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Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌ æ d oʊ ˈ n eɪ. ɪ s / ) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [ 1 ]
This word is related to Adonai (Hebrew: אֲדֹנָי), one of the titles used to refer to the God of the Hebrew Bible and still used in Judaism to the present day. [7] The Syrian name for Adonis is Gauas. [8] The cult of Inanna and Dumuzid may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh. [9]
Hebrew Bible [ edit ] In the Hebrew Bible, adoni , with the suffix for the first person possessive, means "my lord", and is a term of respect that may refer to God [ 8 ] or to a human superior, [ 9 ] or occasionally an angel, whereas adonai (literally "my lords") is reserved for God alone.
Adonibezek, on the other hand, was captured, in a campaign following Joshua's death, in his city (Judges 1). His name is missing from the list of thirty-one city kings in Joshua 12:9-24, although he had subjugated seventy other kings in the Judge's account.
Memra d'Adonai – 'The Word of the L ORD ' (plus variations such as 'My Word') – restricted to the Aramaic Targums (the written Tetragrammaton is represented in various ways such as YYY, YWY, YY, but pronounced as the Hebrew Adonai) Mi She'amar V'haya Ha`olam – 'He who spoke, and the world came into being'.
The Adonia (Greek: Ἀδώνια) was a festival celebrated annually by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite. It is best attested in classical Athens , though other sources provide evidence for the ritual mourning of Adonis elsewhere in the Greek world, including Hellenistic Alexandria and Argos in the ...
Sinéad O'Connor’s final wishes for her children have been revealed.. The singer, who died at age 56 in July 2023, is survived by three children. At the time of her death, O’Connor’s estate ...
M. G. Easton, in the 1894 Easton's Bible Dictionary, identifies Adonizedek with a king of Jerusalem called `Abdi-Heba ("servant of Heba"), who around 1350 BC wrote several letters to the Pharaoh of Egypt. Six of his letters to the king of Egypt are included in the Amarna letters, [6] and he is mentioned in a seventh. [7]