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Bariah

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)· Public Domain

(fugitive), a descendant of the royal family of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:22) (B.C. before 410.)

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Bariah

Bariah ba-ri'-ah (bariach, "fugitive"): Bariah was a descendant of David in the line of Solomon (1Ch 3:22). ⇒See a list of verses on BARIAH in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Bariah

A son of Shemaiah (1 Ch 3-). See Genealogy. BARJESUS (BaptTjffoCs), a man described in Ac 13' as ' niagian, prophet of lies, Jew,' whom Paul and Barnabas, travelling in Cyprus, found in the train of the proconsul Sergius Paulus, as one of the amid or coinites who always accompanied a Rom. governor. In Jos. Ant. XX. vii. 2 we find a similar case : Simon, ' a Jew, by birth a Cypriot, and pre- tending to be a magian' (observe the striking, though not exact, similarity of the triplet), was one of the ' friends ' of Felix, the procurator of Judiea, and was used by him to seduce Drusilla from her husband Azizus, king of Emesa. Such men, prob- ably Bab. Jews, ' skilled in the lore and uncanny arts and strange powers of the Median priests' (cf. Mt 2'- '"), — not simply sorcerers and fortune- tellers, but ' men of science,' as they would now be called (being then beyond their age in acquaint- ance with the powers and processes of nature), and not mere isolated self-constituted pretenders, but representatives of an Oriental system and religion, — appear to have been numerous at that period, an…

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  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
  5. Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
  6. Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia

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