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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Baruch
       n 1: economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)
            [syn: {Bernard Baruch}, {Bernard Mannes Baruch}]
       2: a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah
       3: an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch [syn: {Book of Baruch}]



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Baruch
     blessed. (1.) The secretary of the prophet Jeremiah (32:12;
     36:4). He was of the tribe of Judah (51:59). To him Jeremiah
     dictated his prophecies regarding the invasion of the
     Babylonians and the Captivity. These he read to the people from
     a window in the temple in the fourth year of the reign of
     Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer. 36). He afterwards read them
     before the counsellors of the king at a private interview; and
     then to the king himself, who, after hearing a part of the roll,
     cut it with a penknife, and threw it into the fire of his winter
     parlour, where he was sitting.
     
       During the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, he was the
     keeper of the deed of purchase Jeremiah had made of the
     territory of Hanameel (Jer. 32:12). Being accused by his enemies
     of favouring the Chaldeans, he was cast, with Jeremiah, into
     prison, where he remained till the capture of Jerusalem (B.C.
     586). He probably died in Babylon.
     
       (2.) Neh. 3:20; 10:6; 11:5.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Baruch, who is blessed
  

















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