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  2. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 hour (sha'ah) = 1080 parts (halaqim) (each heleq is 3⅓ seconds) 1 day = 24 hours (sha'ah) To complicate matters, Halakha, speaking of the relative hour, states that there are always 12 hours between the break of dawn and sunset, so these measurements are averages. For example, in the summer, a day time hour is much longer than a night time ...

  3. Witching hour - Wikipedia

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    In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.

  4. Canonical hours - Wikipedia

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    In the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches, the canonical hours may be referred to as the divine services, and the book of hours is called the horologion (Greek: Ὡρολόγιον). Despite numerous small differences in practice according to local custom, the overall order is the same among Byzantine Rite monasteries, although ...

  5. Watches of the night - Wikipedia

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    A "watch" in the bible is a period of time in which a watchman, guard, or a group of guards was to be on duty, especially during the night. The phrase today, as a collective plural , is a literary term used in a rhetoric manner for nighttime, particularly as a time when a person cannot sleep.

  6. Through a Glass Darkly - Wikipedia

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    "In a Mirror, Darkly", a 2005 episode of Star Trek Enterprise " Eu un Miroir, Obscurement ", a song by ambient drone band Natural Snow Buildings , from The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (2006) Through a Glass Productions , an American film and video production company

  7. Unequal hours - Wikipedia

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    Unequal hours are the division of the daytime and the nighttime into 12 sections each, whatever the season. They are also called temporal hours, seasonal hours, biblical or Jewish hours, as well as ancient or Roman hours (Latin: horae temporales). They are unequal duration periods of time because days are longer and nights shorter in summer ...

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  9. John 1:39 - Wikipedia

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    In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. The New International Version translates the passage as: "Come," he replied, "and you will see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day ...