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  2. Priestly breastplate - Wikipedia

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    Symmachus, an ancient Jewish translator whose Greek translation of the Pentateuch appeared in Origen's Hexapla, has also written κεραύνιος in Exodus 28:17, literally meaning ‘of a thunderbolt’, following the resemblance of the Hebrew word bareḳet to the word baraḳ ‘lightning’. Jerome, however, understood the Greek word to ...

  3. Gemstones in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Emery - Hebrew ‮שָׁמִיר‬‎ shamir, Greek adamantinos, Latin adamas, adamantinus (Ezekiel 3:9; Zach. 7:12; Jer. 17:1). Many passages in the Bible point to the qualities of shamir, particularly its hardness. The Septuagint omits the passages of Ezekiel and Zachariah, while the first five verses of Jer. 17, are missing in the Cod.

  4. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

  5. Breastplate - Wikipedia

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    The first evidence for one-piece breastplates is from an altarpiece in the Pistoia cathedral dated to 1365. [4] Complete, lightweight, one or two-piece breastplates were readily used by the first decade of the 15th century. [4] [6] The French term pancier, which became English pauncher and German panzer, was also used.

  6. Damaris (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the name is uncertain. Proposals include derivation from damar δάμαρ "wife, spouse", a contraction of the classical Greek name Damarete Δαμαρέτη (attested as the name of a daughter of Theron of Acragas and wife of Gelo), or derivation from damalis δάμαλις "heifer"; a Coptic derivation has also been considered.

  7. Phoebe (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    The name Phoebe means "pure", "radiant", or "bright"; and was the name of a Titan in Greek mythology. [4] Some scholars believe Phoebe was responsible for delivering Paul's epistle to the Roman Christian church. [5] Phoebe is the only woman named as deacon (which means "servant" in Greek) in the Bible. [6]

  8. Great uncial codices - Wikipedia

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    Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek.

  9. Nomina sacra - Wikipedia

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    Greek culture also employed a number of ways of abbreviating even proper names, though none in quite the same form as the nomina sacra. Inspiration for the contracted forms (using the first and last letter) has also been seen in Revelation , where Jesus speaks of himself as "the beginning and the end" and "the first and the last" as well " the ...