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Be fruitful and multiply. In Judaism, Christianity, and some other Abrahamic religions, the commandment to " be fruitful and multiply " (referred to as the " creation mandate " in some denominations of Christianity) is the divine injunction which forms part of Genesis 1:28, in which God, after having created the world and all in it, ascribes to ...
Ephrath. Ephrath or Ephrathah or Ephratah (Hebrew: אֶפְרָת \ אֶפְרָתָה) is a biblically referenced former name of Bethlehem, [1] meaning "fruitful". [2] It is also a personal name. [citation needed]
Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, by Benjamin West, 1766-68. The Book of Genesis related the name "Ephraim" to the Hebrew root פָּרָה pārā "to be fruitful". [8] This referring to Joseph's ability to produce children, specifically while in Egypt (termed by the Torah as "the land of his affliction"). [9]
Pomona (/ pəˈmoʊnə / ⓘ, [1] Latin: [poːˈmoːna]) was a goddess of fruitful abundance and plenty in ancient Roman religion and myth. Her name comes from the Latin word pomum, "fruit", specifically orchard fruit. Pomona was said to be a wood nymph. [2][3] Pomona does not have a clear counterpart in Greek mythology, although the fruit ...
The Fruit of the Holy Spirit (sometimes referred to as the Fruits of the Holy Spirit[2]) is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness ...
The hymn expresses the doctrine that the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ during the celebration of the Eucharist. It is often sung in English as the hymn "Of the Glorious Body Telling" to the same tune as the Latin. The opening words recall another famous Latin sequence from which this hymn is derived: Pange lingua ...
Eustace, also rendered Eustis, (/ ˈjuːstɪs / YOOS-tis) is the rendition in English of two phonetically similar Greek given names: Εὔσταχυς (Eústachys) meaning "fruitful", "fecund"; [1] literally "abundant in grain "; its Latin equivalents are Fæcundus/Fecundus. Εὐστάθιος (Eustáthios) meaning "steadfast", "stable ...
The same word is found in French and German Bible translations, all from Latin firmamentum (a firm object), used in the Vulgate (4th century). [4] This in turn is a calque of the Greek στερέωμᾰ ( steréōma ), also meaning a solid or firm structure (Greek στερεός = rigid), which appears in the Septuagint , the Greek translation ...