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Achsah (or Acsah) – daughter of Caleb. When Caleb promised her to Othniel in marriage, she requested that he increased her dowry to include not only land, but springs of water as well. Joshua, Judges, I Chronicles [8] [9] [10] Adah – Adah # 1 – wife of Lamech, Genesis [11] Adah – Adah #2 – daughter of Elon, the Hittite and one of the ...
Caleb promised his daughter Achsah in marriage to whoever would conquer the land of Debir from the giants. This was eventually accomplished by Othniel Ben Kenaz, Caleb's nephew (Judges 1:13), who became Caleb's son-in-law as well (Joshua 15:16,17). 1 Samuel 25:3 states that Nabal, the husband of Abigail before David, was "a Calebite" (Hebrew ...
This was done by Othniel, Caleb's brother's son, who accordingly obtained her as his wife. [2] Achsah later requested, and was given, upper and lower springs of water (presumably in the Negev) from her father. [3] Various Septuagint manuscripts, in various passages, give her name as Ascha, Achsa, Aza, and Oxa. [4]
The Daughters of Zelophehad (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster). In the Talmud and the Zohar the reference to Zelophehad having "died in his own sin" is used to equate him with the man executed for gathering sticks on Shabbat, [12] [13] but Sifri Zutta says that it cannot be known if he was.
Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.Rahab (/ ˈ r eɪ h æ b /; [1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large" "رحاب") was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who resided within Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had been sent to scout the city ...
Judges 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer ...
Jack Nicholson’s legacy is not limited to his work as an actor. He’s also a father of six, with five different moms. Nicholson, 86, is dad of Jennifer, 60, Caleb, 53, Honey, 43, Lorraine, 33 ...
The Hebrew Bible refers to Othniel as "Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb". [2] The expression is inconclusive in Hebrew, and has been taken to mean either that Othniel himself was the brother of Caleb, or that Othniel's father Kenaz was the brother of Caleb. [3] [4] The Talmud argues that Othniel was Caleb's brother. [5]