Habakkuk

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (ḥăḇaqqūq). The name perhaps comes from חָבַק (ḥāḇaq, “embrace”), or perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu [ḫa-am-ba-qu-qu], “garden herb”).

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Hab. (alternative)
Habacuc (alternative)

1988, Robert D. Haak, ""Poetry" in Habakkuk 1:1–2:4?". Journal of the American Oriental Society 108 (3): 437–444.
The present study concentrates on the various types of parallelism which may be observed within the prophetic text Habakkuk 1:1–2:4.

(biblical) A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.

Of Habakkuk's personal life nothing is known with certainty, though it has been inferred, from the fact that he is termed specifically 'the prophet,' that he held a recognized position as prophet[…], and belonged, consequently, to the tribe of Levi.

1906, S. R. Driver, The Minor Prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, The Century Bible, page 49:

(biblical) A Jewish prophet of the Old Testament; author of the book that bears his name.


Zephaniah

(biblical) Hebrew prophet associated with the Book of Zephaniah


Haggai

Hebrew חַגַּי

(biblical) Hebrew prophet associated with the Book of Haggai.


Zechariah

Book of Zechariah
Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)
Zechariah (priest)
Zechariah of Israel

/ˌzɛkəˈɹaɪ.ə/

From Hebrew זְכַרְיָה (zəḵaryā, “the Lord has remembered”).

Zachariah (alternative)
Zacharias (alternative)
Zecharia (alternative)
Zakariah (alternative)

(biblical) A king of Israel mentioned in the second book of Kings.

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

(biblical) A Hebrew prophet traditionally considered the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Sagaria

(biblical) A Hebrew priest, the father of John the Baptist.


Malachi

→ Fijian: Malakai

→ English: Malakai (with Tongan Malakai)

→ Tongan: Malakai

→ English: Malakai (with Fijian Malakai)

From Latin Mālāchiās, from Ancient Greek Μαλαχίας (Malakhías), from Hebrew מַלְאָכִי (mal'achi, malʼāḵî, literally “my messenger”), singular form of מַלְאָךְ (mal'akh, “angel; messenger; ambassadors”) with first-person singular personal pronoun as possessor.

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.


Akkub

(biblical) Any of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible.

Acube

any of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible


Law

A semantic loan of Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”), rendering Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrāh, “instruction, teaching”) in the sense of divine law.

(Christianity, biblical) the commandments in the Books of Moses, sometimes seen as transcended by Christ


versification

en-noun

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

(biblical) The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses


Nathan

en-proper noun

Nathan (countable and uncountable, plural Nathans)

From Hebrew נָתָן (natán, “gave”). Also short for Jonathan.

And Dauids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die. And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie. And Nathan said to Dauid, Thou art the man: […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:5–7:

(biblical) An Old Testament prophet who advised King David.


Davidic

(biblical) Of, or relating to the Biblical King David and his descendants.


Levi

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (Leví), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Lewi.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26:

(biblical) The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.


Salome

From Ancient Greek Σαλώμη (Salṓmē), from Hebrew שְׁלוֹמִית (sh'lomít) (belonging to the same root as שָׁלוֹם (shalóm, “peace”)).

en:Salome
en:Salome (disambiguation)
en:Salome (disciple)
en:Salome (given name)

(biblical) A woman mentioned in Mark 16:1, present at the crucifixion of Christ.


Hebrews

(biblical) The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to the Hebrews.

ਇਬਰਾਨੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ

ibarānīā̃ nū̃


Shemaiah

From the Biblical Hebrew שְׁמַעְיָה (“[whom] God heard”).

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(biblical) Any of several people in the Tanakh, and Christian Old Testament:

A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24).

A Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his brethren took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron (1 Chr. 15:8).

The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4-8).

A false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 6:10).

A prince of Judah who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:34-36).

A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32).

One of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law (2 Chr. 17:8).

A Levite appointed to "distribute the oblations of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:15).

The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20).

The father of a prince in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:12).

A rabbinic sage who was leader of the Pharisees in 1st century BC.


cataracts

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Late Middle English cataractes, cataractis, cateractes, used to translate καταρράκται (katarrháktai, “(probably) floodgates, sluices”) in the Septuagint and cataractae (“floodgates, sluices”) in the Vulgate versions of the Bible. The Middle English words are plural forms of cataract, cataracta, cateract, cateracte (“floodgate of heaven”), from Old French cataracte (modern French cataracte), and from its etymon Latin cataracta (“floodgate; waterfall”), from Ancient Greek καταρ(ρ)άκτης (katar(rh)áktēs, “(noun) waterfall; (adjective) rushing downwards”), from καταρ(ρ)ᾱ́σσω (katar(rh)ā́ssō, “to pour down; to rush downwards”) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming nouns denoting a state of being). Καταρ(ρ)ᾱ́σσω (Katar(rh)ā́ssō) is derived either:
* from κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-, prefix meaning ‘downwards’) + ἀρᾰ́σσω (arắssō, “to dash to pieces; to strike”) (further etymology unknown, possibly onomatopoeic) or ῥᾱ́σσω (rhā́ssō, “to dash; to strike”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₂ǵʰ- (“to pound, strike”)); or
* from καταρρηγνύναι (katarrhēgnúnai, “to break down”).
By surface analysis, cataract + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).

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faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke and other Editions in diuerse languages.

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καταρ(ρ)άκτης

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No ſooner hee [Noah] vvith them of Man and Beaſt / Select for life ſhall in the Ark be lodg'd, / And ſhelterd round, but all the Cataracts / Of Heav'n ſet open on the Earth ſhall povvre / Raine day and night, […]

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Rr3], verso, lines 818–822:

(biblical, obsolete) The floodgates of heaven, regarded as holding back the rain.


Esau

From Ancient Greek Ἡσαῦ (Hēsaû), from Biblical Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿēśāw).

And the boyes grew; and Eſau was a cunning hunter, a man of the fielde: and Iacob was a plaine man, dwelling in tents.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:27, column 2:

(biblical) The son of Isaac and Rebekah and the older twin brother of Jacob.


Absalom

From Hebrew אַבְשָׁלוֹם (avshalóm, literally “father of peace”), from אָב (av, “father”) + שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”).

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A student who doesn't know the slow movement of Schubert's B-flat major op post sonata, or the story of David and Absalom, needs to go back to school and learn better.

2017 February 23, Conor Friedersdorf, “20 Ideas From the Mind of David Gelernter”, in The Atlantic:

(biblical) The third son of David, king of Israel.


Edom

Via Late Latin Edōm from Koine Greek Ἐδώμ (Edṓm) from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם (ʾĔḏōm).

(biblical) The name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible.


Joab

(biblical) The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah


Jared

en-prop

Jared (countable and uncountable, plural Jareds)

From Latin Iared, from Ancient Greek Ἰαρέδ (Iaréd), from Biblical Hebrew יֶרֶד (yéred). Often explained as deriving from the root י־ר־ד (y-r-d), which forms words relating to descending (see Jordan and ירדן for more); some interpret the Book of Enoch as suggesting that the Jared in the Bible was so named because it was in his time that two hundred angels descended from Heaven to Mount Hermon. Alternatively, sometimes explained as deriving from the root ר־ד־ה (r-d-), which forms words relating to ruling.

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:19:

(biblical) A man mentioned in the Book of Genesis, a descendant of Adam and of Seth, the father of Enoch, an ancestor of Noah.


Boaz

Then said Boaz vnto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Goe not to gleane in another field, neither goe from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 2:8:

(biblical) The second husband of Ruth, the father of Obed, the son of Salmon


Caleb

From Late Latin Caleb, Calebus, from Koine Greek Χάλεβ (Kháleb), from Biblical Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kālēḇ), possibly related to כֶּלֶב (keleḇ, “dog”), referring to the unconditional devotion of dogs to their masters.

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

(biblical) Caleb the son of Jephunneh, an Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.


Cain

From Hebrew קַיִן (Káyin, “craftsman”), present since Old English.

According to the Book of Jubilees Cain got married to his sister Awan.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to paſſe when they were in the field, that Cain roſe vp againſt Abel his brother, and ſlew him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:8, column 2:

(biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel.


AMP

(biblical) Abbreviation of Amplified Bible.


burnt offering

/bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/

/bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/

PIE word
 *h₁epi
From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.

noncog

[…] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job j:[5], folio i, recto, column 2:

When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 14:12, column 2:

(biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.


Immanuel

Immanuels (plural)
Emmanuel (alternative)

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).

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Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél)

Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 7:14:

(biblical) A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.

(Christianity) This figure, regarded by Christians as the Messiah or Christ.


Goliath

(biblical) A giant who, according to the Bible, was vanquished in battle with King David.


Hagar

From Hebrew הָגָר (Hagar, “stranger”). Compare Arabic هَاجَر (hājar), Tiberian Hebrew הָגָר (Hāḡār).

