Noun1.exegesis- an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) Christian Bible,Good Book,Holy Scripture,Holy Writ,Scripture,Bible,Word of God,Book,Word- the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" ...
Giant oysters, so numerous they covered the ground like stones, were waiting in abundance for the weary travelers. Many of them contained pearls—much to the colonist’s delight. To visualize the pearly gates of heaven, being formed out of ONE pearl, is unfathomable. Streets of gold, so ...
of Biblical literature. Historically, exegetes have recognized four levels of meaning in the Bible: the historical or literal, the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogical or mystical, putting emphasis on the necessity of a foundation for the latter three in the literal sense. —exegete,n....
The meaning is clear. The garden was a temple for God. Like the temple, the garden was the joining together of God’s space and man’s space—the intersection of the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. For this reason, Isaiah called it ‘the garden of the Lord,’ and Ezekiel called...
Derivation of the botanical name: Lilium, Latin li, white; +lium, flower; Greek leirion, the name applied to the eastern Mediterranean Lilium candidum (candidum, meaning shining or pure white.) The Hebrew word Shoshan (shushan) from Aramaic: shoshanta, שושנתא (rose); Arabi...
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There are times when context supports that a word still carries the meaning of its parts. εἰσέρχομαι (εἰς + πορεύομαι) means “to go into.” ἐξέρχομαι (ἐξ + ἔρχομαι) means “to go out.” But we can’t assume this is...
I drew this picture maybe two or three years ago. It deals with how the church sometimes translated the Bible in such a way that the (egalitarian) meaning of the text does not come through, and then church members pointed to those translations to “prove” their point. ...
Also known as Ada, this name is of both Hebrew and Germanic origins, meaning to be adorned, to be happy, or to be noble. It has two mentions in the Holy Bible, both times in Genesis albeit as a background character. It’s better known for the first female computer programmer, Ada ...
There are tons of animals in the Bible, and the snake is one of the creatures God created. Even though at creation the snake was innocent and is just an animal. The Bible paints the story of the snake and it’s deep symbolic meaning. From the book of Gensis to end in the book of...