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A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως, hálōs, 'threshing floor, disk'), [1] [2] also called a nimbus, aureole, glory or gloriole (Latin: gloriola, lit. 'little glory'), is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [ 3 ] that surrounds a person in works of art .
Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. This "parallelism" occurs in the portions of the Hebrew Bible that are at the same time marked frequently by the so-called dialectus poetica; it consists in a remarkable correspondence in the ideas expressed in two successive units (hemistiches, verses, strophes, or larger units); for example ...
Book of Job - Bible; Psalms in the Bible ( a collection of prayers, c. 1000 B.C.) - King David; The Vision of Dorotheus a 4th century epic poem in Homeric Greek about a visit to Heaven, where the Angels are in a military hierarchy similar to the Roman Legions and where Jesus Christ is enthroned like a Roman Emperor
What Does the Bible Say About Hawks? Dubois also notes the hawk's significance in biblical texts. "From a Biblical perspective, a hawk is a symbol of divine guidance and that we are being watched ...
Color Symbolism in The Bible An in depth study on symbolic color occurrence in The Bible. Christian Symbol Wood Carvings Forty symbols at Kansas Wesleyan University; Old Christian Symbols from book by Rudolf Koch; Christian Symbols, Origins and Meanings; Tree of Jesse Directory by Malcolm Low. Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine ...
The Crown of Immortality, held by the allegorical figure Eterna (Eternity) on the Swedish House of Knights fresco by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. The Crown of Immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as a laurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars (often a crown, tiara, halo or aureola).
Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893 The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Helios with a radiate halo driving his chariot (Ilion, 4th century BC; Pergamon Museum) A solar symbol is a symbol representing the Sun. Common solar symbols include circles (with or without rays), crosses, and spirals. In religious iconography, personifications of the Sun or solar attributes are often indicated by means of a halo or a radiate ...