(biblical) The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.


Ahaz

From Hebrew אָחָז (acház, “owns”), a contraction of יְהוֹאָחָז (yeho'acház, “Jah has held”). Attested to in Akkadian as 𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 (Iaúḥazi).

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of LORD his God, like David his father.

(biblical) A king of Judah mentioned in the book of Kings.


Hezekiah

/ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/

From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (chizkiyá, “Hezekiah”).

Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 29:1-2:


bulrush

bulrushes (plural)
bullrush (alternative)

From Middle English bulrish, perhaps from bule (“bull”) (in the sense of "large") plus rish (“rush”).

Cyperus papyrus
Cyperus papyrus#Translingual

(biblical) A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).


Corinthians

(biblical) Either of the two books in the New Testament of the Bible that are written as epistles to the people of Corinth and which are attributed to Paul the Apostle, Sosthenes and Timothy.


Philippians

(biblical) The eleventh book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Philippians.


Josue

(biblical, Douay Version) Obsolete form of Joshua.


Pilate

The surname is from Latin Pīlātus (“a Roman cognomen”, literally “armed with javelins”), from pilum (“javelin, pestle”), of unknown ultimate origin.

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I was 'round when Jesus Christ / Had his moment of doubt and pain / Made damn sure that Pilate / Washed his hands and sealed his fate

1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

(biblical) Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.


Jeremias

/ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈmaɪəs/

Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias or one of the prophets.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:14:

(biblical) New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah.


Samson

From Middle English Sampson, Sampsoun, Samson, from Latin Samson, from Ancient Greek Σαμψών (Sampsṓn), from Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן.

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Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן

And Delilah ſaid to Samſon, Tel me, I pray thee, wherein thy great ſtrength lyeth, and wherewith thou mighteſt be bound, to afflict thee.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 16:6:

(biblical) An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.


Canaan

Canaan
Canaan (disambiguation)
Great Vowel Shift
Wycliffe's Bible

Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'ná'an). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.

Chanaan (alternative)
Caanan (alternative)

And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.


hyssop

en-noun

hyssop (countable and uncountable, plural hyssops)

Via Latin hȳsōpum, from Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos), of Semitic origin.

Origanum syriacum
Origanum syriacum#Translingual

(biblical) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.


Deborah

Deborahs (plural)
Debra (alternative)
Debora (alternative)

From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.

And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.


Josiah

/d͡ʒoʊˈzaɪə/

From Biblical Hebrew יֹאשִׁיָּה (yōšiyyā), יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ (yōšiyyā́hū).


Galatians

/ɡəˈleɪʃənz/

(biblical) The ninth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians.


Naomi

From Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, literally “my pleasantness”), from נועם / נֹעַם (nó'am, “pleasantness”) + ־ִי (-í, “my, of me”).

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And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:

(biblical) The mother-in-law of the Biblical figure Ruth.


Elijah

→ Hawaiian: ʻElia

→ Maori: Irāia

From Hebrew אליהו (Eliyahu, “My God is Yahweh”). Doublet of Ilya. Compare Joel. See also Arabic إلياس.

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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 4:5–6:

(Abrahamism, biblical) An Israelite prophet in the Abrahamic religions.


Barnabas

From Ancient Greek Βαρναβᾶς (Barnabâs), from Aramaic בַרְנֶבֻאָה (barneḇú’â, literally “prophet's son”), from בּר (bar, “son of”) and נְבִיָּא (nəḇiyyā, “prophet”).

And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation, ) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

(biblical) An early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem


Silas

From Latin Sīlās, from Ancient Greek Σίλας (Sílas), from Aramaic שְׁאִילָא (šəʾīlā), cognate of Hebrew שָׁאוּל (šāʾūl, “Saul”). Doublet of Saul.

Aramaic שְׁאִילָא (šəʾīlā)

(biblical) The companion of Paul in the New Testament, also called Silvanus.


Lodebar

Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 9:5:

(biblical) A place where David found a member of the family of Saul.


Jethro

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִתְרוֹ (yitró).


Colossians

(biblical) The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.

歌羅西書 /歌罗西书

Gŏ̤-lò̤-să̤ Cṳ̆


Sina

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:30:


CKJV

(biblical) Initialism of Chinese King James Version (of the Bible).


Golgotha

* From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā).
* (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".

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גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא

Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā)

sense

"And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha"

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:17:

(biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.


Ten Commandments

the Ten Commandments (canonical plural)
ten commandments (alternative)

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים ('aséret had'varím, “the ten items”), from Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4.

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עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.

2024 November 12, Lauren Mascarenhas and Isabel Rosales, “Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments”, in CNN:

(biblical) A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets.


Elisha

From Biblical Hebrew אֱלִישָׁע (Elisha').

(biblical) A prophet, a disciple and successor of Elijah.


Thessalonians

(biblical) Books in the New Testament of the Bible (1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians), epistles to the Christians in ancient Thessaloniki.


Nimrod

Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.

1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas, page 80:

In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'.[…]In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.

2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City, page 1:

The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.

2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page:

(biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.


Nevi'im

Hebrew נְבִיאִים (n'vi’ím, “Nevi'im”, literally “prophets”)

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(biblical) A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh) that is known in English as the Prophets. This section is subdivided into two sections, the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets. The Latter Prophets is further subdivided into the Major Prophets and the Minor Prophets (known as the Twelve).


balteus

Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt, girdle”).

bor+

(biblical) The girdle of a biblical Jewish priest.


lord of the flies

Calque of Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל זְבוּב (baʿal zəḇûḇ, “fly-lord, Beelzebub”), which in turn is a mistranslation of the name of the Semitic devil Baal-zevuv.

calque

בַּעַל זְבוּב

(idiomatic, biblical) a ruler over a worthless kingdom; leader of a meaningless microcosm.


Jezebel

/ˈd͡ʒɛzəˌbɛl/

Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).

“I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take. Who was Jezebel, by the way? The name seems familiar, but I can't place her.” “A character in the Old Testament, sir. A queen of Israel.” “Of course, yes. Be forgetting my own name next. Eaten by dogs, wasn't she?” “Yes, sir.” “Can't have been pleasant for her.” “No, sir.” “Still, that's the way the ball rolls.”

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:

(biblical) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.


Javan

From Hebrew יוון / יָוָן (yaván), identified with Greece.

he-m

יוון / יָוָן (yaván)


Rebekah

From Hebrew רִבְקָה (Riḇqāh, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

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And Isaac was fortie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the ſiſter to Laban the Syrian.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:20:

(biblical) The sister of Laban; Isaac's wife; the mother of Jacob and Esau.


blameshift

en-verb

blameshift (third-person singular simple present blameshifts, present participle blameshifting, simple past and past participle blameshifted)

blameshifts (present singular third-person)
blameshifting (participle present)
blameshifted (participle past)
blameshifted (past)

(biblical) To blame another for one's own wrong-doing. Blameshifting can be caused by pointing the finger at another when trying to save one's own skin.


Shem

From Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from Hebrew שם (Šēm).

(biblical) The oldest son of Noah, brother to Ham and Japheth.


Japheth

Aelfric of Eynsham
James Tissot
Wycliffe's Bible

From Middle English Jafeth (as attested in Wycliffe's Bible), from Old English Iafeth (see e.g. Aelfric of Eynsham) and Middle French Japhet, both from Late Latin Iaphet, Iafeth, from Koine Greek Ἰάφεθ (Iápheth), from Hebrew יֶפֶת (yépheth). Further origin uncertain; folk etymology as well as rabbinical and patristic claims usually point to a meaning like "enlarged", in reference to Genesis 9:27, or "fair" (pale, in reference to complexion).

Jafeth (alternative)
Japhet (alternative)
Iapheth (alternative)
Iapetus (alternative)
Japetus (alternative)

To the sons of Japheth; Spain, France, Greece, Germany, Asia Minor, Circassia, and Europe in general...Gomer: his numerous descendants spread themselves over a considerable part of Asia Minor, and the north of Europe.

1856, Sir John Stoddart, The student's handbook of ancient history: from the earliest records to the fall of the western empire, page 6:

The name Japheth (Yahpheth) the extender, or fair, has also been given by one who knows the character from the beginning. Japheth's posterity was to be fair, and spread over the world. Two derivations are given to the name...

1897, Jonathan Perkins Weethee, The Eastern Question, in Its Various Phases: Egyptian, British, Russian, Ottoman, Hebrew, American, and Messianic, page 164:

The Septuagint (LXX) Greek was considered by the rabbis as the only language capable of serving as a translation of the Hebrew...In rabbinic interpretation, Japheth represented the Greeks, Shem the Hebrews.

2004, Charles Kannengiesser, Handbook of patristic exegesis: the Bible in ancient Christianity, →ISBN:

Now, in 1620, the Orthodox group took advantage of a visit by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophanes, who in October of that year [said] of the Cossacks: "We all know about the Cossacks, that these chivalrous men are of our race, are of our kin, and are true Orthodox Christians...They are the descendants of the glorious Rus', of the seed of Japheth who fought Byzantine Greece on land and on sea."

