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abimelech
/əˈbɪm.əˌlɛk/
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What does abimelech mean?
proper noun
- Any of several Philistine kings.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈbɪm.əˌlɛk/
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A woman smashed the head of the wicked Abimelech as did Jael the wife of Heber also.
One year after the death of Sarah, Abimelech king of the Philistines died, too, at the age of one hundred and ninety-three years.
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In these, Moses, Joshua, and Bacchus,--Deborah, Orpheus, and the Amazons,--Abimelech, the Sphinx, and Oedipus, appear together as personages equally real, and their positions in chronology equally ascertained.
And, at the foot of that hill, Melchisedech that was King of Salem, in the turning of that hill met Abraham in coming again from the battle, when he had slain Abimelech.