Ebenezer

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Ebenezer, less commonly spelled Ebenezar, is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "Stone of the help" (derived from the phrase "Eben ha-Ezer").^[1] It is sometimes abbreviated as Eben.

Contents 1 Places 2 Intoxicants 3 Film 4 Music 5 Given name 6 References

[edit] Places

• Eben-Ezer - a place mentioned as the site of two battles in the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible and a stone raised by Samuel (Bible) (1 Samuel 7:12).^[2]
• A memorial established in remembrance of what God has done for a person or group of people
• Ebenezer, Georgia
• Ebenezer, New South Wales
• Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides, an abandoned waterpark in DuPage County, Illinois

[edit] Intoxicants

• Ebenezer - a Shiraz wine produced by the Barossa Valley Estate vineyard in Australia [1]
• "Ebeneezer Goode" - 1992 pop song by British group The Shamen, referencing the drug Ecstasy

[edit] Film

• Ebenezer - 1997 Canadian television production re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol with Jack Palance

[edit] Music

• Ebenezer (hymn), a Welsh tune to which many hymns are set

[edit] Given name

Ebenezer is a male given name, originally in reference to the Biblical location.

• Ebenezer Adams (1765 - 1841) - American educator
• Ebenezer Ako-Adjei (1916 - 2002) - Ghanaian politician
• Ebenezer Allen (1743 - 1806) - American patriot
• Ebenezer Andrews House (1821 - 1880) - American geologist
• Ebenezer Balfour, a character from Kidnapped (novel), a Robert Louis Stephenson novel
• Ebenezer Beesley (1840–1906) - writer and composer of Mormon religious music
• Ebenezer Blackadder - a Blackadder character from Victorian England, introduced in 1988
• Ebenezer Ekuban - Football player
• Ebenezer B. Finley (1833 - 1916) - American congressman
• Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857 - 1926) - famous English poacher
• Ebenezer Obey - Nigerian pop musician
• Ebenezer Rhodes (1762-1839) - English topographer
• Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie - 19th-century Edinburgh grain merchant (or "mealman" as noted on his tombstone) misread by Charles Dickens as "mean man", inspiring his fictional character Scrooge
• Ebenezer Scrooge - fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol

[edit] References

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