Abiad (ä'be-äd)

The White Nile. See Bahr- about 200 miles northwest of Austin. Popula el - Abiad . Abiah (a-bi'a). See Abijah . Abiathar (a-bi'a-thär). [Heb., 'father of excellence' or 'abundance' (Gesenius), or 'my father excels' (Olshausen).] A high priest of Israel in the 11th century B. C., a partizan and companion of David during his exile, appointed for his services high priest conjointly with Zadok, the appointee of Saul. Abich (a'bich), Wilhelm Hermann. Born at Berlin, Dec. 11, 1806: died at Gratz, July 1, 1886. A German mineralogist and geologist, and traveler in Ru ia and elsewhere, appointed profe or of mineralogy in Dorpat in 1842. A bid harm a. See Abhidharmapitaka . Abiezer (a-bi-ē'zėr). [Heb., 'father of help.'] 1. A grandson of Mana eh and nephew of Gilead, founder of an important family to which also, collectively, the name was applied. Also Abiezar . tion (1890), 3,194. Abimelech (a-bim'e-lek). (Heb.; A yrian Abi - milk i , father of counsel.] 1. A name used in the Old Testament apparently as a general title (like the Egyptian Pharaoh') of the Philistine kings. Specifically-(a) A king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. xx.). Supposing Sarah to be Abraham's sister, as Abraham a erted, he took her into his harem, but dismi ed her when he found she was Abraham's wife. (b) A second king of Gerar, in the time of Isaac (Gen. xxvi.), with whom Isaac found refuge during a famine, and to whom he made the same statement about Rebekah that Abraham had made about Sarah. 2. A son of Gideon by a concubine, a native of Shechem, made king of Israel by the She che mites (Judges ix.). His reign, which lasted three years, is a igned by Duncker to the sec ond half of the 12th century B. C. Abingdon (ab'ing-don). A town in Berks hire, England, 7 miles south of Oxford. It contains the ruins of a noted abbey. Population (1891), 6,557. A family of Mana eh, consequently of Joseph, that of Abingdon, Earl of. See Bertie , Willoughby . Abiezar, which resided at Ophra, to the west of Sichem, near the lower slopes of Ephraim, a umed in this sad A binger, Baron. See Scarlett , James. state of affairs a great importance, and nearly gave Israel Abington (ab'ing-ton). A town in Plymouth Abomey