Eliphaz

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eliphaz
     God his strength. (1.) One of Job's "three friends" who visited
     him in his affliction (4:1). He was a "Temanite", i.e., a native
     of Teman, in Idumea. He first enters into debate with Job. His
     language is uniformly more delicate and gentle than that of the
     other two, although he imputes to Job special sins as the cause


     of his present sufferings. He states with remarkable force of
     language the infinite purity and majesty of God (4:12-21;
     15:12-16).
     
       (2.) The son of Esau by his wife Adah, and father of several
     Edomitish tribes (Gen. 36:4, 10, 11, 16).
     

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

  Eliphaz, the endeavor of God