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Ebenezer

masc. proper name, from Hebrew ebhen ezar "stone of help," from ebhen "stone" + ezer "help." Sometimes also the name of a Protestant chapel or meeting house, from name of a stone raised by Samuel to commemorate a divinely aided victory over the Philistines at Mizpeh (I Sam. vii:12),

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Ebenezer

Ebenezer may refer to:

  • Ebenezer (given name), a male given name (and list of people with the name)

From the name of a stone raised by Samuel to commemorate a victory over the Philistines at Mizpeh (I Sam. vii:12), from Hebrew ebhen ezar "stone of help," from ebhen "stone" + ezer "help."

In geography:

  • Eben-Ezer, a place mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament
  • Ebenezer, Georgia, United States
  • Ebenezer, Fulton County, Kentucky
  • Ebenezer, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
  • Ebenezer, Missouri
  • Ebenezer, Ohio
  • Ebenezer, Virginia
  • Ebenezer, Wisconsin, United States
  • Ebenezer, New South Wales, Australia
  • Ebenezer, Queensland, Australia
  • Ebenezer, South Australia, Australia
  • Ebenezer, New York, a hamlet within West Seneca, New York, United States
  • Ebenezer, Pennsylvania
  • Ebenezer, Prince Edward Island, a historic place in Queens County, Prince Edward Island
  • Ebenezer, Saskatchewan
  • Ebenezer, Antigua and Barbuda

In other uses:

  • Ebenezer (film), a 1997 Canadian television film
  • Ebenezer (hymn), a Welsh tune to which many hymns are set
Ebenezer (film)

Ebenezer is a 1998 Canadian television production re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol with Jack Palance giving a performance as Ebenezer Scrooge, á la Western genre. After a half-century of screen presence, in one of Palance's final projects before his retirement.

A TV film with high production value, it debuted in the United States on Turner Network Television. It is an obscure and rarely seen title.

Ebenezer (hymn)

Ebenezer, also known as Ton-y Botel, is a Welsh hymn tune composed by Thomas John Williams who brought it to hymnals in 1890 in Llaw lyfr Moliant.

Ebenezer (given name)

Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "Stone of the help" (derived from the phrase "Eben ha-Ezer"). The name is sometimes abbreviated as Eben.

Usage examples of "ebenezer".

Bela Lincoln of Hingham and Ebenezer Storer, the treasurer of Harvard--and as Josiah noted, she and Adams were now both verging on their ninety-first year.

Before he became a merchant Ebenezer was a farmer and after his marriage he wore the Prince Albert coat to church on Sundays and on Saturday afternoons when he came into town to trade.

The anti-Corn Law rhymes of Ebenezer Eliot, and the Chartist songs of Ernest Jones were notable inspirations in their day, and in our own times Walt Whitman and Mr.

The Reverend Ebenezer Clay, an old-time civil rights activist and leader.

Darwin are still very much alive-as alive as Jacob Marley's ghost was to Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ebenezer Scrooge spent money like a lottery winner next to these guys.

The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was some­times a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.

The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was sometimes a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.

Bela Lincoln of Hingham and Ebenezer Storer, the treasurer of Harvard—and as Josiah noted, she and Adams were now both verging on their ninety-first year.