Definition of Ebenezer

1. Proper noun. (biblical) The stone memorial in Israel erected by Samuel. ¹

2. Proper noun. (given name male from=Hebrew) taken up by Puritans in the 17th century. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ebenezer

1. a chapel [n -S] - See also: chapel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebenezer

ebb tides
ebbed
ebber
ebberman
ebbermen
ebbest
ebbet
ebbets
ebbing
ebbless
ebbs
ebbs and flows
ebbtide
ebbtides
ebene
ebenezer
ebenezers
ebeniste
ebenistes
ebionise
ebionised
ebionises
ebionism
ebionisms
ebionitism
ebionitisms
ebionize
ebionized
ebionizes
eblanin

Literary usage of Ebenezer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"Ebenezer Elliott 1781-1849 Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, ... In a strange place I should never have recognized Ebenezer Elliott by his portrait. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt (1820)
"... George Mussel died, leaving his wife and son surviving him ; and the wife entered and died in 1741 ; that Ebenezer, petitioner's late father, ..."

3. The History of Georgia by Charles Colcock Jones (1883)
"From contemporaneous notices we learn that New Ebenezer, within a short time after its ... We presume the account of the condition of Ebenezer in 1738-39, ..."

4. The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"Two years after the foundation of Ebenezer the Salzburgers found that its site was very badly ... The mortality which existed at Ebenezer was heart-rending. ..."

5. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"Mr. Ebenezer West, Capt. James Fitch, for Lebanon. Capt. John Read, Capt. ... Joseph Bi(d, Major Ebenezer Marsh, for Litchfield. Capt. ..."

6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1877)
"OF ARTILLERY IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY Ebenezer Stevens, son of Ebenezer ... It was in an offshoot from this church, " the new Brick," that Ebenezer was ..."

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