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Meaning: God his help.

  1. “Of Damascus,” the “steward” (Revised Version, “possessor”) of Abraham's house (Genesis 15:2-3). It was probably he who headed the embassy sent by Abraham to the old home of his family in Padan-aram to seek a wife for his son Isaac. The account of this embassy is given at length in Genesis 24a.

  2. The son of Becher, and grandson of Benjamin (1 Chr. 7:8).



  5. Son of Zichri, and chief of the Reubenites under David (1 Chr. 27:16).