2010, Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 202:

(biblical) The third son of Noah, brother to Shem and Ham, who received a blessing from God with Shem, considered to be the ancestor of the Japhetic people(s) (associated approx. with Indo-Europeans).


Enoch

From Late Latin Enoch, from Ancient Greek Ἑνώχ (Henṓkh), from Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ).

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Hebrew חֲנוֹךְ (Ḥănôḵ)

Enoch was the son of Jared, and was Noah’s great grandfather.

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:24:

(biblical) In the Bible, one of the few people recorded as being taken by God before death.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:


Melchizedek

From Hebrew מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק (malkî-ṣed̠eq). The name literally means “righteousness is my king”.

uder

מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק

Hebrew מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק (malkî-ṣed̠eq)

Melchisedech (alternative)
Melchizedec (alternative)

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 14:18:

(biblical) A king and priest mentioned in the book of Genesis; contemporary of Abraham.


Tabitha

From Aramaic טביתא (Ṭabītā’, “doe, roe, gazelle”), translated as Dorcas in the Bible.

Now there was at Ioppa a certain disciple, named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: This woman was full of good works, and almes deeds, which she did.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 9:36:

(biblical) A woman who was, according to the Bible, restored to life by Peter.


potter's clay

en-noun

potter's clay (countable and uncountable, plural potter's clays)

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I am the potter’s clay.

We are but potter’s clay.

(idiomatic, biblical) A person or people created and shaped by God.

And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 2:41:

In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom.

1971. Old Testament, NASB Version, Daniel 2:41

(idiomatic, biblical) A nation or kingdom.


Eli

From Hebrew עֵלִי (“ascent”); cognate to the Arabic-derived Ali.

(biblical) The priest who brought up Samuel.


broken vessel

From Old Testament symbolism that people are like clay vessels.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:12:

I am a broken vessel, Lord
rubble where a soul should be.

2000. Jill Alexander Essbaum, Kenosis (poem). Published in Heaven, University Press of New England, p. 48:http://books.google.com/books?id=vDQpQ8AzLPAC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22i+am+a+broken+vessel%22&source=web&ots=ZTM7SmiZUK&sig=sfLc4PEUu7-tAY4q63i8dIofxsE#PPA48,M1

2005. Kara Williamson, quote in Undisguised, the new project by singer/songwriter Kara Williamson, Your Guide to Christian Music, Gospel, Feb 4 2005.https://web.archive.org/web/20060529091348/http://christianmusic.about.com/od/upcomingreleases/a/aakaraWundisg.htm
I’m a broken vessel—thankfully, God uses broken vessels.

(idiomatic, biblical) A person who is destroyed or forgotten, or who feels flawed or broken.


Lois

From Ancient Greek Λωΐς (Lōḯs), of obscure meaning. Unrelated to Louise or Louisa.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

(biblical) The grandmother of Timothy who is mentioned in an epistle to him.


Laban

From Middle English Laban, from Latin Laban, from Koine Greek Λάβαν (Lában), from Biblical Hebrew לָבָן (Lāḇān).

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

(biblical) The brother of Rebekah and uncle of Jacob and Esau.


Edomite

[ˈiɾɪ̈mʌɪ̯t̚]

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 36:9:

(biblical) A person descended from Esau (Edom).


Simeon

From Middle English Simeon, from Latin Simeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sŭmeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, “hearkening, listening”), originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob. Doublet of Simon.

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Now the ſonnes of Iacob were twelue. 23 The ſonnes of Leah: Reuben Iacobs firſt borne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Iſſachar, and Zebulun. 24 The ſonnes of Rachel: Ioſeph, and Beniamin. 25 And the ſonnes of Bilhah, Rachels handmaid: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the ſonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Aſher. Theſe are the ſonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22–26, column 2:

(biblical) Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

And the ſecond lot came foorth to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Iudah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 19:1, column 2:

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Simeon.


Naphtali

From Biblical Hebrew נַפְתָּלִי (naftalí), a son of Jacob. Compare Arabic نافس (“to compete with”).

(biblical) Sixth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Bilhah.

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Naphtali.


Asher

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26::

(biblical) The eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 21:30:

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Asher.


Issachar

/ˈɪ.səˌkɑː(ɹ)/

From Biblical Hebrew יִשָּׂשכָר (“Issachar”), a son of Jacob.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26:

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 21:28:

(biblical) Ninth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Issachar.


Zebulun

Old Testament Hebrew זְבֻלוּן (zebulun), a son of Jacob.

(biblical) Tenth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Zebulun.


Zilpah

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22-26:

(biblical) Handmaid of Leah and mother of Gad and Asher.


Bilhah

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 35:22b-26:

(biblical) A handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali.


Gilead

Is there no balme in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 8:22:

Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!

1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:

(biblical) A region east of the Jordan river.


NWT

N.W.T. (alternative)
N. W. T. (alternative)

w:New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

(biblical) Initialism of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.


Caspar

A name given to one of the Magi in Western church tradition, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more. Compare Hatran Aramaic 𐣢𐣦𐣡𐣣𐣩 (gzbry /Gazzabray/, “a given name”), also from Iranian.

cog

Jasper (alternative)
Gaspar (alternative)
Casper (alternative)
Kaspar (alternative)
Kasper (alternative)
Kosper (alternative)
Cosper (alternative)
Gosper (alternative)


Jada

(biblical) A male given name, David's second cousin five times removed according to 1 Chronicles 2.


Asa

en-proper noun

Asa (countable and uncountable, plural Asas)

Via Late Latin Asa from Koine Greek Ἀσά (Asá) from Biblical Hebrew אָסָא (ʾĀsāʾ), from Aramaic אָסְיָא (ʾāsyā, “physician, doctor, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /asû/) from Sumerian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /azu/, “physician, healer”); compare Classical Syriac ܐܵܣܝܵܐ (ʾāsyā, “healer, physician, medical doctor”) whence Arabic آسٍ (ʔāsin).

cog

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 15:9-11:

(biblical) The third king of Judah mentioned in the Books of Kings who succeeded his father Abijah; the father of King Jehoshaphat. (Matthew calls him "Asaph" in Matthew 1:7.)


Ebenezer

From Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר (éven ha`ézer, “stone of help”).

der

אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר

Then Samuel tooke a ſtone, and ſet it betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-Ezer, ſaying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped vs.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 7:12:

Here I raiſe my Eben-ezer,
Hither by thy Grace I'm come;
So I hope by thy good Pleaſure,
Shortly to arrive at Home:

1759, Robert Robinson, “Hymn I”, in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Church of Christ: Meeting in Angel-Alley, page 3:

(biblical) The stone memorial in Israel erected by Samuel.


Moab

From Ancient Greek Μωάβ (Mōáb), from Biblical Hebrew מוֹאָב (môʾāḇ). Attested to as Moabite 𐤌𐤀𐤁 (mʾb) and Ancient Egyptian mwjbw N35A-M17-D58-G43-N25

(biblical) The son of Lot through his eldest daughter, in the Hebrew Bible.


Amalec

Via Late Latin Amālēc from Koine Greek Ἀμᾱλήκ (Amālḗk) from Biblical Hebrew עֲמָלֵק (ʾĂmālēq).

(biblical) The grandson of Esau through his eldest son, in the Hebrew Bible.


Balthazar

/ˈbælθəˌzɔɹ/

From Middle English Balthasar, from Latin Baltassar, from Ancient Greek Βαλτασαρ (Baltasar), from Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר (bēlšaṣṣar), attested in the Tanakh and the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1), from Akkadian 𒂗𒈗𒋀 (bēl-šarra-uṣṣur, literally “May Bel protect the king”). Doublet of Belshazzar.

בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר

Hebrew בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר (bēlšaṣṣar)

Baltasar (alternative)
Baltassar (alternative)
Balthasar (alternative)
Belshazzar (alternative)
Beltshatsar (alternative)

(biblical, historical) a Babylonian king mentioned in the Book of Daniel.


Judean

(biblical) A member of the tribe of Judah.


Acts of the Apostles

Calque of Latin Āctūs Apostolōrum, itself a calque of Ancient Greek Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων (Práxeis Apostólōn).

Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων

(biblical) The fifth book in the New Testament of the Bible.

ܣܘܼܪ̈ܵܢܹܐ ܕܫܠܝܼܚܹ̈ܐ

suʿrānē d-šlīḥē


Bel and the Dragon

(biblical) A deuterocanonical, apocryphal book of the Bible.


deuterocanonical

(biblical) Being of the second canon of the Old Testament of the Bible, and not accepted by some Christians. Part of the Apocrypha.

Baruch

Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament include


Canticle of Canticles

A calque of Latin Canticum Canticorum (“Song of Songs”).

