Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Today, the scientific name of one species of gazelle is Gazella dorcas, the dorcas gazelle. [ 10 ] The Greek verb used in Acts 9:36 is διερμηνεύω , transliterated diermēneuō, which means "to interpret fully, to explain", and in this passage it is rendered " is by interpretation ", which in context leads to the literal meaning ...
Dorcas is a female given name. It derives from Dorcas ( Ancient Greek : Δορκάς , romanized : Dorkás ; Imperial Aramaic : טביתא , romanized: Ṭabītā ), a figure from Acts of the Apostles ( 9:36–42 ) in the New Testament .
Moganshan. Mount Mogan or Moganshan (Chinese: 莫干山; pinyin: Mògān Shān) is a mountain located in Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, 60 kilometers from the provincial capital Hangzhou and 200 km from Shanghai. It is part of the Moganshan National Park and at its base is the small town of Moganshan.
The Household Bible Dictionary [42] James Aitken Wylie: 1870 Beeton's Bible Dictionary [43] Samuel Orchart Beeton: 1871 A Bible dictionary for the use of all readers and students of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments of the books of the Apocrypha [44] Charles Boutell: Reissued as Haydn's Bible Dictionary (1879), named for Joseph ...
The name was common in 18th century New England, and of those born between 1718 and 1745, ranked about 31st as most common female given names, about 0.56% of the population. [ citation needed ] The name gained a resurgence in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was ranked among the 200 most popular names for girls.
Village name during the kingdoms of Israel, Judah until the Siege of Jerusalem (930 BC to 587 BC): Paleo-Hebrew: 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤋𐤄𐤌 [1] [2] Pronunciation: Bayawt Lahawm Meaning: House of Bread Village name from 587 BC through the time of Christ: Aramaic: בית לחם Pronunciation: Beit Lekhem Meaning: House of Bread Beth Shemesh: Village
Both Eusebius (in his Onomasticon, a Bible dictionary) and Jerome reported that Paran was a city in Paran desert, in Arabia Deserta (beyond Arabia Nabataea), southeast of Eilat Pharan. Onomasticon , under Pharan , states: "(Now) a city beyond Arabia adjoining the desert of the Saracens [who wander in the desert] through which the children of ...
Endor (Biblical Hebrew: עֵין־דֹּר/עֵין דּוֹר, romanized: ʿĒn-Dor or עֵין־דֹּאר ) was listed in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 17:11) as one of the Canaanite cities the Israelites failed to dispossess, neither the city nor its dependencies. [1] It was located between the Hill of Moreh and Mount Tabor in the Jezreel ...