Difference between revisions of "Berachah"

== [[American]] [[Tract]] [[Society]] [[Bible]] [[Dictionary]] == <p> Blessing, a beautiful valley between [[Tekoa]] and Etham, where [[Jehoshaphat]] and all [[Judah]] held a thanksgiving for their miraculous victory over the [[Moabites]] and Ammonites, 2 Chronicles 20:26 . </p> == Easton's Bible Dictionary == <li> One of the [[Benjamite]] warriors, Saul's brethren, who joined [[David]] when at [[Ziklag]] (1 Chronicles 12:3 ). <div> <p> [[Copyright]] StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., [[Illustrated]] Bible Dictionary, [[Third]] Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Berachah'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/berachah.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> == Fausset's Bible Dictionary == <p> One of Saul's brethren, yet attached himself to David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:3). </p> == Holman Bible Dictionary == [[Beracah]] == Hitchcock's Bible [[Names]] == == Morrish Bible Dictionary == <p> 1. One who joined David at Ziklag. 1 Chronicles 12:3 . </p> <p> 2. A valley between [[Bethlehem]] and [[Hebron]] where Jehoshaphat overcame [[Moab]] and Ammon, and where he blessed the Lord because of the victory: hence its name 'Valley of Blessing.' 2 Chronicles 20:26 , <i> margin. </i> [[Identified]] with <i> [[Wady]] el Arrub, </i> 35 10' [[E]] 31 37' N . </p> == Smith's Bible Dictionary == <p> Ber'achah. (blessing). A Benjamite, who attached himself to David, at Ziklag. 1 Chronicles 12:3. (B.C. 1054). </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (Heb. Berakah', בְּרָכָה, a blessing), the name of a valley and also of a man. </p> <p> 1. (Sept. translates εὐλογία .) A valley in the direction of Tekoa, so called as being the place where Jehoshaphat celebrated the miraculous overthrow of the Moabites and [[Ammonites]] (2 Chronicles 20:26). It is still called Wady Bereikut, near the ruined village of the same name south of Tekua (Robinson's Researches, 2, 189), first identified by Wolcott (Biblioth. Sac. 1843, p. 43; comp. Wilson, Lands of Bible,, 1, 386). (See [[Jeruel]]); (See Caphar-Barucha). </p> <p> 2. (Sept. Βερχία .) One of the thirty Benjamite warriors, "Saul's brethren," who joined David while in retirement at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:3). B.C. 1054. </p>