Michael

William Smith's Bible Dictionary

(who is like God?).

• An Asherite, father of Sethur, one of the twelve spies. (Numbers 13:13)

• One of the Gadites who settled in the land of Bashan. (1 Chronicles 5:13)

• Another Gadite, ancestor of Abihail. (1 Chronicles 5:14)

• A Gershionite Levite, ancestor of Asaph. (1 Chronicles 6:40)

• One of the five sons of Izrahiah, of the tribe of Issachar. (1 Chronicles 7:3)

• A Benjamite of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:16)

• One of the captains of the "thousands" of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:20)

• The father or ancestor of Omri, chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:18)

• One of the sons of Jehoshaphat who were murdered by their elder brother, Jehoram. (2 Chronicles 21:2,4)

• The father or ancestor of Zebadiah, of the sons of Shephatiah. (Ezra 8:8)

• "One," or "the first, of the chief princes" or archangels, (Daniel 10:21) as the "prince" of Israel, and in ch. (Daniel 12:1) as "the great prince which standeth" in time conflict "for the children of thy people."

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Michael
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"Field, Michael"
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(St.) Michael Aldgate
One of the old parishes mentioned by Stow as having formed first the parish of the Holy Cross or Hol...

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(St.) Michael Bassishaw
On the west side of Basinghall Street. In Bassishaw Ward (O.S. 1880). Earliest mention found in rec...

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(St.) Michael Coldabey
Parish of St. Michael Coldabey, 1290 (Ct. H.W. I. 92). Probably an error for St. Nicholas Cole Abbe...

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(St.) Michael Queenhithe
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Ballantyne, Robert Michael
(1825-1894) Writer of tales for boys, b. in Edinburgh, was a connection of the well-known printers....

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Rossetti, William Michael
(b. 1829) Biographer, ed., etc. Translator of Dante's Hell (1865), Lives of Famous Poets (1878), Li...

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(St.) Michael ad bladum
See St. Michael le Querne. ...

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(St.) Michael atte Corne
See St. Michael le Querne. ...

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(St.) Michael Candlewick Street
See St. Michael Crooked Lane. ...

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(St.) Michael Crooked Lane
On the east side of St. Michael's Lane or Crooked Lane, as it is named in some maps (Elmes, 1831). I...

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(St.) Michael Huggin Lane
"St. Michael de Hoggenelane," 1275 and 1310 (Ct. H.W. I. 25, 215). "St. Michael in Hoggenelane," 130...

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(St.) Michael in Fridaistrete
Tenement of John de Derby in parish of St. Michis apli in Fridaistrete, 26 Ed. I. (West. Abbey MSS. ...

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(St.) Michael juxta Macellum
Agreement between the canons of St. Paul and Roger the priest concerning the church of St. Michael, ...

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(St.) Michael le Querne
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(St.) Michael upon Thames
See St. Michael Queenhithe. ...

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(St.) Michael Wood Street
On the west side of Wood Street, and north side of Huggin Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Within (O.S. 188...

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(St.) Michael, Paternoster Royal
On the east side of College Hill at No. 20 at its junction with College Street. In Vintry Ward (P.O....

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(St.) Michael by Christ Church
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(St.) Michael Crooked Lane Churchyard
On the south and east sides of the church (O. and M. 1677-Rocque, 1746). The churchyard was enlarge...

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(St.) Michael super Ripam Regine
See St. Michael Queenhithe. ...

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(St.) Michael towards London Bridge
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Le Cage, St. Michael Bassishaw, Parish
A tenement so called in the parish of St. Michael Bassishaw. First mention: 1371 (Ct. H.W. II. 140)...

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(St.) Michael Candlewick Street, Lane of
See Miles's Lane. ...

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(St.) Michael Crokede lane, Lane of
See Miles's Lane. ...

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(St.) Michael in Foro ad Bladum
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