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(5.) The head of the priestly family of Amok in the time of Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:20).
•EBONY a black, hard wood, brought by the merchants from India to Tyre (Ezekiel 27:15). It is the heart-wood, brought by Diospyros ebenus, which grows in Ceylon and Southern India.
•EBRONAH passage, one of the stations of the Israelites in their wanderings (Numbers 33:34, 35). It was near Ezion-geber.
•ECBATANA (Ezra 6:2 marg.). (See ACHMETHA.)