(biblical) Synonym of Song of Songs, a canonical book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.


Song of Songs

A calque of Latin Canticum Canticorum (“Song of Songs”), variant of earlier Canticle of Canticles.

(biblical) The twenty-second book of the Christian Old Testament and the seventeenth book of the Hebrew Bible.


1 Chronicles

(biblical) The first of the two Books of Chronicles and the thirteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.


2 Chronicles

(biblical) The second of the two Books of Chronicles and the fourteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.


1 Corinthians

(biblical) The first book of Corinthians and the seventh book in the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Corinth attributed to Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes.

risāla(t) būlus al-ʔūlā ʔilā ʔahli kūrinṯūs

رِسَالَة بُولُس الأُولَى إِلَى أَهْلِ كُورِنْثُوس

Céad Litir Naomh Pól chuig na Corantaigh


2 Corinthians

(biblical) The second book of Corinthians and the eighth book in the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Corinth attributed to Paul the Apostle and Timothy.


Ben Sira

(biblical) Ecclesiasticus, a book of the Bible.


Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach

the Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach (canonical)


Judg.

Iūd.

abbreviation of the equivalent of Judges


1 Samuel

(biblical) The ninth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.

撒母耳記上卷 /撒母耳记上卷

Sat-bó͘-ní Kì Siōng-koàn, Sat-bó͘-jí Kì Siōng-koàn

撒母耳記上 /撒母耳记上

Sat-bó͘-ní Kì Siōng, Sat-bó͘-jí Kì Siōng


2 Samuel

(biblical) The tenth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.

撒母耳記下卷 /撒母耳记下卷

Sat-bó͘-ní Kì Hā-koàn, Sat-bó͘-jí Kì Hā-koàn


1 Kings

(biblical) The eleventh book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.


2 Kings

(biblical) The twelfth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.


3 Kings

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.


Maccabees

(biblical) One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


Prayer of Manasseh

(biblical) A book of the Apocrypha of the Bible.


Song of the Three Holy Children

(biblical) A book of the Apocrypha, now included in the passage Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children.


2 Peter

(biblical) The second epistle of Peter, the twenty-second book of the New Testament of the Bible.


1 Peter

(biblical) The first epistle of Peter, the twenty-first book of the New Testament of the Bible.


for ever and ever

Arising in the King James Bible, an approximate translation from Ancient Greek εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (eis toùs aiônas tôn aiṓnōn, “to the aeons of the aeons”) and Hebrew לעולם ועד (“forever and until”), as well as Latin in saecula saeculorum and per omnia saecula saeculorum (themselves from the Greek).

εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων

(biblical, Christian liturgy) Eternally; timelessly; with no beginning and no end.


1 Thessalonians

(biblical) The thirteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to the Thessalonians.


2 Thessalonians

(biblical) The fourteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to the Thessalonians.


1 Timothy

(biblical) The fifteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to Timothy.

رِسَالَة بُولُس الأُولَى إِلَى تِمُوثَاوْس


2 Timothy

(biblical) The sixteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to Timothy.


1 John

(biblical) The twenty-third book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle of John.


2 John

(biblical) The twenty-fourth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle of John.


3 John

(biblical) The antepenultimate book of the New Testament of the Bible, the third epistle of John.


Gideon

Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").

bor+

And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 7:7:

(biblical) A warrior judge of Israel mentioned in the book of Judges.


bottomless pit

1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11,
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.


Perez

(biblical) The father of Hezron and the son of Judah; the grandson of Jacob.


Silvanus

From Latin Silvanus, a Latin cognomen, from silva (“forest”). The name Silas, from the early Christian apostle, was Latinised as Silvanus by Paul.

(biblical) A companion of Paul, also called Silas.


ephod

1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Exodus, 28, vi-viii,
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James): Hosea, 3, iv,
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

From this it appears that at least towards the close of the Exile, the Urim and Thummim were considered as something distinct from the ephod of the high priest and the gems with which it was adorned.

1913, “Urim and Thummim”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:

(biblical, Judaism) A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi–xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.

éphod

apron worn by chief priest of ancient Israel


Elisheba

/əˈlɪ.ʃɪ.bə/

Borrowed from Hebrew אלישבע (“the Lord is her oath”). Doublet of Elizabeth.

(biblical) The wife of Aaron, mentioned in Exodus 6:23.


Gomorrah

From Ancient Greek Γόμορρᾰ (Gómorrhă), from Biblical Hebrew עֲמֹרָה (ʿămōrā).

(biblical) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, was destroyed by God (along with Sodom) for the sins of its inhabitants.


King James Version

/ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɜː.ʃən/

/ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɜː.ʒən/

/ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɝː.ʒən/

/ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɝː.ʃən/

Named for James I of England (James VI of Scotland), who authorized the production of a new English translation of the Bible.

[...], and of course the Bible, the men who wrote it and especially the men who made the King James version, for it was the language of the Bible rather than its "message" which I got first and which I will never shake off.

a. 1964, Henry Miller, “The Books in My Life”, in Henry Miller on Writing, page 125:

a. 1998, Jeffrey M. Perl, Common Knowledge, quoted in front material, Homer, Robert Fagles (translator), The Iliad, page i
"Fagles' Homer, Sophocles, and especially Aeschylus may one day stand relation to their originals as the King James Version to Greek and Hebrew Scripture."

The Catholic priest would have been surprised that the old shaman had memorized the King James version of this song.

1999, James D. Doss, The Shaman's Game, page 119:

She thought for a moment, trying to remember; then she told him, "twenty-third Psalm, King James version," as best she recalled.

2004, R. Garcia y Robertson, Lady Robyn, page 320:

It pained him to tell the story, yet tell it he did, over and over, in the unabridged, King James version.

2005, Michael Kun, You Poor Monster, page 19:

A Bible, King James Version. (This he stuck in his bag, because anybody who knows anything about English literature knows you can't ger away from the Bible.)

2005, Catherine Landis, Harvest, page 54:

(biblical, Christianity) An English translation, published in 1611, of the Bible from the original Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) commissioned for the Church of England, which is the version most quoted and influential in English literature and English Protestant religious culture.


Adah

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).


Japhetite

Japhetites (plural)
Japhethite (alternative)

(biblical) A supposed descendant of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah.


ecclesia

From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.

(biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.


Tophet

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew תוֹפֶת (tôp̄eṯ).

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 7:31:

(biblical) A location near Jerusalem in the valley of Gehenna where children were burned alive as sacrifice.


Mary Magdalene

From Mary + Magdalene; from Middle English Marie Magdaleyn, Marie Magdeleyne, Marye Maudelen, Marye Maudeleyne, Marie Mawdeleyn, Mary Maudelen, Mary Mawdelayn, from Old French Marie Madelaine and Latin Marīa Magdalēna.

The firſt day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and ſeeth the ſtone taken away from the Sepulchre.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1, column 2:

I tried to explain to the large and emotional congregation how Jesus would address the problem of illicit sex, contagion, and suffering. I quoted texts about his attitude toward Mary Magdalene (who was cured of seven sins), the Samaritan woman at the well (with five lovers), and the woman caught in adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death. I said that all these actions showed his love and forgiveness and that Matthew 25’s “unto the least of these” put the responsibility on all of us to reach out to the afflicted with forgiveness and love.

2014, Jimmy Carter, “Slavery and Prostitution”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 139:


Theophilus

/θiːˈɒfɪləs/

Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos), meaning "love of God" or "friend of God".

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus.

Acts of the Apostles
Acts of the Apostles

(biblical) The addressee of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.


Huldah

And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

(biblical) A prophetess in the Old Testament.


Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (canonical)
Four Horsemen (alternative)
Horsemen of the Apocalypse (alternative)

en-au-Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.ogg

"This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country. The heroes of my field have slain one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one."

2015 May 4, Randall Munroe, xkcd (webcomic), Degree-Off:

(biblical) Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.

אַרְבַּעַת פָּרָשֵׁי הָאָפּוֹקָלִיפְּסָה

náhodeesdzáago dįltʼéego łį́į́ʼ bił níjééʼ


like unto

In the Heavens, in the Earth, in the Waters, under the Earth, is none like unto thee.

1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 1, chapter 6, Aristocracy of Talent:

Truly, the first condition is indispensable, That Wisdom be there: but the second is like unto it, is properly one with it.

1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 3, chapter 12, Reward:

(archaic, chiefly biblical, in adjective or adverb phrases that express resemblance) like, similar to


Adullamite

From Adullam + -ite, in the political sense from a speech by John Bright in Parliament on 13 March 1866 deriding the anti-reformist faction of Edward Horsman as a “Cave of Adullam”, i.e. a group of malcontents.

(biblical) An inhabitant of Adullam. Near this town there was a cave where David and his allies sought refuge from Saul.


