. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . n. xi., not only survived all his own lineal ances-tors, but attained nearly twice the age of any of hisdescendants in the line of Abraham, and indeed out-lived all of them down to Abraham himself, dying fouryears after the latter, at the age of 464 years. Of allwho have lived since the flood, only Noah and Shemare recorded as older than Eber at their respectivedeaths, and their greater age is due to their havinglived before as well as after the flood. Eber is as pre-eminent for his length of life after the flood as Me-thuselah for his before it.—2.
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . n. xi., not only survived all his own lineal ances-tors, but attained nearly twice the age of any of hisdescendants in the line of Abraham, and indeed out-lived all of them down to Abraham himself, dying fouryears after the latter, at the age of 464 years. Of allwho have lived since the flood, only Noah and Shemare recorded as older than Eber at their respectivedeaths, and their greater age is due to their havinglived before as well as after the flood. Eber is as pre-eminent for his length of life after the flood as Me-thuselah for his before it.—2. A Benjamite, son ofElpaal and descendant of Shaharaim (1 Chr. viii. 12).—3. A priest, chief of the house of Amok underhigh-priest Joiakim (Neh. xii. 20). E-bia-saph (Heb. = Ahiasaph), a Kohathite Le-vite of the family of Korah, ancestor of the prophetSamuel and of Heman the singer (1 Chr. vi. 23,37). The same man is probably intended in ix. name appears = Abiasaph, and in one pas-sage (1 Chr. xxvi. 1) to be abbreviated to Ebony (DiotpyroB Ebenuni), Ebo-ny (neb. hobnim = wood as hard as stone)occurs only in Ez. xxvii. 15, as one of the valuablecommodities imported into Tyre by the men ofDedan. The best kind of ebony is yielded by theDiospyros Ebenuni, a tree which grows in Ceylon andSouthern India; but there are many trees of thenatural order Ebenacece which produce this ancients held the black heart-wood in high es-teem. It admits of a fine polish, and is used forcabinet-work. There is every reason for believingthat the ebony afforded by the Diospyros Ebenumwas imported from India or Ceylon by Pheniciantraders; though it is equally probable that theTyrian merchants were supplied with ebony fromtrees which grew in Ethiopia. It is not known whattree yielded the Ethiopian ebony. E-bronah (Heb. abronah = passage, sc. of the sea,Ges.; coast-place, bank-place, Fit.), a station of theIsraelites in the desert, immediately precedingEzion-gaber, possibly a
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