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Manahen. Manaen praying and fasting with Barnabas, Simeon Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Paul. illustrated by Jim Padgett. Manahen / ˈmæniən / (also Manaen or Menachem) was a teacher in the first century Christian Church at Antioch who had been 'brought up' (Greek: σύντροφος, syntrophos, Vulgate: collactaneus) with Herod Antipas. [1]
Antiochian Greek Christians (also known as Rūm) are an ethnoreligious Eastern Christian group native to the Levant. [6] [7] They are either members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch or the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, and they have ancient roots in what is now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, the southern Turkish province of Hatay, which includes the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch ...
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. — Acts 13:1, NIV The account in Acts 13 states that the group of prophets and teachers prayed and fasted , and were inspired to commission Barnabas and Paul to undertake ...
Simon Niger is a person in the Book of Acts in the New Testament. He is mentioned in Acts 13:1 as being one of the "prophets and teachers" in the church of Antioch: In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. [1] The ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized: kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]) was the first of the five major churches of the early pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey). The earliest record of the church of ...
Judas Iscariot. Yuḥanna (يُوحَنَّا) Christian Arabic version of the name of John (as opposed to the Islamic Arabic term Yaḥya يَحْيَى) Z. Zabūr (زَبُور) The Psalms, in Islam referred to as Zabur, a holy book revealed by God to David. The Christian term is Mazāmīr مزامير; singular mazmūr مزمور.
Antioch on the Orontes (/ ˈænti.ɒk /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [note 1] was a Hellenistic Greek city [1][2] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [3] One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, [2] it ...
Syriac Orthodox clergy wrote in Arabic using Garshūni, a Syriac script in the 15th century and later adopted the Arabic script. [118] An English missionary in the 1840s noted that the Arabic speech of the Syriacs was intermixed with Syriac vocabulary. [118] They chose Arabic and Muslim-sounding names, while women had Biblical names. [118]