meaning to the word; but elsewhere (Ant. 1.c.) he calls it the sardonyx. ⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. (For other significations, see Gesenius, Thes. Heb. page 26.) SEE SARDIUS. 2. Pitdah', פַּטרָה (Exodus 1.c.; Eze 28:13; Job...
in Hebrews chapter 42: 11), and bore in Hebrew the name of סֵלִע, Sela, which has the same meaning as Petra in Greek, viz. "a rock," that circumstance has led to the conjecture that the Petra of the Nabathaeans had been the Sela of Edom. SEE SELAH. This latter ...
There were many biblical allusions throughout the text The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland. Style, like Church, concerns the contrast and ambiguity of good intentions and ill intentions. A biblical allusion found in The Things They Carried was...
But κρίνον, or 'lily,' is the uniform rendering of the Sept., and is, in all probability, the true one, as it is supported by the analogy of the Arabic and Persian susan, which has the same meaning to this day, and by the existence of the same word in Syriac and ...