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Easton

ornament.

(1.) The first of Lamech's two wives, and the mother of Jabal and Jubal (Ge 4:19-20,23).

(2.) The first of Esau's three wives, the daughter of Elon the Hittite (Ge 36:2,4), called also Bashemath (Ge 26:34).

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Fausets

("adornment, beauty".).

1. One of Lamech's (See LAMECH; see ZILLAH) wives (Ge 4:19).

2. Daughter of Elon the Hittite; one of Esau's three wives; mother of his firstborn, Eliphaz; ancestress of six of the Edomite tribes (Ge 36:2-4; (Ge 36:15-16); called Bashemath (Ge 26:34), ("the fragrant"). Esau's third wife, daughter of Ishmael, also is called Bashemath, but Mahalath in Ge 28:9. Moses drew the genealogy from documents of Esau's tribe, without altering them. Eastern and especially Arabian custom gives surnames (founded on some memorable event in one's life), which gradually supersede the other name; for instance, Edom, Ge 25:30. Women received new names when married; so both might be called Bashemath.

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Hastings

1. One of the two wives of Lamech, and mother of Jabal and Jubal (Ge 4:19-20). The name possibly means 'brightness' (cf. Arabic ghad

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Morish

A'dah

1. One of the two wives of Lamech, and the mother of Jabal and Jubal. Ge 4:19-20,23.

2. One of the wives of Esau, daughter of Elon the Hittite and thus 'a daughter of Canaan:' she bare to Esau his first-born son Eliphaz, who became the father of seven of the dukes of Edom. Ge 36:2,4,15-16. See BASHEMATH.

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Smith

A'dah

(ornament, beauty).

1. The first of the two wives of Lamech, by whom were borne to him Jabal and Jubal.

Ge 4:19

(B.C. 3600).

2. A Hittitess, one of the three wives of Esau, mother of Eliphaz.

Ge 36:2,10,12,16

In

Ge 26:34

she is called BASHEMATH. (B.C. 1797.)

See Bashemath

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