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However, the name of the gazelle is scarcely, if at all, to be found in the Bible; in its stead we read roe, hart, or deer. Like a few other names of graceful and timid animals, the word gazelle has always been in the East a term of endearment in love. It was also a woman's favourite name (1 Chronicles 8:9; 2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:1; Acts ...
In the first book of the Torah, the serpent is portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, [1] who promotes as good what God had forbidden and shows particular cunning in its deception. (cf. Genesis 3:4–5 and 3:22 ) The serpent has the ability to speak and to reason: "Now the serpent was more subtle (also translated as "cunning") than any ...
Leviathan also figures in the Hebrew Bible as a metaphor for a powerful enemy, notably Babylon (Isaiah 27:1). Some 19th-century scholars pragmatically interpreted it as referring to large aquatic creatures, such as the crocodile. [5] The word later came to be used as a term for great whale and for sea monsters in general.
Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...
Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
Christian scripture gives a few descriptions of an immediate afterlife and a heaven and hell; however, for the most part, both New and Old Testaments focus much more on the myth of a final bodily resurrection than any beliefs about a purely spiritual afterlife away from the body.
This is a list of demons that appear in religion, theology, demonology, mythology, and folklore. It is not a list of names of demons, although some are listed by more than one name.
The tanninim (תַּנִּינִים) also appear in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis, [5] Exodus, [6] Deuteronomy, [7] Psalms, [9] Job, [10] Ezekiel, [11] Isaiah, [12] and Jeremiah. [13] They are explicitly listed among the creatures created by God on the fifth day of the Genesis creation narrative, [5] translated in the King James Version ...