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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Eliphaz (Edomite living at the time of the Patriarchs)

Esau's son, the first of the Edomite line in Genesis 36, and father of a string of Edomite chiefs.

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Esau's son, the first of the Edomite line in Genesis 36, and father of a string of Edomite chiefs.

Who this is

Eliphaz was the first and apparently eldest of Job's three friends, a Temanite whose speeches argue that suffering is always the result of personal sin, a position God ultimately rebukes at the book's end for not speaking rightly about him the way Job had.

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The word

H464

Where it appears
  • Genesis 36:4
  • Genesis 36:10
  • Genesis 36:11
  • Genesis 36:12
  • Genesis 36:15
  • Genesis 36:16
  • 1 Chronicles 1:35
  • 1 Chronicles 1:36

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