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kres'-ents (saharonim): Moon-shaped necklaces (Jud 8:21,26; Isa 3:18).f Paul, mentioned in 2Ti 4:10 as having gone to Galatia. That he was one of the Seventy, and that he founded the church in Vienna in Gaul, are traditions without any trustworthy basis.