6 While they were drinking wine, the king said to Esther, “What is it, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you.” Read full chapter Greek Esther 5:6 in all English translationsGreek Esther 7:2 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2 And the second day, as they were ...
(in continued negation) neither or nor; also, not even -- neither, (n-)or, so as much. see GREEK me see GREEK te HELPS Word-studies 3383 mḗte (from 3361 /mḗ, "not a possibility" and 5037 /té, "both-also") – properly, both-also not, i.e. neither also, nor ...
Word Origin:Derived from a primary root word in Greek, related to pressing or treading. Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries:-H3342 (יַקְבֵּי, yeqeb):Refers to a winepress or vat. -H1660 (גַּת, gath):Another term for a winepress, often used in the c...
A dithyramb was a religious hymn in honor of Dionysus, and the Dionysiac origin of tragedy was in antiquity taken for granted, Dionysus being the god of theater as much as the god of wine, vegetation, and fertility. However, tragedy lost its Dionysiac associations very early, and only one ...
The Sceptics insisted that things appear differently to different species (woodlice taste good to bears but not to people), and differently to different members of the same species (honey seems bitter to some and sweet to others), and differently to the same person at different times (wine tas...
And now that we mention Biblical Hebrew, the story of the building of the temple in Jerusalem is not so much about a physical building but rather the Hebrew language (see our article on YHWH for more on this). And to be wholly precise: with the word Hebrew, we mean the entire cluster...
Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call “unscientific,” using this word as a smear...
On the second day of this festival they chewed buckthorn, presumably to get rid of spirits; and a vase painting of the feast shows ghosts emerging from a πίθος, which was ostensibly a wine jar, but it could have been a casket for the dead. In the autumn the Eleusinian ...
That word “as” carries a huge load with it. It’s not the regular word for “as” in Greek, which is also a two-letter word. The word John uses is a compound word that has the sense of its root words: “love one anotheraccording to the wayI loved you.” The theme of this ...
Dionysus is the god of wine, pleasure and festivity. 3.2.2 Some Greek Myths (1) Myth of the Sun The Greeks believe that the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot driven by Apollo. Apollo is the brother of Artemis (the goddess of the hunt and the moon) and he himself is ...