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Gemstones in the Bible; Genealogies in the Bible; List of major biblical figures; List of minor Old Testament figures, A–K; List of minor Old Testament figures, L–Z; List of minor New Testament figures; List of biblical places; List of animals in the Bible; List of plants in the Bible; List of women in the Bible; List of names for the ...
At the time of the Septuagint translation, the stones to which the Hebrew names apply could no longer be identified, and translators used various Greek words to translate the same Hebrew word [1]. The ancients did not classify gemstones by analyzing their composition or crystalline shapes: names were given in accordance with appearance (color ...
A T-shaped cross. Also called the Saint Anthony's cross, the Saint Francis' cross and crux commissa. Saltire or crux decussata (Saint Andrew's cross) An X-shaped cross associated with St. Andrew, patron of Scotland, and so a national symbol of that country. The shape is that of the cross on which Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred. Also ...
The Household Bible Dictionary [42] James Aitken Wylie: 1870 Beeton's Bible Dictionary [43] Samuel Orchart Beeton: 1871 A Bible dictionary for the use of all readers and students of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments of the books of the Apocrypha [44] Charles Boutell: Reissued as Haydn's Bible Dictionary (1879), named for Joseph ...
The Catholic Bible contains 73 books; the additional seven books are called the Apocrypha and are considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but not by other Christians. When citing the Latin Vulgate , chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Hebrew Bible words and phrases (3 C, ... This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The reality is more complex, with some words having two or no marks and the musical meaning of some marks dependent upon context. There are different sets of musical phrases associated with different sections of the Bible. The music varies with different Jewish traditions and individual cantorial styles.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.