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Jorah

3 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.

These works date from 1884–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.

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In the reference works

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
(the early rain), the ancestor of a family of 112 who returned from Babylon with Ezra. (Ezra 2:18) In (Nehemiah 7:24) he appears under the name HARIPH, or more correctly the same family are represented as the Bene-Hariph.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references

jo'-ra (yorah meaning uncertain, perhaps "harvest-born"): A family which returned with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:18) = "Chariph" of Ne 7:24 = "Arsiphurith" (the King James Version "Arzephurith") of 1 Esdras 5:16.

In the topical indexes

Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic

Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.

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