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Harper’s Bible Dictionary is a magnificent companion to the Harper’s Bible Commentary. It allows you to understand, in all their contexts, the texts of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament. It is completely up to date, and represents the best current biblical scholarship. The entire volume is written by 180 members of the Society of Biblical Literature, and contains 3500...

immediate and miraculous healing of the hemorrhaging woman (Matt. 9:20; Luke 8:44) and the crowds of sick people at Gennesaret (Matt. 14:36; Mark 6:56). See also Fringes. Heman (heeʹmuhn; Heb., ‘faithful’). 1 A grandson of Jacob and son of Zerah (1 Chron. 2:6). 2 A wise man in the time of Solomon (1 Kings 4:31). 3 A grandson of Samuel and son of Joel, whom David put in charge of the service of song (1 Chron. 6:31–33). He is identified as the ‘singer’ and as the first in the list of three appointed
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