For the present, it needs to be said that the name El bears not only the connotation of might, but also the idea of the transcendence of the Deity. If the name El was a general term for the divinity in the thought of the peoples of the Bible Lands and Middle E of antiquity, the ...
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Combination of Letters A and J; powerful and complete Allston Noble One's Settlement Almanzo The explanation given by Laura Ingalls Wilder for her husband, Almanzo's, name is that it was derived from an Arabian benefactor to his ancestors by the name of Al-Mansour, meaning 'the victorious'....
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21 Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the ·Temple [tent of meeting; Tabernacle].22 In all, two hundred twelve men were chosen ·to guard the gates [L as gatekeepers at the thresholds], and their names were written in their ·family histories [genalogical...
Stephens (Personal names from Cuneiform Inscriptions of Cappadocia [1928]); and Greek: Fritz Bechtel and A. Fick (Die griechischen Personennamen [1894]). Added to these lists are Jewish names recorded in the 5th cent. b.c. Elephantine Aram. papyri; the Lachish letters and the Samaritan ...
The following names and transcriptions of the names of God are found in rabbinical writings (the names mentioned in the Bible also are not given):For the Name of Yhwh. For Elohim.For Adonai. Cabalistic. By transposition of letters (see Mezuzah): Special Appellations. Bibliography: Maimonides...
there is a far wider range of female names in use than male names and greater regional variation. This is mostly because John was so popular for men that it took the lion's share of the percentage of all masculine names and as only names with 0.2% usage or more are listed, the rarer...
There are quite a few names in the Bible that belong to more than one character — with the record holder being Zechariah; there may be up to thirty different men named Zechariah mentioned in the Bible — but the majority of names are assigned to only one person. The now so very ...
of the gemstone, which comes from a Semitic word meaning "speckled stone." Jasper is the usual English form for one of the Three Wise Men who brought gifts to the infant Christ according to medieval tradition and appears in the Bible as a reference to the stone itself in Revelations 4:3...