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Answer for the clue "(Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel ", 8 letters:
benjamin

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Bishop Benjamin (secular name Vincent Peterson ; born June 1, 1954 in Pasadena, California ) is the Bishop of the Orthodox Church in America 's Diocese of the West . As Bishop of the West, his territory covers eight states in the United States : Arizona ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, in Old Testament, Jacob's youngest son (Gen. xxxv:18), from Hebrew Binyamin , literally "son of the south," though interpreted in Genesis as "son of the right hand," from ben "son of" + yamin "right hand," also "south" (in an East-oriented ...

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Etymology 1 n. 1 A balsamic resin from the bark of ''Styrax'' trees used in perfumes, incense, and medicine; benzoin resin. 2 A type of tree which produces benzoin or has similar properties; specifically, (taxlink Styrax benzoin species noshow=1), ''Lindera ...

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Benjamin had exhibits to back it up, copies of his federal income tax returns for the last five years, and a financial statement detailing his assets and liabilities.

Bishop Bisse in 1717, and above it a Decorated window containing a stained glass representation of the Last Supper after the picture by Benjamin West.

Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Barbara Cabot, SWAT officer Matt Cabot, Josh Horowitz, Michele Jaffe, Laura Langlie, Abby McAden, Ericka Markman, Ron Markman, David Walton, and Benjamin Egnatz.

Englishmen held to the view of Americans as uncouth obstreperous trouble-makers, regardless of the example in their midst, among others, of Benjamin Franklin, as variously talented and politically sophisticated as anyone in Europe, and thoroughly dedicated to the goal of reconciliation.

Sir Benjamin Brodie speaks of it as being well known that the inoculation of lymph or pus from the peritoneum of a puerperal patient is often attended with dangerous and even fatal symptoms.

Sir Benjamin, as he too dismounted, and tossed his reins to Dig weed, who had appeared to take Atlas and Periwinkle to their breakfast.

These seemed perhaps the least of his accomplishments: he was also a poet, a jurist, a polyhistor, a classicist, and an indefatigable scholar whose powers would recommend him to such as Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, and Samuel Johnson.

Old Parson knows, the whole village knows, Dig weed knows that I am porteress of the Moonacre Gate, but Sir Benjamin does not know.

Sir Benjamin made her porteress so that she should have a comfortable home.

Sir Benjamin had made her porteress and then she had quarreled with him too.

Benjamin, retried after a career in the IDF, was currently engaged in writing a series of technical manuals for the army.

He was also some relation to Protector Benjamin, but he seldom talked about it, and he seemed thankfully immune to the arrogance Sanko had seen out of certain Manticorans of far less exalted birth.

Chair himself And Jefferson Howard, Benjamin Pantier, And Wendell Bloyd, George Trimble, Adam Weirauch, Imanuel Ehrenhardt, Seth Compton, Godwin James And Enoch Dunlap, Hiram Scates, Roy Butler, Carl Hamblin, Roger Heston, Ernest Hyde And Penniwit, the artist, Kinsey Keene, And E.

Kingsley said with a stagy smile, though Benjamin knew this was exactly what he had wanted.

The single finest tellurium in existence was built by the New England machinist, astronomer, and misanthrope, Benjamin Dee, in 1816.