Crossword-Solution: ABIATHAR
We have 5 clues for the answer “ABIATHAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| HIGH priest in the reign of David | 1 answer |
| JONATHAN, father of | 11 answers |
| BIBLICAL high priest | 15 answers |
| HIGH priest (bibl.) | 17 answers |
| High priest? | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EORNCA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ABIATHAR (5)
But the case of Abiathar, whom Solomon put out of the sacerdotal office for treason, was discussed with peculiar eagerness.
David's action is obviously divination pure and simple; and it is curious that he seems to have worn the ephod himself and not to have employed Abiathar as a medium.
Thus, for example, when David inquired of the Urim and Tummim if Saul would pursue him, the high priest Abiathar beheld gleaming forth the letter Yod in Judah's name, Resh in Reuben's name, and Dalet in Dan's name, hence the answer read as follows: Yered, "He will pursue." The information of this oracle was always trustworthy, for the meaning of the name Urim and Tummim is in the fact that "these answers spread light and truth," but not every high priest succeeded in obtaining them.
Abiathar, the great-grandson of Eli's son Phinehas, (30) the last of the high priest of the line of Ithamar, had to submit to the fate of seeing David transfer his dignity to Zadok, in whose family it remained forever.
Elijah informed Rabbi Abiathar that in heaven the cruel conduct of the Ephraimite was explained in two ways, according to Abiathar's conception and according to his opponent Jonathan's as well.