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Name meaning: he that embraces; a wrestler (Hitchcock)
Embrace, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets. Of his personal history we have no reliable information. He was probably a member of the Levitical choir. He was contemporary with Jeremiah and Zephaniah.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
(embrace), the eighth in order of the minor prophets. Of the facts of the prophet’s life we have no certain information. He probably lived about the twelfth or thirteenth year of Josiah, B.C. 630 or 629.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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