The Names of God in the New Testament:In the Greco-Roman cultural and religious context in which the New Testament was written, gods had names that either described their attributes, or were proper names whose original meaning had long since been forgotten. The God of the Jews, on the ...
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Check out these other names from mythology. 62. Berenice. The Latinization of a Greek name that means “bringing victory,” Berenice also appears in the New Testament as Bernice. The name is powerful as well as feminine. 63. Devika. In Hindi, this name means “little goddess”—the perfec...
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The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament. Adjectival derivatives have been excerpted from 15 full and 6 incomplete translations of the New Testament,...
Colin is a medieval nickname for Nicholas, which comes from Greek and means "victory of the people," but Colin is also the anglicized version of the Gaelic name Cailean, which is tied to a word meaning "dove." Andrew is an apostle in the New Testament, and the name is rooted in th...
A placename from the New Testament. Bethel Hebrew— The house of God. Bethesda Hebrew— A house of mercy. A place mentioned in the Bible. Bethia Hebrew— The daughter of God. Bethshaya English— Beth, Shaya, Shay Betrys Welsh— The blessed one. She who brings joy. Form of Beatrice. ...
Very often, however, the impression is created that New Testament authors wrote in a linguistic vacuum. The present study has a double aim: first, to offer a comprehensive analysis of the use made of both names in the various branches of ancient Jewish literature; second, and only on the ...
For the past thirty-eight years -- from1969 to 2001 as the Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (which was renamed the Palmer Theological Seminary in 2005) and from 2001 to the present as a Professor Emeritus at the Seminary--I have enjoye...