midian Exod. 2:22…Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,(Gershom sounds like a Hebrew term that means "a foreigner there.") for he explained, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land." Exod. 18:3 (Moses' first […]

“What should we learn from the tribe of Gad?”……Answer: Israel's 12 tribes, of which Gad was one, were named for Jacob's children (or grandchildren, in the cases of Ephraim and Manasseh). "Israel" was God's name for Jacob (Genesis 32:22-30); therefore, the phrase "children of Israel" is a way of referring to Jacob's descendants. Jacob's son […]

Gaius Gaius [GÔöÇ├╝’ius]-I AM GLAD. This common Roman name is shared by four men, and some writers find it difficult to differentiate between them. A companion of Paul and native of Macedonia. He was seized in the riot at Ephesus (Acts 19:29). A man of Derbe in Lycaonia and likewise a companion of Paul. This […]

Ezra, Ezrah [ÔöÇ├Âz’rÔöÇ├ó] –help or my helper. The head of one of the twenty-two courses of priests that came up from exile with Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Neh. 10:2-812:1, 13). Probably the Azariah of Ezra 7:1. A descendant of Judah through Caleb (1 Chron. 4:17). The famous scribe and priest descended from Hilkiah the high priest […]