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Methuselah (US: / m ə ˈ θ uː z ˌ l ɑː /; Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח Məṯūšélaḥ, in pausa מְתוּשָׁלַח Məṯūšālaḥ, "His death shall send" or "Man of the Javelin" or "Death of Sword"; [1] Greek: Μαθουσάλας Mathousalas) [2] was a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs. Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake. Martyrs of Tlaxcala, 1527-1529. Felix Manz, 1527. Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr. George Blaurock, 1529.
Caleb, son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah (Book of Numbers, Numbers 13:6), is not to be confused with Caleb, great-grandson of Judah through Tamar (1 Chronicles 2:3–9). This other Caleb was the son of Hezron, and his wife was Azubah (1 Chronicles 2:18,19). According to Numbers 13, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, was one of the twelve spies ...
Christian martyr. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1] In the years of the early church, stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake, or other forms of torture and capital punishment.
List of Servants of God. In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint. [1] The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process. The next step is being declared Venerable ...
Moses[note 1] was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader [2] according to Abrahamic tradition. He is considered the most important prophet in Judaism [3][4] and Samaritanism, and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, [5] the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, [6] Moses ...
There are three explicit examples in the Hebrew Bible of people being resurrected from the dead: The prophet Elijah prays and God raises a young boy from death (1 Kings 17:17–24) Elisha raises the son of the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:32–37); this was the very same child whose birth he previously foretold (2 Kings 4:8–16)
This is a List of 1,089 Early Christian saints— saints before 450 AD— in alphabetical order by Christian name. Wikipedia contains a calendar of saints listed by the day of the year on which they are traditionally venerated, as well as a Chronological list of saints and blesseds , listed by their date of death.