Dositheus
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... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DOSITHEUS. do-sith'-e-us (Dositheos): (1)
A captain of Judas Maccabeus (2 Maccabees 12:19-25); along ...
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Ptolemy
... the Jewish temple of Leontopolis near Hellopolis was founded in 154 BC (Josephus,
Ant, XIII, iii, 1), and two Jewish generals, Onias and Dositheus, were at the ...
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Magus
... What is there said of him is, that he studied at Alexandria, and that he had been,
along with the heresiarch Dositheus, a disciple of John the Baptist. ...
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False.
... was to show them that, at his command, the walls of Jerusalem would fall down (BJ,
II, xiii, 5). Of another class was the Samaritan Dositheus, with whom Simon ...
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Timotheus (24 Occurrences)
... But in 2 Maccabees 12:2 he is again at liberty as an opponent of the Jews, and in
12:24 he falls into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, but by representing ...
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Dost (1950 Occurrences)

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Dorymenes

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Mareshah (8 Occurrences)
... margin). Hither Gorgias escaped, having been rescued from the hands of
Dositheus by a Thracian horseman (2 Maccabees 12:35). It ...
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Christs (2 Occurrences)
... was to show them that, at his command, the walls of Jerusalem would fall down (BJ,
II, xiii, 5). Of another class was the Samaritan Dositheus, with whom Simon ...
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Simon (75 Occurrences)
... What is there said of him is, that he studied at Alexandria, and that he had been,
along with the heresiarch Dositheus, a disciple of John the Baptist. ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Dositheus

a "priest and Levite" who carried the translation of Esther to Egypt. (Esther 11:1,2)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
DOSITHEUS

do-sith'-e-us (Dositheos):

(1) A captain of Judas Maccabeus (2 Maccabees 12:19-25); along with Sosipater he captured Timotheus after the battle of Carnion, but granted him his life and freedom on the representation that "he had in his power the parents of many of them and the brethren of some," who, if they put him to death, should "be disregarded."

(2) A soldier in the army of Judas Maccabeus (2 Maccabees 12:35); he made a special attack upon Gorgias, governor of Idumaea, the opposing general, and would have taken the "accursed man" prisoner but for the interference of a Thracian horseman.

(3) A Jew, son of Drimylus (3 Maccabees 1:3) who rescued Ptolemy Philopator from a plot of Theodotus. He afterward proved an apostate from Judaism.

(4) A Levite priest who "in the 4th year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra" carried the translation of the Book of Esther to Alexandria (Additions to Esther 11:1).

J. Hutchison

Dorymenes
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