Jehoshaphat

/d͡ʒəˈhoʊ.ʃəˌfæt/

/d͡ʒəˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

/d͡ʒɪˈhɒʃ.ə.fæt/

From Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט, from יהוה (“Yahweh”) + שָׁפַט (shafát, “to judge”), meaning "Yahweh has judged".

Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט

compound

Jehosaphat (alternative)
Josaphat (alternative)
Jehosophat (alternative)

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew.


Abednego

/əˈbɛd.nɪˌɡoʊ/

From Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא, itself derived from a reconstructed Aramaic name meaning likely "servant of Nabu" or "servant of Nergal".

bor

עֲבֵד נְגוֹא

Hebrew עֲבֵד נְגוֹא

Abdenago (alternative)
Abed-nego (alternative)
Abed-Nego (alternative)

And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:23:

(biblical) Azariah, one of the captives in the Bible who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.

Αβδεναγω

one of the captives who escaped the fiery furnace

Meshach

one of the captives who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed


Maccabee

From the Latin Maccabaeus, from the Ancient Greek Μᾰκκᾰβαῖος (Măkkăbaîos), from the Biblical Hebrew מַכַּבִּי (makkabbī).

(biblical) A member of the Maccabees (a liberation movement in Israel who established Jewish independence in the Land of Israel in the second and first centuries BC).


Meshach

From Biblical Hebrew מישך (myšk /mēšak/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *mayšáh (“sheep, ram”) with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

Misac (alternative)
Misach (alternative)
Mishak (alternative)

(biblical) Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.

Միսաք

one of the captives in the Book of Daniel


Shadrach

From Biblical Hebrew שדרך (šdrk /šadrak/), from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *čiθráh with the hypocoristic suffix *-akah.

Sedrach (alternative)
Shedrack (alternative)
Shadrak (alternative)
Sidrach (alternative)
Sydrac (alternative)

(biblical) Hananiah, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.

Abednego

one of the captives that came out of the fiery furnace unharmed


Vashti

Hebrew וַשְׁתִּי (vaštī)

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 1:9:


Tamar

From Hebrew תָּמָר (tamár, “Tamar”, literally “date palm, date”).


algum

אַלְגּוּמִּים

Hebrew אַלְגּוּמִּים (algumím)

And the seruants also of Huram, and the seruants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought Algume trees and, precious stones.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 9:10:

(biblical) A tree or wood mentioned in the Bible, possibly juniper or red sandalwood.


pearly gates

After the description in Revelation 21:21.

When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?

1795, Joseph Bromehead, Jerusalem, My Happy Home:

This immense wealth; this gilded splendor; this profusion of luxury; this exemption from toil; this life of ease; this sea of plenty; aye, what of it all? Are the pearly gates of happiness and sweet content flung open to such suitors?

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 7, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds.

1908, Harold McGraff, chapter 27, in The Lure of the Mask:

I'd toss for pennies on the front steps of the New Jerusalem or set up a faro layout just outside the Pearly Gates.

1910, Jack London, chapter 20, in Burning Daylight:

By the time they got a doctor down / I was already dead / And I'll never understand why the man / Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

1971, John Prine, “Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore”, in John Prine:

When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape

2007, “Videotape”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:


Rahab

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:25:

(biblical) A prostitute of Jericho who, in the Torah, helped Israelite spies.


Milcah

(biblical) A sister-in-law of Abraham: a sister of Sarah.

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


Manoah

(biblical) The father of the biblical strongman Samson.


Sabaoth

/səˈbeɪˌoʊθ/

From Latin Sabaoth, from Ancient Greek Σαβαώθ (Sabaṓth), from Biblical Hebrew צְבָאוֹת (ts'vaót), plural of צָבָא (tsaváʾ, “army”).

(Judaism, Christianity, biblical) An epithet of God in His role as protector of the Israelite army, usually translated (alongside YHWH or Elohim) as "Lord of Hosts".; compare the archaic title Drighten.


head

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

From the Gospel of Matthew, verse 19:24. Some assert that "camel" is a misinterpretation of a word meaning "rope" and others assert that the "Needle's Eye" was a gate in the walls of Jerusalem, but the evidence for each of these theories is contested, and the literal interpretation remains the most common.

(Christianity, biblical) It is unlikely that the wealthy will go to heaven.

ʔinna murūra jamal min ṯaqb ʔibratin ʔaysaru min ʔan yadḵula ḡaniyyun ʔilā malakūti llāhi

إِنَّ مُرُورَ جَمَل مِنْ ثَقْب إِبْرَةٍ أَيْسَرُ مِنْ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ غَنِيٌّ إِلَى مَلَكُوتِ اللهِ

det er lettere for en kamel at komme igennem et nåleøje end for en rig at komme ind i Guds rige

eher geht ein Kamel durch ein Nadelöhr, als dass ein Reicher in das Reich Gottes gelangt

det er lettere for en kamel å gå gjennom et nåløye enn for en rik man å komme inn i Guds rike

łatwiej jest wielbłądowi przejść przez ucho igielne, niż bogatemu wejść do królestwa niebieskiego

é mais fácil passar um camelo pelo fundo de uma agulha do que entrar um rico no reino de Deus

léxče verbljúdu projtí skvozʹ igólʹnoje uškó, čem bogačú vojtí v cárstvije nebésnoje

ле́гче верблю́ду пройти́ сквозь иго́льное ушко́, чем богачу́ войти́ в ца́рствие небе́сное

es más fácil que un camello pase por el ojo de una aguja, que un rico entre en el reino de Dios


Eleazar

/ɛliˈeɪˌzəɹ/

Borrowed from Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár, “God has helped”). Doublet of Lazarus.

bor

And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

(biblical) Any of a number of men in the Old Testament, including a son of Aaron.


Eliezer

And the name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine helpe, and deliuered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 18:4:

(biblical) Any of a number of men in the Old Testament, including a son of Moses.


Zipporah

From Biblical Hebrew צִפֹּרָה (ṣippōrā), a feminization of ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”).

he-m

ציפור / צִפֹּר (ṣippōr, “bird”)

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.


Peleg

en-proper noun

Peleg (countable and uncountable, plural Pelegs)


Potiphar

From Biblical Hebrew פּוֹטִיפַר (potifár), from Egyptian pꜣ-dj-pꜣ-rꜥ (“he whom Ra gave”).

der

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, which had brought him down thither.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 39:1:

(biblical) An Egyptian and captain of the guard under Pharaoh.


Bathsheba

From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).

af

3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 11:3:

(biblical) In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.


Uriah

From Biblical Hebrew אוּרִיָּה ('ūriyyā, literally “God is my light”).

uder

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 11:15:

Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.

2014, Jimmy Carter, “Full Prisons and Legal Killing”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:

(biblical) The husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.


Jair

From Middle English Jair, Iair, from Old English Iāirus, from Latin Iaīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάϊρ (Iáïr), from Biblical Hebrew יָאִיר (yāʾîr, literally “he will light up”). Doublet of Yair and Jairus.

der

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 10:3:


Tirzah

Borrowed from Hebrew תִּרְצָה (tirtsáh), meaning "pleasant" or "she is my delight".

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.


ERV

(biblical) Initialism of English Revised Version.


BHS

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
w:Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

(biblical) Initialism of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, an annotated edition of the Leningrad Codex, an important early Hebrew biblical manuscript.


seven seals

(biblical) The seals that secure the book or scroll that John of Patmos saw in an apocalyptic vision.


antediluvial

en-adj

antediluvial (comparative more antediluvial, superlative most antediluvial)

more antediluvial (comparative)
most antediluvial (superlative)

Early 18th c., ante- + diluvial, possibly as alteration of earlier antediluvian.

(biblical) Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood.


Bethesda

From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

der

בֵּית חַסְדָּא

(biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.


Ashur

(biblical) a grandson of Noah in Genesis


ISV

International Standard Version
w:International Standard Version

(biblical) Initialism of International Standard Version.


cover one's feet

en-verb

cover one's feet (third-person singular simple present covers one's feet, present participle covering one's feet, simple past and past participle covered one's feet)

covers one's feet (present singular third-person)
covering one's feet (participle present)
covered one's feet (participle past)
covered one's feet (past)

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, Surely he covers his feet in his summer chamber. (Judges 3:24)

And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. (1 Samuel 24:3)

(euphemistic, biblical) To lower one’s garment, especially to urinate or defecate.


Sheba

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

(biblical) A former kingdom in the Red Sea region. An ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa. Frequently equated with ancient Saba.


Rabshakeh

For example, here is a man, a chief officer or cupbearer, Rabshakeh by name, who represents the king of Assyria[…]

1885, Joseph Parker, The people's Bible: discourses upon Holy Scripture, volume 16, page 83:

(biblical) One of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah, quoted in 2 Kings 18:27–37 and Isaiah 36:12–20.


Baruch

Borrowed from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ (Barukh, “blessed”). Cognate with Arabic بَارَك (bārak, “Barak”).

