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Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:43) (Acts 7:43) It is generally agreed by Biblical scholars to be the same as the Hebrew Kiyyun or Chiun ( Hebrew : כִּיּוּן ), mentioned in Amos 5:26 .
N. T. Wright differentiates between 'God' and 'god' when it refers to the deity or essentially a common noun. [7] Murray J. Harris wrote that in NA 26 (USB 3) θεος appears 1,315 times. [8] The Bible Translator reads that "when referring to the one supreme God... it frequently is preceded, but need not be, by the definite article" (Ho theos ...
[52] [53] The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g., Exodus 20:7 [54] or Psalms 8:1), [55] generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. [56] However, general references to the name of God may branch to other special forms which express his multifaceted attributes. [56]
Artist's view of a sacrifice to Moloch in Bible Pictures with brief descriptions by Charles Foster, 1897. Before 1935, all scholars held that Moloch was a pagan deity, [3] to whom child sacrifice was offered at the Jerusalem tophet. [4] Some modern scholars have proposed that Moloch may be the same god as Milcom, Adad-Milki, or an epithet for ...
Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form [citation needed] of the same, "Ṣil-Bēl," was borne by a king of Gaza who was a contemporary of Hezekiah and Manasseh. [2] The name "Bezalel" means "in the shadow [protection] of God."
Javan (Hebrew: יָוָן, romanized: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks .
Archaeologists working near Luxor announced a bevy of new finds they believe could “reconstruct history” thanks to the wealth of artifacts they discovered in a mixture of rock-cut tombs ...
Gad was the name of the pan-Semitic god of fortune, usually depicted as a male but sometimes as a female, [2] and is attested in ancient records of Aram and Arabia.God is also mentioned in the bible as a deity in the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 65:11 – some translations simply call him (the god of) Fortune), as having been worshipped by a number of Hebrews during the Babylonian captivity. [3]