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Maresha was an Iron Age city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, whose remains have been excavated at Tell Sandahanna (Arabic name), an archaeological mound or 'tell' renamed after its identification to Tel Maresha (Hebrew: תל מראשה).
The name Moresheth-Gath appears only once in the Hebrew Scriptures, inscribed in a verse taken from Micah 1:14.Biblical exegetes, Avraham ibn Ezra and David Kimhi, both explain the word as being "a place-name in the land of the Philistines," Kimhi adding that the name implies "the inheritance of Gath," namely, the city of Gath which was captured by David and which came into his inheritance (1 ...
According to the Bible, Shelah/Shela (Hebrew: שֵׁלָה, Modern: Shela, Tiberian: Šēlā, meaning "petition" [1]) was the third son of Judah, and was born at Chezib, [2] which can be identified with an unknown town in the vicinity of Mareshah.
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. [1] The national park includes the remains of the historical towns of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the First Temple Period, [2] and Bayt Jibrin, a depopulated Palestinian town known as Eleutheropolis in the Roman era. [3]
Eliezer was Moses's and Zipporah's second son. His name means "Help of my God". The verse in the Exodus 18:4 states, "[T]he other was named Eliezer, meaning, 'The God of my father’s [house] was my help, delivering me from the sword of Pharaoh.'"
Maranatha (Aramaic: מרנאתא ) is an Aramaic phrase which occurs once in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 16:22).It also appears in Didache 10:14. [1] It is transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated and, given the nature of early manuscripts, the lexical difficulty rests in determining just which two Aramaic words constitute the single Greek expression.
Yahshua is a proposed transliteration of יהושוע, the original Hebrew name of Jesus.The pronunciation Yahshua is philologically impossible in the original Hebrew and has support neither in archeological findings, such as the Dead Sea scrolls or inscriptions, nor in rabbinical texts as a form of Joshua.
According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and Judah, and was the twin of Perez (Genesis 38:30).This same Zerah is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:3.