Eliphaz
Eliphaz ( "My Elohim is gold", Standard Hebrew Elifaz, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîp̄az / ʾĔlîp̄āz) was the first-born son of Esau and his wife Adah (biblical figure), Adah. He had six sons, of whom Omar (biblical figure), Omar was the firstbor ...
is one of Esau's sons in the Bible.
Eliphaz or Eliphas is also the given name of:
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Eliphaz (Job)
Eliphaz ( ''’Ělīp̄āz'', " El is pure gold") is called a Temanite (). He is one of the friends or comforters of Job in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible.
The first of the three visitors to Job (), he was said to have come from Teman, a ...
, another person in the Bible
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Eliphaz Dow Eliphaz Dow (1705 – May 8, 1755) of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire was the first male executed in New Hampshire. (Two women had been executed in 1739). Eliphaz, the son of Joseph and Hannah Dow, was a shoemaker, married but with no known children. ...
(1705-1755), the first male executed in New Hampshire, for murder
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Eliphaz Fay
Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 – March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine.
Personal life
Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in Marlborough, Massa ...
(1797–1854), fourth president of Waterville College (now called Colby College)
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Eliphas Levi Eliphaz is one of Esau's sons in the Bible.
Eliphaz or Eliphas is also the given name of:
* Eliphaz (Job), another person in the Bible
* Eliphaz Dow (1705-1755), the first male executed in New Hampshire, for murder
* Eliphaz Fay (1797–1854), f ...
(1810-1875), French occultist born Alphonse Louis Constant
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Eliphas Shivute
Eliphas "Safile" Shivute (born 27 September 1974) is a Namibian retired international footballer. He retired from football due to a knee injury in 2002 after a career spent in Chinese and European football, as well as domestically. Shivute became ...
(born 1974), Namibian retired footballer
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Elifaz, Israel
Elifaz ( he, אֱלִיפַז) is a kibbutz in the Arava valley, near Eilat, in the far south of Israel. It is under the jurisdiction of the Hevel Eilot Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Elifaz was founded in January 1983 ...
, a kibbutz
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Eliphas Buffett House
The Eliphas Buffett House is a historic house located at 159 West Rogues Path in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York.
Description and history
It consists of a two-story, three-bay-wide main structure built in about 1835, with a one- ...
, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, on the National Register of Historic Places
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