The lifting of the hands so characterizes prayer in the Bible that it becomes a metonymy, a symbol for supplication without the need to identify it as prayer. For example, Jeremiah urges, "Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children ..." (Lamentations 2:19; Psalm 44:20; and...
Douay-Rheims BibleAnd Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids. 2 And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place:...
It has always been a mystery as to whether or not Jennie was pregnant when she died, and it appears that she has her hands on her stomach as if she was indeed pregnant. 1/49 S L I D E S H O W "King James Bible" Luke 10:19 "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on...