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Revelation 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3] This chapter describes the fall of Babylon the Great. [4]
For medieval Spanish Catholics, the Whore of Babylon (Revelation, 17.4–5) [36] (a Christian allegory of evil) was incarnated by the Emirate of Córdoba. In the most common medieval (Catholic) view, deriving from Augustine of Hippo 's The City of God (early 5th century), Babylon and Jerusalem referred to two spiritual cities which were ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Revelation 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse to John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3] This chapter describes the judgment of the Whore of Babylon ("Babylon ...
Nabu was the patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom. [7] He was also the inventor of writing, a divine scribe, the patron god of the rational arts, and a god of vegetation. [8]: 33–34 [9] As the god of writing, Nabu inscribed the fates assigned to men and he was equated with the scribe god Ninurta.
Babylon, a computer dictionary and translation program. מורפיקס , an online Hebrew English dictionary by Melingo. New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12] The modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by ...
The return to Zion (Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees ' ) is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible , in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...
The Even-Shoshan Dictionary is written fully vowelized, and not just in ktiv maleh, because ktiv maleh may change the meaning slightly. For example, in the word "להניח" ('lehaniach'), if the ה ('heh') has a patach under it, it means "to cause rest;" while if it has a kamatz under it, it means "to place." [1]