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  • proper noun Judaism, Christianity In the Bible, the son of Salah and the father of Joktan and Peleg.

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  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • Christine Eber is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.

    Chiapa de Corzo 2009

  • In this family were good men, of whom one was called Eber, a 1645 son of Sem: from this chief sprang a multitude of people, whom all nations and earth-dwellers now call Hebrews.

    Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890

  • The _Seventh_, xxiv. 23 f., speaks of the coming of ships from the West, to attack Assur and "Eber"; it may refer to the conquest of Persia by

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • From this it appears that these individuals in our list will in some cases at least have given their name to the district which they or their descendants occupied: "Eber" may mean "the man from across," i. e., the river Euphrates.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Holmes-Eber says the progress in Iraq's Anbar province provides the best example of how cultural understanding and working with local people turned around the country's most violent province.

    US Marines Being Trained for Cultural Sensitivity Before Deployment 2011

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