2. A chief Israelite who subscribed the sacred cove- nant with Nehemiah (Neh. x, 20). B.C. cir. 410.
Hez'rai (2 Sam. xxiii, 35). See Hezko.
Hez'ro (Heb. Chetsro', iian, i. q. Hezron ; Sept. 'ArTa()a(',Yulg. Hezro~), a Carmelite, one of David's dis- tinguished warriors (1 Chron. xi, 37). He is caUed in the margin and in 2 Sam. xxiii, 35, Hezrai {Chetsray', I'n^jn, Sept. 'A<Top(,yulg. Hesrai). B.C. 1046. Kenni- cott, however {Dissert ai ion, p. 207), decides, on the al- most unanimous authority of the ancient version, that Hezrai is the original form of the name.
Hez'ron (Heb. Chetsron', Vl'^r?) encfosed [Gesen.]
HEZRONITE
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or blooming [Fiirst] ; Sept. 'Aapojv, 'Affspwv), the name of two men, and also of a place.
1. The third son of Reuben (Gen. xlvi, 9 ; Exod. vi, 14; 1 Chron. iv, 1 ; v, 3). His descendants were called Hezronites {Chetsroni', "^sHlin, Sept. 'Ao-pwi/i, Numb. xxvi, G, 21). B.C. 1874.
2. The oldest of the two sons of Pharez and grandson of Judah (Gen. xlvi, 12; Ruth iv, 18, 19; 1 Chron. ii, 5, 9, 18, 21, 24, 25) ; caUed Esrom ('Effpwju) in Matt, i, 3. B.C. 1856.
3. A place on the southern bomidary of Judah, west of Kadesh-Barnea, and between that and Adar (.Josh. XV, 3) ; otherwise called Hazor (ver. 25). The piuic- tuation and enumeration, however, require us to connect the associated names thus: Kerioth - hezron = Hazor- anam. See Hazor.
Hez'ronite (Numb, xxvi, 6, 21). See Hezron 1.
Hibbard, Billy, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Norwich, Comi., Feb. 24, 1771, united with the jNIethodist Episcopal Church in 1792, entered the New York Conference in 1798, in 1821-2-3 was super- annuated, became eifective in 1824, was finally superan- nuated in 1828, and died Aug. 17, 1844, having preached forty-six years. He was an eccentric but very able man. His wit and humor, and his long, able, and abmi- dantly successful labors in the Church, furnish the ma- terial of an interesting biography. He possessed a vig- orous intellect, and acquired a sound and effective store of theological and general knowledge. His piety was deep and cheerful. See Minutes of Conferences, iii, 600 ; Stevens, Histoi-y of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Sherman's Neic-England Divines, p. 285 ; Life of Billy Hibbard (N. Y. 12mo) ; Sprague, Annals, vii, 298.
Hickes, George, D.D., a nonjuring divine of great learning, was born June 20, 1642, at Newsham, in Y'ork- shire ; was educated at St. John's College, Oxford, and in 1644 was elected fellow of Lincoln College. He be- came chaplain to the duke of Lauderdale in 1676, king's chaplain in 1682, and dean of Worcester in 1683. He was disappointed of the bishopric of Bristol by the death of Charles II. After the Revolution of 1688, refusing to take the oaths to AVilliam III, he was deprived in 1689, and became an active enemy of the government. He was consecrated bishop of Thetford by the Nonjurors in 1694, and died in 1715. His scholarship is shown in his valuable A ntiquce Litteraturce Septentrionalis Thesaurus (Oxford, 1705, 3 vols, fol.), and his Institutiones Gram- maticm Anglo-Saxonicoi (Oxford, lG89,4to). Among his theological and controversial writings, which were very numerous, are The Christian Priesthood, and the Dignity of the Episcopal Order (new ed. Oxford, 1847, 3 vols. 8vo): — Bibliotheca Script. Ecclesice Anglicanm (London, 1709, 8vo) -.Sermons (London, 1713, 2 vols. 8vo). See Hook, Eccles. Biog, vi, 32 sq. ; Lathbury, History of the Nonjurors.
Hicks, Elias, a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and the author of a schism in that body, was born at Jericho, L. I., March 19, 1748, and in earlj-^ life became a preacher. in the society. Imbibing So- cinian opinions as to the Trinity and the Atonement, he began to preach them, cautiously at first, and with little sympathy from his brethren. By "degrees, however, the boldness of his views and the vigor with which he repelled assailants began to attract attention, and to win hearers over to his opinions, which, proclaimed without laltering, in public and private for years, at length foinid large numbers of sympathizers, who, with Mr. Hicks himself, unable to impress their convictions upon the denomination at large, in 1827 seceded from that body, and set up a distinct and independent association, but still holding to the name of Friends. In this secession were members from the Yearly Meetings of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Ohio, Indiana, and New Eng- land." He was a man of great acuteness and energy of intellect, and of elevated personal character. He died at Jericho Feb. 27, 1830. He published Observa-
tions on Slavei-y (New Y'ork, 1811, 12mo) : — Journal of Life and Labors (Philadelphia, 1828) -.—Sermons (1828, 8vo) : — Letters relating to Doctrines (1824, 12mo). See Christian Examiner, li, 321 ; SennefF, Ansicer to Ellas Hicks's Blasphemies (1837, 2d ed. 12mo) ; AUibone, Dic- tionary of Authors, i, 842; Janney, Hist, of the Friends (4 vols. 12mo) ; Gibbons, Review and Refutation (Phila- delphia, 1847, 12mo) ; and the article Friends (No. 2). Hicksites. See Hicks.
Hid'dai (Heb. Hidday', "^^fl, exuberant or mighty ; Sept. Alex. MS. 'A09ai,\at. MS. omits; Vulg. Heddai), one of the thirty-seven heroes of David's guard (2 Sam. xxiii, 30), described as " of the torrents of Gaash." In the parallel list of 1 Chron. (xi, 32) the name is given as Hurai (q. v.), in favor of which reading Kennicott {Dissert, p. 194) decides. — Smith.