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The names are mentioned together in Ezekiel chapter 38, where Gog is an individual and Magog is his land. [1] The meaning of the name Gog remains uncertain, and in any case, the author of the Ezekiel prophecy seems to attach no particular importance to it. [1]
A 19th-century artistic representation of Spartan boys exercising while young girls taunt them.. The agoge (Ancient Greek: ἀγωγή, romanized: ágōgḗ in Attic Greek, or ἀγωγά, ágōgá in Doric Greek) was the training program pre-requisite for Spartiate (citizen) status.
Illustration of Magog as the first king of Sweden, from Johannes Magnus' Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus, 1554 ed.. Magog (/ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ɒ ɡ /; Hebrew: מָגוֹג , romanized: Māgōg, Tiberian:; Ancient Greek: Μαγώγ, romanized: Magṓg) is the second of the seven sons of Japheth mentioned in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10.
The Yoruba, Igala, and Edo peoples of Nigeria use the word "agogô," which refers to a single or double clapperless bell. (Page 33 of Gourley et al. The name agogô and the idea of an instrumental were carried to the Americas by enslaved Africans, where they were revived and used in both form and function over time as circumstances allowed and ...
Recently launched media institute Agog is the latest organization to recognize XR (extended reality technology including VR) as a tool for empathy and an accelerator for social change. Co-founded ...
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The name "Gogmagog" is commonly derived from the biblical characters Gog and Magog; [1] however, Peter Roberts, author of an 1811 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut Tysilio (itself a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae), argued that it was a corruption of Cawr-Madog (' the giant or great warrior Madog '), supported by Ponticus Virunnius' spelling of the ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.