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 36:4:

(biblical) Any of a number of Old Testament men, including the scribe and companion of Jeremiah.


Baal-gad

Borrowed from Hebrew בַּעַל גַּד (bá`al gad, “lord of fortune”).

bor

(biblical) A city noted for Baal-worship, located at the most northern or northwestern point to which Joshua's victories extended.


Gilgal

Hebrew גִּלְגָּל

(biblical) The site of Joshua's encampment before the siege of Jericho.


pygarg

From Latin pygargus from Ancient Greek πύγαργος (púgargos), a compound of Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ, “rump”) + ἀργός (argós, “white”).

(biblical) An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food.

דִּישׁוֹן

A large unidentified animal mentioned in the Bible.


Cush

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

bor+

(biblical) The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.

(biblical) A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.


Zillah

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.


Aram

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

From Latin Aram, from Biblical Hebrew אֲרַם (ʾăram).

(biblical) A historical region mentioned in the Bible, located in modern Syria as well as parts of Iraq, Lebanon and southeastern Turkey; inhabited by Aramaeans.

آرام

a Biblical region located in modern Syria


Bethphage

/ˈbɛθ.fəˌd͡ʒi/

From Aramaic בית־פגי (literally “house of unripe figs”).

(biblical) A place near Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.


Jacob's ladder

Jacob's ladders (plural)
Jacob's-ladder (alternative)
Jacob's Ladder (alternative)

Jacob's ladder; Christ is Jacob's ladder that reacheth up to heaven; and he that refuseth to go by this ladder thither, will scarce by other means get up so high.

1691, John Bunyan, “The Jerusalem Sinner Saved”, in The Works of John Bunyan, volume 1:


Judas Iscariot

From Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas) Ἰσκαριώτης (Iskariṓtēs)/ Ἰσκαριώθ (Iskariṓth); the original Hebrew or Aramaic term is unknown and the subject of much debate. For more information, see Judas Iscariot § Name and background.

(biblical) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.


Kenan

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.

(biblical) A descendant of Seth, son of Enos.


Tobit

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

der

(biblical) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


Onan

And Iudah said vnto Onan, Goe in vnto thy brothers wife, and marrie her, and raise vp seed to thy brother. And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to passe when hee went in vnto his brothers wife, that hee spilled it on the ground, least that hee should giue seed to his brother. And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD: wherefore hee slew him also.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8–10:


selah

From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.

God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

1568, Matthew Parker, The holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe [The Bishops' Bible], London: Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, →OCLC, Habakkuk 3:3:

LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that riſe vp againſt me. / Many there bee which ſay of my ſoule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ſheild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 3:1–4:

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. / From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. / For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. / I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

1769, The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches [King James Version], Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, →OCLC, Psalm 61:1–4:

[…] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of סֶלָה (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240

Students of Selah have been puzzled because in the psalms, which Mishna ascribes to each day of the week for the daily sacrifice, the desired number of Selahs is not to be found. The answer is that the pᵉraqim were timed to the ritual at the altar and that, even though the term Selah might not occur at all in some of these psalms, the pᵉraqim and prostrations referred to the actual Selah ceremony.

1968, Rembert Sorg, Habaqquq III and Selah, Fifield, Wis.: King of Martyrs Priory, →OCLC, page 33:

(biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.


Lamech

(biblical, Torah) Either of two antediluvians.

Either of two antediluvians.
The third-great-grandson of Cain.

Either of two antediluvians.
The father of Noah.


goel

Borrowed from Hebrew גוֹאֵל (goél, “he redeems”).

The go·el neutralizes the deleterious effect of the blood of the slain, restoring the ecologic balance.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 963:

(historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.


sciniph

From Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (skníps, “gnat, small fly(, flea?)”), plural σκνῖφες (sknîphes) or σκνῖπες (sknîpes).

And they did ſo. And Aaron ſtreched fotth his hand, holding the rodde: and he ſtroke the duſt of the earth, and there were made ſciniphes on men and on beaſtes: al the duſt of the earth was turned into ſciniphes through the whole Land of Ægypt.

1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 8:17, page 178:

The sciniphs and flies are common in warm, and the sciniphs especially in marshy countries.

1885, George R. Northgraves, Mistakes of Modern Infidels; or Evidences of Christianity […], page 205:

But it is worth noting that three of the plagues—blast, frost and fire—which he mentioned here do not appear at all in Exodus. […] In fact, in place of these three, there are recounted three others, sciniphs, boils, and darkness.

1991 [c. 540], Cassiodorus, translated by P. G. Walsh, Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, volume 2, →ISBN, page 267:

(archaic, biblical) A kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like.


charmel

Hebrew כַּרְמֶל

And iudgement shal dwel in the wildernes, and iuſtice shal ſit in charmel.

1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Isaie 32:16, page 494:


defenced

en-adj

defenced (comparative more defenced, superlative most defenced)

more defenced (comparative)
most defenced (superlative)

But if any proper burning of the Sunne should be vnderstood, how isit, that it afflicteth the wicked more thế the good, whereas both of them dwell mingled together vppon the earth and the one of them is not more defenced frố the force of the heauenly bodies, then the other.

1616, Thomas Brightman, The Reuelation of St Iohn, page 680:

Human invention
 Could not instruct me to dispose her where
 She could be more defenced from all men's eyes;
 An anchorite lives not prisoned in a wall
 With more security.

1633, James Shirley, The Bird in a Cage:

Comparison of the condition to which the defenced city is to be reduced, to a wilderness.

1854 July, “A Designation and Exposition of the Figures in Isaiah”, in The Theological and Literary Journal, volume 7, number 1, page 150:

The reason why they are a defenced city during the time of their taking root, just like today, is because they are in their land, but not in their land undere the blessing of the old covenant. Once they are in their land undere the old covenant, because God purged them, they will not need a defense. Because the Lord is their defense. Today, Israel is a defenced city with walls as they are taking root.

2010, Clair L. Hassell, Jonathan C. Hassell, Will the Red Sea Part Again, page 92:

(archaic, biblical) Having defenses; defended.


Jerem.

Compare Zephan. i. 4, 5. 9. with Jerem. ii. 5. 20. 32.

1826, George Townsend (editor), The Old Testament: Arranged in Historical & Chronological Order II (second edition), Sixth Period, chapter xvi, page 445


Joh.

Luk. 10. 5. Into whatſoever Houſe ye enter, firſt ſay, Peace be to this Houſe. Joh. 14. 27. Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you. Joh. 20. 19. — The firſt Day of the Week, — came Jeſus, and ſtood in the midſt, and ſaith unto them, Peace be unto you.

1722, Francis Fox, editor, The New Teſtament, with References under the Text in Words at length; ſo that the parallel Texts may be ſeen at one View, volume II (second edition, 1748), Romans I.7, page 593, footnote n, column 1, lines 20-28:

(biblical, rare) Abbreviation of John (Gospel of John).


2 Joh.

2 Joh. ver. 3. Grace be with you, Mercy and Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, the Son of the Father.

1722, Francis Fox, editor, The New Teſtament, with References under the Text in Words at length; ſo that the parallel Texts may be ſeen at one View, volume II (second edition, 1748), Romans I.7, page 593, footnote m, column 1, lines 14-17:

(biblical, rare) Abbreviation of 2 John.


Zerubbabel

Borrowed from Hebrew זרובבל / זְרֻבָּבֶל (Zərubbāḇél).

he-m

זרובבל / זְרֻבָּבֶל (Zərubbāḇél)

(biblical) a governor of the Persian Province of Judah, who led the first group of Jews returned from the Babylonian Captivity.


Luc.

Probably abbreviating the Latin Lūcās (“Luke the Evangelist; by extension, [Gospel of] Luke”).

uder

Luke the Evangelist; by extension, 􂀿Gospel of􂁀 Luke

ἄβυσσος Luc. 8, 31. Rom. 10, 7. Apoc. 9, 1. 2. 11. 11, 7. 17, 8. 20, 1. 3.

1837, Edward Cardwell, Ἡ Καινή Διαθήκη – The New Testament in Greek and English; with a Marginal Harmony, References to Parallel Passages, a Concordance of Words, and a Graduated Collection of Various Readings, volume II: The Epistles and the Apocalypse, Oxford University Press, concordance of words, “ἄβυσσος”

(rare biblical abbreviation) Luke (Gospel of Luke)


Matth.

A convergent abbreviation of the English Matthew and of its Latin equivalent Matthaeus.

