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The Kingdom of Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː /) [nb 1] was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. [1] It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States , the Caribbean and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. [ 2 ]
Ouidah (English: / ˈ w iː d ə /; French: ) or Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə,-ɔː /; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; [2] [3] Ajudá by the Portuguese; [4] and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin.
The word is identical to elohim meaning gods and is cognate to the 'lhm found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El and conventionally vocalized as "Elohim" although the original Ugaritic vowels are unknown. When the Hebrew Bible uses elohim not in reference to God, it is plural (for example ...
Whydah may refer in English to: Whydah, one of a number of species of birds in the family Viduidae, also called indigobirds; Whydah Gally, a ship captained by pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy that was wrecked in 1717 and was discovered in 1984; Whydah (1797 ship) The Whydah, 2017 nonfiction children's book; Ouidah, city and colonial fort in present Benin
First blessing of the Amidah, and describes God's choosing of the Jewish patriarchs, and God's protection of them. Many non-Orthodox communities include the matriarchs in this blessing and therefore give it the name Avot v'imahot, meaning "fathers and mothers". Gevurot גבורות
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According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
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