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Nineteenth-century Free Church of Scotland theologian Patrick Fairbairn's Imperial Bible Dictionary defined stauros thus: [30] The Greek word for cross σταυρός properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling a piece of ground. But a modification was ...
A secondary meaning of the Greek word is 'justice', [7] which is used to render it in a few places by a few Bible translations, e.g. in Matthew 6:33 in the New English Bible. Jesus asserts the importance of righteousness by saying in Matthew 5:20 , "For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers ...
James B. Torrance in the article "Cross" in the New Bible Dictionary writes that the Greek word for "cross" (stauros; verb stauroō; Latin crux, crucifigo, 'I fasten to a cross') means primarily an upright stake or beam, but also allows the construction that Jesus and Simon of Cyrene carried a patibulum to Golgotha. [27] [28]
The Book of Jasher (also spelled Jashar; Hebrew: סֵפֶר הַיׇּשׇׁר Sēfer haYyāšār), which means the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man, is a lost book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often interpreted as a lost non-canonical book. Numerous forgeries purporting to be rediscovered copies of this lost book have been ...
Jeshurun (Hebrew: יְשֻׁרוּן Yəšurūn; also Jesurun [1] or Yeshurun) is a poetic name for Israel used in the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible.It is generally thought to be derived from a root word meaning upright, just or straight, but may have been derived from שׁור, shur, to see, or may be a diminutive form of the word Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵל Yiśrāʾēl).
In 1866, Patrick Farbairn expressed the same view in The Imperial Bible-Dictionary, adding that the Romans commonly joined a transom to the upright when crucifying rather than impaling: "Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole, and this always remained the more prominent ...
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In addition, Job is mentioned in the New Testament of the Christian Bible: the Epistle of James paraphrases Job as an example of patience in suffering. Job's declaration, "I know that my redeemer liveth" ( Job 19:25 ), is considered by some Christians to be a proto-Christian reference to Christ as the Redeemer , and is the basis of several ...