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Traditionally, a scroll of Esther is given only one roller, fixed to its lefthand side, rather than the two used for a Torah scroll. [ 1 ] The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized:Megillat Ester; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah "), is a book in the ...
Esther. Esther, [a] originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [1] His grand vizier Haman is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian Mordecai because of ...
Iscah (Hebrew: יִסְכָּה Yīskā; Greek: Ἰεσχά) is the daughter of Haran and the niece of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. The passage in which Iscah is mentioned is extremely brief. As a result rabbinical scholars have developed theories to explain it, typically adopting the claim that Iscah was an alternate name for Sarah (Sarai ...
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh[ a ] (/ tɑːˈnɑːx /; [ 1 ] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have ...
The Book of Genesis (from Greek Γένεσις, Génesis; Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ('In the beginning'). Genesis is an ...
Nehushtan. In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4; written c. 550 BC), the Nehushtan (/ nəˈhʊʃtən /; Hebrew: נְחֻשְׁתָּן, romanized: Nəḥuštān [nəħuʃtaːn]) is the bronze image of a serpent on a pole. The image is described in the Book of Numbers, where Yahweh instructed Moses to erect it so that the Israelites who ...
An alternate understanding is that this is not a proper name but a Hebrew phrase meaning "bridge of the mother-city" (e.g. Revised Version), which would refer to the Philistine capital at Gath. [2] The parallel text at 1 Chronicles 18:1 refers to Gath and this interpretation is followed also by the NLT , ASV , and NASB .