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Biblical numerology is the use of numerology in the Bible to convey a meaning outside of the numerical value of the actual number being used. [1] Numerological values in the Bible often relate to a wider usage in the Ancient Near East .
The poem relates to the Biblical account of Sennacherib's attempted siege of Jerusalem. According to the Bible record in 2 Kings 18:13, the Assyrian army came "against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them."
The two manuscripts containing the Metrical Paraphrase are MS Selden supra 52 (Bodleian 3440), fols. 2a-168a (S), and MS Longleat 257, fols. 119a-212a (L), a manuscript in the private collection of the Marquess of Bath.
The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. The Tetragrammaton [note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible.
In poetry, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet. However, the particular foot can vary, as follows: Anapestic tetrameter: "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea" (Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib") "Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas")
MS. Kennicott 3, created in 1299. Shows the beginning of Numbers with its first word illustrated with calligraphy: וידבר Way-ḏabbêr, "And He spoke…" Most commentators divide Numbers into three sections based on locale (Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab), linked by two travel sections; [7] an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of ...
They picked him up and she was taken aback because Stephen wore a beautiful suit. "And tie," Stephen, 56, piped up. "And my first thought was that he was just beautiful," said Elizabeth.
Horace composed some poems in the Alcmanian strophe [2] or Alcmanian system.It is also called the Alcmanic strophe [3] or the 1st Archilochian. [4] It is a couplet consisting of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic tetrameter a posteriore (so called because it ends with a spondee, thus resembling the last four feet of the hexameter).