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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(pleasure). (1) First residence of
man
(
Gen. 2:15
15
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)
).
Paradise
. Site not fixed. (2) A mart of
Mesopotamia
(
2 Kings 19:12
12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? (2 Kings 19:12)
;
Isa. 37:12
12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? (Isaiah 37:12)
). (3)
Beth
-
eden
(
Amos 1:5
5
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord. (Amos 1:5)
). (4) A Levite (
2 Chron. 29:12
12
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: (2 Chronicles 29:12)
). (5) Another Levite (
2 Chron. 31:15
15
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: (2 Chronicles 31:15)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
Son
of
Joah
, a Gershonite (
2 Chron. 29:12
12
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: (2 Chronicles 29:12)
): perhaps the same that assisted in distributing the oblations in
2 Chronicles 31:15
15
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: (2 Chronicles 31:15)
.
2.
A people called “the
children
of Eden,” dwelling in
Thelasar
, or
Telassar
, which had been conquered by
Assyria
. They supplied
Tyre
with costly fabrics (
2 Kings 19:12
12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar? (2 Kings 19:12)
;
Isa. 37:12
12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? (Isaiah 37:12)
;
Ezek. 27:23
23
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. (Ezekiel 27:23)
). Its locality is not known.
3.
HOUSE
OF EDEN or
BETH
-EDEN (
Amos 1:5
5
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord. (Amos 1:5)
). Apparently a residence of the kings of
Damascus
, probably situated in some pleasant place.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
5729
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
`Eden
Phonic:
eh’-den
Meaning:
from
5727
; pleasure; Eden, a place in Mesopotamia
KJV Usage:
Eden
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
delight
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“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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