“Augustine observes how those who are addressed here as ‘being evil,’ are the very same into whose mouths but just now the Lord has put that word, ‘Our Father;’ to whom he has made the promise ‘Ask and it shall be given you;’ so that every faithful, i. e., believing man, has a double aspect, he is ‘evil’ through his old nature, he is good through participation with him who is the highest good, who is in some sense the alone good (Matth. xix. 17), the good in himself, and altogether good, while others are good through him, and only as they are sharers of his life.[”]

1846, Richard Trench, Christ the Desire of All Nations, quoted in: John Brown, Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Illustrated in a Series of Expositions (second edition, 1854), volume I, exposition iv: “The Sermon on the Mount”, note i: ‘Reference of the word πονηροὶ, Matth. vii. 11, Trench’, page 305

(biblical abbreviation) Matthew (Gospel of Matthew)


Annas

From Latin Annas (used in the Vulgate), from Ancient Greek Ἅννας (Hánnas), from Hebrew / Aramaic חנן (khanan) as a shortened form of חֲנַנְיָה (khananya).

(biblical) A Jewish high priest known for having four sons and a son-in-law (Caiaphas) succeed him in his lifetime; and for cooperating with Caiaphas to have Jesus Christ crucified.

حنان

A Jewish high priest in the first century CE.


Antipas

Through Latin Antipās from Ancient Greek Ἀντῐ́πᾱς (Antĭ́pās), a contraction of Ἀντῐ́πᾰτρος (Antĭ́pătros); from ἀντῐ́πᾰτρος (antĭ́pătros, “an initiate to the highest grade of the Mysteries of Mithras”).

At the death of Herod the Great (4 b.c.), his sons — Archelaus, Herod Antipas, and Herod Philip — were given jurisdiction over his divided kingdom. Herod Antipas became the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea […].

2002, Kenneth L. Barker (general editor), Zondervan NIV Study Bible, Zondervan, note on Luke 3:1

(biblical) Herod Antipas, tetrarch of the ancient Roman province of Judea, known for his roles in the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.

I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

2011, Bible (New International Version), Biblica, Inc., Revelation 2:13

(biblical) A martyr from the early Christian church at Pergamum.


Magog

(biblical) The second of the seven sons of Japheth.


Ephraimite

An adaptation of the Latin Ephraimītēs, Ephraimīta, from the Ancient Greek Ἐφραιμῑ́tης (Ephraimī́tēs), from Ἐφραίμ (Ephraím, “Ephraim”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Equivalent to Ephraim + -ite.

suffix

(history, chiefly biblical) An allegiant of the Israelite tribal patriarch Ephraim, a member of the tribe purportedly descended from him, or an inhabitant of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (930–720 B.C.), in which the tribe of Ephraim was preëminent.

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel


tree of life

(biblical) A term used in the Hebrew Bible that is a component of the world tree motif.


rose of Sharon

Calque of Biblical Hebrew חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן (khavatsélet hasháryon), from the King James Bible.

calque

חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן

(biblical) A flower of uncertain kind: perhaps Pancratium maritimum, which grows on the Sharon Plain of the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.


Tryphosa

From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “softness, delicacy”).

uder

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 16:12:

(biblical) Name of a Christian woman mentioned in the Bible.


kikayon

(biblical) A plant mentioned in the Book of Jonah, where it provides shade; possibly a gourd or a castor oil plant.


Ancient of Days

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עַתִּ֤יק יֽוֹמַיָּא֙.

cal

עַתִּ֤יק יֽוֹמַיָּא֙

I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the sonne of man, came with the clouds of heauen, and came to the Ancient of daies, and they brought him neere before him. And there was giuen him dominion and glory, and a kingdome, that all people, nations, and languages should serue him: his dominion is an euerlasting dominion, which shall not passe away; and his kingdome that, which shall not be destroyed.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 7:13-14:

shall wee then receiue an accusation against the Ancient of daies, the Lord himselfe vpon Sathans word, a knowne and detected deceiuer?

1618, Daniel Dyke, “Michael and the dragon, or Christ tempted and Sathan foyled”, in Two Treatises. The one, Of Repentance: the other, Of Christs Temptations, London: Edward Griffin, page 242:

The first is true: all under the first is obnoxious to error; the puisne posthumous antiquity hath been a refuge for falsehood: the primigenous antiquity, which proceeded from the Ancient of Days, is certain.

1641, Joseph Hall, A Short Answer to the Vindication of Smectymnuus:

(Christianity, biblical) God, as the One who existed before the beginning of time.


Mephibosheth

/məˈfɪb.əˌʃɛθ/

From the Biblical Hebrew מְפִיבֹשֶׁת (Məp̄īḇṓšeṯ).

uder

(biblical) the son of Jonathan, grandson of Saul


nephesh

en-noun

nephesh (plural nephashoth or nepheshes)

bor

Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ

(biblical) The tangible aspects of life, as possessed by human beings and the higher animals; sometimes translated as soul.


BBE

Bible in Basic English
w:Bible in Basic English

(biblical) Initialism of Bible in Basic English.


Amram

Learned borrowing from Latin Amram, from Ancient Greek Ἀμβράμ (Ambrám), from Biblical Hebrew עַמְרָם (ʕamrɔm).


Telessar

Gozan, Harran, Rezeph, and Telessar were in Mesopotamia. Some other places are not known.

1882, Cunningham Geikie, Rehoboam to Hezekiah, page 454:

Sennacherib mentions it in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 when referring to the 'children of Eden, which were in Telessar'; and the possessions of Pharaoh are referred to in Ezekiel 31:9 as extending to Eden.

2013, Caleb L Moore, The Cherubim, →ISBN, page 11:

(biblical) A city mentioned in 2 Kings 19:12 and Isaiah 37:12 as the destroyed city of the "children of Eden".


Mordecai

Borrowed from Hebrew מָרְדֳּכַי (mordocháy).

bor+

(biblical) One of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.

مَرْدْخَاي

a Biblical character in the Book of Esther


Jeconiah

From Latin Iechonias, Ancient Greek Ἰεχονίας (Iekhonías), from Hebrew יְכָנְיָה (y'khonyá).

(historical, biblical) An ancient king of Judah, the son and successor of King Jehoiakim, who was dethroned by the King of Babylon in the 6th century BC and taken into captivity.


Zadok

Borrowed from Hebrew צדוק (“righteous”).

(biblical) A priest, said to be descended from Eleazar the son of Aaron, who aided King David during the revolt of his son Absalom and was subsequently instrumental in bringing King Solomon to the throne.


Abiathar

(biblical) In the Old Testament, a Hebrew high priest during the reign of King David.


Haman

(biblical) A Persian vizier who, according to the Book of Esther, instigated a failed plot to kill all of the Jews of ancient Persia.


Gomer

en-proper noun

Gomer (countable and uncountable, plural Gomers)

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 10:2:


Haran

A variant of Haren, or a reduced form of Hanrahan, both Irish surnames.

(biblical) a place in the Bible, possibly identical to Harran in modern-day Turkey that served as Abraham's temporary home after God called him in Ur but before he departed, the place where his father Terah died

(biblical) one of Abraham's two brothers


Jacob's Pillow

(biblical) The stone mentioned in the Book of Genesis as having been used as a pillow by the Israelite patriarch Jacob at the place later called Bet-El. Since Jacob had a vision in his sleep, he then consecrated the stone to God. More recently, the stone has been claimed by Scottish folklore and British Israelism.


alamoth

Borrowed from Hebrew עֲלָמוֹת (‘ălāmōṯ, “women of childbearing age”), feminine plural of עֶלֶם (èlem, “man of marriageable age”).

bor

1 Chronicles 15:20 Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth ...

(biblical, music) soprano or, possibly, virgin


Elon

en-prop

Elon (countable and uncountable, plural Elons)

Elons (plural)
Elan (alternative)
Ilan (alternative)
Ilon (alternative)
Alan (alternative)
Alon (alternative)
Eilan (alternative)
Eilon (alternative)
Ailan (alternative)
Ailon (alternative)

Borrowed from Hebrew אֵילֹן (ʼÊlōn, literally “oak tree”).

bor+

After him iudged Israel one Elon a Zabulonite, & he iudged Israel ten yeare, […]

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judges xij:[11]:

(countable) A male given name from Hebrew.

(biblical) A judge in the Old Testament.

A male given name from Hebrew.
A judge in the Old Testament.


Asenath

bor

Hebrew אָסְנַת (ʾāsənaṯ)

Asenith (alternative)
Aseneth (alternative)
Assaneth (alternative)
Osnat (alternative)

(biblical) An Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph, son of Jacob, to be his wife, and who bore him two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


Jehoiada

Hebrew יְהוֹיָדָע

(biblical) A prominent priest during the reigns of Ahaziah, Athaliah, and Joash. He became the brother-in-law of King Ahaziah and opposed the worship of Baal.


Star of Bethlehem

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(biblical) The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.


