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Smith's Bible Dictionary
descendants of Hupham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Numbers 26:39)
Huppah
(protected), a priest in the time of David. (1 Chronicles 24:13)
Huppim
(protected), head of a Benjamite family (Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:12) Hur (hole).
•A man who is mentioned with Moses and Aaron on the occasion of the battle with Amalek at
Raphidim, (Exodus 17:10) when with Aaron he stayed up the hands of Moses. ver. (Exodus 17:12)
(B.C. 1491.) He is mentioned again in ch. (Exodus 24:14) as being, with Aaron, left in charge of
the people by Moses during his ascent of Sinai. The Jewish tradition is that he was the husband
of Miriam, and that he was identical with
•The grandfather of Bezaleel, the chief artificer of the tabernacle. (Exodus 31:2; 35:30; 38:22)
•The fourth of the five kings of Midian who were slain with Balaam after the “matter of Peor.”
(Numbers 31:8) (B.C. 1451.) In a later mention of them, (Joshua 13:21) they are called princes of
Midian and dukes.
•Father of Rephaiah, who was ruler of half of the environs of Jerusalem, and assisted Nehemiah
in the repair of the wall. (Nehemiah 3:9) (B.C. before 446.)
•The “son of Hur”—Ben-Hur—was commissariat officer for Solomon in Mount Ephraim. (1 Kings
4:8) (B.C. 995.)
Hurai, Or Hurai
(linon-weaver), one of David’s guard—Hurai of the torrents of Gaash, according to the list of
(1 Chronicles 11:32) [Hiddai]
Huram
(noble born).
•A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5)
•The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon—and
elsewhere given as Hiram, Or Huram— appears in Chronicles. (1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles
2:3,11,12; 8:2,18; 9:10,21)
•The same Change occurs in Chronicles in the name of Hiram the artificer, which is given as Hiram,
Or Huram in (2 Chronicles 2:13; 4:11,16) [Hiram, Or Huram]
Hurhai
(very poor), an ancestor of Shallum the husband of Huldah. (2 Kings 22:14) (B.C. before 623.)
Huri
(linen-weaver), a Gadite; father of Abihail- (1 Chronicles 5:14)
Husband
[Marriage]
Hushah
(haste), a name which occurs in the genealogies of the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:4)
Hushai, Or Hushai
(hasting) an Archite i.e. possibly an inhabitant of a place called Erec. (2 Samuel 15:32) ff.; (2
Samuel 16:16) ff. He is called the “friend” of David. (2 Samuel 15:37) comp. 1Chr 27:33 To him
David confided the delicate and dangerous part of a pretended adherence to the cause of Absalom.
(B.C. about 1023.) He was probably the father of Baana. (1 Kings 4:16)
Hushathite
(inhabitant of Hushah), The, the designation of two of the heroes of David’s guard.
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