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  2. Jan 4, 2022 · Question. What was Eliphaz the Temanite’s message to Job? Answer. Eliphaz the Temanite is first mentioned in Job 2:11. He is one of Job’s three friends and would-be comforters. However, Eliphaz, along with Bildad and Zophar, failed in his attempt to comfort his suffering friend.

  3. Eliphaz (Hebrew: אֱלִיפָז ’Ělīp̄āz, "El is pure gold") is called a Temanite . He is one of the friends or comforters of Job in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible. The first of the three visitors to Job , he was said to have come from Teman, an important city of Edom (Amos 1:12; Obadiah 9.

  4. Eliphaz The Temanite, in the Old Testament Book of Job (chapters 4, 5, 15, 22), one of three friends who sought to console Job, who is a biblical archetype of unmerited suffering. The word Temanite probably indicates that he was an Edomite, or member of a Palestinian people descended from Esau.

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  5. Smith's Bible Dictionary. Eliphaz. ( God is his strength ). The son of Esau and Adah, and the father of Teman. ( Genesis 36:4; 1 Chronicles 1:35,36) The chief of the "three friends" of Job. He is called "the Temanite;" hence it is naturally inferred that he was a descendant of Teman.

  6. Eliphaz is identified as "the Temanite" because he was from the city of Teman in Idumea (Edom), a city known as a home of sages and wise men (see Jeremiah 49:7). As Eliphaz speaks to Job, he does so as a "Temanite,"that is, as a representative of the wisdom of the world.

  7. Eliphaz [Ĕl'iphăz]— god is fine gold or god is dispenser. A son of Esau by Adah daughter of Elon (Gen. 36:4-16; 1 Chron. 1:35, 36). The chief of Job’s three friends, a descendant of Teman, son of Eliphaz from whom a part of Arabia took its name (Gen. 36:11; Job 2:11; 4:1; 15:1; 22:1; 42:7, 9; Jer. 49:20). The Man Who Was a Religious Dogmatist

  8. Discover the meaning of Eliphaz in the Bible. Study the definition of Eliphaz with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.

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