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Azazel

The scape-goat Azazel is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “the scape-goat.” This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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Name meaning
the scape-goat According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Azazel

the scape-goat

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Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

AZAZEL

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for AZAZEL.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:
Leviticus 16:8

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Azazel

Meaning:
the scape-goat

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Topic

AZAZEL

Nave’s Topical Bible references for AZAZEL.

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Dictionary

Azazel

the scape-goat

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Dictionary

Scapegoat

Lev. 16:8-26; R.V., "the goat for Azazel" (q.v.), the name given to the goat which was taken away into the wilderness on the day of Atonement (16:20-22). The priest made atonement over the scapegoat, laying Israel's guilt upon it, and then sent it away, the goat bearing "upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited." At a later period an evasion or modification of the law of Moses was introduced by the Jews. "The goat was conducted to a mountain named Tzuk, situated at a distance of ten Sabbath days' journey, or about six and a half English miles, from Jerusalem. At this place the Judean desert was supposed to commence; and the man in whose charge the goat was sent out, while setting him free, was instructed to push the unhappy beast down the slope of the mountain side, which was so steep as to insure the death of the goat, whose bones were broken by the fall. The reason of this barbarous custom was that on one occasion the scapegoat returned to Jerusalem after being set free, which was considered such an evil omen that its recurrence was prevented for the future by the death of the goat" (Twenty-one Years' Work in the Holy Land). This mountain is now called el-Muntar.

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Leviticus 16:8

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