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Esli was an ancestor of Jesus Christ, mentioned in His genealogy.
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Esli is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ recorded in Luk.3.25. He was the son of Naggai and the father of Nahum. Esli was part of the lineage traced from David to Jesus through Nathan, David's son.
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son of Nagge or Naggai, in the genealogy of Christ. (Luke 3:25)
near me; he who separates
ES'LI (reserved by Jehovah), a person in Christ's genealogy. Luke 3:25.
ES'LI (reserved by Jehovah), a person in Christ's genealogy. Luke 3:25.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s G2069
the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
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