Irad

And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:18:


Mehujael

der

Hebrew מחויאל


Methusael

Hebrew מתושאל

And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:18:


be gathered to one's fathers

en-verb

be<is,being,was,been> gathered to one's fathers

be gathered to one's fathers (third-person singular simple present is gathered to one's fathers, present participle being gathered to one's fathers, simple past was gathered to one's fathers, past participle been gathered to one's fathers)

is gathered to one's fathers (present singular third-person)
being gathered to one's fathers (participle present)
was gathered to one's fathers (past)
been gathered to one's fathers (participle past)

/biː ˈɡæðəd tuː wʌnz ˈfɑːðəz/

/bi ˈɡæðɚd tə wʌnz ˈfɑðɚz/

From various passages in the Bible, including Judges 2:10, and 1 Maccabees 2:69 in the Apocrypha (see the quotations), from
From Biblical Hebrew נֶאֱסַף אֶל־אֲבוֹתָיו (neʾĕsap ʾel-ʾăḇôṯâw) and Koine Greek προσετέθη πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας αὐτοῦ (prosetéthē pròs toùs patéras autoû, Apocrypha).

der

נֶאֱסַף אֶל-אֲבוֹתָיו

neʾĕsap ʾel-ʾăḇôṯâw

προσετέθη πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας αὐτοῦ

And alſo all that generacion was gathered vnto their fathers, and an other generacion aroſe after them, which nether knewe the Lord, nor yet the workes, which he had done for Iſraél.

[1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Ivdges II:10, folio 109, recto:

So he bleſſed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Maccabees 2:69, column 1:

How many prayers, offered up by ſerious and regenerated believers for their ungodly children, have been anſwered years after the humble petitioners have been gathered to their fathers!

1795 January, “Repentance, Conversion, and Dying Experience of a Poor Prostitute”, in The Evangelical Magazine, London: […] T. Chapman, […], →OCLC, page 8:

Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers,—to be taxed no more.

1820 January, [Sydney Smith], “Art. III. Statistical Annals of the United States of America. By Adam Seybert. 4to. Philadelphia, 1818. [book review]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XXXIII, number LXV, Edinburgh: Printed by David Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, →OCLC, page 78:

We have seen how William the Conqueror has been gathered to his fathers. Usual pageantries ensued: loud praises bestowed upon the departed monarch by those who enjoyed his bounty or profited by his patronage.

1864, Francis Palgrave, “The Events Consequent upon the Accession of Rufus in England, and of Robert in Normandy”, in [Francis Turner Palgrave], editor, The History of Normandy and of England, volumes IV (William Rufus—Accession of Henry Beauclerc), London: Macmillan & Co., […], →OCLC, § 1, page 1:

In the course of years this worthy couple were gathered to their fathers and headlines on old tombs in the Means cemetery indicate that they found a resting place there many years ago.

1909, Edward H. Chadwick, “James Robert Means”, in Chadwick’s History of Shelby County, Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.: B. F. Bowen & Company, →OCLC, page 915:

I am well over sixty and must expect to be gathered to my fathers sooner rather than later. Who will then be left to carry on the family traditions in a worthy manner?

2004, chapter 24, in Vladimir Kean, transl., Beyond the Golden Lotus: Chin P’ing Mei, London, New York, N.Y.: Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 303:

[T]he offender is to be "cut off" (either the offender's line of descendants will cease, or the offender is barred from "being gathered to his fathers" in the afterlife).

2005, Victor P. Hamilton, “A Holiness Manifesto: Leviticus 17–27”, in Handbook on the Pentateuch, 2nd (ebook) edition, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, Baker Publishing Group, published 29 April 2015, →ISBN, part 3 (Leviticus):

(biblical and literary, dated) To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die.

נֶאֱסָף אֶל אֲבוֹתָיו

to be buried together with one's forebears — see also die

отпра́виться к праотца́м (otprávitʹsja k praotcám, literally “to depart to one’s forefathers”)


Gadarene swine

2000 [1908, Weiser Books], R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic: Its Origins and Development, Red Wheel/Weiser, page 208,
The most remarkable parallel to this spell is contained in the New Testament story of the Gadarene swine.

In fact, Hamsun now completes his allusion to the story of the Gadarene swine alluded to by Pauline in the previous novel. That the reader is expected to recall the Biblical story is quite evident from one simple fact: the number of sheep, according to August's rough reckoning, is "over two thousand"; the herd of Gadarene swine numbered "about two thousand."

2005, Sverre Lyngstad, Knut Hamsun, Novelist: A Critical Assessment, Peter Lang, page 294:

Here Dostoevsky uses the biblical story of the Gadarene swine—a tale of unclean devils that, having been exorcised from a sick or mad man by Christ, enter a herd of swine that then rushes headlong down a steep bank into the sea (Mark 5:2-20)—to generate a series of analogies that suggest that Russia is a sick or mad man possessed by devils and that the swine that the devils enter upon being exorcised are the revolutionaries (Devils, 647–48). In The Master of Petersburg, however, Coetzee applies the story of the Gadarene swine not only to Russia and the phenomenon of revolutionary nihilism but also to the character Dostoevsky himself.

2006, Michael Marais, “4: Death and the Space of the Response to the Other in J. M. Coetzee's Master of Petersburg”, in Jane Poyner, editor, J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, Ohio University Press, page 87:

(biblical) A herd of swine that become possessed by demons after the latter are exorcised from men, in a parable told in each of the Synoptic Gospels, although not the Gospel of John.


Epistle of James

(biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament.


sleep with one's fathers

en-verb

sleep with one's fathers (third-person singular simple present sleeps with one's fathers, present participle sleeping with one's fathers, simple past and past participle slept with one's fathers)

sleeps with one's fathers (present singular third-person)
sleeping with one's fathers (participle present)
slept with one's fathers (participle past)
slept with one's fathers (past)

Calque of Biblical Hebrew וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו (wayyiškaḇ ʿim-ʾăḇōṯâw, literally “he slept with his fathers”) (found, for example, in the Bible at 1 Kings 2:10); compare be gathered to one's fathers.

calque

וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו

(biblical and literary, dated or obsolete) To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die; also, to be dead.


Bethsaida

From Hebrew/Aramaic בית צידה (bet tsaida, “house of hunting”).

der

/ˌbɛθˈseɪ.ɪ.ɾə/

/bɛθˈseɪ.ɪ.ɾə/

(biblical) Either of the two villages, Bethesda Julias and Bethesda of Galilee, mentioned in the New Testament.


Bethsaida

Alternate reading of Bethesda, from Aramaic חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

/ˌbɛθˈseɪ.ɪ.ɾə/

/bɛθˈseɪ.ɪ.ɾə/


Revised Standard Version

the Revised Standard Version (canonical)

Since the Revised Standard Version only claims to be a revision of the American Standard Version the sources and background of which are quite fully discussed under the heading of "Revisions" in a previous chapter it is not further discussed here.

1996, Elton Jones, Which Bible?, page 40:

(biblical, Christianity) An English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, based on the earlier American Standard Version.


Abijah

From Hebrew אביה, name of the king and also several minor biblical characters.

Abiah (alternative)
Abijam (alternative)

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

(biblical) King of Judah after Rehoboam, the first to begin reign over Judah only; the father of Asa


watch of the night

en-noun

watch of the night (plural watches of the night)

Loan translation of Latin vigilia noctis.

(timekeeping, historical, biblical) In Antiquity, one of four divisions of the night (each equivalent to three hours).


go in unto

en-verb

go in unto (third-person singular simple present goes in unto, present participle going in unto, simple past went in unto, past participle gone in unto)

goes in unto (present singular third-person)
going in unto (participle present)
went in unto (past)
gone in unto (participle past)

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:8:

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:13–17:

(obsolete, biblical) Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman).


high place

[…] Jehoſaphat took avvay the high places, and in the third year of his reign ſent ſome of his Princes, and of the Prieſts and Levites, to teach in the cities of Judah: […]

a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Introduction Concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), page 3:


Zoar

Mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 19:22, 23, and 30 as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death, when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. From Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, “insignificance, smallness”). Was present in Old English as Sægor.

m+

And Lot lifted vp his eyes, and beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where before the Lord destroyed Sodome and Gomorah, euen as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou commest vnto Zoar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 13:10:

(biblical) One of the Pentapolis, the five ancient cities in the Jordan valley.


ESV

English Standard Version
w:English Standard Version

(biblical) Initialism of English Standard Version.


Jabal

der

Hebrew יוּבָל (yå̄ḇå̄l)

(biblical, Torah) The son of Lamech and Ada.


Jubal

(biblical, Torah) A son of Lamech and Ada.


Tubal-cain

From Hebrew תּוּבַל קַיִן (tūḇal qayin).

uder

תּוּבַל קַיִן

(biblical, Torah) A descendant of Cain. The son of Lamech and Zillah.


Naamah

(biblical) A descendant of Cain, daughter of Lamech and Zillah.


Korah

he-m

קורח / קֹרַח (kórakh)

Korach (alternative)
Core (alternative obsolete)

(biblical) A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.


Elim

As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

אֵילִם אילם#Hebrew

(historical, biblical, Judaism) An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם


Elim

(biblical, Judaism) A class of angel found in Kabbalah from the Zohar.